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« on: March 24, 2010, 11:19:37 PM »
Before Carnival of Sound finally officially came out we had the bootlegs. I just assumed the 'fat' sounding tracks like Fan Tan, Hawaii, Girl You're Blowing My Mind and Dean's Louisiana Man were cut before the accident and the 'thinner' sounding cuts like Stay, Mullholland, the latter Louisiana Man and In The Still of the Night were done post accident after Jan's abilities had diminished. Ah, but thanks to Mark's notes, we know what happens when you assume! I was stunned to find that Fan Tan and Hawaii in partiuclar were all done post accident. My first thoughts were 'Why didn't the whole album sound that good?' I suppose that the vocals had something to do with it as on the thinner sounding cuts the singers aren't even making an effort to sound like Jan as they seem to be doing on the other songs like Fan Tan. Knowing Jan could still produce songs like Fan Tan and Hawaii post accident makes me appreciate his talent all the more. I understand there's a bootleg that contains nothing but about 20 versions of Girl You're Blowing My Mind! The boot I have has four versions, including what it says is the 45 version (WB 7240). According to the notes it says there are only two known promo copies in existence. However, what they claim is the WB 7240 version isn't on the Rhino CD. Anyone (Mark) know which is the correct 45 version? Bottom line it is great to hear this stuff off the master tapes. I agree it would be great if Rhino sells a ton of copies so someone will do some more digging into the J & D vaults.
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