Monday, July 12, 2010

John Sloman and (Gary Moore?) - The Demos



This collection of demos was originally titled Gary Moore the John Sloman demos and came with a cover featuring Gary Moore on the front so I thought I would rectify that as all these songs are written by John with the vast majority finding there way on to his first solo effort "Disappearances Can Be Deceptive..." There is also a version of "Inside Out" which had already surfaced as Uriah Heep's "My Joanna Needs Tuning (inside Out)" the B Side to the single version of "Think it Over" featuring Sloman on vocals, a song that has been quoted as the "worst song ever written by the band" Which is a shame really, as I quite like it and in my opinion the band have released worse (Love Stealer springs to mind). The band apparently have said that as no-one ever listens to the B side of singles it didn't really matter if it was a good or a bad title (perhaps I was the exception as I always gave the B-side a listen, and in a lot of cases the 'flip' side' would be better, I can think of two Heep examples, 'Been Hurt' the flip side to 'Carry On'  and 'Why' the Flip side to 'Easy Livin''. Both of which are far superior to the A-side) 

Not being a particularly big Gary Moore fan i couldn't tell you if he is on these Demos or not.
Perhaps someone out there can confirm it

 The Tracks

1 - Hooked on a Dream
2 - Jealous Eyes
3 - Guilty #2
4 - She Talks About You
5 - In Too Deep
6 - You Took the Love
7 - Inside Out
8 - Perfect Strangers (Perfect Mix) 




13 comments:

  1. Thank you very much for those demos, Colin, i've been looking for them by a long time and now finally i can listen to it.
    I'm glad to see one post by you in the blog again, after a long absence, i hope that for you and your family now all is right.
    One other think: can you suggest to me one good and free mp3 encoder, because i have a bootleg on audio cd (of a little italian label) of Tempest live in london (year 1974) that, in my opinion, is very nice for a post on the blog. I don't found it in blogs or with peer to peer, so i think that it can be one exclusive for Abominogjnr blog.
    Probably you have it, so my question is for nothing but if not...

    Cheers and thank you in advance

    Roby

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  2. HEY FRIENDS, PLEASE IF POSSIBLE, POST-BADLANDS WITH SYKES,MURRAY AND SLOMAN-DEMOS, MAYBE 101 GUITARS BLOG.THANKS.!!!!!!!!

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  3. Hi Eduardo

    The badlands demo has already been posted it was Roby's first post on the blog and is part of a compilation he put together Heres the link

    http://abominogjnr.blogspot.com/2010/03/john-sloman-1988-2007-badlands.html

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  4. ERROR-CORREC : LINE UP-BADLANDS DEMOS-
    NEIL MURRAY/GARY MOORE AND JOHN SLOMAN AND OTHERS.
    THANKS.

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  5. IS THE SAME????????IF OK...MY THANKS FOR CONSIDERATION.
    SALUTE YOU!!!!!!!!!!

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  6. Hi Eduardo

    yes Those Are the only Demos by Badlands that I am aware off

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  7. HEY FRIENDS, I KNOW-IS DIFFERENT THIS URIAH HEEP, BUT...I NEED JOHN WEST - PERMANENT MARK AND GRAHAN BONNET-SAME-1977, PLEASE IF POSSIBLE SAVE-ME, HERE IN BRAZIL , NO PRESENT IN BLOGS, THANKS, SEE YOU LATE.

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  8. ler todo o blog, muito bom

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  9. What is the year of this demo ? and it would be interesting to konw witch musicians played on it.

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  10. thank you for this upload!!!!
    btw I love THINK IT OVER, one of my UH favs!!!!

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