An Alternate "I Can't Wait"

[mikebise]

Yes, but the Marilyn Martin vocals make it post-June 1983. I read an interview with Marilyn in the Austin American Statesman in 1985, and she talks about meeting Stevie while on The Wild Heart tour in 1983 while singing for Joe. Stevie liked her vocals so much that she had Marilyn come out and sing backup on a few songs on that tour. I remember at the Texas shows, since Carolyn Brooks lives in Dallas, on a few songs we had four girls singing back up! "Rhiannon" and "Edge Of Seventeen" I definitely remember, and Carolyn also sang on If Anyone Falls" and "Beauty And The Beast".

Stevie and her touring band also recorded "Sorcerer" for Streets Of Fire on that tour, and that's how Marilyn got lead vocals.

Maybe "Jimmy Come On Back" was recorded during that tour as well, like "One More Big Time Rock And Roll Star", which was recorded in July 1983, and Joe and Marilyn are both on that song. Maybe that's why it has that The Wild Heart feel.

Or maybe it was recorded in Dallas in 1984, one of the earlier Rock A Little tracks, and Stevie was still aiming for more of a rock and roll record.

[petep9000]

Originally Posted by mikebise

Maybe "Jimmy Come On Back" was recorded during that tour as well, like "One More Big Time Rock And Roll Star", which was recorded in July 1983, and Joe and Marilyn are both on that song. Maybe that's why it has that The Wild Heart feel.

ha! Now that you say it, I can totally hear Marilyn's vocals on OMBTRARS!

[mikebise]

Yeah, John, especially on the unedited, non-fades-too-early version (not the fades-way-too-early version on Enchanted)! As the long version starts fading, Marilyn really gets going with her crazy wails!!! Going all Southern Blues or Gospel or whatever in her wailing...

Marilyn is also very noticeable on "Some Become Strangers".

[petep9000]

Originally Posted by mikebise

Marilyn is also very noticeable on "Some Become Strangers".

Of course! Especially the "Baby you're!" part, right before Stevie starts her little "you're no stranger, not that I am" vamp..

[SaidSomething]

I had a 12 inch single of this...my aunt sold it at a garage sale this summer...anyway it was different than the others I've seen and heard. Kind of like my 7 Wonders Maximum single. 80s was an awesome time to be a kid in Boston area...Harvard Square. Had these Indy dusty music stores and you'd spend all day sorting and sifting...but always finding weird one of a kinders.

[skuncles]

Originally Posted by SaidSomething

I had a 12 inch single of this...my aunt sold it at a garage sale this summer...anyway it was different than the others I've seen and heard. Kind of like my 7 Wonders Maximum single. 80s was an awesome time to be a kid in Boston area...Harvard Square. Had these Indy dusty music stores and you'd spend all day sorting and sifting...but always finding weird one of a kinders.

The 12" singles of the 80's were all readily available. All you needed was any record store pretty much. I got all of the 12" singles that came out in the States when they were released (the only ones released were "I Can't Wait", "Big Love", "Seven Wonders", "Little Lies" and I believe "Family Man"). Of course in Europe a whole ton more were released.

[skuncles]

Originally Posted by mikebise

Yeah, my first Stevie bootlegs in 1987 were on the vinyl Almanac LP, and the sound was great. Then, in 1988, with Uncirculated Rumours, the sound wildly varied, from terrific ("Rhiannon" piano demo, "The Maker Of Birds") to abysmal ("Julia" like you described it, "Blue Lamp", which sounded like a box fan was running on top of the tape recorder!). Aside from that, everything else I got through 1995 was on cassette and sounded just horrible, for the most part.

With all the Masters and the stuff that Maureen Loftus leaked (initially, she dubbed everything on cassettes!), the sound quality of most of Stevie's unreleased songs is now mostly very, very good to excellent. Some things I wrote off as something I'd never get to enjoy, I now delight in having fairly great copies of ("She Still Loves Him", "What Has Rock And Roll Ever Done For You?").

However, a few songs still haunt me with still fairly poor sound:

"Thousand Days" - The fast outtake from Rock A Little.
"All The King's Horses" - A very different keyboard/drum machine demo with Stevie & The Girls. I like the rock band versions, too, but this one is really cool with different lyrics, but the sound is poor.
"I Call You Missing" - Need I say more?
"Rooms On Fire" - Talked about cassette-dubbed to death! The demo with the very different lyrics sounds like it was recorded under water, and I've never heard an upgrade.
"Wild Heart" & "Nightbird" - The album versions with the full end lyrics, but cassette-dubbed into waaayyyyy sped up and tinny sound.
"Silver Springs" - Piano demo; Any upgrades? The two I have sound like someone is carrying the tape recorder and walking around the room away from and back to Stevie throughout.

I didn't get into the bootlegs until the early 90's ('93 or so) and my first batch were ten 100min cassettes LOADED with stuff. The quality ranged from decent to really bad. When Maureen came along I had no problems paying her outrageous prices for the discs just because the quality was so much better.
The only problem I had with the master reels was when we would get them, there would be SO much stuff on there it was hard to find time to listen to it all. After all these years I know there's a bunch of stuff I have that I've never listened to. I have at least 100 CD's of master reel stuff and I know there's a ton of it that would still be brand new to me. This is why I love these posts that point out hidden gems, I know I have them, just have to pull them up!!!

[mikebise]

That's exactly what happened to me! A year ago, I started editing the Masters, digging out songs from false starts/flubs/mislabelling/etc., and I found about 250 EXTRA versions of songs that I never listened to!

Finding those takes and editing off the barnacles surrounding them has given countless HOURS of Stevie Listening Pleasure! My favourite versions of "The Dealer", "How Still My Love", "Sanctuary", "Starshine Silver" and "Gold and Braid" were all discovered in editing out parts I had ignored before on the Masters, because they were surrounded by studio junk or dead air.