Is it futile of me to ask how outtakes like No Wonder He's Confused and Secondary Waltz find the light of day, if no bootlegs of the DS sessions ever have ??
Fletch I guess that it is just a matter of coincidence. 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. Maybe he was going down to the studio with the certain songs and did nothing but them. Or like BiA he didn't have all the songs but developed them off studio. The studio time was gold back then and only with proven geniuses they had the tape running all the time. Of course after the success of BiA there weren't many tapes around. Maybe it is not the way he was working. I believe that from the 4-14 takes he would chose the best one and dump all the others. I have read somewhere that when the tension with David lead to his lay off from the band, Mark erased every contribution of David's and re recorded them himself. And it was the difficult multi layered MM! He already had the drums and Bass tracks to work on so he recorded all the guitar parts. I guess there is no point in keeping failed guitar tracks.
But even if that is not the point (I know that there is a demo version of private dancer with MK playing and singing) and as you have so rightly mentioned with the GH sessions, it is only down to luck. I guess now within his own studio, he can have greater control of all the recorded material, so nearly zero chance of anything leaking. I have heard a story but I don't quite remember how the GH outtakes and tracks got out, anyone here remembers?
By the way, have you heard the David Gilmour/Pink Floyd story, were some fans were looking through his garbage, only to find out the remains from the editors floor of unreleased-unused and considered bad live footage with sound, containing (I think ) whole songs? This is not happening now with digital technology and anyway it was a very lucky thing that happens very rarely.
But to tell you the truth, I really can wait for his new work, without any leaks, I can also enjoy his work without looking for the elusive demos, but I would really appreciate and buy something like the Beatles Anthology, with demos, unreleased songs etc. It only took the Beatles 25 years after they officially disbanded, so we have to wait until 2020!
About the contract thing, his publishing company is called Will D. Side. If this is not a clue, I don't know what is.
