Without the Beatles (various)
Jarmusic (Germany) JAR015CD - May 1996
Picture CD + 20 page booklet, postcards
Jarmusic JAR015LP
Ltd Ed 12" LP + Bonus 7" ep
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Without the Beatles (various) |
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01. Yukio Yung + Free as a Bird
02. R. Stevie Moore + Getting Better
03. Gonzo Salvage Company + Can't Buy Me Love
04. Colin's Hermits + I Am the Walrus
05. John A. Roberts + Dear Prudence
06. The Creams + Yesterday
07. Martin Newell + Baby You're a Rich Man
08. The Out-of-Towners + Think for Yourself
09. Bevis Frond + You Never Give Me Your Money
10. Paul Bevoir + Eleanor Rigby
11. Matmosphere + Yer Blues
12. Todd Dillingham + Helter Skelter
Bonus Tracks (7" ep):
13. Alan Jenkins + Yellow Submarine
14. R. Stevie Moore + And Your Bird Can Sing
15. The Four Stiltons + Oh Darlin'
16. The Cleaners From Venus + Day Tripper
17. Wicz + There's A Place
Bonus Bonus Tracks (CDRSM):
18. Alan Jenkins & The Creams + Tomorrow Never Knows
19. Moore + Eleanor Rigby
20. Moore + And Your Bird Can Sing (Booker T version)
21. Kramer + You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
22. Moore + Within You Without You
23. Moore + I'm Only Sleeping
24. Moore + Free As A Bird(18, 19 & 21 from NOTHING IS REAL: an unreleased Pink Lemon (GER) boxset of 7 7" 33 1/3 ep's. Sleeves: front rear)
Joachim A. Reinbold
JARMUSIC
29439 Luchow - Jabel 6, Germany[great cover versions from many (independent) heroes incl. Martin Newell, Alan Jenkins, Yukio Yung, R. Stevie Moore, Paul Bevoir, Bevis Frond, Todd Dillingham, Colin's Hermits (XTC member!) + many more]
Peter Rosendale did the wonderful "Satanic Majesty" painting, Harald Fischer and Mick Dillingham are responsible for the drawings used in the booklet, the collage for this was put together by Joachim.
THIS PROJECT WAS PLANNED SOME TIME BEFORE THE GREAT NEW BEATLES (ANTHOLOGY) BOOM. IT'S CERTAINLY NOTHING EXCITING TO HEAR THE 93RD VERSION OF "YESTERDAY" OR "WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS" BY FAMOUS SUPERSTARS WITH NO OWN IDEAS. YET THIS COMPILATION IS SOMETHING SPECIAL, AND I REALLY LIKE TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS I WAS HAPPY TO FIND IN THE MAIL DURING THE PAST 12 MONTHS! I REALLY HOPE THAT PLENTY OF LISTENERS OUT THERE WILL ENJOY THESE FAB FOUR JEWELS PRESENTED IN A FASCINATING VARIETY OF INTERPRETATIONS.
JOACHIM A. REINBOLD, 15 MAY 1996
Fischer caricatures (Gregsy, RSM, Todd):
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(1) YUKIO YUNG + FREE AS A BIRD
TECHNICAL CREDITS:
YUKIO YUNG: ALL VOCALS + INSTRUMENTS
RECORDED JANUARY - MARCH 1996YUKIO YUNG - ME AND THE BEATLES
MY EARLIEST MEMORY OF THE BEATLES IS LOOKING THROUGH MY COUSIN'S RECORD COLLECTION. SHE WAS ABOUT 10 YEARS OLDER THAN ME AND HAD LOADS OF THESE PLASTIC FOLDERS THAT LOOKED LIKE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, EACH ONE HOLDING ABOUT 30 SINGLES. IT WAS ALL STUFF FROM THE MID-60S. THE ONLY RECORD I CAN REMEMBER LIKING WAS "NEEDLES AND PINS" BY THE SEARCHERS. FOR SOME REASON I FOUND THIS EXTREMELY FUNNY.
I WAS ABOUT 12 WHEN I FIRST LISTENED TO THEM PROPERLY. MY FRIEND PAUL HAD THE RED AND BLUE COMPILATION SETS. THE TRACK I LIKED IMMEDIATELY WAS "LADY MADONNA" - ESPECIALLY THE VOCAL SOLO - I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A STRONG PROPONENT OF THE "IF-IN-DOUBT-GO-BA-BA-BA" SCHOOL OF SONGWRITING.
