Last update: 2/20/2023
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- Fantastic early demos for publisher Stuart Johnson's Tower Bridge Music company, recorded at Johnson's home studio in suburban Middlesex. The slide guitar player should be Noel Brown.
- This demos were recorded at J.C. Carroll's home. The tape had J.C. (who later was in the Members) on guitar. On bass there probably was J.C.'s brother Paddy that also shortly played with the Members as a replacement for Chris Payne, and/or maybe it was Gary Baker, the original Members lead guitarist.
- This are the songs Graham according to his fascinating notes played here that haven't shown up on any other occasion.
- These rehearsals consisted of Noel Brown on slide guitar, Paul Riley on bass, and Brian Nevill on drums. Also played on those sessions was a song that many years later became "Children And Dogs," but at that time probably was still called "Just Leave Some Room." It was dumped back then because it was considered too country for the direction GP's songs had begun to take. "Don't Ask Me Questions" originally wasn't written as a reggae until Noel Brown suggested to try it that way.
- Those GP solo demos were probably taped just after the Phonogram contract at Marble Arch studios. "Express Delivery" has also been performed in the Newlands Tavern days when about half the audience would go to the bar or the bathroom because they'd never heard of him and were only there to see the Rumour. Fools!! All tracks were finally issued in 2001 on the That's When You Know collection.
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- Contrary to what the cover says, "Hole In The World" isn't included in full length, but
only in half. The version of "Between You And Me" is the Hope & Anchor demo later also
included on "Howlin' Wind." The acoustic songs are taken from the 1975 Phonogram solo demo
session, see above. On this tape one can still hear GP counting in the numbers, those intros
were edited out for the That's When You Know
collection. So this, I guess, must have been a Phonogram compilation tape of
pre-Howlin' wind GP demos.
- Unreleased song from the "The Real Macaw" sessions.
- Unfinished song from the "Steady Nerves" sessions.
- Because this (first version of the) song wouldn't have fitted onto "12 Haunted Episodes," no band was added, but it originally was considered as a possible B-side. Since this didn't happen, it became a demo for the later "Acid Bubblegum" version.
- GP was flown to Berlin to add vocals to this Steve Van Zandt composition, but somehow the version that ended up on the soundtrack was one sung by Little Steven himself.
Matthew Berlyant, J.C. Carroll, Frits de Jong, Mike Gent, Steve Goulding, John Howells, Sam Lawrence, Don Manderfeld, Brian Nevill, Lars Petersson, David Sadler, Mats Westin, William Wittman
Plus a big big thank you to Graham, not only for this page, but especially for this page!
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