Original Version of Gold Dust Woman?

[UndoingTheLaces]

I'm sorry if this has been asked before but in Mick's book he talks about the first version of Gold Dust Woman having been eaten by the tape machine and how they needed to rerecord it. Are there any known boots of the original version?

[Villavic]

I don't have a clear idea of that story. Yes, he said that. He also said the machine was called JAWS for obvious reasons, so they had to record again most of the songs, after loosing almost every session from Sausalito except the drums recordings. And the rerecord was at LA.

But he also said about the several takes of GDW, and finally Stevie got a great performance very late, actually at a cold dawn, he mentions the chill and the mist, or so I recall. Then it seems that was the recording we got at the album. But I remember that was in Sausalito. So that tape wasn't lost??

And.. if everything was lost.. how did they get all those songs for the Rumours special edition they released in 2004? Some songs has different sounds and styles, I don't think they were trying several rhythms again in LA, I guess they already knew by that time what was the final cut so they rerecord just that sound. But we got 2 alternate versions of GDW in CD2. I don't get it..