Dag 1382: my room waiting for wonderland

a room with a view, 1982

This is the view from the room in which I spent most of my formulative years (which included the rather crutial 1982).

This what I remember it containing:
- 1 bed in the corner with its legs removed
- 1 piano which I had stripped and painted yellow
- The walls and radiator were also painted yellow (and maybe the skirting board too?)
- 1 pedal harmonium which I found in a junk room at school and they said I could keep it
- 1 Korg ms-10 synthesizer
- 1 Carlsbro valve amp head
- 1 cabinet containing a 15inch speaker
- 1 upside down old television painted in various bright colours
- 1 bedside light that hung from the ceiling and was shaped like a giant light bulb
- 1 full length mirror with dark wood frame
- 3 parrots on the wall
- 2 candles on the window ledge
- 1 small desk with:
- 1 sinclair spectrum/later replaced with 1 atari st/later replaced with an amiga
- 1 hifi system (seperates) consisting of record deck, cassette deck, amp and warfdale speakers (I later added a cd player -much later)
- 1 shergold meteor guitar (was swapped out for the above sinclair spectrum)
- 1 Soundmaster cr-88 drum machine
- 1 old 35 mm pentax SLR camera with seperate light meter and 2 extra lenses which was used to take the above photo, which was not an intentional double exposure, if I remember correctly
- a couple of my photos framed on the wall above the harmonium
- 1 open brick fireplace with no fire in it
- 1 wooden box containing all my tapes (painted yellow)
- 1 yellow wooden slatted wooden blind in the window (rolled up and out of site in this photo)
- 1 cat called Dinah
- my blue book that I used to write down song lyrics and such stuff (that I still use to this day)

Things I remember doing in this room include:
- Taking quite a lot of photos in this room (which I still have)
- Recording the backing track for the Strange Devotion gig at the 1982 Folk and Blues
- Recording some tracks with Liam from Neural Circus and John Robson. The tape survived, but at some point I had taped over the first couple of tracks and so our version of Silver Machine (including lyrics sung by Liam which included the line "I've got a pink pussycat called Simon, you can take him home if you want to") was lost forever
- Learning to play Pictures at an Exhibition on my yellow piano (I should add I learned some of it not all of it)
- Playing Dungeon Master, and many other computer games whose names are long forgotten
- Having loads of friends back to listen to music and hang out

There are obviously other things that we don't need to go into here.
All in all this was a good room to live in and I would recommend it to all potential occupants.