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50031 has just crossed Smugglers Lane Viaduct, and about to enter Parsons Tunnel, as it heads east towards Dawlish and Exeter with its train. 25th June 1983.
Alan Parsons (born 20 December 1948) is an English audio engineer, musician, and record producer. He was involved with the production of several significant albums, including The Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be, as well as Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon for which Pink Floyd credit him as an important contributor. Parsons' own group, The Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also been successful commercially.
In October 1967, at the age of 18, Parsons went to work as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road Studios, where he earned his first credit on the LP Abbey Road. He became a regular there, engineering such projects as Paul McCartney's Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway, five albums by The Hollies, and Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, for which he received his first Grammy Award nomination.
He was known for doing more than what would normally be considered the scope of a recording engineer’s duties.[citation needed] He considered himself to be a recording director, likening his contribution to recordings to what Stanley Kubrick contributed to film.[citation needed] This is apparent in his work with Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat", where Parsons added the saxophone part and transformed the original folk concept into the jazz-influenced ballad that put Al Stewart onto the charts.[citation needed] It is also heard in Parsons' influence on the Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and "The Air That I Breathe", sharp departures from their popular 1960s hits "Stay", "Just One Look", "Stop! Stop! Stop!" or "Bus Stop".[citation needed] Parsons was also known to have swapped shifts during the engineering of The Dark Side of the Moon so he could work entirely on the project.
Parsons also produced three albums by Pilot, a Scottish pop rock band consisting of Ian Bairnson on guitar, Stuart Tosh on drums, and David Paton on lead vocals, guitars,bass and William (Billy) Lyall, on piano and keys. Their hits included "January" and "Magic".
He also mixed the debut album by the American band Ambrosia and produced their second album Somewhere I've Never Travelled. Parsons was nominated for a Grammy Award for both of these albums.
In 1975, he declined Pink Floyd's invitation to come back and work on the follow-up for "Dark Side," Wish You Were Here, and instead initiated The Alan Parsons Project with producer and songwriter (and occasional singer) Eric Woolfson, whom he had met at Abbey Road. The Project consisted of a revolving group of studio musicians and vocalists, most notably the members of Pilot and (on the first album) the members of Ambrosia. Unlike most rock groups, The Alan Parsons Project never performed live during its heyday, although it did release several music videos. Its only live performance during its original incarnation was in 1990, with Woolfson present but behind the scenes. After releasing ten albums, the last in 1987, the Project terminated in 1990 after Parsons and Woolfson split, with the Project's intended 11th album released that year as a Woolfson solo album. Parsons continued to release work in his own name and in collaboration with other musicians. Parsons and his band now regularly tour many parts of the world.
Although an accomplished vocalist, keyboardist, bassist, guitarist and flautist, Parsons only sang infrequent and incidental parts on his albums. While his keyboard playing was very audible on the Alan Parsons Project albums, very few recordings feature his flute. During the late 1990s, Parsons' career travelled an interesting full circle. Having started out in the music industry at the Abbey Road Studios in London as an assistant engineer in the late 1960s, he briefly returned to run the studio in its entirety. He reportedly managed to combine this role with the demands of a hectic performing and recording schedule. Parsons also continued with his selective production work for other bands.
Of all his collaborations, guitarist Ian Bairnson worked with Parsons the longest, including Parsons' post-Woolfson albums, Try Anything Once, On Air, and The Time Machine.
In 1998, Parsons became Vice President of EMI Studios Group including the Abbey Road Studios. He soon left the post deciding to return to more creative endeavours. Parsons remained as a creative consultant and associate producer for the group.
As well as receiving gold and platinum awards from many nations, Parsons has received ten Grammy Award nominations for engineering and production. In 2007 he received a nomination for Best Surround Sound Album for A Valid Path.
Beginning in 2001 and extending for four years, Parsons conceived and led a Beatles tribute show called A Walk Down Abbey Road featuring a group of headlining performers such as Todd Rundgren, Ann Wilson of Heart, John Entwistle of The Who, and Jack Bruce of Cream. The show structure included a first set where all musicians assembled to perform each other's hits, and a second set featuring all Beatles songs.
Since 1999 he has toured under a revised name, The Alan Parsons Live Project (with Woolfson’s permission). The globe-trotting band currently features lead singer P.J. Olsson, guitarist Alastair Greene, drummer Danny Thompson, keyboardist Manny Focarazzo, bass guitarist Guy Erez and vocalist and saxophonist Todd Cooper.