BY THE TIME I WAS 18 MY RECORD BUYING HABITS HAD GONE A BIT STRANGE. MY MAIN INTEREST WAS PUNK, BUT AT THE SAME TIME I ALSO WANTED TO BE A JAZZ PIANIST, SO I BOUGHT MANY RECORDS OF KEITH JARRETT. I ALSO STARTED BUYING CLASSIC ALBUMS OF THE 1960S. ONE DAY I CAME ACROSS AN AMERICAN COPY OF "MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR" - THIS IS THE ALBUM VERSION THAT HAS THE SOUNDTRACK ON ONE SIDE, AND NON-ALBUM HITS OF THE PERIOD ON THE OTHER. I COULD TAKE OR LEAVE "MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR", BUT FLIP THE DISC OVER AND... WELL, I'M STILL NOT SO SURE THAT A BETTER SIDE OF VINYL EVER EXISTED. "HELLO GOODBYE", "STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER", "PENNY LANE", "BABY YOU'RE A RICH MAN", AND "ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE". ENOUGH SAID. I MOVED ON TO "ABBEY ROAD" AND QUICKLY WORKED MY WAY BACKWARDS, FINALLY STOPPING WITH "HELP" AND "RUBBER SOUL", NEITHER OF WHICH I LIKED A GREAT DEAL.
MOST PEOPLE NOWADAYS SEEM TO ACKNOWLEDGE "REVOLVER" AS THE BEATLES' BEST EFFORT. I WOULDN'T DISAGREE WITH THAT, BUT MY PERSONAL FAVOURITE IS "THE WHITE ALBUM". IT HAS SOME DUDS ON IT FOR SURE, BUT IT WORKS BRILLIANTLY AS A WHOLE. TO THINK THAT GEORGE MARTIN HAD WANTED IT PARED DOWN TO A SINGLE RECORD! BOTH OF THOSE ALBUMS WOULD BE IN MY PERSONAL TOP TEN.
MY COVERS ARE A COLLAGE OF "OH DARLIN", "FREE AS A BIRD", AND "WITHIN YOU WITHOUT YOU". THREE FINE EXAMPLES OF THE BEATLES NOT BEING TERRIBLY GOOD. "FREE AS A BIRD" SLAYED ME WHEN I FIRST HEARD IT - JEFF LYNNE TURNS THE TABLES AND MAKES THE BEATLES SOUND LIKE ELO. I HAVE TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE SECOND VERSE MAKING MARGINALLY LESS SENSE THAN IT MIGHT HAVE - NOBODY I ASKED COULD WORK OUT THE WORDS. AH WELL, AS THE ORIGINALLY RECORDING SEEMS TO HAVE CAPTURED JOHN LENNON IN THE PROCESS OF WRITING A SONG, IT'S NOT SO SURPRISING THAT RUBBISH FOUND ITS WAY ONTO THE TAPE... MIND YOU, THE SECTIONS WRITTEN LATER (PRESUMABLY BY PAUL) ARE NO BETTER REALLY, BY THE WAY, I DO ACTUALLY LIKE THE FINISHED TRACK.IT'S HARD TO CRITICIZE THE BEATLES OBJECTIVELY - THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN BOTH CULTURAL AND MUSICAL TERMS GOES WAY OFF THE SCALE. SO I WON'T BOTHER TO TRY. ALL I'LL SAY IS THAT IN THE YUKIO YUNG FANTASY MUSIC LEAGUE THEY'RE UP THERE WITH THE BEACH BOYS, JOHN COLTRANE, J.S. BACH AND THE RESIDENTS - ARTISTS LIKE THE PRETTY THINGS, RADIOHEAD, MARVIN GAYE, THE BUZZCOCKS AND XTC ARE SNAPPING AT THEIR HEELS. THE BEATLES ARE, HOWEVER, FAR TOO MANY POINTS ADRIFT OF WIRE, FOR SERIOUS CHAMPIONSHIP HONOURS.
