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| Keeping
Tabs on Israel (rehearsal) |
5.60
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Rehearsal,
Ritz rehearsal rooms. 1976/7. Double A period. Unique thing, slow
and moody with a saaaddd story. |
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| In
The Deli |
2.45
|
1979.
What happens between tracks. Band gotta eat. |
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| I
won't get drunk again |
2.63
|
1978.
A 'Barnes demo', the sort of thing devised in bulk by Jon in his Barnes
flat with two Revoxes and a drum machine. Rather like this one. And
he lied. |
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| Job
City |
4.43
|
This
and the next five are 'Barnes demos' that never made it to a Movies
recording (or anyone else's). Just for fun, 1978-9. This one eerily
predicts the Hire/Fire mantra of The Apprentice. Cheeky. |
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| Broadway
Blues |
3.57
|
This
is one of those walking tunes that give the feeling of walking down
a street, in this case Broadway and why not?
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| Dangerous |
4.60
|
Perky
little tune which meant more in 1978 than it does now... |
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| Sayonara
Tokyo |
3.82
|
Unfinished
(well, they all are) thing about loving & leaving etc etc |
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| Prisoner
of the Boulevard |
3.80
|
How
did Peter Sarstedt get into this? |
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| These
Express Desires |
3.17
|
I
do believe someone had a fixation on trains |
|
The
Labrador Retriever
|
2.55
|
Wood
Farm? I never realized matchboxes were so informative. I shall buy
one today. |
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| Groove
1 |
8.70
|
Straight off the tape. Rehearsal tracks, 1979. A bit of India, a bit
of blues, a bit of God Knows What. Some people seem to like this stuff.
Very longggg, and the best stuff is not necessarily at the beginning. |
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| Groove
2 |
8.37
|
As
above. (See Through Me, Blues, India). |
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| Groove
3 |
5.82
|
As
above. (Bardot, India twice). |
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| Groove
Moscow |
7.66
|
As
above. Picks up where In The Deli left off. |
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| Chasing
Angels (rehearsal) |
3.31
|
1976/7.
People think that songs just spring up fully-formed. Here's a monster
classic Movies track in embryo, a story rather different from the
final cut. |
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| Le
Club Chaud (rehearsal) |
3.05
|
1976/7.
I feel woogie, must be the boogie. Jazz (?) time at the end of a rehearsal
session. |
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| Rumour
(rehearsal) |
2.81
|
1976/7.
These tracks are about Trying Songs Out, learning, and making mistakes.
As it happens, this one turned out reasonably, eventually, when it
had been reduced to essentials. |
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| True
Love trouble (rehearsal) |
2.45
|
1976/7.
First go at Jools' monster tune. What, no brass? |
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| Yo
Yo (rehearsal) |
5.81
|
1976/7.
Just love the way those timbales are warming up at the beginning.
And the Sorry after knocking seven bells out of them is hilarious.
Bravo! |
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| Jan
Hammered (rehearsal) |
10.00
|
Evidence
that, in 76/77, the band could have slipped towards Weather Report
(good) or Merv & the MagicTones (bad). As it happens, they did
neither. Typical. |
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| Buzzy
Blues (rehearsal) |
4.56
|
1977,
blues jam. Buzzy because someone left their jack plug half in, half
out. |
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| Batman
(rehearsal) |
2.49
|
Evidence
from '77 of how they just sort-of slipped into things. |
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| Heavenbound
(rehearsal) |
1.88
|
1976/7.
Odd little thing that came from nowhere and went back the way it came.
Nice organ. |
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| Dancing
in space (rehearsal) |
4.00
|
1979.
Eerily like the final cut but without Production. |
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| Lubricate
your dentures |
5.12
|
1979.
Mouth solo by Viv Growler over the backing track to Have Another Body. |
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| India
and CineCita |
3.46
|
1977.
A Barnes demo, very basic, heavily featuring the drum machine's more
bizarre rhythms and no vocal. The first sign of 'India' plus a (God
HowLongDoesThisGoOn) track that meant something to Jools, CineCita. |
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| I'll
never get that truck on the road |
2.77
|
A
Barnes demo, whimsical. (Yee Haw). God knows when this one was done. |
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