The Honky Tonk Demos officially released?

[Fletch]

Of the two record shops in Sydney I went to this morning, one of them had their own detailed labels on the records.
The Chet LP says "Limited to 2000"
The Syd Barrett "limited to 12000" !!
Honky Tonk merely says "limited edition"
Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze says, nothing!

I think the DS record has been distributed widely and I don't think anyone will have too much difficulty obtaining one over the course of the month.

[Fletch]

Forgive my ignorance, can someone fill on the history for me now?
I'm aware the band recorded demos with JIs money and this was given to Charlie? What happened next?
Did he just play it on his show, or play for influential people etc?

Been listening all afternoon, so good

[Ingo]

Got my copy half an hour ago

There was no long queue before the shop, I was the first there 15 min before they opened, about 10 people appeared until the shop opened at 10:00. I was the first in the shop, got one copy out of the two the shop received, the person behind me got the second copy , which means both Dire Straits singles were the first items to be sold and were sold out at 10:01.

It is the original recording (not a remix of the 8 track recording), the quality is great (stereo !!!). Unfortunately the intro of DTTW is missing!!!!!  

As the bootleg quality is really bad, there are a lot of details to discover for the first time. WoL and WWE are in fact the National - sounds like an electric on the bootleg, doesn't it . The two guitars on DTTW are separated to the left and right channel just like on the album.

Great to listen.


Another highlight: the picture in the inside is of great quality, much better than we had it before (compare here: http://www.mk-guitar.com/2009/01/22/gear-on-one-of-the-first-dire-straits-gigs-on-the-clapham-common-bandstand/ ).

Only the picture of the first gig on that lawn behind Farrar House is earlier.

[Fletch]

Maybe should start another thread about RSD, but Ingo, if you see the Chet Atkins LP (My Brother Sings) don't hesitate it's really cool. Only 3 originals known, and now 2000 prints for RSD.

Chet used a split cable from the pickups with puts the 3 bass strings in the left channel and the 3 high strings right. But he's playing normally, not twice. The liner notes explain all and it's really cool to listen to...
Ok enough nerdy LP talk

[Jules]

Of the two record shops in Sydney I went to this morning, one of them had their own detailed labels on the records.
The Chet LP says "Limited to 2000"
The Syd Barrett "limited to 12000" !!
Honky Tonk merely says "limited edition"
Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze says, nothing!

I think the DS record has been distributed widely and I don't think anyone will have too much difficulty obtaining one over the course of the month.

Not in Spain, at least in the shops listed for my city...

[Jules]

Anyone can do good quality mp3 versions for our ipods or mp3 players?

[BrianT]

Its 6:45 am here in Canada. Heading to my local record store to see if they have a copy
of Honky Tonk Demos.

Brian

[Fletch]

If you're on the capitalist wheel of good fortune, don't hold back. I regret already not buying a few more LPs. I had my list, but amazingly at the counter I just thought 'That'll do'
What's also amazing about this day is (if you follow your countries RSD page on facebook) the amount of things I saw, that now people are literally begging for! You immediately start to think, "maybe I should've bought that strange Paul McCartney album..." and lots more.

[Ingo]

It also turns out that both of the bootleg sources we had were not a 'normal' mono version of the original (stereo) recording (both stereo channels --> one mono channel ) but in fact only the left channel. So we really hear something new here, e.g. David's rhythm guitar on DTTW which is almost exclusively on the right channel!

[3Strats]

We only have one music store in town - HMV - which is not participating in Record Store Day, so I wasn't able to get a copy      I'll have to see if there is one left on Monday in the nearest independent music store, which is in the town where I work - 15 miles away.

[the visitor]

I went down into London about half ten this morning and queued at Rough Trade records.  No Honky Tonk demos left!  Was going to skip over to soho but in the end just ordered a copy on eBay for the price I would have paid plus train fare.

Did anyone in the UK have any luck getting a copy in store?  I did pick up a couple of other records...regretting now not getting that Doors record but tomorrow Is another day and I wait to see whether the "highly limited" edition records find their way quickly into standard issue in the next few weeks

[vgonis]

No DS for me too. They didn't bring it in Athens and my friend in London was working today and couldn't go downtown.  In fact the only shop I  knew was participating in RSD in Athens didn't have it (or many of the expected releases) had so many people I lost interest in looking after 10 minutes. And many of the releases were so expensive I couldn't spare 12 Euros for a single or 58 for the White album. Nevermind, I have all the music I can listen and then some more!    If I am lucky I will get it from amazon
 

[the visitor]

No DS for me too. They didn't bring it in Athens and my friend in London was working today and couldn't go downtown.  In fact the only shop I  knew was participating in RSD in Athens didn't have it (or many of the expected releases) had so many people I lost interest in looking after 10 minutes. And many of the releases were so expensive I couldn't spare 12 Euros for a single or 58 for the White album. Nevermind, I have all the music I can listen and then some more!    If I am lucky I will get it from amazon

Keep checking eBay , if I find a duplicate in a store I will get one for you

[Pottel]

happy with my copy. nice packaging. great version of SoS indeed. still need to listen to the others. actually do not own a record player myself, lol.

[BrianT]

I was lucky, I go to the store around 11:30 as I was working today.
The store had ordered 5 copies, had 3 left when I got there.I picked up one
mybe I should have got 2, but I left them there for other Dire Straits supporters.
Will give it a spin tomorrow.

Brian