YUKIO YUNG, MARCH 1996
(2) R. STEVE MOORE + GETTING BETTER
RECORDED:
5. OCT. 1986 BY VITO CAPURSO
AT SANCTUARY STUDIO
CALDWELL, NJ USAALL VOCALS + INSTRUMENTS BY RSM
(3) THE GONZO SALVAGE COMPANY + CAN'T BUY ME LOVE
RECORDED 1996, LEICESTER, UK
ALL INSTRUMENTS + VOCALS: STUART ROBINSON
(4) COLIN'S HERMITS + I AM THE WALRUS
TECHNICAL CREDITS:
COLIN MIDNITE - VOCALS, TAMBOURINE
DAVID DREAMS - VOCALS, KEYBOARDS
JET PASTORIUS - VOCALS, BASS
REX RAPIER - VOCALS, GUITAR, RADIO OPERATOR
BONGO - DRUMS
AND THE PROTEUS ORCHESTRARECORDED JUNE 1990 AT THE LIVING ROOM, SWINDON, ENGLAND
MEDIUM: 4-TRACK ANALOGUE, TEAC A-3440, 15 IPS
MIXED TO DAT JANUARY 1996LITTLE HAS BEEN SEEN OF - OR HEARD FROM - THE HERMITS SINCE THEIR 1985 COVER OF STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER (WHICH FEATURED A GUEST VOCAL APPEARANCE FROM LORD ANDREW ENGLISH). THEY APPARENTLY RE-FORMED AFTER WITNESSING FRANK ZAPPA'S GROUP PERFORMING WALRUS LIVE ON STAGE IN BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, IN THE EARLY SPRING OF 1988. SUFFICIENTLY INSPIRED, THEY DUG OUT THEIR INSTRUMENTS AND PRACTICED EVERY DAY FOR FOR TWO YEARS BEFORE COMMITTING THEIR OWN VERSION TO TAPE. LEGEND HAS IT THEY WERE SO DISAPPOINTED WITH THE RESULT THAT THEY IMMEDIATELY SPLIT UP, AND VANISHED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH! WHEN THE STUDIO WAS SOLD IN 1994, THE TAPE WAS DISCOVERED IN A PLASTIC ICELAND BAG IN A SKIP, FROM WHENCE IT WAS RESCUED AND RE-MIXED ESPECIALLY FOR THIS PROJECT.
(5) JOHN ANTHONY ROBERTS + DEAR PRUDENCE
RECORDED:
LATE 80'S, 8-TRACK
JOHN A. ROBERTS: ALL INSTRUMENTS + VOCALS
RON STACKS: DRUMSAFTER LISTENING TO RUBBER SOUL WAY BACK IN 65 ME AND SOME FRIENDS MET ALMOST DAILY TO PRACTICE "GIRL" WITH TWO ACOUSTIC GUITARS + A SNARE DRUM... A FEW WEEKS LATER WE DID OUR FIRST "SHOW" AT A PARTY INCL. SOME OTHER BEATLES SONGS LIKE "IT'S ONLY LOVE" OR "YOU'VE GOT TO HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY". WE MANAGED TO PLAY MOST OF THEIR WONDERFUL SONGS UNTIL ONE DAY WE SAT REVERENTIALLY ON THE FLOOR LISTENING TO SGT. PEPPER'S LEAVING US BOTH IMPRESSED AND HELPLESS CAUSE WE FELT THERE'S A NEW DIMENSION IN POPMUSIC... WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS WAS THE ONLY SONG TO JOIN OUR REPERTOIRE AND SOME GUYS IN THE BAND WERE QUITE HAPPY TO BRING IN THEIR FAVOURITES LIKE THE KINKS, DYLAN OR THE STONES...
WHEN WE DID THIS VERSION OF DEAR PRUDENCE, I REMEMBER WRITING IN THE SLEEVE NOTE TO ITS RELEASE, THAT JOHN MIGHT FORGIVE ME THE SIMPLICITY OF MY ARRANGEMENT AND ESPECIALLY THE BEACH BOYS-LIKE FINAL SECTION... WELL I'M STILL LIVING, SO I GUESS HE'S EITHER FORGIVEN ME OR INSTINCTIVELY STOPPED HIS EARS....
JOHNANTHONYROBERTS SPRING 1996
(6) THE CREAMS + YESTERDAY
TECHNICAL CREDITS: RECORDED 1995 IN LEICESTER, UK
THE JOHN LENNON INTERVIEW.
