5-disc outtake, alternate mix & rehearsal collection from former Wings roadie
Producer's Notes: many hours have been spent here at the old Workshop, fixing up the tracks to make them presentable. The original source files were badly recorded, with one channel (usually the left) overdriven into clipping and the other not. The clipping and distortion has been undone, and the levels matched. Recordings from acetate source have been declicked. EQ has been added to tracks that were severely in need of brightening. All tracks have been phase and pitch corrected.
Disc 1: "Wings At The Speed Of Sound" Outtakes & More:
01 Silly Love Songs (no strings or horns)
02 Beware My Love (complete instrumental acetate)
03 Beware My Love (incomplete)
04 Must Do Something About It (Paul's lead vocal version - official release sung by drummer Joe English)
05 She's My Baby (take 1)
06 She's My Baby (version 2)
07 The Note You Never Wrote (no strings)
08 Time To Hide
09 Wino Junko
10 Let 'Em In (mono promo edit)
11 Let 'Em In (stereo promo edit)
12 Newt Rack (instrumental, monitor mix)
13 Take It Away (monitor mix)
14 What's That You're Doing (rough take, monitor mix)
15 Hi Hi Hi (mono acetate alt mix)
16 Another Day (mono acetate mix)
17 Junior's Farm (alt mix by Ernie Winfrey)
18 Sally G (alt mix by Ernie Winfrey)
19 Daytime Nighttime Suffering (early mix)
Disc 2: Elstree Studio Rehearsals September 1975:
01 Little Woman Love - C Moon #1
02 Suicide
03 You Gave Me The Answer
04 Old Man River
05 Stealin'
06 Junior's Farm #1
07 Junior's Farm #2
08 Little Woman Love - C Moon #2
09 Let 'Em In
10 Live And Let Die
11 Soily
Disc 3: Outtakes & Upgrades:
01 Reception (long version)
02 Getting Closer (instrumental backing track)
03 Cage (instrumental backing track)
04 Rockestra Theme - So Glad To See You Here (instrumentals)
05 Fabulous + Teddy Bear
06 Mama's Little Girl
07 Mama's Little Girl (fragment)
08 Take It Away (Paul teaching the song to Wings)
09 No Values
10 Denny's Song (re-recorded in Montserrat February 1981)
11 Did We Meet Somewhere Before
12 A Love For You
13 Waterspout
14 CHOBA B CCCP Medley (part 1)
15 CHOBA B CCCP Medley (part 2)
Disc 4 : World Tour Rehearsals:
01 Live And Let Die
02 Call Me Back Again
03 Picasso's Last Words - Richard Cory
04 Bluebird
05 I've Just Seen A Face
06 Blackbird
07 Yesterday
08 You Gave Me The Answer
09 Magneto And Titanium Man
10 Go Now
11 Letting Go
12 Maybe I'm Amazed - rehearsals for the Wings Over The World Tour (mono)
13 Your Lucky Day (version #1)
14 Your Lucky Day (version #2)
15 Blues improvisation
16 Lend Me Your Comb
17 Goin' Back To Tennessee
18 Your True Love - Lend Me Your Comb (from Wings' last rehearsal 1981)
Disc 5: Rehearsals & Outtakes:
01 Oh Boy - Peggy Sue (from Wings' last rehearsal 1981)
02 I'm Gonna Love You Too (from Wings' last rehearsal 1981)
03 Ain't That A Shame - I'm In Love Again (from Wings' last rehearsal 1981)
04 Rockin' In Your Seat (from Wings' last rehearsal 1981)
05 Best Friend (live Antwerp, Belgium August 22nd, 1972)
06 Mull Of Kintyre
07 My Carnival
08 Night Out
09 Robber's Ball
10 Mama's Little Girl
11 Hey Diddle
12 Tragedy
13 Same Time Next Year
14 We're Open Tonight
15 Spin It On
16 Old Siam, Sir
17 Again And Again And Again
18 The Broadcast
19 To You
20 Cage
Trevor Jones:
Trevor Jones was a Wings roadie during the touring days, and when Wings was no more and Paul wasn't touring Trevor became Paul's assistant and kept in the background mostly out of sight. In a 2008 interview with Howie Edelson, former Wings drummer Denny Seiwell said of Trevor: "The roadies; Ian Horn and Trevor Jones - they were brothers-in-law, I guess. Ian married Trevor's sister. . . something like that - I don't know. But the next couple of years it was just me and Henry (McCullough) and Ian and Trevor. We were like always together. Trevor died. What year was it that Linda (McCartney) died? '98. Well then, Trevor died just before that, I think. He had an alcohol problem. Paul told me about this. I had no idea. Paul said that he had to give him the 'golden handshake' because of his boozin' and that he had passed away."
Notes:
At some point roughly 65 unreleased Wings tracks, about four hours of music, had become available on the internet, and according to a report by Howie Edelson that was written for United Stations Radio Networks and also published in Beatlefan/Extra!, “many of the songs were believed to be straight dubs from the late Trevor Jones, Wings’ original roadie, whose personal archives were auctioned in 1998.”
Edelson said the songs included acetates of “Another Day,” and “Hi, Hi, Hi,” full Wings rehearsals of songs performed on their 1975/1976 world tour, including “Listen To What The Man Said,” “Blackbird,” “Hi, Hi, Hi,” multiple takes of “Junior’s Farm,” “Soily,” “Call Me Back Again,” “Picasso’s Last Words,” “Bluebird,” “Live And Let Die,” and “You Gave Me The Answer,” the still-unreleased McCartney torch song “Suicide” and an early live band run-through of “Let ‘Em In” taped before it was recorded for “Wings at the Speed of Sound.” Also included were outtakes from “Tug of War.”
