{"id":4898,"date":"2023-12-21T18:22:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T18:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2024-07-11T20:26:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:26:14","slug":"bogus-dago-blues-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4898","title":{"rendered":"Bogus Dago Blues Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had thought that there were zero meaningful hits for this on the Intertubes, and thought to remedy it, but then another search revealed Martin Dale<\/a>, the man previously known as Klink, as a solitary web hit.<\/p>\n

Bogus Dago was a blues band that Mark<\/a> was part of in the early-mid 90s. We, as family members, saw them play several times, and at one point in the nineties, I’d regularly wear a t-shirt promoting them because I kind of liked the design.<\/p>\n

It was nice then, when my dear sister-in-law found (a) a unused band t-shirt in time for Mark’s funeral and (b) a cassette.<\/p>\n

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A scan of the original cassette J-card for “Go Mango”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I’d sold our only cassette deck over a year ago, I had to call upon a (young) colleague who has discovered the cassette revival, and with a bit of fiddling I captured the over 30 year old tape to .wav, broke out mhWaveEdit<\/a>, split the tracks out, encoded them to FLAC and tagged them, then burnt a CD with functional CD-Text<\/a>, as well as MP3s and the aforementioned FLAC files with embedded album art by cropping and stretching the scan of the cassette J-card.<\/p>\n

The surprising thing is that the 30-plus year old cassette, on nothing more exotic than a TDK D60<\/a>, played back from a mid-range 1980s Sony Walkman sounds OK-ish- there’s a bit of wobble as the treble drops out once in a while, and there’s hiss- but it’s by no means awful<\/em>. The concept of producing your own CDs at the time was not within easy reach- now it’s actually a dying technology, its time having passed, but at least Bogus Dago Blues Band now have a CD release (and potentially a digital download, too)! Does this make me a mastering engineer? (no, it doesn’t. I’ve done no post-processing, so the audio is pretty much as-is off the cassette)<\/p>\n

Sample track (track 2) here, a song credited to the band:<\/p>\n

Another One Knocking – Bogus Dago – Live at The Frog July 1st, 1994<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/\/02.another_one_knockin.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

I can’t currently find where The Frog was and if it still exists, so if anyone knows, let me know. It’s reasonably likely to have been in the Dudley\/Brierley Hill\/Stourbridge area, as the band played there a lot.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure this isn’t the gig on the tape, but here’s the band performing in 1994. Mark’s in the white t-shirt, playing bass.<\/p>\n

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Bogus Dago Blues Band, performing in 1994. Photo copyright Jane Bush.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Martin sings a version of the song on his Youtube channel:<\/p>\n