Back From The Dead...
Originally posted July 7, 2020
ROIO: audio and/or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist, or under other legal authority. Soundboards, Quality Audience Recordings, FM Broadcasts, Concert Videos and Out of Print Recordings.
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Like to have some ecstasy with XTC? (Some Demos)
Thursday, October 24, 2024
John Lennon At Home Guitar And Piano Demos
*THANKS TO THE GREAT OLD BLOG STONED FOR THIS
Back From The Dead....by request
Originally posted December 8, 2020
If nothing else you need this for the hilarious parodies of Dylan on Disc1 see scans
*OF NOTE THREE SONGS FROM DISC 2 ARE APPENED AND ADDED TO A DISC 3 TO GIVE YOU MAXIUM LISTINIG PLEASURE
New Dylan song lyrics
"Well Frankie's phone is ringing so he pulls his cell out"
"He's eaten his apple to the core"
"And says to feed everyone you have to give this to the poor"
"But you must ration"
"He's singing songs, there one's he knows of twenty million"
"He memorized the tune from watching a T.V. commercial"
IT'S BAD ENOUGH ON THE BEACH BUT IT'S WORSE ON THE BEACH
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
The Jam - Mama We're All Different Now
Vinyl rip @ 320 from red vinyl bootleg, "limited edition of 1000", Energia Records ER003, Spain
16 studio tracks of rare demo versions and outtakes between 1976 and 1982.
See http://www.discogs.com/Jam-Mama-Were-All-Different-Now/release/1678899.
Labels: two arrows on one side, target on the other. B&W insert of Jam discography.
Also released on green vinyl.
A1 Left, Right And Centre (demo '76)
A2 So Sad About Us (demo '77)
A3 It's Too Bad (demo '78)
A4 David Watts [Kinks] (demo '78)
A5 See-Saw (outtake '79)
A6 Liza Radley (alternate version '80)
A7 And Your Bird Can Sing [Beatles] (outtake '80)
A8 But I'm Different Now (alternate version '80)
B1 England (I Miss You Now)
B2 Dream Time (demo '80)
B3 Dead End Street [Kinks] (demo '80)
B4 No One In The World (demo '80)
B5 Rain [Beatles] (demo '80)
B6 Get Yourself Together [Small Faces] (demo '81)
B7 We've Only Started (demo '81)
B8 Walking In Heaven's Sunshine (demo '82)
Thanks to snotty at tooshortalife.blogspot.com and skamanc at skamanchackett.blogspot.com.
Sunday, September 24, 2023
10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe Demos
02 10,000 Maniacs - What's The Matter Here
03 10,000 Maniacs - A Campfire Song
04 10,000 Maniacs - Poison In The Well
05 10,000 Maniacs - City of Angels
06 10,000 Maniacs - My Sister Rose
07 10,000 Maniacs - About The Weather
08 10,000 Maniacs - Cherry Tree
09 10,000 Maniacs - The Painted Desert
10 10,000 Maniacs - Don't Talk
11 10,000 Maniacs - The Biggest Chain
12 10,000 Maniacs - Verdi Cries (take 4)
13 10,000 Maniacs - Verdi Cries (take 6)
14 10,000 Maniacs - Hey Jack Kerouac
15 10,000 Maniacs - Gun Shy
16 10,000 Maniacs - My Sister Rose
17 10,000 Maniacs - The Painted Desert
18 10,000 Maniacs - Don't Talk
19 10,000 Maniacs - Cherry Tree
This is set of 10,000 Maniacs demo tapes for the "In My Tribe" LP that I got in trade on a cassette back in the late 80s. The same sets of songs, in the same order, were pressed up on a bootleg CD in 1995 on BLAST Records, supposedly a British record label with the ritzy address of "15th floor King's Reach Tower, Stamford Street London SE1 9LS."
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| "Borag thungg, Voodoo Wagon Earthlets!" |
In researching the bootleg geography, I found that there's a pop cultural thing with that building: 2000 AD is a British sci-fi anthology comic book. Tharg the Mighty, an alien from a planet orbiting Betelgeuse, has been a running gag since 1997 as the fictional editor of the comic book. His office (i.e., "command module") is in (you guessed it) King's Reach Tower. I was hoping to find that Tharg was on the 15th floor, but the address was "Tharg, 2000 A.D. King's Reach Tower, Command Module 2012, Stamford Street, London SE1 9LS, England, Nr Europe, Earth, first star past Centauri, Milky Way Galaxy, Continuum No. Beta Z." No 15th floor, as I had hoped.
