(Hard rock) [LP][24/96] Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend - 1973, FLAC (tracks), 1st Press [UK]

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Posted June 1st, 2012| FLAC | Artwork | MCA Records – MDKS 8010 [1st Press]

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Vinyl Ripping Process/Equipment

Vinyl Cleaning Process

3 Liter Ultrasonic Cleaner (Tap water with Sporicidin) on custom rotating assembly at 1 RPM for one hour
Vacuum off with Nitty Gritty
AIVS Premium Record Cleaner Formula No. 15 applied with Mofi Brush while rotating on VPI 16.5
McCulloch MC-1275 Heavy-Duty Steam Cleaner applied with Mofi Brush while rotating on VPI 16.5
Vacuum off with VPI 16.5
L’Art du Son Record Cleaning Fluid applied with VPI Bristle brush
Vacuum off with VPI 16.5
Whole Foods Deionized Water applied with Mofi Brush (Separate from AIVS Mofi Brush)
Vacuum off with VPI 16.5
Flip record and repeat
Place record on Plate Demgnetizer

Turntable Equipment Profile

VPI Scoutmaster with inverted bearing and 300 RPM motor
Trans-Fi ResoMat
Gingko Cloud 11 Vibration Control Platform
VPI Synchronous Drive System turntable motor speed controller and line isolator
Trans-Fi Audio Terminator T3Pro tangential tracking air bearing tonearm with Tomahawk Armwand
Soundsmith Sussorro Paua

Phono Stage Profile

Musical Surroundings Phonomena Phono Preamplifier
Musical Surroundings Battery Power Supply

Analog/Digital Convertion

RME ADI-2 =< ADAT =< E-MU 1212M
Adobe Audition 3.01 running on Windows XP in a Shuttle PC form factor

Post Processing Of Audio

Run thru ClickRepair(if necessary) at level 7 with
Pitch Protection | off
Reverse | on
Simple
Resample to 96khz in Izotope Rx2 using the default preset
Manually listen to album in Adobe Audition cleaning any clicks/anomalies
Flac with Xrecode II for hi-rez files
Flac with Trader’s Little Helper for redbook files

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Never Turn Your Back on a Friend is Budgie's third album, released in June 1973. A remastered version was released in late 2004.

This is the band's best known album and is notable for its inclusion of "Breadfan", the band's best-known song. Metallica recorded a cover version of "Breadfan" in 1988.

The album cover was done by Roger Dean, who has done much of the album artwork for progressive rock band Yes.

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Three albums in and Budgie hit their eclectic zeinth with the 1973 release of Never Turn Your Back on a Friend. The Welsh power trio kicked off the seven song studio effort with the full-on blitz of "Breadfan", and never looked back. With the meandering ten-minute "Parents" hung-out as the other bookend track, Budgie filled-out Never Turn Your Back on a Friend with a cover of "Baby Please Don't Go", the hard boiled "You're the Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk" (only Budgie consisently came up with out-there song titles like this), and the heavy handed "In the Grip of a Typefitter's Hand", while a pair of short and soft cuts, "You Know I'll Always Love You" and "Riding the Nightmare", offset the powerful riffage.

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Personnel

Burke Shelley - lead vocals, bass
Tony Bourge - guitar, backing vocals
Ray Phillips - drums