Re-Release of my old band "VISITOR 2035".....From the 1970's jazz rock fusion era.

[mybass]

Yes! Percy Verence won in the end. Thanks for supporting John.

Tanya sent your correspondence to me to show distribution was now going though whatever Proper will be like will be another matter. Hope you enjoy, tell the world even 😃

[NukeBass]

I’ve just purchased a CD copy from Amazon having only just discovered its existence. 
I first became aware of the band back in the 70s via an article in an ‘underground ‘zine’ (probably Psychedelia In The UK or O.D.) and soon after, found a copy of the record in the bargain bin at Notting Hill Record & Tape Exchange - it’s been a firm favourite of mine ever since and was hugely influential for my own band <NUKLI>!

How cool to at long last have the album available on CD!

[SpondonBassed]

On 15/04/2025 at 17:43, mybass said:

tell the world

 

I have mentioned it a couple of times to others.  I posted about it here a long time ago with a link to the YoofBube copy.  It got favourable comments but was not available for sale then.

 

If I tell the world I shall need travel expenses!

 

Joking aside, is it selling now that it's back on the distributor's catalogue?

[mybass]

😆. Thanks for the message….as far as I know the CD is once again available but more than likely by ordering from a record shop…. As it’s through Proper Music, they may do what amp companies do and ‘ask’ the shop to order a minimum amount! I’m not sure if anyone can order direct from Proper… I might look that up but I’m in Canada Ay the mo so might be a tad difficult.

[mybass]

Available direct from Proper Music UK ……I hope the link works

https://propermusic.com/products/visitor2035-visitor2035?_pos=1&_sid=16c45bc39&_ss=r

[mybass]

I just found this, the link may work …

https://propermusic.com/products/visitor2035-visitor2035?_pos=1&_sid=16c45bc39&_ss=r

[lowdown]

Sorry to gate crash this thread. @mybass, are you the same Pete(r) Stroud who played Bass in the Sprinkler band with Gary Deans?

I'm just curious.

Edited June 10 by lowdown

[prowla]

That's rather good!

[Beedster]

Now this is a review 👍

 

[mybass]

5 hours ago, lowdown said:

Sorry to gate crash this thread. @mybass, are you the same Pete(r) Stroud who played Bass in the Sprinkler band with Gary Deans?

I'm just curious.

I don’t know a Gary Deans…?

[SpondonBassed]

7 hours ago, mybass said:

I’m not sure if anyone can order direct from Proper… I might look that up but I’m in Canada Ay the mo so might be a tad difficult.

 

I asked them about that.  They said no at the time.  It wasn't until Tanja from MIG got involved that it came through to Rough Trade, via Proper.

 

Mind you don't get annexed in Canada.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 10 by SpondonBassed

[lowdown]

10 hours ago, mybass said:

I don’t know a Gary Deans…?

 

Ah, okay. Not the same Peter Stroud then. 

👍

[mybass]

On 11/06/2025 at 00:42, lowdown said:

 

Ah, okay. Not the same Peter Stroud then. 

👍

Sprinkler Band doesn’t ring a bell either.

[SpondonBassed]

I'm bumping this thread because I'm a fan of this album.  It turned on lots of my, previously unused, musical taste buds as a teen.  It certainly had influenced me when I chose bass as an instrument a couple of years later.

 

As mentioned above, I bought the original release on vinyl.  During a house move I recorded a lot of my vinyl onto good quality four track cassette.  The tape is now quite audibly degraded.  I was delighted to see that the band had re-released their album on CD.  I had quite a little adventure getting a hold of a legitimate copy, heeheehee.

 

There's a bit of speech on there that felt a kinda scifi to my young ears but it was backwards.  On the vinyl version you could reverse spin it to understand the opening to track 2 - At the Gates.  It's not something that you'd normally be able to do on a disc player however.  I thought I'd just drop this here for laughs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[mybass]

On 13/06/2025 at 03:09, mybass said:

Sprinkler Band doesn’t ring a bell either.

But the ‘Peter Green Splinter Group’ does 😃

[mybass]

8 hours ago, SpondonBassed said:

I'm bumping this thread because I'm a fan of this album.  It turned on lots of my, previously unused, musical taste buds as a teen.  It certainly had influenced me when I chose bass as an instrument a couple of years later.

 

As mentioned above, I bought the original release on vinyl.  During a house move I recorded a lot of my vinyl onto good quality four track cassette.  The tape is now quite audibly degraded.  I was delighted to see that the band had re-released their album on CD.  I had quite a little adventure getting a hold of a legitimate copy, heeheehee.

 

There's a bit of speech on there that felt a kinda scifi to my young ears but it was backwards.  On the vinyl version you could reverse spin it to understand the opening to track 2 - At the Gates.  It's not something that you'd normally be able to do on a disc player however.  I thought I'd just drop this here for laughs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brilliant, I’d forgotton what it actually said in forward motion 😄

[mybass]

1 hour ago, mybass said:

Brilliant, I’d forgotton what it actually said in forward motion 😄

Spondonbassed....how could I download this audio, I can't find a way of doing it off this clip?

[SpondonBassed]

1 hour ago, mybass said:

Brilliant, I’d forgotton what it actually said in forward motion

 

Do you know who's voice it is?

 

At the time - the seventies - we had a surge of new and exciting scifi on TV and in the cinema.  The clip I referenced above reminded me very much of the cantina scene from Star Wars' first release.  I don't know quite why.  I mean... they sound nothing like each other to me now.  Somehow your album evoked that vibe and my imagination did the rest.

 

The cover art also gave off a strong vibe.  I had been choosing scifi paperbacks because they tended to have evocative artwork like on the sleeve of V2035.  I picked the album out of the rack because I thought it had an image of an overhead UAP (UFO for us older folk) landing at speed.

 

The LP's content did not disappoint even though I had heard nothing like it before.  It wasn't until I'd played it for the nth time that I realised the cover image was an artistic view of a phonograph tone arm touching down on an LP as seen from the LP's POV.  It certainly sold your work for you in my case.

 

 

[SpondonBassed]

16 minutes ago, mybass said:

Spondonbassed....how could I download this audio, I can't find a way of doing it off this clip?

 

PM incoming...

[mybass]

53 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

 

Do you know who's voice it is?

 

At the time - the seventies - we had a surge of new and exciting scifi on TV and in the cinema.  The clip I referenced above reminded me very much of the cantina scene from Star Wars' first release.  I don't know quite why.  I mean... they sound nothing like each other to me now.  Somehow your album evoked that vibe and my imagination did the rest.

 

The cover art also gave off a strong vibe.  I had been choosing scifi paperbacks because they tended to have evocative artwork like on the sleeve of V2035.  I picked the album out of the rack because I thought it had an image of an overhead UAP (UFO for us older folk) landing at speed.

 

The LP's content did not disappoint even though I had heard nothing like it before.  It wasn't until I'd played it for the nth time that I realised the cover image was an artistic view of a phonograph tone arm touching down on an LP as seen from the LP's POV.  It certainly sold your work for you in my case.

 

 

I think it was an actor who the keyboard player knew, listed as George Rawlins doing the voiceover Alien language ( and the ‘laugh’ on Toefunk).

[mybass]

Originally released on Vinyl, we also wanted it as a gatefold cover but the record company wouldn't cost it for that so here is what it would have looked like as a gatefold cover.....

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by mybass