The crown jewel, according to a source called Plastic Mac, is the long-time sought “Must Do Something About It,” featuring Paul McCartney on the vocals instead of Wings’ drummer 1975-1977, Joe English. Also included is a version of “Silly Love Songs” that appeared without its horns and strings arrangement but with Paul’s voice emulating how he wanted it to sound in the record’s post-production.
Beatlefan editor Bill King says in the report he believes there’s a direct relationship to last week’s announcement of the McCartney reissue program planned by Concord Music.
“The leaking of these tracks — for whatever reason — whether it’s a disgruntled employee who’s upset about the box set reportedly being shelved for a while, or if these tracks perhaps had already leaked out and someone was just sitting on them for a while — y’know, there’s a lot of different theories. But for whatever reason that these things have suddenly come out, I think it’s not coincidental. I think that it happened a day or two after the Concord reissue program was announced is probably instructive. Y’know, there’s a cause and effect relationship there,” King says.
But according to Plastic Mac, the outtakes became available from “a brave collector who, aimed by his love for Paul’s music, decided to share his precious pieces with other fans of the same breed.”
In a blog posted Thursday, King noted that one project being considered is a deluxe “Wings Over America” with a remastered “Rockshow” DVD. Excerpts of a cleaned up “Rockshow” were included in “The McCartney Years” release.
Here’s a list of at least some of the tracks with the possible origin of each. We don’t know that this is complete:
The Trevor Jones tapes: Beware My Love (Instrumental, complete acetate version), Beware My Love (uncomplete version), Must Do Something About It (Paul on vocal), She’s My Baby (Take 1), She’s My Baby (version 2), Silly Love Songs (without strings or horns), The Note You Never Wrote (without strings)
Time To Hide (instrumental), Wino Junko (rough mix)
January-February 1976 Wings At The Speed Of Sound sessions: Richard Cory, Soily — Richard Cory appears to be a live rehearsal for Wings Over UK tour. As for Soily, it belongs to the “One Hand Clapping” rehearsals.
Newt Rack (instrumental) - A Rude Studio track rescued for the “Tug Of War”/”Pipes Of Peace” sessions in London and Montserrat (1981). Apparently, it is a monitor mix.
Mull Of Kintyre (count-in): Not very different from the released version. Just add the 1,2,3 count-in.
Daytime Nighttime Suffering (early version): Harps in the middle-eight are apparently the main different bits in this recording.
Take It Away (monitor mix): This tracks’ highlight in my opinion is the song’s bitter end, without editing.
What’s That You’re Doing (rough take): This Wonder/McCartney collaboration features the jam session feel reported by McCartney years ago.
Choba B CCCP Medley (Part 1), Choba B CCCP Medley (Part 2): Here we got 20 songs edited professionally and the highlights are the 5 unreleased tunes taped in July 1987: “Cut Across Shorty,” “No Other Baby,” “Poor Boy,” “Lend Me Your Comb” and “Take This Hammer.” Plus, we have “Ain’t That A Shame, originally released on the album, but with an alternate vocal.
Fabulous, Momma’s Little Girl (Intro), Momma’s Little Girl, Take It Away, No Values, Denny’s Song: All the above tracks were product of a rehearsal done by the final Wings line-up back in 1980. Until then, we’ve had lots of tracks from this session, including early takes of “Average Person”, “Keep Under Cover” and the yet to be released “Blackpool”. Highlights here are the completely different incarnation of No Values, that would be included on Give My Regards To Broad Street.
Little Woman Love / C Moon, You Gave Me The Answer, Live And Let Die (Part 2 working Session): Early September 1975 rehearsal at Elstree Film Studio in London.
Junior’s Farm (Version 1), Junior’s Farm (Version 2), Let Em In (Take 1), Little Woman Love / C Moon, Old Man River, Soily, Stealin’, Suicide: More Elstree rehearsals, likely the second day Wings spent in the sound stage. Let’Em In appears here as a novelty, as the track hadn’t been recorded at this time.
Venus And Mars, Rockshow, Jet, Let Me Roll It, Picasso Last Words / Richard Cory, Bluebird
I've Just Seen A Face, Yesterday, The Long And Winding Road, You Gave Me The Answer, Magneto And Titanium Man, Medicine Jar, Go Now, Letting Go, Lady Madonna, Live And Let Die, Call Me Back Again (Incomplete), Listen To What The Man Said, Band On The Run, Hi Hi Hi, Soily: Likely one of the final run-through of the songs for the UK 1975 tour (Elstree Studios).
Did We Meet Somewhere Before: Very clear mix compared to the versions on Cold Cuts, the most famous McCartney bootleg (that were actually due to be released officially).
Reception (Long Version), Cage (Instrumental), Getting Closer (Instrumental), Rockestra Theme So Glad To See You Here (Instrumentals): These Back To The Egg rough outtakes could be taped in early 1979.
Another Day, Hi Hi Hi: Acetates of the singles released in 1970/1972, respectively.
Waterspout, A Love For You: The last tracks on this list are clearly early mixes of the same songs included on Cold Cuts, though with better sound quality.
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