WOTW does sound dated. I played a side one afternoon when I was working out in the workshop and I found it boring. And recently going through albums I haven’t played in years I have found many to be laughable - listening to the banality of the lyrics.!
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I’ve loved that album since I was an audiophile pup decades ago. I have two LP copies (one’s backup), CD and SACD versions.
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Can’t say I’m familiar. I’ve only ever had (or seen) their first, and the “Down the Road” followup.
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Indeed, it can get a bit wince-worthy, for sure.
I do like to play the odd gems though - such as the Dean Friedman track above 
That first Judy Tzuke skirts dangerously close (partly as a result of those 70s strings) but is another such gem, to me, at least, but WOTW really hasn’t aged well.
I was surprised it did so very well as a travelling live show a couple of years ago.
One tour I could understand for nostalgia, but I think it did three or even four!
My wife went two or three times, I managed to get out of it each time 
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I get you. Over the years I’ve bought a lot of Snap On tools. Snap On don’t sell through stores or shops in the UK only from a truck. Expensive, but quality finish to the tools. The tools I like the most are Stahlwille. German quality - but not as big a range of tools as Snap On carry!
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It is much the same. I also have their other albums. I haven’t played the vinyl albums for a long time and recently unearthed them again!
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It’s the same here, franchisees trucks sell them here. I got loads of tools from giveaways and such, if I needed a particular wrench I would go to the nickel/chrome plater and just snatch one off the rack, cut it, grind it to fit in a particular place. Our forge presses were German and a tool kit came with them and they were Stahlwille, good tools, could take a lot of abuse!!. Our forge presses ranged from 550 to 3000 tons of force. If you have any snapon wrenches they were made right here in TN
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Oh yes - I do own a fair amount of Snap On. I have combination wrenches of various types, even own one type with fancy jaws at the open-end of the wrench to stop slipping on corroded nuts.
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That was the first time I’ve heard it. It was a little weird listening to holiday music at this time of the year, but I found it uplifting during this crazy lock-down. I don’t own a copy of it per se. Instead, I streamed it from Tidal and really liked it. As a result, I’ve added it to my roon colleciton.
Jake Thackray…… Hell I had forgotten all about him.! He was like Noel Coward but with a strong Yorkshire accent. Brilliantly witty!! Aye, he was very clever.
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I remember when those wrenches when they first came out, we called them super wrenches, they were a pain to broach those open ends. The 15 degree angle on the box ends were made by a small bender while the wrenches were soft, before heat treat. We made the bender in house and afterwards they would push the unfinished machine to my tool box so I could design the electrics, wire it to make it work. Sometime I would do relay logic or use a small PLC to make the machine work. It just depended on what parts I could scrounge up to do the job.
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I remember listening to that broadcast. I think I recorded it on VHS tape (or S-VHS). God knows what happened to that tape, and whether any of the machines collecting dust in my basement could still play it.
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Just think those wrenches were made by hillbillies right here in upper east tn.
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I just signed up for the paid version of Neil Young Archives. “Try,” a track from the forthcoming “Homegrown” archival release, is streaming in 24/192 quality. Great tune, and it looks like NYA is a great interface and value for Neil Young fans.
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Aye for all I moan about my terrible musical upbringing, I was introduced to him, and Flanders and Swann (and also Kathleen Ferrier - shudder, and, the Seekers) so it can’t all be bad
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