JIM D. PIE SPOKE TO JOHN LENNON ON THE ASTRAL PLANE.
SOME WOULD HAVE SAID THAT I'D MISSED MY CHANCE TO DO THE DEFINITIVE LENNON INTERVIEW; HELL, THE GUY WAS DEADER THAN PLATFORM HEELS. BUT SOME DAYS YOU GET A KNOCK ON THE DOOR AND WHEN YOU OPEN IT A BIG DUDE IN A HAT SAYS "HI, MY NAME'S CHARLIE CHANGED-PRECONCEPTIONS", AND YOU KNOW YOUR WHOLE LIFE IS ABOUT TO DO A U-TURN ON THE AUTOBAHN IN HEAVY TRAFFIC. A COUPLE OF MONTHS BACK I WAS IN THE MELODY MAKER OFFICE, WORKING ON A STORY ABOUT A NEW STRAIN OF MUSICAL SUBCULTURE; THERE WERE KIDS IN SWANSEA WHO WERE STARTING TO PLAY SOME GODAWFUL COMBINATION OF SEVENTIES DISCO AND SKIFFLE. THEN I GOT A CALL FROM SOME CHICK WHO WORKED FOR A COMPANY CALLED "OTHERPLACECOMM". THEY'D INVENTED A SUPERNATURAL COMPUTER MODEM WHICH LET YOU PICK UP MESSAGES FROM DEAD PEOPLE ON YOUR PC, WAS I INTERESTED? I TOLD HER TO TRY SOME OTHER SUCKER, MAYBE AN ELDERLY FEMALE NERD WHO'D JUST LOST HER HUSBAND. THEN SHE SAID THE REASON SHE WAS RINGING ME WAS SHE'D GOT JOHN LENNON ON THE LINE AND HE WANTED TO TALK TO ME. I STARTED ANOTHER SLICK PUT-DOWN BUT SHE JUST SAID "PUTTING YOU THROUGH", AND THERE WAS THIS VOICE SAYING "IS THAT JIM PIE?" AND I'D HAVE RECOGNIZED THAT ACCENT IF HE'D WRITTEN DOWN WHAT HE WANTED TO SAY AND GOT MAO TSE TUNG TO READ IT. OK, MAYBE NOT THEN, BUT DEFINITELY RECOGNIZED IT...
LENNON: HELLO PIE, HOW'S IT GOING DOWN THERE ON EARTH?
PIE: IT'S GOING...ER...IT'S...I THINK IT'S...ER...
LENNON: LISTEN JIM, I JUST WANTED TO ASK YOU, DO THEY STILL LISTEN TO OUR KIND OF MUSIC DOWN THERE?
PIE: ER, YEAH, SOME OF THEM DO I GUESS.
LENNON: SO WHAT'S IN THE CHARTS NOW?
PIE: THERE'S OASIS, THEY SOUND A BIT LIKE THE BEATLES.
LENNON: GREAT. I EXPECT THEY'VE GONE WAY BEYOND WHAT WE USED TO DO IN THE SIXTIES THOUGH, TAKEN UP WHERE WE LEFT OFF AND CONTINUED WITH THAT SPIRIT OF EXPERIMENTATION, ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW SOUNDS AND WAYS OF WRITING SONGS?
PIE: UM.
LENNON: WHAT ELSE IS THERE?
PIE: WELL, THERE'S THE...ER... THERE'S THE...
LENNON: SPIT IT OUT MAN.
PIE: THE BEATLES.
LENNON: YEAH?
PIE: IT'S A NEW RECORD CALLED "FREE AS A BIRD". THE OTHER THREE GOT BACK TOGETHER AND THEY... (GULP)... THEY FINISHED AN OLD SONG OF YOURS WHICH YOKO FOUND ON AN OLD, CHEWED-UP CASSETTE.
LENNON: OH, THAT...NO JIM, WE DID THAT OVER THIS SUPERNATURAL MODEM GIZMO. THEY JUST MIKED IT UP IN THE STUDIO AND I SANG ALONG WITH THE OTHER GUYS. THE SOUND QUALITY ISN'T THAT GREAT BUT, Y'KNOW, IT'S NOT BAD CONSIDERING I'M DEAD.
