"Walter's clocks, and that they were still in the room, give an air of authenticity!"
I'm afraid you never heard a Russian tin clock Jag - pretty bad
We usually managed to get it taken out of the room but many of our sessions took place in the course of conceration, when Walter said something we wanted to record
I personally didn't think the album we submitted was that bad - all of our albums were recorded as 'kitchen sessions' but we have good equipment and usually managed to get excellent recordings

One of the worst experiences as when we were recording a teller of long stories
At one stage, his brother across the room, interjected, saying "Packie - you have that wrong" and hooked the microphone out of my hand
I watched our AKG go bouncing across the stone kitchen floor - fortunately it was undamaged
Jim