An address like that might be a really obvious comedy riff to our U.K. contingent, but it's lost on a Yank like me.
But I digress, as usual. The point I was trying to make before I got lost is these are NOT from that bootleg CD. The sound on these cassette versions may be better...or worse. On my cassette, track 11 was listed as "Cure Song." The bootleg CD says the song is "The Biggest Chain." Whatever it is, it is NOT a cover of a song by the Cure, so I'm going with the boot's nomenclature. The boot, on the other hand, lists track 13 as "unknown," when it's another take of "Verdi Cries." How do you correctly identify "Verdi Cries" for track 12, and not hear that it's the same song on track 13? Do bootleggers even listen to the music?
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Well, I do. I try and clean this stuff up for Our Beloved Audience, too. There were LOOOOOONG silences between the songs, 10 to 15 seconds. I edited those down because who wants to listen to tape hiss? Life's too short for that, man... I did not try to remove the hiss.
If any of our readers have the tracks from the bootleg CD, could you check to see if this is better, or worse?
Friday, September 8, 2023
Bourgeois Tagg - Demo, cover of Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows"
Bourgeois Tagg - Tomorrow Never Knows with "Within You Without You" solo section.
As I was going through old cassettes recorded off the radio, I found this Bourgeois Tagg demo tape stuck on the end of an unrelated concert. It's a cover of the Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows," with the instrumental break from "Within You Without You" added in the middle. As a Beatles fan, I found it to be interesting, so I'm sharing it here.
I looked at the Bourgeois Tagg discography on Discogs.com, and it's not listed as ever having been released. There is a version of it up at YouTube under the heading Bourgeois-Tagg "Tomorrow Never Knows" (Not Utopia) but it's not the same take as this version. That one is from a live concert (and I hear "thank you KFOG" at the end, so it's probably from a KFOG broadcast).
I just went and ran a search on Guitars 101, and yes, there's a KFOG broadcast by Bourgeois Tagg. There's still a live link, so if you like this, grab it while you can.
https://mega.nz/file/vIIWXSoK#iLbZChLcJrJM1Bru3fOhuwhP5U5ss9gjSfnjJFRe3To
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Pink Floyd - Demos, Acetates, Live, etc
Saturday, August 5, 2023
John Hiatt Demo Tapes 1975-1983
Demo Tapes 1975-1983
Several of these songs turned up on John Hiatt albums. Dave Edmunds covered "Something Happens," Frankie Miller did "If I Can Love Somebody," Amos Garrett did "Everybody's Girl." The Searchers covered "Ambulance Chaser" but it wasn't released until this century.
I gotta say...an O.V. Wright cover? That's pretty groovy!
Friday, November 4, 2022
Crust - The Complete Crust (As Far As I Know)
From the Original FBS archives...Back From The Dead As Requested
Original post March 15, 2009 and February 19, 2020
~Hunter S. Thompson
Crust - The Crust Chronicles (Original post March 15, 2009)
Renowned for their skull-grinding sonic cataclysms and bizarre stage antics, Crust was the band that initially inspired Butthole Surfers drummer King Coffey to launch Trance Syndicate Records in 1990. Multi-instrumentalists John Hawkins, Richard Smith, and Jerry Page began playing together in 1987 as Mud Honey. The trio's musical approach was a post-industrial mishmash of found objects, bleating samples, taped voices and tribal rhythm. After changing their name to Crust to avoid confusion with the Seattle grunge act, they began attracting attention on their own with scatological serenades like "Chemical Pattie" and performances featuring duct tape G-strings filled with worms and flaming pubic hair. 1990's Sacred Heart of Crust EP was a thunderous exercise in sacrilege, and their desecration of Morris Albert's "Feelings" from 1991's eponymous LP was no less disturbing. 1994's Crusty Love took the band in a more rock-oriented direction, but their playful penchant for the perverse was fully intact on "Chlamydia Is Not a Flower" and its accompanying Nick Smith-directed video. A memorable 1995 South by Southwest showcase gig found Crust pelting its audience with more than 100 loaves of bread. After parting ways with Trance, the band was unable to find a label to release their third album, Food Eater. With intra-band squabbles growing and show attendance declining, Crust broke up in 1997. The trio played a reunion show at Room 710 in 2004.
