How much unreleased Who studio stuff is still left?

[Chris M]

Anyone know with any degree of certainty what other songs were recorded for Quad and By Numbers that haven't seen the light of day? I was wondering what material might end up on a Quad and By Numbers Deluxe Editions.

Is there anything of note that hasn't been released from the Olympic and Stargroves Who's Next sessions? I keep thinking that I read somewhere they took a stab at Mary? Maybe not..

Where is Sodding About from? Is it from the A Quick One sessions?

Chris

[czeskleba]

I was wondering what material might end up on a Quad and By Numbers Deluxe Editions.

In an interview in ICE at the time of the Quadrophenia remix, Astley mentioned 3 outtakes: We Close Tonight, Bank Holiday, and Wizardry. Four Faces from the soundtrack album also dates from the Quadrophenia sessions, but was finished in 1979 I believe. So that would be an appropriate bonus track. For By Numbers, there's the band version of Blue Red and Grey, and rumors of a Who version of Keep Me Turning and a Daltrey vocal version of However Much I Booze.

I keep thinking that I read somewhere they took a stab at Mary?

The booklet for the Who's Next reissue says they recorded Mary but the tape was lost.

Where is Sodding About from? Is it from the A Quick One sessions?

Recorded in 1967 for an unreleased album of instrumentals. From http://www.thewho.net/linernotes/WhoSellOut.htm:
John Entwistle: "A long time ago we had plans to do an instrumental release and on that was 'Instrumental - No Title' and then there was 'Hall Of The Mountain King.' We recorded it and it sounded great out in the studio floor but once we got back inside it didn't sound so hot. There were a lot of mistakes in it so we scrapped the idea."
"Instrumental - No Title," ... "was set to be released on the 1998 Odds and Sods reissue under the title "Sodding About" but was dropped at the last minute. It has appeared on bootlegs under the titles "Signal 30" and "Who The F**k."

Some of this info came from memory, the rest from this website:
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Cl ... tracks.htm

[CitizenDan]

Every time there's a new reissue, I'm surprised by what they've got left in the can, and how well it's been kept from bootleggers. From the sounds of the Tommy Deluxe bonus disc, there's hours and hours of leftovers from those sessions.

Count me in as one who can't wait for a proper release of "Signal 30."

[Xenu]

White Fang the hoarder. YAY!

[lukpac]

Every time there's a new reissue, I'm surprised by what they've got left in the can, and how well it's been kept from bootleggers.

I guess I'm not terribly surprised. It seems fairly rare that bootleggers have access to actual session tapes or copies thereof (ie, all the Beatles' Abbey Road stuff). More often that not it's stuff like acetates, early mixdown masters that were later scrapped, etc.

From the sounds of the Tommy Deluxe bonus disc, there's hours and hours of leftovers from those sessions.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are alternate takes from nearly all of the albums.