The Recording Architecture Book

[Ben M]

PS. Steve I'd love to hear the Abbey Rd recording that was done of your orchestral piece for the anniversary. Please.

Ben, just a few days away.....it gets released (along with all 8 of the anthems) on the Abbey Road website on Nov 28th (UK date) which would be 29th here - Tuesday! All 8 will be available as free downloads.

I'll be logging in for that one Steve. Nice timing.

Now, if that RA book shows me how to build a room like Abbey Road's Studio One in my garage out back, I will be more than happy!

I reckon you could make a great 1000:1 scale model of it Steve. Just use lego. And put some lab coats on the lego men.

[Barney Loveland]

My post seems to have evaporated but i'm keen for a book too. Thanks.

[Ben M]

My post seems to have evaporated but i'm keen for a book too. Thanks.

Great Barney.
Got it that time. We had a forum malfunction.

So that's all folks.

I'll contact Roger later and organise final payment details and customs. Then I'll PM my bank dets to everyone separately and make the paypal payment as soon as everything clears.

1. Alastair R (Sydney)
2. Manning B (Sydney)
3. Ben M (Kangaroo Valley)
4. Manning B - extra book (Sydney)
5. Angus W (Beerwah, Qld)
6. Myles M (Melb)
7. Steve L (Southern Tablelands)
8. Barney L (Melb)

[Ben M]

Pm's have been sent to all the book buyers.

I would like to make the payment to Roger on Wednesday so if you could make payments asap that would be great.

Thanks all.

[Ben M]

Roger asked if we could join his Facebook owners club.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2560015 ... 521092654/

I also asked him to sign each of our copies.

[Ben M]

Update : Roger is sending the books via DHL courier so it should be fairly swift once the payment is made.

[Ben M]

1. Alastair R (Sydney) Payment received
2. Manning B (Sydney) Payment received
3. Ben M (Kangaroo Valley) payment done
4. Manning B - extra book (Sydney) Payment received
5. Angus W (Beerwah, Qld) Payment received
6. Myles M (Melb) Payment received
7. Steve L (Southern Tablelands) Payment received
8. Barney L (Melb) Payment received

[tunetown]

Bugger. Missed out. If, for whatever reason, there's a spare book, I'll grab it.

[Manning]

Ben's pretty keen to send the order out on Wednesday night, so if he hasn't received payment from all parties by then, you'd have a strong case to get in on the order.

[Ben M]

Bugger. Missed out. If, for whatever reason, there's a spare book, I'll grab it.

That is a bugger Peter. Sorry you missed out but if anyone flakes you'll be contacted straight away.

cheers
Ben

[The Tasmanian]

Yeah- I wouldn't mind one toooooo - if you can get another crew for a 2nd run....

[Ben M]

Roger has been a great guy to deal with. When I was inquiring about 2 books he said it was 135GBP each with free postage. The more people that come on board the cheaper it gets. You could get 4 books for the price of 3 no shipping. We have paid for 5 and are getting 8 no shipping/customs.
The 8 books are costing $138 AUD each and they're worth 135GBP over the counter. Bewdy!
I'd be happy to arrange the second batch seeing I'm now the "Australian Distributor". Eerr that's bullshit by the way I have no direct interest or affiliation with the RA Book. Roger just said it as a joke.....I think?

[Manning]

You're arranging for the books to come into the country.
You're then arranging for them to go to purchasers.

If that isn't a "distributor" then I don't know what is

[Ben M]

Yes but for no profit or financial gain.

The fact is I've been bedridden since tuesday last week because I stupidly picked up a large log while doing some log splitting at home and killed my back. Basically I couldn't move at all for a few days. So organising this has been a great way to pass some time. I'm up on my feet now and feeling much better.

[Lee]

Bummer I missed out. You snooze you lose.
Thanks Ben for organising the group buy. I would like to put my name down for the next eight people.

[Ben M]

Batch No.2 List;

1. Peter H
2. Chris T
3. Lee M
4.?
5.?
6.?
7.?
8.?


Sorry we missed you on the first run Lee. Your down for the new list.

[SteveL]

Payment made earlier this morning Ben.... Hope your back gets better mate! Will be a fun Xmas reading the RA Book while listening to the new Beach Boys Smile Sessions boxed set which just arrived via Amazon today (5CDs, 2LPs, 2 7" singles, 60pp book, posters and photos - great packaged set if you like to listen to things like Brian Wilson recording himself falling into a piano, falling into a microphone, underwater chanting and a million different takes of Good Vibrations.... mmmm, give me some of those veg-e-tables!

