A Porky Prime Cut

[YahudaMoon]

George Peckham is better known as "Porky", as in "A Porky Prime Cut", which is written in the dead/wax lead-out grooves of almost every classic Punk, Post-Punk and New-Wave record. Been working since the 60's and done work from the Beatles to everyday dance music to this day, Musics unsung hero and poblebly the best mastering engineer ever !

Anyone who ever bought records must have seen the name 'A porky prime cut, Porky, A porky oh yes prime cut to name but a few examples etched into the run out grooves on vinyl records

God. The master himself. The mastering engineer of mastering engineers. George Peckham

 

[Brains]

I met him 30 odd years ago, bit of a strange bloke even back then, he made a couple of albums that we were working on at the time, he was used by much of the 'indi' industry as he was genuinely independent, charged reasonable rates, and was incredibly fast, often turning out an LP within 2 days if you personally delivered off the master tapes and came back for the acetate, whereas the official pressers at the time would tell you two weeks was fast, and two months was what they would prefer.

 

[Fnaar]

When I read the thread title, I knew exactly wjat it referred to! So familiar, but I haven't thought about it in years. Have a strange urge now to get all my vinyl out and have a look for Porkies, but perhaps not on Christmas Eve, when I should be entertaining the visitors.

 

[vernon]

I too knew exactly what the thread was about from its title.

I have dozens of Porky Prime Cuts. He must have been a busy chap!

 

[vernon]

Here's a partial discography of Porky. I'm sure that I've got stuff that isn't on the list.

Going through my vinyl to trace them will be a nice thing to do when I've got nothing else to do.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/George+Peckham

 

[YahudaMoon]

I met him 30 odd years ago, bit of a strange bloke even back then, he made a couple of albums that we were working on at the time, he was used by much of the 'indi' industry as he was genuinely independent, charged reasonable rates, and was incredibly fast, often turning out an LP within 2 days if you personally delivered off the master tapes and came back for the acetate, whereas the official pressers at the time would tell you two weeks was fast, and two months was what they would prefer.

Thats interesting. What albums did you work on ?

He seems to have quietened down since 2009. His back Catalogue seems to have come to a grinding halt.

 

[Brains]

Mostly Psychedelia/Goth Rock bands of the early 1980's