"The Chain" question

[SorcererJP]

Originally Posted by teedeerocks

That's a great demo of The Chain.I never heard it before and never would have expected the demo to sound so drastically different from the recorded version.Now I have a "chain" when I wanna mellow OR rock out!Much thanks!

Cool that you find it. I did put this on You Tube, to remotely play it for a distance friend.

This version is probably polished up a bit, since it's commercially available on the 35 Years of Rumours Box-set which was released 2012.

On topic: The fact that the F-word can be heard at the beginning of The Chain has been discussed ever since 1977 if I'm not mistaken. I believe not all pressings of the album has it.

[FuzzyPlum]

Originally Posted by SorcererJP

Cool that you find it. I did put this on You Tube, to remotely play it for a distance friend.

Cheers for putting this up.

I love both the original Chain and Keep Me There and would have been more than happy with both of them as individual songs (though I suppose they wouldn't have both been able to fit on Rumours). Like everyone I love the final version of The Chain but I do think they used up two really good songs to create a truly great one. It was a brave move to 'throw away' the Keep Me There vocals- I love the bluesy feel it had.