Television - 1974-1975 - Demos (STU/FLAC)

(Studio FLAC)

December 1974 Fairland Studios, Hollywood CA
or Good Vibrations Studio, NYC
August 1975 Unknown studio, NYC

Label:
Fairland: Microphone Records (Italy) No. MPH CD 017 released 1994
Double Exposure: no label (Italy) No. DE-92-SC released 1992

Audio Source: tape demos

Lineage:
Silver CD > WAV > Flac>WAv >flac level 8>

Number of Discs: 2

Artwork: included, all in bad quality.
Also are the ones for the vynil boot of Double Exposure and for another called Televison with Bryan Eno (yes, Bryan !!!), that is the predecesoor to Fairland.

Line up for 1974 demos:
Tom Verlaine Guitar/Vocals
Billy Ficca Drums
Richard Lloyd Guitar/Vocals
Richard Hell Bass/Vocals

Line up for 1975 demos:
Tom Verlaine Guitar/Vocals
Billy Ficca Drums
Richard Lloyd Guitar/Vocals
Fred Smith Bass

Disc 1
Fairland version
01. Prove It
02. Friction
03. Venus
04. Double Exposure
05. Marquee Moon

Total running time:
Disc 1 24m 47s

Disc 2
Double Exposure version
01. Prove It
02. Friction
03. Venus
04. Double Exposure
05. Marquee Moon
06. Hard On Love
07. Friction
08. Careful
09. Prove It
10. Fire Engine
11. Little Johnny Jewel

Total running time:
Disc 2 50m 10s

Notes:
Sound quality is quite good, clear and sharp, on the Double Exposure tracks. The quality on the Fairland tracks is definitely bad. The reasons for incluiding both are detailed on the next lines, as well the reason why the live tracks were excluded.