HW: Greasy Tracks

M Holmes fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK
Thu Oct 28 05:07:43 EDT 1999


Jill writes:

> Obviously and quite genuinely most people don't hear any difference
> between the "Jam" track on the Wierd tape and the bit at the end of
> "Seeing It..." on Roadhawks.   I do.   But there's nothing more I can
> add to what I've said! I've tried and I'm relieved that Larry (thank you
> sir!) who is a musician can also genuinely hear precise differences
> between the two tracks that I am only vaguely aware of.  So I guess we
> have to settle on the fact that the two tracks are close enough (or that
> the recording is bad enough) that they are difficult to distinguish
> between.    That still IMO does not militate against a Dec 1972 "Jam"
> because there's only a matter of months between them and it's a track
> whose development might have been shelved while other tracks were
> developed for Space Ritual.
>
> But mercifully however this discussion is largely if not completely
> academic since Brock has "Jam" listed as part of the Greasy Truckers gig
> and I, for one, am quite happy to accept that.    8-)

That's how it appears in the Codex.

> Plus ca changes

Oi! We're boycotting French!

> jill

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