Thursday, June 09, 2022

When we tried to make our own Ants bootleg

Not our photo

In the late 70s the way to hear the Ants was to buy bootleg cassettes of recent gigs. These used to be sold on the street in London in addition to fanzines, studded wristbands and t-shirts. Susan had a radio cassette player in army green plastic (Sony) and she transported in an army rucksack. So as we used to always go to the front we placed the bag on the stage and pressed record. The results were poor. It captured the lead-in tracks on - Glitter's hello hello I'm back and then Sanctus but when the band started playing it overloaded the Mic and all that was captured was distortion. Shame.