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He is one of the small few that fall into the category of being everything I hoped he would be and more. He's a national hero; he's regarded as a real keeper of Benin culture, a true ambassador for highlife music, and has managed to be an actual superstar at the same time.Was he still a superstar when you met him?
Well, he picked me up from the airport, and drove me to his house. He lives in a house called "Superstar Highgate" on 1, Victor Uwaifo Avenue.Sounds pretty starry.The first room you go into is the 'Victor Uwaifo Hall Of Fame'. So you have this big room covered in pictures, bits of memorabilia, newspaper clippings, records and guitars, even the bicycle he used to ride to school on, all in this room in his own house. You go from there to the Nigerian History Room, which is a tour through the history of Nigeria and its leaders over the years. That's followed by the Chamber Of Horrors.
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Sadly yes. They are often not just broken, but the recording is so terrible it's unusable. Technology being what it is today, you can actually take out the noise and scratches. But you can't add anything that wasn't there. Your hopes rest with the record.So if it's broke you can't fix it.
Yeah you can try and pull out what is there as much as possible, but if it's not there you're stumped. There are records out there that I've been desperate to find clean copies of that I have just never found.Such as?
There's a 45 by a band called The High Grades called "Jumping Cat" that I've been looking for about ten years but never found. I've got a copy but it's far too mashed to do anything with.Is that your Holy Grail?
One of them.Rhys James