PIE: BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS OFF A CASSETTE AND JEFF LYNNE CLEANED IT UP ON HIS COMPUTER.
LENNON: THAT GUY? HE COULDN'T CLEAN UP HIS ROOM. I GUESS THEY JUST WANTED TO KEEP THIS SECRET.
PIE: SO WHAT ABOUT THE SECOND SINGLE? WAS THAT THE SAME?
LENNON: YEAH, I THINK SO, I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW WHICH TRACK FROM THE NEW ALBUM THEY DECIDED TO RELEASE. WAS IT "REAL LOVE"? MOST OF THE OTHER STUFF WAS REALLY BIZARRE AND EXPERIMENTAL, ESPECIALLY THE NUMBERS WE DID WITH CHARLIE PARKER, BRIAN JONES AND CORNELIUS CARDEW... ARE YOU STILL THERE JIM?....
(7) THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS + THINK FOR YOURSELF
RECORDED:
AT FAG STUDIOS, REGENT'S PARK, LONDON
JAN. - MARCH 1996BY LOUIS PHILIPPE AND K.V. BRAKE
...FOR THIS COMPILATION, "PLEASE PLEASE YOURSELF" HOLDS THE MOST ATTRACTION FOR ME, SINCE IT IS EXACTLY WHAT I DID WITH GEORGE'S SONG!!! I HOPE YOU MIND THE DONALD FAGEN-ISH TREATMENT OF THIS TUNE... BUT I THOUGHT THAT A) IT HAD TO BE A LESSER-KNOWN SONG, AND B) IT HAD TO BE AS FAR REMOVED STYLISTICALLY FROM THE ORIGINAL AS POSSIBLE... YET, I BELIEVE THAT SOME OF THE "SINISTER" QUALITY OF THE ORIGINAL HAS SURVIVED AND - INDEED - THRIVED ON MY ARRANGEMENT...
LOUIS PHILIPPE, MARCH 1996
(8) MARTIN NEWELL + BABY YOU'RE A RICH MAN
TECHNICAL CREDITS:
RECORDED IN THE WASTELAND
PRODUCED BY MARTIN NEWELL
ENGINEERED + CO-PRODUCED BY RODDY ASHWORTHTHE BEATLES WERE LIKE FOUR PIED PIPERS. THEY CAME INTO TOWN ONE DAY AND WHEN THEY LEFT, ALL OF THE CHILDREN FOLLOWED THEM OVER THE HILL. SOME OF US NEVER CAME BACK.
I WAS ABOUT FOURTEEN WHEN I MOVED TO PUTNEY, A SUBURB OF LONDON. I'D BEEN LIVING IN THE COUNTRY. I SPENT THE WHOLE SUMMER HOLIDAYS STRUMMING A GUITAR AND WANDERING AROUND LONDON. I CAN REMEMBER THE SUN IN THE TREES IN THE MORNING ON EAST PUTNEY STATION. I CAN REMEMBER THE STRANGE PEOPLE I SOMETIMES SAW IN THE STREETS. I WAS A SHORT-HAIRED SCHOOLBOY AND WASN'T REALLY A PART OF IT ALL BUT I HAD A CONSTANT FEELING THAT SOMETHING BRILLIANT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE WAS AT NUMBER ONE IN THE CHARTS AND YOU COULD HEAR IT EVERYTIME YOU SWITCHED ON THE RADIO. WHEN I WANDERED AROUND LONDON HOWEVER, THE SONG WHICH CAME FROM CAFE JUKEBOXES AND FROM BOUTIQUE DOORWAYS WAS BABY YOU'RE A RICH MAN. BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE A COPY OF IT, I RARELY HEAR IT. THE SONG ISN'T ON ANY OF THE BEATLES ALBUMS. WHENEVER I DO HEAR IT, IMMEDIATELY ALL THE MEMORIES OF A FARAWAY SUMMER COME BACK INTO MY HEAD. I DON'T LIKE THE CULTURAL NECROPHILIA WHICH CURRENTLY ATTENDS THE BEATLES SO I'VE TRIED TO DO A BRIGHT, SIMPLE AND MODERN VERSION OF THIS SONG WHICH CAPTURES THE CHEERFUL OPTIMISM OF THE TIME. THERE'S NO POINT IN LOOKING BACK WITH REGRET. AFTER ALL, THOSE PEOPLE IN THE SIXTIES WERE FUTURISTS. AND SO AM I. CHEER UP YA BASTARDS. SOMETHING BRILLIANT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.MARTIN NEWELL. ESSEX, SPRING 1996
(9) BEVIS FROND + YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY
TECHNICAL CREDITS:
NICK SALOMAN - ALL VOCALS + INSTRUMENTS
RECORDED MARCH 1996 AT HOME...AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED THE BEATLES WERE THE BEST BAND EVER. THEY WROTE GREAT SONGS, THEY WERE BRILLIANT SINGERS + BASICALLY CHANGED THE FACE OF MODERN MUSIC. MY MOTHER TOOK ME TO SEE THEM (WHEN I WAS 10) AT THE HAMMERSMITH ODEON. SO THEY WERE REALLY THE FIRST BAND I EVER SAW LIVE! CAN'T COUNT FRANKIE VAUGHN! ALL THEIR SINGLES + ALBUMS ARE BRILLIANT. I JUST LOVE THEM.
