SUPERTRAMP AUDIO rare recordings

OFFICIAL Recordings

You started laughing
Despite you can listen a live version of this song in the «Paris» album (1980) this song was released as a single in 1975, just the B-side of the song «Lady» (Crisis ? What crisis? album ), but not included in the album due to no room enough in the vinyl. (in order to do not decrease the sound quality of the album, just a technical problem).
This studio version is a very interesting listening.

Land Ho
Despite you can listen a new version in the «Hai Hai» album (1987) of Roger Hodgson, this song was released as a single together with the song «Summer Romance», in 1974, when Roger was in Supertramp.
Both original songs were included for the first time in CD in the «Retrospectacle» album year 2005 (Supertramp compilation)
The versions of «Land Ho» and «Summer Romance» on Retrospectacle are the 1975 re-mixes which the band intended to use on Crisis? What Crisis? but left off at the last minute.

Summer Romance
Released as a single by Supertramp in February 1974 together with «Land Ho» and included in the «Retrospectacle» album for the first time in CD in year 2005.

Gold Rush
This song was the «opening song» in the Supertramp shows during the early years.
Lyrics by R. Palmer and music by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, was included finally in the «Slow Motion» album year 2002.

Fegefeuer/Purgatory
This is a soundtrack Supertramp recorded in Germany in 1970 for a 20 minutes film. Just 8 tracks, instrumental. (no vocals)
The dramatic start is very very similar to «School» song (harmonica), but also a percussion slow rythm like Pink Floyd style imitating the sound of the heart.
Recently was released as a Limited edition in DVD (Supertramp do not appears in the movie) You can order it artundsale@gmx.de


BOOTLEGS. UNOFFICIAL recordings

During the 70’s and 80’s it was easy to find some unofficial recordings in the music shops (first in vinyl and later in CD) from the 1975-1976 tours.
The name of the albums: Dreamer, Dreamers, Lady tour, Easy guitar, etc, …
It’s not too clear the exact source of these recordings, there are songs from different shows, and even some songs are from the «Paris» album (believe it……)
But one thing is sure: Dreamers album was recorded in Hammersmith (London) in 1975, due to some «clues» you can find just listening the John’s speeches.

In 2001 other unofficial CD was released called «Is everybody listening», but this recording is nothing but the old «Dreamers» album.
You can read «Recorded live in Cleveland, Ohio, 1976», but that’s not true, as I explained before.

In December 2014, this concert is included in the «Crime of the Century DELUXE EDITION«.

Unfortunatelly there are not too good unoffical recordings from the next tours, cause most are audience recordings.
But the recordings of Munich, Milwaukee and Dallas are pretty good.
Below, the summarize of the best.


Concerts:

Supertramp live 1977 Seattle
Supertramp live 1979 (double) Milwaukee
Supertramp live 1983 (double) Munich
Supertramp live 1985 Dallas
Supertramp live 2002 several audience recordings


BBC sessions

Around 1972 – 1974 Supertramp performed some numbers live for the BBC. This versions are a bit different from the final ones (studio version), mainly the song Dreamer, but the copies I’ve found are in not good quality sound:

– Dreamer
– Rudy
– Summer romance
– Ponny express
– School
– And other songs.

See the full info about these sessions: BBC Peel Sessions

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