Heartbreakers 3-disk set

[schwenko]

JOHNNY THUNDERS & THE HEARTBREAKERS DOWN TO KILL

Jungle have put together a 3-disc set made up from all previously unreleased Heartbreakers
material. The set features one disc of studio recordings including newly found
1976 studio sessions and tracks with both The Ramones and Richard Hell; another
disc of a classic 1977 gig now remixed and complete; and a DVD of 50 minutes of
unseen footage from various venues. All in first-rate quality  a veritable feast
for Thunders & Heartbreakers fans!

DISC 1 leads with a newly discovered demo session recorded in Staten Island NY in
1976  before they came to London for the Sex Pistols Anarchy Tour  and freshly
mixed in 2005. You can hear the early workouts of tracks mostly later heard on
the L.A.M.F. album and the only studio version of Take A Chance On Me. Then
theres another unheard song Flight from the 1975 demo session with Richard Hell
on bass. Walter Lure played many sessions with The Ramones; here he takes lead
vocals with the Ramones on Street Fighting Man, on a day when Joey didnt turn
up. The CD is completed with four tracks from two other studio sessions in 1977
& 1978.

DISC 2 has the legendary Speakeasy tapes from 1977 with Johnny abusing the audience
remixed in 2005. Theyre now as performed in two sets, in unexpurgated glory and
clarity with all 15 tracks together for the first time.

DISC 3. This DVD has 50 minutes of unseen film footage. Five tracks are live at
the Lyceum which didnt fit on the DEAD OR ALIVE video, four acoustic tracks are
live in Greenhouse Studio, and six tracks live at The Marquee in August 1984, all
with back-stage scenes from the venues. The DVD also has four separate extras
sections:- the Lyceum soundcheck; a glimpse of Johnnys TV and tabloid troubles
in Sweden; a clip from a French film; and a video-clip for Get Off The Phone.
Worth the price of the whole package alone!

The package comes with 24 pages of booklets including an interview with Walter Lure
by Nina Antonia, Kris Needs original 1982 DTK sleeve-notes, the Swedish newspaper
tabloid frenzy in 1982, and of course lots of contemporary photos.

TRACK-LIST:
DISC 1  RAW & RARE Newly discovered unreleased studio recordings. Staten
Island demos 76: Born To Lose, Cant Keep My Eyes On You, Do You Love Me, Its
Not Enough, Take A Chance, I Love You, Get Off The Phone (instr.), I Wanna Be Loved
(instr.),Demo 75: Flight; Walter Lure & The Ramones: Street Fighting Man;
Heroes: Too Much Junkie Business, Seven Day Weekend; Riverside demos 1977: London
Boys, Too Much Junkie Business.
DISC 2  COMPLETE SPEAKEASY 1977 Two live sets remixed in 2005. Set 1: Chinese
Rocks, Get Off The Phone, All By Myself, Let Go, Cant Keep My Eyes On You, I Love
You, Born To Lose, I Wanna Be Loved; Set 2: Do You Love Me?, Chinese Rocks, Get
Off The Phone, All By Myself, Going Steady, I Love You, I Wanna Be Loved.
DISC 3  DVD: ARRESTED ALIVE 50 mins of unseen footage filmed in 1984. Lyceum:
All By Myself, Let Go, I Wanna Be Loved, Copy Cat, Cant Keep My Eyes On You; Greenhouse
Studio: Hurt Me, Sad Vacation, Diary Of A Lover, Like A Rolling Stone; Marquee:
Cant Keep My Eyes On You, Sad Vacation, Who Do Voodoo, I Love You, Little Bit Of
Whore, Pipeline; Lyceum Soundcheck: Alone In A Crowd riff, Dont You Mess With Cupid,
One Track Mind; In Trouble In Sweden: In Cold Blood/Who Needs Girls? excerpt; French
Film clip; Memorabilia clip: Get Off The Phone.

Catalogue number: FREUDCD084 UK release date: November 7th Direct from Jungle
it's only 16 UK Pounds (approx US$27 or Euros22) + postage; and it's in stock now.

[Borneojimy]

Sounds like something that I must have a copy of. I only wish they'd discover a pile of unreleased Heartbreakers tunes somewhere. There are so many releases with the same songs again & again.