Closed Groove's

[BOOJIBOY]

Does anyone have any vinyl with closed grooves on them. If anyone remembers them you got them on the end of records. As the single or album finished it would jump into a groove on the vinyl and keep playing and playing.

I've got about four that I can think of. 'The Damned- Machine Gun Etiquette' (Repeats 'nibled to death by an Okapi') The Damned again with 'Suicide' B side to 'Love Song' (Repeated screaming) Stiff Little Fingers-Inflammable Material LP (Repeated phone ringing) John Cooper Clarke-Gimmix (Repeats with something but I can't quite remember)

Was this just a British late 70's thing or was this common? I got into a discussion with a friend and he'd never heard of them. If anyone else has some of these let me know, a year would be helpfull.

Cheers

Mark

[JoMan]

i hope i am thinking of the same thing as you are...
in that case there's the end of sgt pepper album, at least on the original pressings there was this "nonsense" babbling thing that would go on forever

[chrisgrimes]

Hi Mark

I think it was 1979, my first wife got me Squeeze, "Cool for Cats" on pink vinyl !! It definately had closed groove, to prove it I will get in my loft tonight and hook it out.

I have a load of 12" extended singles from the end 70 early 80's I was crazy on funk at that time (and still am) I can remember quite a few by Roy Ayers (Running Away, Come out and Play) Funkadelik (One nation under a Grove) and they all played and played and played and played !!

Chris in Dover (78 degrees in the shade !!)