~Greg Beets - Austin Music Database
(Notes From Original Post)
Anyone who has followed this blog has probably noticed the wide variety of music that gets posted by myself and the others around here. Being an affectionado of artists like Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Hunter S. Thompson, Salvador Dali and others like them, it is probably not to strange that I have a great love for niche bands like Oingo Boingo, The Tubes, The Butthole Surfers and others.
Crust is one of those niche bands, buried so far down in the cracks of musical history very few people have ever heard of them let alone heard them. These guys were kinda disturbing, weird, scarey and above all sickly humorous. Loosely categorized as avant-garde punk grind noise art rock. Think of a heavier Residents on some questionable acid.
I've supplied a couple of video clips and music samples so you can check them out. This music is NOT for the "play-it safe, non-adventurous" visitors we may have, and definitely not safe for work.
I'm almost willing to bet that we have less than 10 people who will download any of what gets posted. Don't be scared. Prove me wrong.
One thing I do know though, this is right up my man Bonger's alley.
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"Though I drive through the valley of death, I shall fear no highway patrol, for the lord is thy seat belt, I shall not crash."
~Crust - Truckers Prayer
"I've got your name...ON MY DICK!!!!"
~Crust - Bumblebee
Band Members: Jerry Page. John Hawkins. Richard Smith
All Music presented here is LONG out of print.
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The History of Crust by Richard Smith
Crust - Sacred Heart -1990
Crust - Crust -1991 (Includes Feelings-When I Say Yes 7")
Crust - Crusty Love -1994 (Includes Bonus Tracks & The Crust Story)
Crust - Live CapZeye Z Cable Show -1994
Crust - Food Eater -1999 (self released)
Some of this was updated and posted June 15 and July 2, 2018 on this space.
Friday, July 1, 2022
Rage Against The Machine - The Demos
Originally posted March 15, 2010
Studio recordings @160
02 - Take the Power Back.
03 - Bullet in the Head
04 - Darkness of Greed
05 – Clear the Lane
06 – Township Rebellion
07 – Know Your Enemy
08 – Mindsets a Threat
09 – Killing in the Name
10 – Autologic
11 – Narrows
12 - Freedom
Friday, January 22, 2021
Jonathan Richman - demo tape, early 1980s
tape given me by background singer...
various demos, early 80s
02 The Neighbors
03 Don't Change For Me
04 Better
05 Stop This Car
06 Underneath
07 I Can't Stand To See People With Their Feelings Hurt
08 Stop This Car (#2)
09 We Can't Go Wrong
10 The Fenway
11 In Love Again
12 Top To Bottom
13 Not Yet Three
14 You're The One For Me
15 The Morning Of Our Lives
16 Don't Change For Me (#2)
17 Up In The Sky
18 The Neighbors (#2)
19 Dick Gregory
Several of these songs may be the same as the six song so-called "Jonathan Goes Funky" demo tape which circulated on several blogs circa 2008: the titles "Someone To Hold Me," "Don't Change For Me," "The Neighbors," "Better," and "Somebody To Hold Me" match up, but there is no "My Name Is Jonathan."
The rest match up with the tracks that circulate as "The Jonathan Sings Sessions."
I don't have those for comparision, but discovered that they're out there (or were out there) on the Internet while researching this tape.
THIS version comes from a cassette I was given by one of the lunch waitresses at the Rusty Pelican restaurant in Alameda in 1984-85, who was rehearsing as a background singer with Mr. Richman at the time. It was a low bias TDK D-90 cassette. I don't have the other circulating versions for a comparision...so this may be WORSE...but it might be better, so I'm tossing it out there. There's hiss, but it's not overwhelming...and given that I got this over 35 years ago, the number of generations is fairly low. I don't want to discourage you from downloading it, but my "thing" has been master tapes, so I want you to know that this is NOT from a master.
If any of Our Beloved Audience can shed any light on how this compares with what is already out there, I would sincerely appreciate it. If it's not as good (or worse) let me know and I'll take it down.
