Re-mastered at home from a
good quality cassettes.
WILD WEST
01 Spikey Mexican
02 Dissappear
03 We Can Do (aborted)
04 The One I Know
05 We Can Do
06 Calling The House
07 Locking
08 Chinchilla
09 Newspaper
10 That's Set
11 New Associations
12 Should I Walk
13 Why We Talk
14 Bobbies
15 Fascistic
16 Bagworm Rhumba
PEL MEL
01 Big Foot
02 People Trapped
03 The Dance Is On
04 [unknown]
05 Ipaneema Mon Amour
06 Just A Dream
07 No Word From China
08 [unknown]
09 [unknown]
10 Click Clack
11 [unknown]
12 [unknown]
13 [unknown]
14 Water
15 Blood Will Show
16 Space Between Walls
17 Love and War
18 System and Ultimatum
Recorded very well by Tim V with slightly boomy bass from Rod at the
mixing desk. This gig came from the time when Wild West and Pel Mel seemed
inseperable. Drum duties were taken up by Dave Weston for half of WW's set
with Lindsay on the later songs and, ofcourse, a drum machine on a couple.
He then went back on and performed the whole show with Pel Mel. I think it
was fairly soon after this that he stopped playing with WW completely to
concentrate on a re-jigged, more funkified Pel Mel.
The Wild West tracks with Dave are all pretty good but the rest go from
fairly striking down to almost abominable. However, this recording does
contain yet another song that I'd forgotten about and which isn't on any
other recording - Why We Talk. It's a quite good, half formed piece with
almost jazzy syncopated 'piano' - my what playing 'chops' I had! I'm not
sure why we didn't work on it more as it could have become a terrific song
with the some changes to the chord progression in the chorus.
The Pel Mel tracks are, as usual, played very well and with a lot of
energy. This 2nd phase of their career saw them becoming less interested
in The Cure and so on, relying more on their own writing talents.
Sometimes this works really well but there's a few tracks that have a
sameness about the chords and melodies which detracts from the overall
effect.
