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[JF]

Hi all
just changed my username to JF, but it's always me 

The Early tapes bootleg has all the first album in the Demo version they've recorded plus some new songs like real girl. (The rest was from Arena documentary 2 years later and other BBC shows). But the Demos were given out to many people, so eventually one of them leaked.  But it seems as though MK had complete control of the studio tapes, and we never got to even listen to  outtakes. Maybe there aren't any, recorded ones.

there's also the whole Communique album recorded in demo around october/november 1978, in London, before going to Nassau.
it's specified in the Oldfield book.
Wexler or Beckett said something like that :" the album is already made, we just have to make it again"
I think that the WDYYG demo version frrm the MFN comp comes from these recordings. I'd love to hear this whole album in demo versions 


But, demos for the 1st album are a different thing :these demos weren't recorded as a whole album demo

they were recorded in 3 times : july, october and november 1977, in different studios, for different purposes. It's all explained by TK in the biog page on MK news.
all songs except Real girl were put on the silver pressed bootleg "Early demos", in the chronological order, but with a wrong time speed  tape

Then Ingo and Thomas Molin, corrected the speed, put them in the ordrer to match the 1st album, and added Real girl, Solid rock and wdywyg from the mFN comp, + another trcak but not sure (can't check now)

From what I've heard there's good reason to believe that a fan (notorious in the 90's, and greedy like a pig about his bootleg collection) - directly or indirectly - paid off a studio technician to get the GH outtakes.

Anyone remember which major fansite ended up posting it first?  Grin

do you mean TM ?

then there was the story of the divers under Gilmours' houseboat/recording studio trying to tap into the sound created on the boat during the momentary lapse of reason recordings :-)

I've read some anecdotes about bootleggers who were trying to record some Rolling Stones sessions, with microphones hidden behind the wall of the studio...

On every street demos? Where, where?

I don't find the one every demo very interesting. just monitor mixes, but no outtakes, no different version, no real "demos"
not a boot I listen too. just my 2 cents

[Mona Dee]

called

[holaknopfler]

called

[Pottel]

but it is lossy stuff, right? not to be uploaded to dime or spanish city...

[vgonis]

I think that the WDYYG demo version frrm the MFN comp comes from these recordings. I'd love to hear this whole album in demo versions 

At MfN it states that it is a remix! I enjoy this version more!

[holaknopfler]

but it is lossy stuff, right? not to be uploaded to dime or spanish city...

That's right but for a short ride on the bike to school it is fine for me

[Mona Dee]

called

[JF]

I think that the WDYYG demo version frrm the MFN comp comes from these recordings. I'd love to hear this whole album in demo versions 

At MfN it states that it is a remix! I enjoy this version more!

I remember that only twisting by the pool and TR were credited as "remixes", but not WDYTYG

It's obviously not just a remix, it's a totally different version, sounds more raw, and is likely a demo recorded before the album sessions

[Jules]

The information about the Golden Demos is wrong.

The Golden Demos tape was found by a friend of mine in an absoutly accidental way... He met someone that used to work in some studios and offered him some tapes from different artists. He knew some of that artists but when he saw MK name ina tape, he said that he

[border_reiver]

The information about the Golden Demos is wrong.

The Golden Demos tape was found by a friend of mine in an absoutly accidental way... He met someone that used to work in some studios and offered him some tapes from different artists. He knew some of that artists but when he saw MK name ina tape, he said that he

[Jules]

My friend send the tape to TM himself, I recall very well how pissed off he was when he knew that TM was selling it on cd...

I was about to say that maybe TM found another tape by himself, but just recall that. No, he received the tape from my friend, for sure.

[border_reiver]

My friend send the tape to TM himself, I recall very well how pissed off he was when he knew that TM was selling it on cd...

I was about to say that maybe TM found another tape by himself, but just recall that. No, he received the tape from my friend, for sure.

Ah, well that makes it much clearer. It's obvious that he couldn't take someone else's credit when he profited off that person's luck. He must have made up the story or played along with the rumour making it credible.

[Jules]

My friend send the tape to TM himself, I recall very well how pissed off he was when he knew that TM was selling it on cd...

I was about to say that maybe TM found another tape by himself, but just recall that. No, he received the tape from my friend, for sure.

Ah, well that makes it much clearer. It's obvious that he couldn't take someone else's credit when he profited off that person's luck. He must have made up the story or played along with the rumour making it credible.

I always thought that TM would had found a copy by himself, who knows how many copies that person who sell it to my friend had, but the fact is my friend was pissed off with him, so that makes the story for me, as my friend is a very honest and humble person.

The fact that there is a rumour about another tape with Batting for England and Speedway to Nazareth mades me think that very same person, or maybe others, could had sell many copies of tapes like that to other people. In that case we were very lucky that was my friend who had the luck to buy it instead of those private fans that hide everything for themselfs...

[Fletch]

Who is TM

Great to hear there are loads more songs in the vaults, one day a big box set may come our way. But I fear it may be after Mark has departed, and maybe me too!

[border_reiver]

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