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« Reply #40 on: February 11, 2008, 05:32:09 PM » |
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Difficult. Polly and Plainsman get mentioned a lot, and quite right too, but Iron Lion and Restless are both great as well. And I love "Girls On The Avenue" from "The Attic Tracks"
Actuall, Trevor had one of those voices that I'd die for. (Simon's developed one of them, too).
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« Reply #41 on: February 11, 2008, 05:37:07 PM » |
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you know his speaking voice was exactly the same as his singing voice, and he never adopted a phoney accent when he sang,I live for the day when recognition is heaped on him, he was a born singer
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« Reply #42 on: February 11, 2008, 06:33:32 PM » |
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I first heard him sing on 'In The Early Days' with Eclection. Such a wonderful deep voice and that bass line....made my ears curl  |
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« Reply #43 on: February 11, 2008, 06:55:30 PM » |
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« Reply #44 on: February 12, 2008, 08:44:11 AM » |
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And I love "Girls On The Avenue" from "The Attic Tracks"
Are The Attic Tracks CDs still in print? I'm missing that stuff? Jules |
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« Reply #45 on: February 12, 2008, 09:04:08 AM » |
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Dear Swarb, just to keep on keeping high Trevor memory, I would like to recall that SWARB! box set features a beautiful song performed by Trevor from an early seventies album about australian songs. It's the only information I have read about that record.
Thanks
Paolo
P.S. years ago, when I was young, after a concert in duo in Italy with marvellous Carthy I jumped on stage and I said, hey Swarb, to shake your hand is a dream coming true, and you answered, oh, in this case I have to clean mina before!
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« Reply #47 on: February 12, 2008, 09:54:25 AM » |
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Thanks Barry. Is there just the one CD then? Because there was a whole series of tapes, wasn't there? What does the CD contain that hasn't been released elsewhere - does anyone know off the tops of their heads? Thanks, Jules |
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« Reply #48 on: February 12, 2008, 10:16:07 AM » |
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I loved the live 2nd AT tape - this was a Trevor solo gig from I think 1982 in Melbourne. I used to have all 4 tapes and had them sent to someone in the UK who was then on the FC mailing list who was to transfer them to CD; that was the last I saw of them. There was (well, obviously) a lot more on the tapes than what ended up on the single CD release. From memory, AT1 was a hotchpotch of various Sandy rarities, AT2 was a solo acoustic Trevor gig, AT3 was ... well, another hotchpotch I think, but more together than AT1 and AT4 were Sandy demos. While writing this I realize Michael Hunter is on this forum and he'll be able to tell a lot more!  I haven't seen/listened to these 4 tapes since sending them in good faith to one T.S. in the UK some 8 or 9 years ago. I'd love to lay my hands again on the live Trevor recording on Attick Tracks 2. It would make a pretty nice single CD in its own right. |
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« Reply #49 on: February 12, 2008, 10:28:37 AM » |
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« Reply #50 on: February 12, 2008, 10:37:46 AM » |
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Jamie's post re the link to the Attic Tracks came through as I sent this, so I won't repeat it!
Re the question of what the CD has that can't be officially found elsewhere...
A lot of the tracks were as rare as very rare things when the CD was first released, but have been released in other formats in the meantime (Free Reed box sets, extra tracks on original CDs etc). However, I'm pretty sure all the Trevor Lucas ones (Girls On The Avenue / Breakaway / Town I Loved So Well / Forever Young) are still exclusive to this CD. Well, Girls On The Avenue also appeared on a compilation of Australian rock "Long Way To The Top" because it was allegedly cheaper than using the original version by Richard Clapton! But that's by the by.
Also the last 3 Sandy songs Gold Dust / Stranger To Himself / Who Knows are all from the final concert that came out as Gold Dust - but without the overdubs, so are "as is".
The cassettes are well and truly unavailable now - compiler John Penhallow saying so on the Sandy Denny list just a few weeks ago. They were originally available for new subscribers to Fiddlestix.
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« Reply #51 on: February 12, 2008, 11:33:34 AM » |
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Thanks everyone for the info.
I didn't even know that the Gold Dust concert had been overdubbed! Mind you, I don't have that CD yet. Was it extra instruments or audience noice?
Jules
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« Reply #52 on: February 12, 2008, 11:48:30 AM » |
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as my memory permits , i think the guitar parts on gold dust were overdubbed by JD as the original tapes had deteriated
there may be more but i cant remember, i'm sure somebody else will
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« Reply #53 on: February 12, 2008, 11:51:23 AM » |
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as my memory permits , i think the guitar parts on gold dust were overdubbed by JD as the original tapes had deteriated
there may be more but i cant remember, i'm sure somebody else will
JD, Simon and Chris L did do the overdubs for Gold dust CD release. JD doing the guitars and Simon and Chris doing some of the vocals. I asked Simon for how that made him feel, he said he enjoyed it, they did it and then went for a curry afterwards. |
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« Reply #54 on: February 12, 2008, 11:55:46 AM » |
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I think Simon & Chris overdubbed some backing vocals
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« Reply #55 on: February 12, 2008, 11:56:15 AM » |
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as my memory permits , i think the guitar parts on gold dust were overdubbed by JD as the original tapes had deteriated
there may be more but i cant remember, i'm sure somebody else will
JD, Simon and Chris L did do the overdubs for Gold dust CD release. JD doing the guitars and Simon and Chris doing some of the vocals. I asked Simon for how that made him feel, he said he enjoyed it, they did it and then went for a curry afterwards. So it has the distinction of containing the only tracks with both Chris Leslie and Sandy singing on them. |
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« Reply #56 on: February 12, 2008, 12:21:52 PM » |
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Fascinating, I had no idea.
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« Reply #57 on: February 12, 2008, 12:25:39 PM » |
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Just checked the inlay and it confirms
Electric and Acoustic guitars- Jerry Donahue
Backing Vocals - Simon Nicol and Chris Leslie.
Original Band
Sandy, Trevor, DM, Pat Donaldson and Pete Wilsher.
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« Reply #58 on: February 12, 2008, 02:33:56 PM » |
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Purely for bragging purposes, I would like to point out that I have, just the once, actually been in the attic where the tracks were found. Thank you for your attention. |
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« Reply #59 on: February 12, 2008, 02:54:29 PM » |
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Purely for bragging purposes, I would like to point out that I have, just the once, actually been in the attic where the tracks were found. Thank you for your attention. Oh so it's a literal title then? Rather than just a play on The Basement Tapes. Were they in Trev's attic? Jules |
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