HW: Collector's Series

[Dave Berry]

At 03:20 21/01/00 , K Henderson wrote:

In case some people don't know, several of the tracks from the Wierd Tapes have been included on other compilations.  I'm not complaining!  If it helps you plan your purchases, here are the tracks that I've seen elsewhere.  (The codex will have the complete info, of course).

>Coll. Ser. 4 - Weird 101 / Sonic Assassins live 23.12.77 Barnstaple + DBrock
>solo tracks recorded at home in Devon, 1978-79
Over The Top (SA), Nuclear Toy (DB).  Also Magnu and Angels of Life?

>Coll. Ser. 5 - Weird 102 / Stonehenge Free Festival 23.6.77, Chicago -
>Riverside Theatre 12.3.78, plus 3 Hawklords tracks recorded at Rockfield
>(2-3/79)
Valium 10, Douglas in the Jungle.  SotA?  (see below).

>Coll. Ser. 6 - Weird 103 / more Stonehenge 23.6.77, plus Watchfield 8/75 and
>Rockfield studios, 9/77
Cake Out, Circles, Elements?

>Coll. Ser. 8 - Weird 105 / Hammersmith Odeon 5.10.76 and 1977, plus studio
>tracks from 12/77
I don't think I've seen these elsewhere, and it's my favourite Wierd Tape.

>Coll. Ser. 9 - Weird 106 / One track (US studio 12/73), three tracks at
>Chalk Farm Roadhouse, London 13.2.72 (Greasy Truckers?), and the rest
>recorded at Maida Vale BBC studios on 18.8.70 and Playhouse Theatre, BBC
>Studios 19.4.71.
Make What You Can, the Greasy Truckers tracks, possibly also the 18.8.70 tracks (Hurry On Sundown, Come Home, We Do It).
>
>Glastonbury '90 - Travellers Field, Glastonbury 5 AM.  Dodgy recording!  :)
>
>Nottingham '90 remix (2CD) - The 'Live Legends' gig at Nottingham 24.1.90 on
>one disc,

Now this is a really good idea.  Thumbs up for this choice!


>Also, we were just talking about the Chicago 1978 show, in reference to the
>SotA on F&R II.  So what's on the Weird 102 tape from this gig?

I didn't know anything on this tape was from Chicago.  My guess is that the SotA is the same one, and presumably the Sonic Attack that follows it.

>Final question...is the Atomhenge 1976 likely to be the same Atomhenge
>recording that was popping up on CD-R last year from somewhere in
>Scandinavia?  (Or at least Henrik had copies available for a brief spell.)

What was the sound quality of that like?  My guess is that tapes from that long ago would be fairly poor, unless EMI have found another tape in their vaults or something.

Dave.
Dave Berry,  www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~daveb