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The Cramps - 1977-1979 - Early Live + Demos (Needledrop Compilation)(Chrispoor)

Track listing:
  1. Hurricane Fighter Plane 4:52
  2. I'm Cramped 2:46
  3. Don't Eat Stuff Off The Sidewalk 2:17
  4. What's Behind The Mask 3:14
  5. Love Me 2:15
  6. Teenage Werewolf 4:11
  7. Sunglasses After Dark 4:37
  8. Tv Set 3:27
  9. Strychnine 2:37
  10. I'm Cramped 3:14
  11. Twist & Shout 2:44
  12. Teenage Werewolf 3:14
  13. Rockin' Bones 2:34
  14. Mad Daddy 3:14
  15. Weekend On Mars 2:29
  16. The Way I Walk 2:30
  17. Everybody's Moving 3:14
  18. Domino 4:05
  19. Rocket In My Pocket 3:11
  20. Human Fly 2:20
  21. Rockin' Bones 3:04
  22. Teenage Werewolf 2:43
  23. Sunglasses After Dark 4:50

Notes

THE CRAMPS - 1977-1979 - Early live + demos [SBD mostly] generally very good quality

The Cramps
Various vinyl bootleg-sourced demos & live bits, as shown below.

Tracks 01 - 02:
Live at Max's, Kansas City
January 1977

Track 03:
Live at CBGB's, New York
10th June 1977

Tracks 04 - 08:
Richard Robinson demos/out-takes
Studio recordings
June 1977

Tracks 09-10:
Alex Chilton demos/out-takes
Memphis studio recordings
October 1977

Tracks 11 - 15:
Chris Spedding demos/out-takes
Recorded at Hot House Studio, New York,
February 1979

Tracks 16 - 23:
Recorded live at the Keystone Club,
Palo Alto, California, USA
(originally broadcast on KFAT FM radio)
February 1979

Bootleg vinyl sources :-
Tracks 01 - 02 are from the bootleg 7" single "Dance Of The Cannibals Of Sex" (FAMOUS LUX - LUX 102).
Tracks 03 - 15 are from the bootleg LP "Tales From The Cramps" (CAVE RECORDS 001).
Tracks 16 - 25 are from the bootleg LP "Same As The Cavemen" (What's The Beef Records – SO WHAT 2).

Tracks 01 - 03 are live audience recordings, and as such of lower quality (but still considerably better than the CBGB's mp3 version that's here:-
http://www.garagepunk.com/2006/10/04/out-of-the-vaults-into-your-ears-15/
which sounds as if the tape it was sourced from has been put through a mangle or something!).
The rest of the tracks were originally taken from the mixing desk/soundboard, and are all of at least very good quality.


Lineage info (for all tracks) :-

Bootleg vinyl -> unknown hi-fi record deck -> Nakamichi 3-head dual capstan cassette deck (record) -> TDK-SA (Type II) cassette tape

Conversion to FLAC :-

Master TDK-SA source tape -> Aiwa AD-F770 Cassette Deck (play) -> SB Extigy soundcard -> CoolEdit Pro 2.1 -> WAV -> TLH -> FLAC 8 & .ffp

Note that no noise reduction or "click and pop" filtering has been used on these captures of tapes of the bootleg vinyl recordings, they have been left exactly as they were recorded originally.


Full tracklisting :-
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1. Hurricane Fighter Plane
2. I'm Cramped
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3. Don't Eat Stuff Off The Sidewalk
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4. What's Behind The Mask
5. Love Me
6. Teenage Werewolf
7. Sunglasses After Dark
8. TV Set
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9. Strychnine
10. I'm Cramped
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11. Twist & Shout
12. Teenage Werewolf
13. Rockin' Bones
14. Mad Daddy
15. Weekend On Mars
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16. The Way I Walk
17. Everybody's Moving
18. Domino
19. Rocket In My Pocket
20. Human Fly
21. Rockin' Bones
22. Teenage Werewolf
23. Sunglasses After Dark

Total length of this compilation = 74 minutes approx.