Is this eBay auction legit? Stevie Nicks - Rock a Little work-tapes

[mikebise]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

I could swear I have a master-quality version of SDMHA with a totally different vocal. Remember, back in those days, they would lift a line or two from one take or another take, here and there, and "mash" them together into the final product. So there are likely to be scads of vocal takes of this. I will post this alternate vocal if I can find it when I get home...

I just googled, and Don Smith worked on much, if not all of RAL, so there could be some familiar mixes on these cassettes. But the 8:50 mix is intriguing since the longest remix on the official 12" single is 6:20. And I like that one of the cassettes is labeled with the word "vamp." And we all know how Mama liked to vamp in the halcyon days of RAL. I could just imagine 5 minutes of "Oooooh, we'ell... no, no, no, no, baby, I can't wait, alright! Yeah!"

Aw yeah!!! All of your posts lately are just so totally fab! Such fun to look forward to reading!

I have one alternate vocal of "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around", but a very muddled sound, and it is from one of the Master Reels that sounded terrible. Stevie sounds cool, but the sound is awful. But there are, like, twenty "takes" on the Masters that are exactly the same, only differences in mixing and sometimes with or without backing vocals. Believe me, I spent a whole Saturday night with a notebook and a 12~pack of beer, writing down the non~differences in each "take" of these 20 "SDMHA"s. It was sorta fun.

But, yeah, there is that different one... Post yours when you find it~!!!

I'm SO excited for In Your Dreams, but the lost Rock A Little songs are haunting me...

[mikebise]

So, is one of us bidding on these things??? I don't want to up the bidding and start my own bidding, but no one's contacted me to tell me that they are, so I'm tempted to throw my money in for these things, so they don't get away again!

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by mikebise

Aw yeah!!! All of your posts lately are just so totally fab! Such fun to look forward to reading!

I have one alternate vocal of "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around", but a very muddled sound, and it is from one of the Master Reels that sounded terrible. Stevie sounds cool, but the sound is awful. But there are, like, twenty "takes" on the Masters that are exactly the same, only differences in mixing and sometimes with or without backing vocals. Believe me, I spent a whole Saturday night with a notebook and a 12~pack of beer, writing down the non~differences in each "take" of these 20 "SDMHA"s. It was sorta fun.

But, yeah, there is that different one... Post yours when you find it~!!!

I'm SO excited for In Your Dreams, but the lost Rock A Little songs are haunting me...

Aw, thanks. And I know I'm going to learn a new tidbit every time you post. Your encyclopedic knowledge of the world of Stevie demos is uncanny.

I was thinking that it would be fun for each of us (on the Ledge, that is) to buy one of these auctions and then (assuming we can resist the urge to listen) we can agree to meet somewhere in the country and have a world premiere listening party of all of these unearthed treasures altogether. It really is like an archaeologist who discovers a new secret chamber in the buried city. We can have it catered and everything. Make it a red carpet event! But I must admit that the loss of the auction yesterday is a MAJOR bummer... now THAT would have been cause for celebration.

[UndoingTheLaces]

I used to be a Rocky Horror fanatic. And I'm not so much a collector of things as I am of music. So I never had to have the actual vinyl or a limited edition CD, I was happy to have a cassette (and now mp3) of whatever the track was. And I was always amazed when someone would play some super rare out of print recording of something but then refuse to make a copy. I mean, I could see if you were the artist and didn't want it circulated. But for a collector to get something and keep it to themselves just so they can feel superior over all the other collectors is really sad. How can it possibly make you happy to know you are making other people sad by withholding something from them?