Ed's Bits

[kirk]

Hi Orgone

Not sure which one you have so difficult to say.
Nazerman released some CDs to the community at large.

I have made some copies of this kind of stuff for various people over last 5 yrs so it might be a copy of one of my complilations (which are entirely separate from Nazermans collection).

If it is acoustic guitar stuff and synth, this was recorded from roughly 1982 to to 1985 by Ed on his 8 track at home. There is quita lot of this stuff in total, enough to fill 5 cds maybe.

The history of how it got released is that both Ed and Joie used to fill up tapes for fans who would send tham blank tapes. This was happening 1986 to 1989. Many of the live shows that people have from this period came from either Nazerman, myself, Andy S and others and were originally given to us by the band, slowly we have swapped it about and shared it out with fellow fans.

There is one source who I am aware of who has gone underground though and he must have a really nice collection. Joie used to fill up a lot of tapes for a guy called Richard (I think) and he would record only the live jams from gigs for him. I once saw a massive pile of them and must admit to really wanting to hear what was on them.

[sparky]

ahhh... that would be the source of the so-called "rick's bedroom tapes" then, eh kirk?

some really good stuff on there, as well as the 30-track ed's bits....

[kirk]

Yes I think it is. I didn't call it that though.

[grerman]

The eds bits tapes sound more "sliding gliding" era, late 80s to me...?

[kirk]

There are quite a few tracks that the band or just Ed and Joie recorded between 1984 and and 1988 that people have. Some of them were just done for the fun of recording and some were tracks that were passed over for release on tape between these dates.
Again these were all recorded at Rushmere. Some ideas were expanded upon to become later re recorded releases. A case in point was The Throbbe which was originally a Nodens Ictus track first jammed out in 1988, and some of you will have a show from Club Dog by Nodens. Have a listen to the first track on it, it is very clearly a much slower version of this track.
Another idea which was constantly re sculpted live was Dissolution which seemed to spring from various jams at gigs, the intro was there but the band would go off on tangents. This became what we hear on Pungent after a sojourn to Wales and imbrocation of special tea.