OFF: what is your top 5

[Jon Jarrett]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Doug Pearson wrote:

> They managed to find the take with Syd of Kevin Ayers' "Singing a Song In
> The Morning" for the recent reissue of 'Joy Of A Toy', so that would seem
> to bode well for this possibility ... (and with today's technology, if the
> tape exists at all, it can be *made* playable, and then "fixed" pretty
> well digitally)

        Some kind of source for much of this stuff seems to exist, as a
year or two ago when I was still inhabiting parts of Usenet I observed a
post to alt.music.psychedelic informing the world that some Barrett fan
organisation were compiling a six- (six!) CD-R set of his entire
recordings; it was a subscription thing, and spoke deeply to me of utter
fanaticism :-) Can't remember what was on it but a Google search on the
group for some string should...

        Ah yes! a *12*-CD-R set, my mistake! See:

<http://www.google.co.uk/groups?selm=rCV28.5504%24JT5.1314775%40news1.rdc1.az.home.com&output=gplain>

        Apologies for the long URL: I searched for "Vegetable Man" in
alt.music.psychedelic and it came up first hit. Only tracklists the Floyd
and solo stuff however so I can't tell you if that one you mention was in
there :-)

> (now, if they could only officially release the Pink Floyd recordings
> of "King Bee", "Lucy Leave", "Scream thy Last Scream" and "Vegetable
> Man" ...)

        Hell yeah. Another of my pet things EMI should do (after
rereleasing _Warrior_, ASAM, _Quark_ and _25 Years On_ of course) is do
another little EP-let like their _1967: The First Three Singles_ is one
called something like _The Next Three Singles_ with that stuff, `Point Me
at the Sky' and `It Would Be So Nice' on it, just to get it all out there
*once*... It's not as if it wouldn't sell. But maybe it wouldn't sell
*enough*... Yours,
                   Jon

n/p: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - `Attack'
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