WORKIN' WHEELS

Sound 10 Packaging 10 Performance 8.5 Video

Label: APCD 103
Source: Air Studios, Montserrat 29th March through 5th May 1989, except for Disc One, Track 3 and Disc Three, Track 10: The Palace of Ben Abbou, Tangier, Morocco 16th and 17th June 1989; mixed at Olympic Sound Studios, London 15th May through 29th June 1989.
Format: 3 Download cdrs
Running time: 43.26/39.42/78.12
Sound / source: Soundboard stereo
Packaging: Double Slimline & Single Slimline Jewel Case.
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Track list

Disc One: 1. Blinded By Love, 2. Terrifying, 3. Continental Drift, 4. Break The Spell, 5. Can't Be Seen, 6. For Your Precious Love, 7. Fancy Man Blues, 8. Slipping Away (Instrumental).

Disc Two: 1. Rock And A Hard Place, 2. Ready Yourself, 3. Sad Sad Sad, 4. Mixed Emotions, 5. Almost Hear You Sigh, 6. Giving It Up, 7. Hearts For Sale, 8. Hold On To Your Hat.

Disc Three: 1. Sad Sad Sad, 2. Mixed Emotions, 3. Terrifying, 4. Hold On To Your Hat, 5. Hearts For Sale, 6. Blinded By Love, 7. Rock And A Hard Place, 8. Can’t Be Seen, 9. Almost Hear You Sigh, 10. Continental Drift, 11. Break The Spell, 12. Slipping Away, 13. Fancy Man Blues, 14. For Your Precious Love, 15. Ready Yourself (Instrumental).

The review

The Steel Wheels sessions are the focus of this work, the first two discs come from Training Wheels (Social Graces 001/002) bootleg which presented early versions, work in progress of the Steel Wheels album, while the third disc is based on For Your Precious Love (DAC-057) bootleg which had rough mixes for the album. DAC 057 was lossless, while most of the other bootlegs of these sessions are lossy; as usual phase & level correction and new equalization has been applied.

Compared with the sleek production of Steel Wheels what surfaced as Training Wheels on the new Social Graces label are outtakes infinitely more interesting than; many of the takes on the earlier tapes had minor variations in the mix, but these date much earlier in the sessions with well-known songs in a much more primitive state of development. The sound quality isn’t as good as on the earlier tape but is still excellent.

Continental Drift is the only track not recorded in Montserrat but actually in Morocco, where the basic rhythm instruments was made lacking lyrics and the Moroccan overdubs.

It is great to have more outtakes from these sessions which present the second set of outtakes from Steel Wheels that have appeared on many labels. Cpt Acid work helps in adjusting the sound output that can now satisfy even the collector hardest to please.