>I bought this recently and it wasn't. It was what I think is called
>early years. Is this CogSinister botch? There's something kicking at the
>back of the brain that tells me that live 77, like Room 3350, does not
>exist.

It exists and is as rough a recording as you'd expect, like listening to
Totale's from two doors down. The Initial shipment were all misprinted
as that and Early Years were doner at the same time. stve

>To: fall@...
>Subject: <fallnet> Live 77 & Early Fall
>From: alan hamilton <acjh58@...>
>Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:44:41 -0800 (PST)

>I assumed NZ was the usual several weeks behind UK
>purchasers, but not this time!

>Live 77 is the following:

>Psycho Mafia
>Last Orders
>Repetition
>Dresden Dolls
>Hey Fascist
>Frightened
>Industrial Estate
>Stepping Out
>Bingo Master's Breakout
>Oh Brother
>Cop It
>Futures & Pasts (encore)
>Louie Louie (also encore - goes on forever!)

>This disc has a LOT OF DISTORTION which some FFs may
>not appreciate, although it's music to my trained ear.
> The liner notes say:
>
>"Hidden in the back of MES's bedroom cupboard for the
>past twenty odd years, this was never a high fidelity
>recording. Be warned thet even after we've done
>everything possible to clean up the tape, it still
>sounds like a bootleg made on a first generation
>cassette recorder"
>
>From this we can conclude:
>
>1. Quality is worse than LATWT CD
>2. MES has not moved house for 20 odd years.
>
>
>77-79 Early Fall is:
>
>Repetition
>Bingo Masters
>Psycho Mafia
>Various Times
>I'ts the New Thing
>Rowche Rumble
>In my Area
>Dice Man
>Psykikck Dancehall
>Second Dark Age
>Fiery Jack
>Stepping Out
>Last Orders
>
>Quality is probably vinyl master (hard to tell through
>PC sound card) but good so far - listening for the
>first time, up to New Thing. Will report on whole
>thing later. A quick sample of the last 2 tracks
>confirms that they are Electric Circus.