Re: (TV) No Deposit, No Return?

["Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

I'll second that. The six tracks from the so-called "original" version of FLASH
LIGHT sound identical to the versions on the final album. The CD is filled out
with b-sides from both the 1986 Bascombe sessions and some from COVER. Most
sound like nth generation cassette copies. Even these aren't complete; you
still need to pick-up THE MILLER'S TALE to get the rest of the b-sides.

As I've said before on this list, I don't even think there was an "original"
version of FLASH LIGHT as it was released in 1987. I think confusion over the
"original sessions" for the album that became FLASH LIGHT - the sessions that
Dave Bascombe produced, in London, which later showed up as b-sides - led to
the mistaken belief that FLASH LIGHT had been released in an alternate mix
prior to the final Fontana version we all know and love. As far as I can tell,
this simply isn't true, and the six tracks that appear at the beginning of NO
DEPOSIT, NO RETURN seem to be further proof of this.

--Philip

--- Cameron Pulley <cameronpulley@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me about the Tom Verlaine - "No Deposit, No Return"
> > bootleg? I saw it in a store the other day. The sticker claimed that it
> > was an alternate version of the "Flash Light" album. Is this true?
> >
> > -karl.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> It's terrible!  Don't waste your money.  The so-called "alternate version"
> of Flash Light sounds awful, and not that different from the original.  The
> only claim this CD has going for it, is the Bascombe sessions are
> included.  Even there, though, the sound quality is just dreadful.  Buyer
> beware!!!


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