HW: i was just wonderingŠ

M Holmes fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK
Thu Sep 7 10:39:07 EDT 2000


Craig White writes:

> 1. i assume that everybody's copy of the Undisclosed Files Addendum has
> the sound of a man urinating dubbed over part of the last track "Angels
> of Death" - does anybody know why?

Why do you assume it's a man that's urinating?

It'll be related to that Micturation of Magnu track.

> 2. i have seen the live versions of "Assault and Battery" and "Sleep of
> a Thousand Tears" that are featured on the flicknife cd "Chronicle of
> the Black Sword" referred to as an encore, yet they are included in the
> middle of the set on the griffin double cd "Live Chronicles" - is it
> correct that these tracks were actually part of the Chronicles show
> encore? (...somehow this seems more appropriate to me, though that may
> well be the result of having known the abridged version first)

They were from Hammersmith Odeon on 3/12/85 and as far as I know, they
weren't the encore.

> 3. i have encountered references to an original version of "The Making
> of Midgard" from Robert Calvert's Lucky Leif and the Longships - is
> this original version the straight piece of poetry without all the
> excessive delay (repeats/echo)... i find the cd version almost
> unlistenable and it would not surprise me at all if it were not the way
> it was intended to be - if this is indeed the case, does anybody know
> why the second version was substituted for the cd release?

Dunno why it was changed on the CD, but the Lp version doesn't have all
the nonsense.

FoFP



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