EDIT - for those that are interested, my Abbey Road Anthem is now up on the Abbey Road website along with the other winning entries. A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the anthem will be on Abbey Road's youtube channel next week (they shot the whole thing in HD video):

http://www.abbeyroad.com/news/story/?newsid=216
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... DOvWR2eA5w

Steve Lindsay

[Ben M]

Thanks everyone for paying so promptly. As you can see (about 8 posts above this) everyone has paid up and as of 5 minutes ago I pressed the "pay now" button in paypal for the purchase. All we need to do now is wait for our DHL courier and then distribute.

You'll notice I've started a second batch list. If it reaches 8 more buyers then I'll do the do but if it's just a few late stragglers then you'd be better off organising between yourselves.

Happy days! We have some good Christmas reading coming.


cheers
Ben

[waitup]

I'll jump on list #2

[tunetown]

Great stuff Ben. Thanks. Looks like we're half way there already.

Cheers

[tunetown]

EDIT - for those that are interested, my Abbey Road Anthem is now up on the Abbey Road website along with the other winning entries. A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the anthem will be on Abbey Road's youtube channel next week (they shot the whole thing in HD video):

http://www.abbeyroad.com/news/story/?newsid=216
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... DOvWR2eA5w

Nice Steve. Congrats. Must have been an awesome experience.

[Manning]

Yes but for no profit or financial gain.

That just makes you a distributor with a "less-than-perfect" business model.

The fact is I've been bedridden since tuesday last week because I stupidly picked up a large log while doing some log splitting at home and killed my back. Basically I couldn't move at all for a few days. So organising this has been a great way to pass some time. I'm up on my feet now and feeling much better.

Ouch! Glad you're up and about again.

[Ben M]

I'll jump on list #2

Sweet Nick. Your down.
A mate of mine who isn't on the forum would also like a copy of RA so I've added his name to the list as well.
Wow look at that... only 3 more spots for batch #2

Batch No.2 List;

1. Peter H
2. Chris T
3. Lee M
4. Nick F
5. Andy G
6.?
7.?
8.?

[Ben M]

Yes but for no profit or financial gain.

That just makes you a distributor with a "less-than-perfect" business model.

Hey Manning... maybe I should take some tips from this guy and go door to door.

http://www.break.com/index/worlds-funni ... an-2221620

[Ben M]

Update;
Roger emailed me this morning.
Sorry to say that all of the books are plastic sealed and boxed off site so he was very apologetic that he couldn't sign them for us.


Still 3 more books available in the 2nd batch. Come and get em.
Batch No.2 List;

1. Peter H
2. Chris T
3. Lee M
4. Nick F
5. Andy G
6.?
7.?
8.?

[Manning]

Update;
Roger emailed me this morning.
Sorry to say that all of the books are plastic sealed and boxed off site so he was very apologetic that he could sign them for us.

Brian May (the Queen feller) had the same problem with his stereoscopic images book ("A Village Lost and Found", google if intrigued). His solution was to write on a piece of elegant stationery which could then be glued once the book was unsealed.

Maybe Roger could be persuaded to do something similar?

[peat]

Hey,

Put me on the list, I'll take one!

[Ben M]

This thread is suffering a malfunction. Peat's post hasn't shown up and Barney's suffered from the same fate.
Peter H (Peat) is up for a book.


2 left.


Batch No.2 List;

1. Peter H
2. Chris T
3. Lee M
4. Nick F
5. Andy G
6. Peter H (peat)
7.?
8.?

[Ben M]

Ok, there is an anonymous outsider putting his name in for book 7 which leaves us with only one book left.
A couple of people have started putting their $138 into the provided account details already, which is good timing. The sooner it's paid up the sooner I'll be able to order. I'm keeping notes on all the incomings and outgoings and will also post "payment received" on the persons name. Bewdy!

Batch No.2 List;
1. Peter H (tunetown) Payment received
2. Chris T Payment received
3. Lee M
4. Nick F Payment received
5. Andy G Payment pending
6. Peter H (peat) Payment received
7. Anonymous buyer Payment received
8. Owen B

[Ben M]

Oh... and if no one is going to take the last one soonish I'm going to buy it as a present for someone.


Better hurry if you want the last one. I'm not doing this again. This is the last batch.

cheers