NICK SALOMAN, MARCH 1996
(10) PAUL BEVOIR + ELEANOR RIGBY
RECORDED:
APRIL 1ST 1996 AT SPIKE STUDIOS, LONDON UK
ENGINEERED BY DOUGLAS ST JAMES MARTIN
PRODUCED BY COLIN RYANPAUL BEVOIR: PIANO + VOCALS
COLIN RYAN: ENGLISH HORNTHE BEATLES (VERY SHORT VERSION)
THEY NICKED ALL MY BEST IDEAS, SOLD A FEW RECORDS TOO!
(11) MATMOSPHERE + YER BLUES
RECORDED:
BIRMINGHAM, UK 1996
JEREMY THIRLBY: VOCALS + ALL INSTRUMENTSMY FIRST EVER MEMORY WAS HEARING A BEATLES RECORD. MY BROTHER HAD BOUGHT "SHE LOVES YOU" AND WAS PLAYING IT ON ONE OF THOSE OLD RECORD PLAYERS WHERE YOU COULD STACK ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER. I REMEMBER THINKING WHAT'S THAT WONDERFUL SOUND. I WAS TWO YEARS OLD THEN.
I DIDN'T KNOW IT BUT MUSIC WAS TO GO ON AND PLAY SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART IN MY LIFE.
I CHOSE TO DO "YER BLUES" FOR THIS PROJECT. A LENNON SONG WHICH IS SAID TO BE A "PARODY OF THE BRITISH BLUES SCENE". I THOUGHT HE WROTE IT BECAUSE HE WAS DEPRESSED AT THE TIME. RUSSIA WAS INVADING CZECHOSLOVAKIA AT THAT TIME. WHILE I'VE BEEN DOING MY VERSION, "MAD COW DISEASE" IS THE BIG NEWS ITEM, MAYBE YOU CAN HEAR SOME MOOING IN THE BACKGROUND (HA,HA). ANYWAY, THANKS TO "THE BEATLES" WITHOUT WHOM MY LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH POORER AND MANY OTHERS TOO.JEREMY MATMOS SPRING 1996
TECHNICAL CREDITS:
RECORDED ON 16 TRACKS BY TERRY BURROWS ON MARCH 21 1996.
TODD: RHYTHM + LEAD GUITARS, DOUBLE TRACKED VOCALS
TERRY: BASS, PSYCHEDELIC SPANNER, DRUM PROGRAMMING
COMPLETED + MIXED IN 2 HOURS ONTO DAT.THE BEATLES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MY FAVOURITE BAND (BRILLIANT SONGS, GREAT HARMONIES, STUNNING PRODUCTION) AND ARE THE SINGLE MAJOR INFLUENCE ON MY MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT. SOMETIMES THEY EVEN MAKE ME CRY WITH JOY. I HOPE I HAVE DONE THEM JUSTICE.
TODD DILLINGHAM MARCH 1996
(13) THE CREAMS + BEYOND THE VALLEY OF A
YELLOW SUBMARINE
(VINYL ONLY)THERE ONCE WAS A BAND CALLED THE CREAMS
WHO COVERED "YELLOW SUBMARINE"
THEY ABANDONED THE WORDS
AND THE TUNE, HOW ABSURD!
