When I played our 1988 demo to my Dad (who's a guitar player), he thought it sounded good except he thought we should put a guitar solo or something in the middle jam of "Return Britain", something I'm sure every listener thought as they listened to the demo! Flash forward two years to the month, and here we are recording a new demo of "Return Britain" with Frank laying down a solo for the ages. We also cut an out-of-tune version of "We Both Wobble" that we never used, and we totally abandoned a version of "I Know Your Name" that got as far as a scratch vocal. There's some tape squiggles on "I Know Your Name" that I forgot to edit out, but it's just as well because it's definitely an "outtake"! The only "keeper" from this session was "Return Britain".
I was amazed at the amount of tape dropout occurring on this cassette, one which has probably been played only a handful of times, has been kept pristine in its case for all these years and in cool, dry conditions to boot! The demo itself was recorded by Kenny Dugan in a mobile truck he had parked outside our (second) amazing rehearsal space, the Rocky Point house. I did (quick) new mixes of these tunes since I only had the original one of "Return Britain" (and that was very hissy).
Life Out Of Balance demo, 1990
Return Britain
We Both Wobble
I Know Your Name (unfinished version, scratch vocal, no backing vocals)
Hubie Poole - guitar, vocal
Frank Russell - guitar
Ted Schreiber - bass, vocal
Michael Goodman - drums, vocal
Recorded by Kenny Dugan at the Rocky Point Studio. Basic tracks were recorded on June 27, 1990. We then mixed the band down to two tracks, and overdubbed vocal tracks on July 1.
mp3s and flac files in same link (if you have no use for the flac files, delete them as they are very big!)
https://www.mediafire.com/?zzqzw681blob831
