Cavalier (Lost Version)
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Posted: Sep. 09 2011, 06:55 |
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Thank you, gents - it might have behove me to re-read the Incantations reissue booklet as well! That's a different quote to the one in Changeling - it's described as a visit, but I'd assume that music of some mysterious nature was played. Perhaps Paul Lindsay or someone else from Rockfield recognised a tune or actual tape when listening to a completed work later on, but perhaps they just assumed that it had been used somewhere. If Mike was tinkering around with something like the Piano Improvisation, for example, that might have stuck in someones's memory.
The booklet certainly implies that recording on Incantations didn't start until the Thougham studio was set up in '77, but themes therein or bits of singles may have been tried. I think we've reached a point where we can safely say that I will never be bound by a recording contract, but I would venture that Mike would have needed to let Virgin know roughly what he was up to. The snippets of interview in Record Collector about the fate of the master tapes led me to think that Mike is talking about the paper trail to where the recordings should, theoretically, have been stored. Accordingly, I reckon that at one point Virgin would have had a record of what dates Mike was at Monmouth, and the working titles of anything commited to tape.
Certainly, I'm presuming that when it came to the distasteful subject of money, Mike would be accustomed to saying, "Charge it to Virgin, my good man!" At least until the point at which Virgin said to him: "Great tour, Mike! That'll be half a million quid, please... Mike? I thought you only had to do the primal scream once?"
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