BUT THEY KEPT THE RECORDING... QUEUE SCREAMS.WRITE TO US AT 31, GREENHITHE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 7PU, ENGLAND AND ASK FOR A FREE FANZINE AND A MAILORDER CATALOGUE. WE HAVE MADE MANY RECORDS WHICH YOU WOULD BE MAD NOT TO WANT TO OWN. MAD I TELL YOU.
(14) R. STEVE MOORE + AND YOUR BIRD CAN SING
(VINYL ONLY)RECORDED:
FEBR. 1987 BY VITO CAPURSO
AT SANCTUARY STUDIO
CALDWELL, NJ USAALL VOCALS + INSTRUMENTS BY RSM
(15) THE FOUR STILTONS + OH DARLIN' (VINYL ONLY)
RECORDED CA. 1954, ORIGINAL 7" DUSTED BY TERENCE A. BURROWS
"OH DARLIN'" WAS RECORDED ON A AP-308764YY MANUFACTURED BY THE AKRON PETROCHEMICALS. THIS WAS PRETTY MUCH A MICROPHONE ATTACHED TO A COLCHESTER BANTAM LATHE. THE AP-308764YY WAS FIRST BUILT IN 1946, AND WAS COMMONLY FOUND IN AMERICAN FAIRGROUNDS THROUGHOUT THE 1950S. ELVIS USED A SIMILAR MODEL (THE AP-30892ZZ) TO MAKE HIS FIRST RECORDING - A GIFT FOR HIS MOTHER. THE ACETATE OF "OH DARLIN'" WAS DOCTORED USING THE SONIC SOLUTIONS PROCESSING SYSTEM.
(I PICK UP THE PHONE. I DIAL A LONG TRANSATLANTIC NUMBER. AFTER A FEW SECONDS SOMEONE PICKS UP THE RECEIVER. I ASK TO SPEAK TO WILLIAM "DOC" JOHNSON.)
YES, THIS IS BILL JOHNSON, WHO'S THAT?
(I TELL HIM I HAVE A TAPE I'D LIKE HIM TO HEAR. I START MY WALKMAN - A 1950'S DOO-WAP QUARTET CALLED THE FOUR STILTONS BURST INTO LIFE. THE SONG IS CALLED "OH DARLIN'".)
SHIT, HOW D'YOU GET HOLD OF THAT? (HE LAUGHS) I AIN'T HEARD THAT IN ALMOST FOURTY YEARS.
(I ASK HIM ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BEATLES)
THE BEATLES? WHAT'S THAT?
(I TELL HIM THEY'RE THE MOST FAMOUS POP GROUP IN HISTORY!)
I AIN'T NEVER HEARD OF THAT!
(I ASK WHERE THE SONG CAME FROM)
LET ME THINK NOW. IT MUST HAVE BEEN ABOUT 1954, I GUESS. THERE WAS FOUR OF US. WE WERE ALL DOIN' TIME IN THE STATE PEN. WE STARTED HEARIN' 'BOUT THESE SINGIN' GROUPS UP IN DETROIT. THERE WAS ONE OF 'EM - THE PRISONAIRES - GOT A HIT SONG WHILE THEY WAS INSIDE. ANYWAY, WE STARTED DOIN' SOME THINGS FOR FUN, CALLIN' OURSELVES THE FOUR STILTONS. I NEVER KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT! FREDDY - CAN'T REMEMBER HIS OTHER NAME - WHO THOUGHT OF IT, HE WAS FROM ENGLAND OR SO...
