Cheers Rob. I can rest a bit easeir tonight.
> Not sure why you got such a dismissive reply there wolf,
> so I'll at least try to answer your questions as best I
> can.
>
> I think the reason Rory sang 'Surf's Up' and 'R&R Dreams'
> is that they were both out of Jim's range. No way Jim
> could have hit the high notes consistently in the chorus
> of 'Surf..' and then in 'R&R Dreams' you have that
> horrendously difficult part '...when you're alone and
> afraid and you're completely amazed...' which is just an
> absolute bugger to try to sing. Even Meat struggled with
> it on Bat 2 because you need a very large vocal range to
> do it without 'mangling' the words a bit. Try it for
> yourself ;-)
>
> Not sure what you're referring to with the LA Radio
> project, but I'm guessing it's the album that was referred
> to briefly in 'Phenomenology...'. Without digging out my
> copy of the book (so going completely on my rather poor
> memory) there was a project which I think had something to
> do with Phil Spector and Jim contributed just one
> monologue - 'Shadows on the Freeway'. The album was never
> released, possibly never even finished, but 'Shadows...'
> was basically 'Nocturnal Pleasures' if I recall
> correctly.
>
> Maybe someone with a better memory or a tighter grip of
> the facts will confirm or correct me on that!
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