Having recently set up my late brother Kev’s Pioneer PL-12D Vinyl player, bought a Pioneer SA500 Amplifier and got some Jamo Cornet 30 IV 6 ohm Speakers, which are not first choice, but sound good enough to play the vinyl through….it was nice to clean up our 1977 acetate XCerts single with good vinyl cleaning fluid and actually put it reverently onto the turntable platter and play it after all this time. Next year it will have been written 50 years ago!

Punk, youthful energy alongside naivety here. I took the idea to Kev and Dave, played the usual chords on an acoustic guitar and sang the vocal melody and lyrics and said ‘Let’s do this!’. I wrote the song at work that same day in my lunch break. We rehearsed in the basement of the place I worked at. My boss was an amazing guy. Fully supportive and generous with empathy too.

And so. Having heard the idea, Kev (Zero) hit a blistering drum beat, Dave Pepper electrified the acoustic chords on his Gibson Les Paul, I plugged in my Fender Jazz bass guitar and it all kicked in. Achieved in basically fifteen minutes. We recorded it in Spaceward Studios alongside another few tracks in one single day. Two songs were chosen for a single 45 rpm release.

The only source of this Satisfied song playing was on a cassette. It was a copy of a copy of a copy it seems! Very muddy. A cleaner version was needed. So I attached a Shure MV88 microphone to the iPad, pointed it at the two speakers and captured the song onto a Shure MOTIV file app. Then sent it to iMovie with a basic visual background. Typed up the lyrics and……here it is.

Kev, his musician’s name Zero, and his drumming has now been played on his own turntable. I own the acetate 45 ‘single’ and it is the only one in existence. Very rare now and about three decades ago I saw it in a book of collectible records at the price of around £800. Why? Because we advertised in the NME, Melody Maker and Sounds magazine that Feeling in the Groove (A side) and Satisfied (B side) were to be released as an upcoming single. It never happened. Management played their usual ‘promise the stars’ games and nothing got done. So, of course, people think it is super rare. Well I guess it is!