(I TELL HIM WHAT STILTON IS)
WHAT YOU SAY? CHEESE? (HE LAUGHS AGAIN) WELL, I'LL BE... (STILL LAUGHING) ANYWAY, WE COME UP WITH THIS STUPID THING CALLED "OH DARLIN'". GOVERNER BROWN HEARD US ONE DAY AND HAD ME TAKEN TO HIS OFFICE. I REMEMBER HIS WORDS REAL GOOD: "BILL", HE SAID (HE SAYS THIS IN A DEEP MOCK-TEXAN ACCENT, AGAIN, LAUGHING THROUGHOUT) "I'M GONNA MAKE YOU BOYS AS BIG AS THE MILLS BROTHERS." ANYWAY, ONE DAY HE TAKES US TO THIS BIG OLD PLACE TO MAKE A RECORD. WE ALL STOOD AROUND THE MICROPHONE - THE GUY WHO OWNED THE STORE STARTED PLAYIN' ON OF THEM BIG BASS THINGS. WE ONLY EVER GOT ONE COPY OF THE RECORD, Y'KNOW. I THINK THE GOVERNER PLAYED IT TO SOME PEOPLE HE KNEW, BUT NOTHIN' EVER HAPPENED. WHEN FREDDY GOT OUT HE TOOK THE RECORD AWAY WITH HIM. THE LAST TIME I EVER HEARD HE WAS WORKING THEM BIG PASSENGER BOATS BEWTEEN NEW YORK AND ENGLAND. GUESS HE MUST HAVE SOLD IT TO SOME SUCKER, HUH? GOD DAMN! WHERE DID YOU GET HOLD OF THAT THING? (HE LAUGHS AGAIN BUT THEN STOPS ABRUPTLY) DO I GET SOME MONEY FOR THIS?
(16) THE CLEANERS FROM VENUS + DAY TRIPPER
(VINYL ONLY)RECORDED LIVE IN OSAMA, JAPAN, SEPT. 1994
MARTIN NEWELL: VOCAL
DAVE GREGORY: 12-STRING ELECTRIC GUITAR, VOC.
CAPTAIN SENSIBLE: ELECTRIC GUITAR, VOC.
TIV: ELECTRIC GUITAR, VOC.
NELSON (PETER NICE): BASS, VOC.
GARIE DREADFUL: DRUMS...BY THE END OF THE FIRST GIG OUR "CRACK FIGHTING UNIT" WAS BECOME A BUNCH OF PANTOMIME DAMES. SENSIBLE DOES HIS FAVOURITE TRICK OF FALLING OVER MID-SOLO THEN DRAGGING THE HAPLESS JAPANESE ROADIE INTO A TANGLE OF LEADS AND MIKE STANDS. BY THE SECOND NIGHT AT OAW, CAPTAIN AND I ARE WEARING MASCARA, LIPSTICK AND BEAUTY SPOTS. TIV IS WEARING A PINK ACRYLIC GLAM-ROCK WIG AND NELSON STILL LOOKS LIKE HE'S PLAYING IN NEW MODEL ARMY.
DAVE GREGORY LEADS THE BAND ONSTAGE TO THE STRAINS OF JACK PAYNE AND THE BBC DANCE ORCHESTRA SINGING "MAKE YOURSELF A HAPPINESS PIE". WE GOT OFFSTAGE WITH A STUPID WALK, THEN COME BACK FOR AN ENCORE WITH A POP STANDARD WHICH WE HAVEN'T REHEARSED. SOMETIMES WE'RE LUCKY. THE JAPANESE SEEM TO LIKE IT.
(EXCERPT FROM "THE TOKYO DUCK PATROL" BY MARTIN NEWELL)
(17) WICZ + THERE'S A PLACE
(VINYL ONLY)RECORDED:
22 OCT. 1995 AT RSMKRYSTYNA OLSIEWICZ : VOCALS
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THE MAJORITY OF THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS COMPILATION VOTED FOR THE WITHOUT THE BEATLES TITLE, BUT MANY MORE INTERESTING SUGGESTIONS WERE SENT:
TESTIMONIAL PICTURES
COOKING BREAKFAST FOR THE QUEEN
DIGGING THE WEEDS
NOTHING YOU CAN SING THAT CAN'T BE SUNG (COLIN MIDNITE)A HARD DIY'S NIGHT
PLEASE PLEASE YOURSELF (MARTIN NEWELL)HERE, THERE AND UNDER A HEDGE
SITTING ON A SOFA WITH A SISTER OR TWO
NOW THEY KNOW HOW MANY HOLES IT TAKES TO FILL...
...A GIANT UNDERWATER KANGAROO (ALAN JENKINS)HERE COME THE SONS
ROUTE 67
FOR NO ONE (JOHN A. ROBERTS)BUG SPRAY (R.S. MOORE)
ALL YOU NEED IS US (TODD DILLINGHAM)
