HW: Compiling Live tr

[M Holmes]

Mark Edmonds writes:

> From: Mark Edmonds
> Date: 1998-12-03 10:00
>
> >> Undisclosed Files            27.11.1984 & ?.12.88     CD+LP Sheffield + ?
> >>
> >> The rest of this is from Hammersmith Odeon, winter 1988 - (sorry - can't
> recall
> >> the date)
>
> >Which tracks are from which years? I remember thinking way back that
> >the later ones were one of the Hammersmith '88 gigs.
> >FoFP
>
> For what its worth, I made a crappy audience tape of the winter 88
> Hammersmith gig (lo-fi sound on the tape but a nice memento). Anyway, having
> heard that the Undisclosed might be the same gig, I made some comparisons.
>
> There are major differences, especially in the vocal departement.
>
> The bridge between Ejection and Motorway City is different (OK, this could
> be a simple edit) but I can't make out the idle strumming of Dave's guitar
> at the beginning of MC on my tape. Then there is a bit where Harvey goes
> totally AWOL on the keyboards towards the guitar solo in the same track. Its
> difficult to tell but I can't make that out with confidence in my tape. Then
> during the chant of "Motorway City" before the guitar solo starts, Dave
> adlibs a bit on TUF but on my tape that is totally absent. Also, at the fade
> out of the track, on TUF, Dave says "Motorway City" which is absent on my
> tape.
>
> Onto Heads and things continue to go differently. Dave's singing of the
> intro is completely different and then the whispered "Necromancer in a jar"
> at the end of the track is missing on my tape.
> The bridge into Angels of Death is slightly different and then the opening
> vocal lines are again, sung in a completely different way between the two
> recordings. There was some other big difference in this track which I can't
> remember off hand.
>
> Anyway, given that TUF can't be '89 anyway, if the Hammersmith gig (14th
> Dec.?) is the basis of the CD, then they have probably used a few
> instrumental lines and redone a lot of the vocals.
>
> Comments?

It looks like it's not the Hammersmith gig. It was probably another gig
on the same tour.

FoFP