Description
John Lennon – Primal Scream
Tracklist
1 Mother 3:38
2 Mother 5:03
3 Hold On John 1:07
4 Hold On John 2:19
5 Hold On John 1:53
6 I Found Out 3:57
7 Working Class Hero 4:21
8 Isolation 2:56
9 Remember 8:30
10 Remember 8:50
11 Love 2:26
12 Love 2:39
13 Love 3:12
14 Love 3:05
15 Love 1:10
16 Well, Well, Well 5:55
17 Look At Me 2:52
18 God 3:29
19 My Mummy’s Dead 1:17
20 Rock ‘n’ Roll Jam – Excerpts: That’s Alright Mama / Glad All Over / Honey Don’t / Don’t Be Cruel / Hound Dog / ? / Matchbox 10:54
21 You’re So Square 0:26
Notes
Total Time 79:45
“From the Abbey Road studio archives!
Excellent stereo studio outtakes from the studio sessions to John Lennon‘s first proper solo album “John Lennon / Plasic Ono Band”. 26 September- 9 October 1970.”
Track 1 – early take – guitar based arrangement
Track 2 – alternate mix of the released version – with additionel rythm guitar and different “primal screams” at the end
Track 3 – early run-through
Track 4 – early take
Track 5 – instrumental take
Track 6 – alternate mix with additional bongo player
Track 7 – here John plays the song in a folky guitar picking style
Track 8 – early take
Track 9 – a hard driving John leads his fellow musicians, Klaus V. & Ringo, through a lengthy rehearsal – the actually plays the song twice in a row – at a faster pace. Incoporates unused song-elements
Track 10 – this take already sounds more like the “finished article”. By this time, John still had no idea how to end this song. He later solved the problem by adding a line about Guy Fawkes day and an added “explosion”. The funny noice that can be heard throughout this take is someone -Yoko?- playing a mouth organ in order to “enhance” the rythm track. This idea was thanfully abandoned
Track 11 – just John singing and stumming his guitar
Track 12 – this time John uses a folky picking guitar style to accompany himself
Track 13 – the final arrangement now slowly comes into place with added piano playing by Phil Spector
Track 14 – now, like on the record, the song intro is solely played piano
Track 15 – loose rehearsal with the whole band
Track 16 – rough mix
Track 17 – early take
Track 18 – early take with John playing guitar, accompanied by bass and drums
Track 19 – complete version
Track 20 – during the recording session, John, Klaus V. & Ringo relax by playing some old Rock ‘n‘ Roll numbers that they all know and love
Track 21 – added track from Rock ‘n‘ Roll Jam
Digipak-Edition
