Re: Trainspotting

Philip Hassell (PHILIP.HASSELL@UCG.IE)
Mon, 15 Jan 1996 10:43:32 +0000 (GMT)


> I've seen the term 'trainspotting' used in connection with music quite a bit
> recently. What does it mean?

Well, if you happend to live in Britain or Ireland, you might be familiar with
a breed of people known as "trainspotters" who, literally, look at trains. You
see them at all the major stations in a regulation overcoat, camera , flask of
tea to keep away the cold etc. and each has the ambition to see (and record
seeing) every single locomotive in the country. They are a bit
(understatment :-) of a national joke

With regard to music, it's like you know EVERYTHING about a certain genre or
artist. I mean everything, like the catalogue numbers, where it was recorded,
the bar code number etc. Sort of standing outside the record company with an
overcoat and a camera and a flash of tea, watching everything that goes on and
recording it down in a little notebook.

>
> Marc.

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