In May 2005, Parsons appeared at the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills, California, to mix front-of-house sound for Southern California-based Pink Floyd tribute band Which One’s Pink? and their performance of The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety.[3]
In 2010, Parsons released his single "All Our Yesterdays" through Authentik Artists.[4] Parsons also launched a DVD educational series in 2010 titled The Art and Science of Sound Recording ("ASSR") on music production and the complete audio recording process. The single "All Our Yesterdays" was written and recorded during the making of ASSR. The series, narrated by Billy Bob Thornton,[5] gives detailed tutorials on virtually every aspect of the sound recording process. Individual sections of the series are also being released in batches and are available to stream or download at www.artandscienceofsound.com.[5]
During 2010, several media reports,[6][7] one of which included a quote from a representative of Parsons,[8] alleged that the song "Need You Now" by country music group Lady Antebellum possessed the melody and arrangement of "Eye in the Sky."
Parsons produced Jake Shimabukuro's album, Grand Ukulele which was released on 2 October 2012.
Also in 2012, he contributed lead vocals and performed keyboards and guitar on the track "Precious Life" by German electronic music duo Lichtmond, and appeared with many other noted progressive-rock musicians on The Prog Collective album by Billy Sherwood, singing lead on "The Technical Divide."
Parsons engineered the latest album by Steven Wilson, The Raven that Refused to Sing (And Other Stories), released on 25 February 2013.
CP #9823 spiegelt sich im Tümpel an der Ausweichstelle Parson, gleich wird sie ihren Zug weiter Richtung Golden nachschieben
50008 ' Thunderer' emerges from Parsons Tunnel & into the Devon Sunshine at the head of 1V76 0936 Liverpool - Penzance 30/08/84.
50001 to 50013 were selected from the battleships which were members of the Grand Fleet of 1914 which all, with the exception of "Dreadnought", were involved in the Battle of Jutland. This battle took place on May 31st 1916 and was the largest naval action of the First World War. None of these warships survived to see action in World War Two.
The Lucy .50 Magnum Sniper Rifle
Named after Lucy Parsons an African, Native and Mexican-American anarchist labor activist and all around bad-ass who was described by the Chicago PD as “more dangerous than a thousand rioters” She was married to Albert Parsons former Confederate soldier turned anarchist organizer who was a Haymarket Martyr.
This rifle fires a new .50 magnum round with a resdesigned .510 bullet derived from the old .50 BMG cartridge, that is boat-tailed to reduce drag and go much farther. It is semi-automatic with a 4 round magazine. It can also fire the standard .50 BMG round with a special mag adaptor.
Built almost entirely out of shapes none of them white.
Credits to "The Wezzy" for the Rails and xλИ for the stock (which was heavily modified and removed of white shapes), "(Matthew Taylor)" for the bipod (again modified, wanted less shapes and less part usage) "Shark ~ He who rides a tiger cannot dismount" for the grip and trigger (modified slightly)
Total number of pages of code: 1769 @ Helevetica 12pt
From a story by radical folk singer Utah Phillips:
“One time, she was speaking at a big May Day rally back in the Haymarket in the middle 1930s during The Depression. She was incredibly old. She was led carefully up to the rostrum, a multitude of people there. She had her hair tied back in a tight white bun, her face a mass of deeply incised lines, deep-set beady black eyes. She was the image of everybody’s great-grandmother. She hunched over that podium, hawk-like, and fixed that multitude with those beady black eyes, and said: “What I want is for every greasy grimy tramp to arm himself with a knife or a gun and stationing himself at the doorways of the rich shoot or stab them as they come out.”
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2020 Volvo FH500 Globetrotter XL
Parsons Nationwide Distribution, Aylesbeare, Devon
Buckingham, 27 May 2021
Bob Parsons Bidding at
Celebrity Fight Night 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Renee and Bob Parsons speaking with attendees at the 2017 Annual Awards Luncheon hosted by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, Arizona.
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William Parsons built this Easton house in 1753. George Taylor, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and before that an owner of the Bachmann Publick House and an operator of an ironworks, lived his final days in the house, dying there in 1781.
St John the Baptist, Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire
Parson Drove is a surprisingly large, handsome village for this part of the world, barely half a mile from the Lincolnshire border. I suspect this was the main road between Peterborough and Wisbech before the A47 came along. At the far eastern end of the village is the great church of St John the Baptist, one of those big, neglected 15th Century fenland churches.
Redundant, in the care of the CCT. There is a list of opening hours as well as a keyholder notice, but in three visits during the advertised opening times I have never found the church open, and i have never found any of the keyholders in.
Signalbox diagram from Parson's Heath on the GE main line on the outskirts of Colchester.
A quirk on this diagram is that the draughtsman has left behind some rogue numbers (8 & 14) pertaining to the two sidings that had been removed. In the box, these were covered over with some black electrical tape on the outside of the glass in the frame.
The frame (a 4in McKenzie and Holland) has survived, spending many years in a garage in Clacton and is coming to a heritage railway near you.
I have added colour to a black and white image.