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Author Topic: Cafe racers, Talking Heads/Climax Blues Band support. Do any recordings exist??  (Read 8839 times)

OfflineBest Brown Baggies

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Just wondering????
Apparently, according to Dave Pask (an old friend of Mark's)
there probably are some old dusty recordings of the 'Cafe Racers'
knocking around in an attic somewhere.
But I was also curious as to if there were any bootlegs from the
time Dire Straits were the support act for The Talking Heads &
The Climax Blues Band from 1977.
Anyone??

Cheers. BBB
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Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles.

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Leeds 30.01.78 soundboard is when DS were support for Talking Heads I believe.
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Cool, I think I have that one. :)
I'll have to dig it out.

Cheers. BBB
And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles.

OfflineJustme

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I bet MK himself has got some soundboards recordings from the "Cafe Racers" days, well somewhere.
It's cash in the attic!
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Apparently some other famous blues man has a recording (amongs many others) of that famous first deptford show, of which that picture exists.....
any Knopfler, Floyd or Dylan will do....

OfflineFletch

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Tell us more pottel?
Hey, i`ve got a truffle dog - finally a song the ordinary man can relate too!

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Until last Sunday I never would have known, Pottel...  ;D

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naaah, it will never see the light of day anyways,...unless...naaahhh
any Knopfler, Floyd or Dylan will do....

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Pottel did you forget that is probably part of the Paul H private collection?
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Ahhh come on, spill the beans!  ;)
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lol, yeah. naw word has it a certain Steve Philips was there, and word has it he is an avid collector, also of the even earlier stuff :-)
any Knopfler, Floyd or Dylan will do....

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Apart Brewer's droop and Steve Philips recordings, there is a single song in the Lindisfarne BT3, from spring 1974, all officially released. And we've all heard the early duet recordings of a young MK. I guess the early and huge success of DS, had provided MK with the adequate funds to buy all the recordings he was a part of and feels are not good enough for release. On the other hand, I wonder if the record company has ever suggested or made a solid offer for expanded versions. I know that MK is strongly against such editions, with the good reason that if the other songs weren't good enough for release then, why should they be now. And I don't know if his songwriting back then allowed songs to appear in an unfinished form.  But I guess if the money from potential sales were good, the companies would have found a way. But the real crazy people about DS and MK's past relics are not that many, even with BD's standards.
Come on, it is not funny anymore.

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Kim Carnes has a record called "CAfe Racers". Reckon she had a connection? Bahhhhhhhhh....
Come on, it is not funny anymore.

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Speaking of early stuff, is it true that the SOS demo tape given to Charlie Gillett had an extra completely unreleased track on it that has never seen the light of day since? Did we ever find any conclusive evidence on that or is the verdict still out?
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Speaking of early stuff, is it true that the SOS demo tape given to Charlie Gillett had an extra completely unreleased track on it that has never seen the light of day since? Did we ever find any conclusive evidence on that or is the verdict still out?

Good questions.  I hope Sir Ingo Raven could give us an answer. 

Wishes
Allen
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