abm4@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Andrew B Marvick) (04/23/91)
IED doesn't know the actual value of your "Japanese 45", Gooch, but be advised that your yellow-vinyl edition is not the original version of that disk. The _actual_ record, as put out by the Japanese fan-club (now apparently defunct and succeeded by a different group in Japan), was a simpler affair: a red flex-disk with a white sleeve. On the disk where a label ordinarily would go was a KT symbol in silver. The disk had John's spoken message first, followed by Kate's brief message, followed finally by the excerpt from the live performance of "Let It Be" from a fan's in-audience (i.e., pirated) Walkman recording of the benefit concert for Bill Duffield. (The other singers on that track are Steve Harley and Peter Gabriel.) A longer version of that same recording appeared on the old two-record LP set called "Passing Through Air" (not to be confused with the current CD with the same title), and also on the hard-to-find bootleg LP "If You Could See Me Fly" (not to be confused with the current CD with _that_ title!), which included several other songs from that benefit concert, as well. -- Andrew Marvick P.S.: Hi, MarK! Hi, Larry! Good to see you both in the group. P.P.S.: It's a little premature for IED to make a firm commitment, unfortunately, but odds are in favor of IED being able (as well as willing, which latter goes without sayin) to host a Katemas party at his home in West Los Angeles on or around July 30, 1991. IED will consult with all concerned persons as soon as possible, to see if this is an acceptable loKation... P.P.P.S.: She may very well be...