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Tommy Bolin - Fever {1966-1976}
| CD 1 | Patch Of Blue 1966 - Correctionville, IA / Tommy Bolin, Dave Brown, Tim Weisburg | |
| CD 2 | Zephyr - 1970-08-14 - Montana Gardens | |
| CD 3 | Bolin / Stieg / Hamer / Cobham / Gomez - / 1971-01-XX - New York City | |
| CD 4 | Bolin / Stieg / Hamer / Cobham / Gomez - 1971-01-XX - New York City (Part 2) | |
| CD 5 | Energy - Summit Studios, Denver (Part II) 6/72 | |
| CD 6 | Energy - Jackson Demos | |
| CD 7 | Tim Goodman Demos - 11/73 | |
| CD 8 | Zephyr - Arts Bar & Grill, Boulder, CO 5/73 | |
| CD 9 | James Gang - Live DKRC | |
| CD 10 | Tommy Bolin & Friends - Ebbets Field (Part II) 6/74 | |
| CD 11 | Acoustic Demos | |
| CD 12 | DVC Jam - Jet Bar, Sioux City, Iowa 11/24/76 | |
| CD 13 | Teaser & Private Eye Demos | |
| CD 14 | Tommy Bolin Band - Long Island 6/22/76 | |
| CD 15 | Tommy Bolin Band - Long Island 6/22/76 |
Track List HERE
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Monday, March 23, 2020
The Dead Kennedys - Demos 1978
Track List:
2 - Forward To Death
3 - California Uber Alles
4 - Your Emotions
5 - Kill The Poor
6 - Holiday In Cambodia
7 - Kidnap
8 - Man With The Dogs
9 - I Kill Children
10 - Dreadlocks of the Suburbs
11 - Rawhide
12 - Mutations of Today
13 - Cold Fish
14 - Forward To Death
15 - Viva Las Vegas
16 - [untitled]
17 - Saturday Night Holocaust
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Shawn Lane - Powers Of Ten Demos
Originally posted November 30, 2013
A Dave Sez Contribution...
Solo recording, 1990-1991, Kiva Studios, Memphis
Studio soundboard @320
Lineage: ? generation chrome cassette>SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS>Magix Audio Cleaning Lab 2004 (gain normalization and track sequencing)>you!
Track Listing:
01. Esperanto (3:38)
02. Tri 7/5 (4:15)
03. Hardcase (4:37)
04. Not Again (3:33)
05. Get You Back (4:23)
06. Rain (5:03)
07. Augmento (3:08)
08. Illusions (4:17)
09. Not Again (second version) (3:52)
10. Illusions (second version) (4:08)
11. Mental Minor (3:50)
12. "Green Onions" solo (live) (:38)
13. Jazz Solo (live)(5:34)
14. Unknown (5:41)
15. Demo for Mark Varney (2:00)
16. Meeting of the Spirits (:41)
17. Allegro BWV 998, J.S. Bach (1:01)
18. Tri 7/5 (second version) (5:07)
19. Stratosphere II (1:54)
TRT (62:54)
*Notes*
Shawn Lane (1963-2003) had insisted that he record what would become "Powers Of Ten" by himself and his label agreed, so armed with a sizable equipment budget he purchased an entire multitrack recording set up (in the pre ProTools days) and sometime in 1990 installed himself in the conference room of Memphis' Kiva Studios. What you hear are preliminary mixes of compositions that would make up the bulk of "Powers Of Ten", plus one track from Shawn's other solo studio effort, "The Tri-Tone Fascination". Several tracks' titles were unknown by your humble servant as they didn't make commercial release, these tracks are interesting in that context as they represent musical directions Shawn himself felt for whatever reason didn't merit a public audience. Also included are snippets of Shawn playing solos of various styles, showing his enormous diversity of musicianship. Lastly included is "Stratosphere II", an unaccompanied solo piece he had recorded for Shrapnel Records' (long out of print) compilation "US Metal Volume IV".
Please continue to share this freely with all - Cap'n Krunch.
Available From Arizona Jones
The now sadly inactive blog
Saturday, January 26, 2019
David Bowie The Alternate Hunky Dory
*THANKS TO THE ORIGINAL POSTER
*WITHOUT BONUS TRACKS (BUT CAN BE FOUND ELSEWHERE)
The girl below this post scares me. See Scans
CAN'T TAKE MY EYES FROM THE GREAT SALVATION OF BULLSHIT FAITH
Monday, December 26, 2016
The Long Ryders - Demo Tapes 1986
Another multigeneration tape, but this one's pretty low-gen....also,
none of the songs are the same as on the Final Wild Songs compilation..
..so if you like these songs, go buy that...as it's far better
quality.
Control Center, Los Angeles April 17, 1986
01. Baby's In Toyland
02. Prairie Fire
03. Young Girl
04. Man Of Misery
05. Flak Jacket
06. Harriet Tubman's Gonna Carry Me Home
07. 17 Ways
Score One, Hollywood, CA August 17, 1986
08. Gunslinger Man
09. How Do You Feel What's Real
10. Basic Black
11. The Light Gets In The Way
12. A Stitch In Time
13. Long Story Short
14. He Can Hear His Brother
15. Upper Hand
Penguin Studios, Pasadena, CA September 1986
16. Pushin' Uphill 1
17. Pushin' Uphill 2
18. Ring Bells 1
19. Ring Bells 2
20. Sad Sad Songs 1
21. Sad Sad Songs 2
22. Rest Of My Days
23. Spectacular Fall 1
24. Spectacular Fall 2
other outtakes:
25. 17 Ways 2
26. Ring Bells 3
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Monday, June 27, 2016
Bryan Ferry - Horoscope Sessions (1991)
Venue: Studio, Horoscope sessions
Source: Soundboard
Transfer: CD-R from trade > EAC > FLAC Level 8 > you
Sound Quality: A in my rating and ears....
02 The Only Face
03 N.Y.C
04 Midnight Train
05 Your Love Has Died
06 Gemini Moon
07 Blinded By The Life I'm Living
08 Mother Of Pearl
* Original Notes: *
This is the famous 'Horoscope' demos which never saw the light of the day. Strangely, Bryan never became happy with this stuff. Since I got this in a trade I don't have any info about lineage, taping equipment etc.
Thanks to Dime and the guys on DC++
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
16 Horsepower - Missing Links {Demos}
* Missing links - Denver Gentlemen 1995 demos+ The official Mercury Café tape (1993)
8- Slow guilt
9- Shame town
10- Pure clob road
11- Heel on the shovel
12- South Pennsylvania Waltz
13- Dead run
14- Brimstone rock
15- Low estate
16- For heaven's sake
17- My narrow mind
18- Haw
8 – 13 : Mercury Cafe, Denver Dec. 93
14 – 18 : Eindhoven, Effenar – July 2nd, 97
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Quicksand - B-Sides And Rarities
Studio Recordings @128
A collection of B-Sides And Rarities put together by 'memento' a UBW member
Special Thanks
The United By Walter Community
Quicksand is an American post-hardcore band from New York City founded in 1990. Their debut self-titled EP was followed by two major label albums, Slip and Manic Compression. Quicksand's sound has been compared to that of post-hardcore bands Fugazi and Helmet. The band supported their releases with extensive touring but fell short of the mainstream success anticipated by their labels. These factors and internal stress led them to separate first in 1995 and again in 1999 following a failed year-and-a-half reunion. In June 2012, Quicksand reunited for a special one-night performance and since has been playing additional live shows. The band has reportedly been working on new material.
Go Here for Track List....
Article:
The Death of NYHC: Quicksand
If you're not familiar with this band listen to the "Slip" recording...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
The Beatles - White Album Deluxe Edition - Vol. 1
Soundboard @ flac
DISC ONE - Stereo
Single
01. Hey Jude
02. Revolution
The Beatles - Record 1
03. Back In The U.S.S.R.
04. Dear Prudence
05. Glass Onion
06. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
07. Wild Honey Pie
08. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
09. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
10. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
11. Martha My Dear
12. I'm So Tired
13. Blackbird
14. Piggies
15. Rocky Raccoon
16. Don't Pass Me By
17. Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
18. I Will
19. Julia
Outtakes
20. Not Guilty
21. Whatís The New Mary Jane
22. Sour Milk Sea (outfake)
DISC TWO - Stereo
The Beatles - Record 2
01. Birthday
02. Yer Blues
03. Mother Nature's Son
04. Everybody's Got Something To Hide
Except Me And My Monkey
05. Sexy Sadie
06. Helter Skelter
07. Long, Long, Long
08. Revolution 1
09. Honey Pie
10. Savoy Truffle
11. Cry Baby Cry
12. Revolution 9
13. Good Night
Outtake
14. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
(demo)
Alternate Mixes
15. Revolution (Love - complete)
16. Back in the USSR (Love - complete)
17. Revolution (Past Masters)
18. Anthology Medley















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