HW: Welcome to the Future

[Jonathan Jarrett]

	Dear All,
		  a little while ago I picked up a 2CD comp called this, 
because it united a load of Weird Tapes and extra material I'd never 
managed to pick up. I see that the Codex knows of it, but for others 
I'll just say that it has the Watchfield Festival triplet, most of the 
set from _Atomhenge 76_ (lacking only `Uncle Sam's on Mars' and `Time 
for Sale', which is just as well I suppose because otherwise I'd have a 
redundant CD), and on disc 2 the Stonehenge 1977 and Sonic Assassins 
sets. Several of these things I'd never heard before, and so I wondered 
if people could answer what may be some pretty basic questions.

	Firstly, what on earth is `Slap It On The Table'? It's not a 
live track at all, is it? How did it get lumped with the Watchfield 
stuff?

	Secondly, is `Cake Out' genuinely part of the Stonehenge set? It 
doesn't sound like the same mix to me but it's hard to be sure, and of 
course it might not be the same mix and still be from the same original 
tape.

	Thirdly, how on earth did the original, as I assume this is, 
recording of the Sonic Assassins `Angels of Life', codex # 1L, get 
turned into the one we know from infinite comps, codex ' 1aL? The codex 
says the latter is a cut, but it's more than that surely, the guitar and 
keyboard balance is quite different in the `Angels' section, and some of 
the vocals are too; is this is just editing? Wow. And who bothered, and 
why?

	I suppose the answers to these may not be known, but equally 
maybe they are and I just always missed them before because of not 
having heard the right bits... Grateful for any answers, yours,
								Jon


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 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk