Complete Lost Lennon Tapes - Vol. 1 & 2

John Lennon
 
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Complete Lost Lennon Tapes - Vol. 1 & 2
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Complete Lost Lennon Tapes - Vol. 1 & 2
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Complete Lost Lennon Tapes - Vol. 1 & 2 - C.D.
Complete Lost Lennon Tapes - Example C.D.

Label Walrus
Catalogue No. WALRUS 002/003
Matrix No.'s C.D. 1 - 18061704
C.D. 2 - 18061706
Country Of Origin   Holland
Release Date December 1996
Total Time C.D. 1 - 61:58
C.D. 2 - 63:32
Comments:
(from the sleeve)
This double C.D. brings together all the tracks from the original vinyl bootlegs of the Lost Lennon Tapes, volumes 1, 2, and 3.
Superb Quality and carefully mastered.

All of the tracks remain in the exact order of the original vinyl releases.
Lost Lennon Tapes - Volume One covers tracks 1 to 19.

Lost Lennon Tapes - Volume Two - tracks 20-26 of disc 1, then 1 to 7 of disc 2.

Lost Lennon Tapes - Volume Three - tracks 8 to 25 of disc 2.


For a complete cross reference index of the tracks featured on the Complete Lost Lennon Tapes
and the offical release Anthology click here John Lennon Outtakes Index.

Volume 1

No Tracklisting Comments Time
1 Strawberry Fields Forever Very early acoustic runs - Kenwood demos (Takes 2, 4, 6, 7) 3:04
2 The Happy Rishikesh Song Acoustic demo 1:52
3 Rock Island Line Acoustic take  2:32
4 John Henry Piano take with double-tracked vocal 1:37
5 Surprise Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradox) Acoustic demo #2  1:22
6 Keep Right On To The End Of The Road Sang at a press conference in support of Oz, 14th July 1971, this was issued on a flexi and given free with a later Oz edition.
John sings in silly voice, Yoko joins in.
At end John says "Radio Free Widnes".
0:40
7 Goodnight Vienna Demo (same as on the official "Anthology")  2:52
8 Tennessee Demo takes 1 & 4 (?) 
Composing piano and drum machine demo.
1:56
9 God Save Oz Take 1
A better quality version of the same take is on Complete Lost Lennon Tapes Vol. 5
3:07
10 With A Little Help From My Friends Sean sings his favourite Beatle song which John struggles to remember it's title. 0:37
11 Power To The People Take 2  2:29
12 Here We Go Again Acoustic Demo 1:21
13 Mucho Mungo Acoustic Demo 2:11
14 God Acoustic demo #2, quite fast too 1:26
15 Life Begins At Forty Acoustic and drum machine demo (same as on the official "Anthology"). At start John says, "This is the Dakota country and western club" 2:03
16 Woman Bermuda demo (Acoustic and drum machine)
This is the same as the take on CLLT 4 except the one on 4 is longer.
I believe this to be demo #3 (see index).
3:06
17 Girls And Boys "Real Love" earliest acoustic demo #1 2:20
18 Clean-Up Time Piano demo - Take 2 3:08
19 Beautiful Boy Demo 4 - Acoustic and hand-claps + Sean's Goodnight 2:48
20 Revolution Esher demo
At start John says, "Put the incense on, light the candles and give yourself a hard time."
The take on CLLT 6 is the same take.
3:52
21 Child Of Nature Esher demo
Longer version on Complete Lost Lennon Tapes Vol. 6
2:33
22 He Said He Said/She Said She Said Acoustic demos
This is actually the end few seconds of "He Said" demo as on CLLT 14, spliced together with part of "She Said" demo found separately on CLLT 14.
1:07
23 I'm The Greatest Early piano demo #2 1:21
24 Make Love Not War Piano demo - Early "Mind Games". 3:13
25 How Do You Sleep ? Take 4 0 Long outtake version. 8:09
26 Daddy's Little Sunshine Boy With Ringo 0:28


Volume 2

No Tracklisting Comments Time
1 I'm The Greatest Take 1
Preceded by a song from John about "knitting a sweater".
2:50
2 The Luck Of The Irish Acoustic Take 1 and Take 2 3:11
3 Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him John for first half, then Yoko joins in. 3:17
4 (Just Like) Starting Over Guitar and drum machine demo (Take 3) 4:53
5 I Promise (Love Is The Answer) Piano demo 1:56
6 Medley :
    Sea Ditty
    My Old Man's A Dustman
    I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
    Leaning On a Lamp Post
    Mr. Woo
John doodling at the piano 2:34
7 Grow Old With Me Piano and drum machine. Yoko speaks at the end. 3:19
8 Strawberry Fields Forever Acoustic demo - Kenwood (Take 8)
John sings, "We came along on Saturday morning"
2:41
9 What's The New Mary Jane Esher demo
Same take is on CLLT 6, but is 4 seconds longer.
2:36
10 Julia Esher demo #1 - with count-in and whistling at end
Double-tracked Esher demo #1 - See version on CLLT 6 too,
this is same original pass as that one but a different overdub.
3:39
11 Across The Universe Take 7 RM2 (Y'alright Richie ?) 3:46
12 You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) Piano demo 1:00
13 Help ! Piano demo 0:42
14 Whatever Gets You Thru The Night Composing acoustic demo 5:27
15 The General Erection John reads a poem 0:32
16 The Wumberlog John reads a poem 0:32
17 Dear John Acoustic and drum machine - early demo 4:14
18 Whatever Happened To Acoustic demo - strident, choppy chords 4:55
19 Cookin' (In The Kitchen Of Love) Piano demo #2 2:28
20 Peggy Sue Acoustic demo - phone rings which stops John 0:54
21 Watching The Wheels Take 1 - Piano demo 0:37
22 Watching The Wheels Much later take - Acoustic demo 1:45
23 I'm Losing You Double-tracked version of Bermuda Demo (#4) - Acoustic and drum machine 0:45
24 Beautiful Boy A partial studio playback of the Bermuda tape - Acoustic and bongos
At start John says, "Take 1 of Darling Boy, now known as Beautiful Boy"
After he has demonstrated the song with the playback John says, "We can do this in one take"
1:42
25 Clean-Up Time French count-in and studio chat, early take
Edited from full cut on Complete Lost Lennon Tapes Vol. 14
2:24

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