George Harrison, "APPLE JAM" [imagined LP]

GEORGE HARRISON

Apple Jam   (1971)

It's Johnny's Birthday
Plug Me In
I Remember Jeep
Thanks for the Pepperoni
Out of the Blue
Isn't it a Pity (version two)*

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Inspired by the beatles.what.if.blogspot, I went ahead and assembled this idea he proposed. His artwork, too. All the songs are on the 'jam' disc of All Things Must Pass. "Isn't it a Pity (version two)" I included as a 'bonus track' since the rest of the songs from the original 3LP were distributed among the two Beatles reunion discs or used for the single-disc version in our shared timeline (as it were). I think this would have been a Zapple release, much like Back in Your Safely Beds would have been (projected release for early '69--I added "Palace of the Bird King" in between "Mary Jane" and "Revolution 9"; flows well).  Due to all the solo releases in 1970 (Sentimental Journey; Plastic Ono Band; All Things Must Pass; McCartney; Beaucoups of Blues) as well as the band's supposed farewell LP Everest, this little disc of jams most likely would be issued in '71. Harrison would go on contribute to the next Beatles LP Through Many Years as well as organize the Concert for Bangladesh. A nice little background for driving....or whatever ;)  It's a must have for completists, I s'pose.

NEIL YOUNG and Crazy Horse, "Odeon-Budokan" [imagined LP]

NEIL YOUNG and Crazy Horse

Odeon-Budokan   (1976)

ODEON (29:43)

Tell Me Why

Stringman

Human Highway

Down by the River

Cortez the Killer

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BUDOKAN (37:03)

Mellow My Mind

Too Far Gone

No One Seems to Know

Country Home

Don't Cry No Tears

Drive Back

Cowgirl in the Sand

Lotta Love

The Losing End (When You're On)

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A proposed double LP collecting live recordings from Neil and Crazy Horse's concerts at The Budokan in Japan and the Odeon Ballroom in London. For whatever reason, Neil abandoned the Horse temporarily to record and tour with Stephen Stills and his backing group as The Stills/Young Band. A failed CSNY reunion was attempted during those sessions and aborted (with Stills allegedly wiping Crosby and Nash's harmony overdubs). The resulting record Long May You Run failed to live up to expectations from the two ex-Buffalo Springfield guitarists--known for their dueling solos and overall competitive nature onstage and off. The chemistry wasn't there and Young decided he'd had enough on the way to the next gig--with Stills and his band oblivious as the drove ahead in their own bus--telling the driver to detour to Nashville where he would get on a plane and subsequently reunite with the Horse---admitting he'd "made a mistake" (*according to Jimmy McDonough's great book, Shakey). 

While some of the band's extendedly hazy versions of "Cowgirl" and "Down by the River" can go on a bit much (lol); there are some standout solo performances you won't hear anywhere else. "Human Highway" and "Mellow My Mind" played on banjo; the unreleased piano solos "No One Seems to Know" and "Stringman"; and the band's debut of the Zuma-era outtake "Country Home". The sound quality was ripped from YouTube and converted to mp3. This will have to do until we get the official release in Neil Young's supposedly forthcoming next box set of unreleased archives. Until then! 

THE BEATLES, "1970 / 1975" [imagined 3xLP retrospective]

THE BEATLES

Best-of: 1970/1975  (1980)

Side A

God      [Plastic Ono Band]

What is Life?    [All Things Must Pass]

Step Inside Love / Los Paranoias     [Anthology 3]

Beaucoups of Blues   [Beaucoups of Blues]

Working Class Hero   [Plastic Ono Band]

All Things Must Pass   [All Things Must Pass]

Side B

Teddy Boy   [McCartney]

It Don't Come Easy    [Everest*]

My Sweet Lord    [All Things Must Pass]

Instant Karma!   [Everest*]

Junk    [McCartney]

Wah-Wah     [All Things Must Pass]

Oo You    [Through Many Years*]

Early 1970   [Through Many Years*]

Side C

Isn't it a Pity - Version Two*  [All Things Must Pass]

Maybe I'm Amazed   [Through Many Years*]

Jealous Guy   [Imagine]

Every Night     [Through Many Years*]

Oh My Love  [Imagine]

Let it Down    [Through Many Years*]

Side D

Too Many People   [Ram]

How Do You Sleep?  [Imagine]

Deep Blue  [Living in the Material World][

Big Barn Bed   [Out the Blue*]

Oh Yoko!  [Imagine]

Side E

I'm the Greatest   [Out the Blue*]

The Light That Has Lighted the World    [Living in the Material World]

My Love   [Red Rose Speedway]

Out the Blue   [Out the Blue*]

Living in the Material World   [Out the Blue*]

When the Night  [Out the Blue*]

Side F

Here We Go Again   [Out the Blue*]

Dark Horse (early take)*   [Dark Horse]

Only One More Kiss   [Out the Blue*]
You Can't Catch Me   [Rock 'N Roll]

Goodnight Vienna (It's All Down to) - Reprise   [Goodnight Vienna]


Special thanks to the The Beatles What If blogspot  for the original cover art.

EAGLES, "The Long Run" [re-imagined 2xLP]

EAGLES

The Long Run  (alt.)

The Long Run

I Can't Tell You Why

In the City

The Disco Strangler

Take a Ride (Heavy Metal)*    [Heavy Metal soundtrack]

Heartache Tonight

King of Hollywood

Rivers (of the Hidden Funk)*   [There Goes the Neighborhood]

The Sad Cafe

----------------------------Disc 2   - Live at the Los Angeles Forum, 10/ 20-22/ 76

Saturday Night

Seven Bridges Road

Wasted Time

Hotel California*

Take It to the Limit*              [Hotel California - 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition]

New Kid in Town*           [Hotel California - 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition]

Doolin-Dalton - Reprise II

Desperado

Life in the Fast Lane*     

Take It Easy*

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I was inspired to do this one by a recent post on Albums Forgotten Reconstructed. In the spirit of using the proposed half studio / half live 2LP idea, I used the LA Forum versions in the the original order like the late Glenn Frey wanted. I cut the two weakest studio cuts (IMO) and replaced them with a couple Don Felder tracks that were started but left unfinished during The Long Run sessions (or rather 'The Long One" as it was begrudgingly starting to become for the frustrated band). Felder would sing the song himself on the soundtrack to the animated film Heavy Metal. The other tune--originally titled "You're Really High, Aren't You?" (something like that) was subsequently finished by Joe Walsh for his next solo album, There Goes the Neighborhood. For the live disc, I followed the running order close as I could from the LA Forum gigs. I sourced the Hotel California 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition  and the Eagles Live 1976-80 project from the Albums Forgotten Reconstructed page to get the versions not on the original 1980 LP and cut the redundant ones already on the studio side. Overall, I think it's a better listen than the original counterparts. R.I.P., Glenn Frey.