“Angel” demo CD + “What” song?

The Avocado Album
The Avocado Album Posts: 38
in The Porch

A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a mysterious CD in my local record shop’s Pearl Jam selection. I had never seen it before, so of course my curiosity got the better of me and I bought it. At first I thought that it might’ve been somebody’s personal playlist, but this website has it listed as its own page, so it was probably distributed by a bootleg label:

https://www.discogs.com/Pearl-Jam-Angel-Demos-Remixes/release/4826404

That was the only site I could find that had  information about it.

Among the track list are some songs we already know, E Ballad = Black, Richard’s E = Alone, Weird A = Animal, etc. Also had some with finalized names like Crazy Mary, Angel, Betterman, and Even Flow.

The third track really interested me, tho. It’s just called “What” and it ABSOLUTELY slaps. I’ve been listening to it constantly ever since I got the CD. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find any videos of it online. Does anyone know if there are any recordings of it buried deep in the bowels of YouTube or something? The chorus chant is “what do you want from me,” but the only results I could get for that is for the Floyd song, and it’s definitely not a cover of that. If this is something completely new then I guess I could scan the CD to youtube for y’all to see it, but I’d like to check if somebody’s beaten me to it.

I also tried looking around the names “Parrot Records” and “Red Robin Records” which are listed on the CD, and it turns out that the former is indeed and Australian bootleg label (makes sense in this case), however it doesn’t seem to have any connection to Red Robin, the attributed parent group.

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  • NewJPage
    NewJPage Posts: 3,324
    I think what is a bad radio song
    6/26/98, 8/17/00, 10/8/00, 12/8/02, 12/9/02, 4/25/03, 5/28/03, 6/1/03, 6/3/03, 6/5/03, 6/6/03, 6/12/03, 6/13/03, 6/15/03, 6/18/03, 6/21/03, 6/22/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03, 10/3/04, 10/5/04, 9/9/05, 9/11/05, 9/16/05, 5/16/06, 5/17/06, 5/19/06, 6/30/06, 7/23/06, 8/5/07, 6/30/08, 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 5/4/10, 5/7/10, 9/3/11, 9/4/11, 10/11/13, 10/17/14, 8/20/16
  • toolie
    toolie Posts: 397
    Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald? Does Eddie sing on that one?
    Asking for a Canadian 😃

  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    Gordon Lightfoot is the man
  • Shakescky
    Shakescky Posts: 343
    edited October 2019
    I believe Parrot was a sublabel of Red Robin. The first four songs are from one of Eddie Vedder's previous bands called Bad Radio. The tracks are most likely sourced from an unknown generation cassette of this Bad Radio release. http://www.pjcollectors.com/detail_related.asp?id=1277 . Stone Gossard's summer 1990 demos featuring Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, Matt Cameron and Rick Friel working on musical foundations that you would hear later reworked are included on tracks four through nine, plus eleven and thirteen. More information about the demos can be read here. http://www.twofeetthick.com/2010/10/13/stone-gossard-summer-1990-demos/.

    I haven't listened to this bootleg in a long time, but if this old list is correct - http://web.archive.org/web/20090413160139/http://members.core.com/10/C7/ryan/pj/cda-l.html - then "Release" and "Just a Girl" are from the October 1990 Mookie Blaylock sessions. "Crazy Mary" is taken from the Sweet Relief: A Benefit for Victoria Williams compilation album, and the remaining two songs ("Angel", "Ramblings") are sourced from the 1993 Christmas Single.

    More information about the creation of Pearl Jam can be found painstakingly researched and documented by Jessica Letkemann - http://www.twofeetthick.com/2010/10/1990-the-making-of-pearl-jam-a-tft-mini-book/



    Post edited by Shakescky on
    i have witnessed some performances. i have soaked up a lot of memories.
  • raindog80
    raindog80 Reggio Emilia, Italy Posts: 1,196
    edited October 2019
    The Avocado Album said:

    The third track really interested me, tho. It’s just called “What” and it ABSOLUTELY slaps. I’ve been listening to it constantly ever since I got the CD. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find any videos of it online. 

