Modern Lovers
Harvard Mixer Spring 1971
lineage: cassette (unknown lineage) > Xitel -> hd -> Nero (tracking) -> flac 8
Much of the material from this show has been used on filler on the various versions
of the Longbranch show from 1982. I've had this tape for many years and have always
hoped to get a more complete version, but although it is not particularly rare nobody
has ever thought to put it up here.
Of the 11 tracks I have only four have not been released, and those are what I am putting up
here. There are longer versions of this, and no doubt there are versions of better quality and
part of my reason for seeding this is to encourage those who have a better source to share it.
1. Walk Up the Street Longbranch
2. She Cracked
3. Astral Plane
4. The Mixer Precise ML Order
5. Old World Longbranch
6. 96 Tears Longbranch
7. Fly Into the Mystery Precise ML Order
8. Modern World Longbranch
9. Someone I Care About
10. Hospital
11. I'm Straight Precise ML Order or Longbranch
I know of one other version which has the following additional tracks.
The Mixer
I'm Straight Precise ML Order or Longbranch
Wake Up Sleepyhead Longbranch
Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste Longbranch
And, there must be more because Roadrunner, which is also on the Longbranch CD, is missing from both
of these tapes.
Now, here's my understanding of how this recording came to be. In early 1971, Jonathan sacked
Rolfe Anderson from the band and asked Ernie Brooks to join, and a week later Jerry Harrison
joined as well. They began gigging and almost immediately acquired a manager, Danny Lipman, who suggested
that they record a demo tape. The band were thinking "more gigs"!! Lipman was thinking record deals.
So, they recruited someone with a tape recorder and recorded several of their own gigs and this surely is one of them.
Ultimately, two songs (one being Hospital) were extracted from these tapes and were used as demo.
Warners still has a copy of the two song demo in their vaults.
As for the date of the show, it is sometimes claimed that it is from March, but that is quite uncertain.
But, it definitely is from the Spring of 1971. John Felice is all over it, and he left the band in the
early summer of 1971 to form the Children's Rock and Roll Band.