Re: (TV) Fwd: LAMF 35-Year Anniversary Box Set Pre-Christmas Release!

[Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Robin. I look forward to a complete track list. I've been hoping for a
complete release of those Hell-era demos for years -- we've gotten dribs and
drabs on various comps, but a number of tracks have never been off the bootleg
circuit (Hell doing an early "You Gotta Lose", and all of the tracks Thunders
sang). Walter Lure's sole contribution to this session, "Flight", was finally
included on a comp called DOWN TO KILL a few years ago; you can read my review
of that compilation at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BDF0D8/

Not sure
why they are bothering to include a cleaned-up version of the original LAMF
LP, though. The Heartbreakers spent months mixing and remixing the album, only
to find the mastering was always flawed. The "final" mixes for the original
LAMF don't really represent any preference on their part; they are just one
set of many failed attempts to get a decent sound on vinyl. I'd rather hear
the "new" mixes they released in 1994, or the REVISITED mixes Thunders created
in the mid-80s. Either is just as valid a point of view of the material. In a
weird way, REVISITED, while frowned up today, represents the only "coherent"
vision of the material that Thunders ever personally oversaw.

--Phil
________________________________
 From: Robin Dunn <rdunnrn@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:56 PM
Subject: (TV) Fwd:
LAMF 35-Year Anniversary Box Set Pre-Christmas Release!
 
Info below, this
upcoming LAMF Anniversary box set to include unreleased
Heartbreaker tracks
with Richard Hell.

Robin



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>
Christmas is coming early this year with Jungle Records re-issuing LAMF in a
deluxe box set with TONS of material, including some that has NEVER BEEN
RELEASED! So, hop on over to the Chatterbox - chatterbox.freeforumboard.net -
and check out all the latest news on "LAMF - The Definitive Version"
>
>
***4-CD Box set of Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers 'L.A.M.F.'***
>
> The
Heartbreakers' 4-CD 'L.A.M.F.' - 'Definitive Version' box set features:
>
> *
The original Track Records album restored!
> * Pre-LAMF demos unearthed!*
Alternative mixes exposed!
> * the '94 'lost mixes' version
> * 44-page
detailed booklet
>
> A highlight of the box is a restored version of the
original Track Records
album, which was universally condemned in 1977 for
having a'muddy mix' (caused
by mastering errors) and led to the departure of
drummer Jerry Nolan.
>
> Now, using modern audio restoration techniques, at
last it sounds as it was
intended with the 'mud' removed.Another highlight is
a disc with pre-L.A.M.F.
demos from three sessions in 1976 and 77, including
previously unreleased
tracks with Richard Hell on bass.A further disc has 21
alternative 'L.A.M.F.'
mixes from the marathon sessions at five different top
London studios.It also
includes the hitherto definitive remade 'lost mixes'
version,re-compiled in
1994.The package is accompanied by a comprehensive,
44-page booklet featuring
a 'Making of 'L.A.M.F.'' timeline, an introduction
by Thunders biographer Nina
Antonia, plus guitarist Walter Lure's
recollections ofthe Heartbreakers time
gigging, recording and living in punk
London from1976-1977.
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