    Hi. What is a Bad Radio song, written by Dave George (Bad Radio guitarist) with Eddie Vedder lyrics.
    It was included in a promo cassette called Tower Records Demo, self released in 1989. 
    Post edited by raindog80 on
    "I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things" - Tom Waits
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  • WindowPaine
    WindowPaine Chicopee, MA Posts: 543
    the first 4 tracks on that are bad radio songs. 
    First Show: Springfield, MA 4/6/94
  • RS65573
    RS65573 Posts: 2,506
    Believe You Me is friggin phenomenal if you ask me. Would be a huge PJ hit like Betterman.
  • Vedd Hedd
    Vedd Hedd Posts: 4,632
    I miss going into local CD stores and finding stuff like this. I have a bunch just like them. 
    Turn this anger into
    Nuclear fission
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 42,158
    Vedd Hedd said:
    I miss going into local CD stores and finding stuff like this. I have a bunch just like them. 
    I don't miss the prices that were attached to them though, lol!
  • RS65573
    RS65573 Posts: 2,506
    Our local bootleg shop Sound Exchange in NJ was $35 for a single CD $60 for a double. There was nothing like getting into the car and putting on a show or song you've never heard from your favorite band. 

    I used to go on vacation in Wildwood NJ with my family and walk up and down that boardwalk to every single bootleg shop looking for any shows I didnt have. 94-98ish. 

    Still have probably 100 of them. All those crazy Italian imports.
  • NM70698
    NM70698 Posts: 78
    Hats off to the historians in this thread. 
  • elwayvedder
    elwayvedder South Jersey Posts: 9,192
    great memories rising here...loved combing through cd cases where your heart would stop seeing a new boot that you didn't recognize and you paid $25+ for it just because it had one song on it you didn't recognize.  you get home and learn those crazy italian bootleggers got the song title wrong and you had it already. drop the leaves!!
    www.operationyellowribbon.org
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Posts: 40,247
    ok, the important question in this thread has yet to be answered: what is this version of Edmund Fitzgerald???
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • NM70698
    NM70698 Posts: 78
    Its an instrumental, but I believe the "title" was simply a mislabeling by bootleggers.  To my ears, the demo and the Gordon Lightfoot song do not sound similar.  
  • Shakescky
    Shakescky Posts: 343
    edited October 2019
    WindowPaine said:
    the first 4 tracks on that are bad radio songs. 
    You are correct. I made an error in my post that I will fix.

    NM70698 said:
    Its an instrumental, but I believe the "title" was simply a mislabeling by bootleggers.  To my ears, the demo and the Gordon Lightfoot song do not sound similar.  
    Here is a photo of the reels. https://ibb.co/z7CK6Ln

    Post edited by Shakescky on
    i have witnessed some performances. i have soaked up a lot of memories.
  • Jammalambo
    Jammalambo Posts: 1,321
    Shakescky said:
    NM70698 said:
    Its an instrumental, but I believe the "title" was simply a mislabeling by bootleggers.  To my ears, the demo and the Gordon Lightfoot song do not sound similar.  
    Here is a photo of the reels. https://ibb.co/z7CK6Ln

    Yeah, the instrumentals widely known as the Gossman Project, great stuff. Folk D is amazing. I wonder if Stone still has that rock flame in him...
  • NM70698
    NM70698 Posts: 78
    That photo is awesome.  Never saw that before.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Posts: 40,247
    Shakescky said:
    WindowPaine said:
    the first 4 tracks on that are bad radio songs. 
    You are correct. I made an error in my post that I will fix.

    NM70698 said:
    Its an instrumental, but I believe the "title" was simply a mislabeling by bootleggers.  To my ears, the demo and the Gordon Lightfoot song do not sound similar.  
    Here is a photo of the reels. https://ibb.co/z7CK6Ln

    so there IS a cover of Wreck? or he just called it that because of the similarity?
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • raindog80
    raindog80 Reggio Emilia, Italy Posts: 1,196
    NM70698 said:
    That photo is awesome.  Never saw that before.
    It's from Mind Your Manners video. 
    "I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things" - Tom Waits
    pearljamonline.it
  • raindog80
    raindog80 Reggio Emilia, Italy Posts: 1,196
    RS65573 said:
    Believe You Me is friggin phenomenal if you ask me. Would be a huge PJ hit like Betterman.
    100% agree with you. 5 years ago, in UK...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8lj7m5Xink 
    "I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things" - Tom Waits
    pearljamonline.it

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