June 11, 2012 – 7:37 pm

Update: June 25, 2012

A number of Bob Dylan tracks are no longer available for download.

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BigO Website On A Crawl

You all have noticed the site has been very slow about 12 days ago. It’s because our host has withdrawn the extra bandwidth they previously provided at no extra charge. Times are hard for everyone.

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BRIAN ENO AND DAVID BYRNE

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts - Early Mix [no label, 1CD]

Rough mixes? Excellent soundboard.

At the end of May 2012, music collector Hans Devente, aka Madtaper, shared this tape on his blog.

Hans noted:

It is a pre-release version of David Byrne’s first solo album, which was given [to] me by David, when I stayed at his place in Alphabet City, in 1981. I distinctly remember that there were two Ukrainian funeral homes in the street…

Anyway, the final release differed a lot from this tape, because he used quotes from the Quran in this version, which he had to replace later…

I recorded it today to wave, using a ION tape 2 go cassette player, and using Audacity in ripping it to my desktop.

CurtisEFlush got copy of the tracks and shared them on Demonoid.

CurtisEFlush noted: “Hans graciously gave me permission to share my… version with the world… I took his original .WAV and edited it with Audacity, removing a bit of hiss and split the tracks.”

Thanks to Hans Devente and CurtisEFlush for sharing the tracks.

While the songs are more or less there, on a cursory listen, this tape sounds like it was made to get a feel of how the tracks flow and hang together. The songs and sequence in the final release are markedly different and they also packed more punch.

The Ghosts demos/outtakes are here.

These tracks are no longer available for sharing.

Mea Culpa (6.5MB)

Lot/Into the Spirit World (9.1MB)

Regiment (6.3MB)

Iron Bed (2.9MB)

America Is Waiting (5.3MB)

Breathing Once A Minute (6.6MB)

Shaking With My Voice (5.0MB)

Cunning Tendency (4.0MB)

Late But Serious (5.2MB)

In The Castle Of My Skin (3.8MB)

Spirit Of Prey (4.0MB)

Mountain Of Needles (3.8MB)

Click here to order the 2006 reissue of My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (remastered, enhanced).

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