Re: World War 1 - Centennial
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 10:32 pm
gramophone78 wrote:It seems to be so. Fred's Brother Will was inadvertently gassed while taping the track. The recording equipment was placed inside the kitchen of a bombed out house. Apparently several wagons were needed to move this equipment. However, in order to capture the sounds.....the "horns" had to be placed very close to the action.epigramophone wrote:Some say that this recording cost Will Gaisberg his life.gramophone78 wrote:Actually, the one record that should be mentioned and is the only true recording of WW1 is this......
He was severely gassed whilst making the recording, and when he returned to London he succumbed to the 1918 influenza pandemic. Less than a month later he died. If he had not been weakened by the gas attack he might have survived.
The irony in all this....was Will gassed by "friendly" fire....??.
gass or flue???
well the gass make your lungs secreed alot of liquit if you got too much of it you would quite literally drown!
the thing is spanish flue afected the lungs the one of the many symtoms was watery secretions in the lungs again you would drown
my opinion is that will was gassed
Regardless, without this recording....WW1 would have never been captured for posterity.