Yeah, the $800,000 Condominiums version of "24 Karat" is the 8:14 version, edited to 7:04. There's a false start and junk at the end. (None of the song is missing in my edit, just wasted space, which is not necessary for an anthology.) The lady who had our Masters baked and transfered always marked if something was from Maureen's stuff, and this Reel isn't labeled as such. I guess, like you said, it was one of those early floaters,( like "Gold And Braid", "Julia", "The Dealer", "Castaway" and "Rhiannon", although we had several Master Reels with those on them as well.) But the sound on this is mind-numbingly fantastic!
One of the Masters we actually did do has "24 Karat", starts with the "Monitor mix"-labeled piano-only demo which is just amazing (6:14). Stevie's voice is very chilling on it!
"The wind hung on! Yeah!" Then several false starts. Then one with many, many Stevie overdubs (6:33) and then another with different overdubs and guitar! (7:41).
"If you choose to remember the Queen of Chance!!! It's just ME!!! And the moon hung on..."
Then 4 versions of "Kind Of Woman", including an unedited full-ending album version, no fade. All amazing! (From March 20, 1981).
Then more Heartbreakers studio work on "Gypsy", all labeled "April 3, 1980". There are 2 very good versions in all that studio stuff, lengths of 5:16 and 5:54.
Mike, the 1997 live version of "Gold Dust Woman" from
The Dance is commercially available on iTunes and Amazon, so I don't wanna break any forum rules and get banned.
