HW: Greasy Jam - Not Seeing It

[Jill]

M Holmes wrote:

> On the Greasy Truckers album there is of course Master of the Universe
> and Born To Go. Also included is "Jam" and "Improvisation". If "Jam" is
> the same track that follows the Greasy Truckers material on the Weird
> tapes then there's a mystery. I found this identical (though slowed
> down) to the "Seeing It As You Really Are" piece preceding Silver
> Machine on Roadhawks (and why hasn't Roadhawks ever made it to CD?).
> This was allegedly the encore on the Space Ritual set rather than part
> of Greasy Truckers. Maybe someone from the band who has either a very

Actually I'm sure I've had this argument before and I'm sure that each
time   I rush over to my hi-fi, consumed with guilt and dismay that I've
got it wrong, play everything through a dozen times forwards, backwards
and sideways until the neighbours are about to rush up the stairs in
indignation and each time I come up with exactly the same answer which
is that I fundmentally disagree with you on this one!!

The "Jam" bit on Wierd 106 is indeed very similar to the end section of
"Seeing It As You Really Are" BUT (and this is the important bit) I am
quite determined that it is NOT the same performance.

Yes.  The band probably did play the "Jam" section as the end bit of
"Seeing It.." in fact they probably played the "Jam" section on every
occasion they performed "Seeing It..." which includes the occasion when
they performed "Seeing It" as the encore to Space Ritual.

However the "Jam" on Wierd 106 is NOT the Space Ritual performance
(listen to them in parallel - they are different!   Quite apart from the
speed difference - the Wierd tape "Jam" is so laid back it's almost
falling off the stage compared with the Space Ritual bit which is far
more aggressive.   Also there's a whole chunk of electronic type stuff
on the upper level of the Wierd track which isn't there at all on the
Space Ritual).

Given that this similar basic end section also appears in Text of
Festival's "Seeing It" my guess is that the Wierd "Jam" has a date
somewhere between its "Text of Festival" appearance and its "Space
Ritual" appearance which would comfortably place it into the Greasy
Truckers Roundhouse gig.

So I am perfectly happy to accept that the cover inside my Wierd Tape
says "Roundhouse" for "Jam" along with the other stuff.

Yrs in particulars
jill



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