What is your musical Holy Grail?

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[The Region Legion]

What are they then Devlin? I haven't heard of them. Any links to information about them, I like little stories like this.

Having searched google, I can't find anything about it, which suggests it was only a rumour created by fans who wish there was more recorded stuff by him, but basically the story goes that Hendrix had the tapes for what would have been his last studio album, and accidentally left them in the back of a taxi cab. Porcupine Tree's "The Creator Has A Mastertape" is almost certainly inspired by the story, so it clearly wasn't just a dream I had.

[Paaaaul]

Who would really want the Las to reform? Not them for a start...
John Power's Cast were so much better and he was a far more charsimatic and appealing lead singer than whatshisname with the attitude problem in the Las ever was.
And talking of Cast - surely a hits collection and a new (cash-in) single should be due by now?

[coughs] Cock! [/coughs]

[Jemble Fred]

If we're talking about stuff that's lost forever, it would have been nice to have saved Ringo's tapes before they all burnt away to nothing, and the same goes for whatever recordings went down with Viv Stanshall's boat. It's like the torching of the monasteries, isn't it?

[Des Nilsen]

What are they then Devlin? I haven't heard of them. Any links to information about them, I like little stories like this.

Having searched google, I can't find anything about it, which suggests it was only a rumour created by fans who wish there was more recorded stuff by him, but basically the story goes that Hendrix had the tapes for what would have been his last studio album, and accidentally left them in the back of a taxi cab. Porcupine Tree's "The Creator Has A Mastertape" is almost certainly inspired by the story, so it clearly wasn't just a dream I had.

I think the tapes left in a cab were actually the original final mixes for side two of 'Axis: Bold As Love' - Hendrix left them in a taxi early on Halloween morning 1967 and Chas Chandler and Jimi had to remix that side of the album in one night to make the release date.

I haven't ever heard that final album thing you mentioned, so if that's a genuine rumour (though not necessarily true) it's passed me by. Most of what Hendrix recorded for his new album actually sits in the vaults as demo and half-finished material and a lot of the more complete stuff was released on 'First Rays Of The New Rising Sun' - close but no cigar.
It's a great set of songs, but it's hard to listen to it because it just isn't finished, nor will it ever be.
:(

My musical holy grail - I'll get back to you... difficult to decide.

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wouldn't mind if I had been the bloke who picked up Richard James's mp3 player that he left on that plane. Apparently had up to five years of work on it. As is, it was probably overwritten with Dido b-sides by some clueless air-monkey.

[JesusAndYourBush]

I'm surprised no one's mentioned the master tapes that Hendrix left in that taxi cab...

If they actually exist at all, I had heard something about that..

I haven't heard of that.  Maybe you're thinking of the time Jimi took the master reel of one disc of Electric Ladyland to a party and lost it, and they had to record it all again.

[Ramses VIII]

My musical Holy Grail was the original `Meanwhile Gardens` LP by Levitation  with Terry Bickers on vocals-never released or finished and completely unobtainable to my knowledge for 10 years- i recently bought a CDR which seems to be recorded from a promo LP/acetate. And its preety crap.

[Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry]

lookin for suzannas a funny old pig dude. and theme tune from the teachers (la la la la la la la la la teaching, hes the boy in front of the class, teaching!)

[Key]

wouldn't mind if I had been the bloke who picked up Richard James's mp3 player that he left on that plane. Apparently had up to five years of work on it. As is, it was probably overwritten with Dido b-sides by some clueless air-monkey.

Yeah it supposedly had loads of unreleased Squarepusher on it as well, but then again it could all be a pile of bull.

I'd love to hear the aborted studio recordings of Radiohead's True Love Waits that somehow down the line morphed into Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors off Amnesiac.

[Lord Spong]

I have no firm knowledge one way or the other on what Mavers and Power are up to (or not).

John Power was performing a solo set at the Coventry Godiva Festival last Saturday.  I arrived just as he finished, so I don't know if he was doing Las/Cast stuff, or new songs.  I believe he has a solo tour coming up as well.  Whether this means Cast are now defunct I also don't know.

[Frank `The Mountain` Hill]

Lee Mavers is working in a plant shop over the road from a pub slled the `Daniel Defoe` in Stoke Newington High Street.

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

The original song titles from the Impaled Northern Moon Forest demo. This is actually nowhere within 12,000 miles of a Holy Grail of any kind but I'd like to see them found anyway.

[no_offenc]

Lee Mavers lives down the road from a friend of mine, apparently.  And he's a scruff, alledgedly.

By the way, I don't get why all these bands (Space, The La's, Cast etc etc) are so revered.......they're all cak.  Nobody from round here (Liverpool way) that I know likes them.

TJ, do you go to any gigs round here?  Don't say "Oh yeah, I love going to Hey Hey My My at the Zanzibar", cos that's bad.

[Manford Thirty-Sixborough]

Themes For The Well Dressed Man, the original Housemartins demo tape.

[A Passing Turk Slipper]

Lee Mavers lives down the road from a friend of mine, apparently.  And he's a scruff, alledgedly.

What's a scruff? I feel really stupid now.

[no_offenc]

Uh, someone who's generally a bit unkempt and messy.

As in "Clean yourself up a bit then, you bloody scruffy get".

[TJ]

Lee Mavers lives down the road from a friend of mine, apparently.  And he's a scruff, alledgedly.

By the way, I don't get why all these bands (Space, The La's, Cast etc etc) are so revered.......they're all cak.  Nobody from round here (Liverpool way) that I know likes them.

That's true enough. Nobody likes The Coral or Tramp Attack either.

TJ, do you go to any gigs round here?  Don't say "Oh yeah, I love going to Hey Hey My My at the Zanzibar", cos that's bad.

Indeed I do...

[the hum]

Call me a sad old prog head (which I am not with one exception) but I would love to hear proper recordings of what Marillion were doing when they were still Silmarillion and Fish hadn't yet joined...

Now that would be interesting, provided I could tolerate Mick Pointer's abominable drumming.  Marillion are one of those bands who've been very good at coughing up their old rarities and demos.  It was interesting hearing the stuff on the Clutching at Straws remaster, much of which eventually turned up on a different form on Seasons End after Fish left.  It's a bit strange though that nothing has been surfaced from pre-Fish.

[Goldentony]

That's true enough. Nobody likes The Coral or Tramp Attack either.

i dont know, i quite like tramp attack but thats it really

[Lumiere]

Lots of Floyd stuff:

Waters' original demos for The Wall (these are supposedly floating around in bootleg form, but they're the actual full album demos done with Gilmour. Waters did the album demos on his own), along with Waters' original demos for Pros And Cons Of Hitchiking (actually music heavy, apparently).
The basic home demo of DSOTM. Very weird, apparently.
The original ANIMALS demos.

[Gamma Ray]

The Gamma Ray 7"

[Lumiere]

If we're talking about rare official releases, that gamma ray release

and sonic youth - sonic youth.