For our latest exclusive, following the Grey Daze 1994 video recording, LPLive’d like to present an unreleased 6 track demo from 1994 of Grey Daze! A huge thanks goes out to LESTAT, Jonathan and everyone else who has helped with this. This is the first release of Grey Daze demos since 2006, over 9 years ago!
A little back story… the recording sessions for the Grey Daze “Wake Me” album began in October 1994. These demos, titled the “Scott Crowley Sessions” predate that and were recorded sometime in the middle of the year.
None of these demos have been released. The existence of Smoke Mouth was not discovered until 2010 when a live video was uploaded, and we have finally obtained a studio recording of the song. (Side note: Quite a few other songs were discovered from the 1994 show recording, so don’t miss that) The existence of My Bluest Day was not known until that live show as well, and it’s another song that didn’t make it to Wake Me. Unfortunately, there is a short 5 second gap in My Bluest Day mid-song, due to the tape being over 20 years old.
For the other demos, Morei Sky has a completely different song structure than the version that made the album and Shouting Out features Mindy from the band Lemon Krayola instead of Kimberly Rogers.
The recordings were done at Scott Crowley’s apartment studio. He was from a band called “Nihil”. Jonathan Krause said, “He had a digital recording studio. I thought the drums sounded cheesy they were way to electronic. But it was free so who's complaining?” Sean Dowdell adds, “It wasn't a studio. It was his apartment and he and I recorded it on a very small recording program on a computer. Home recording though, not studio.”
Grey Daze: “Scott Crowley Sessions” Tracklisting:
01. My Bluest Day (Demo)
02. Smoke Mouth (Demo)
03. Starting To Fly (Demo)
04. Believe Me (Demo)
05. Morei Sky (Demo)
06. Shouting Out (Demo) (w/ Mindy from Lemon Krayola)
A track-by-track brief overview by LESTAT:
* My Bluest Day - structure wise sounds identical to the live version we have.
* Smoke Mouth - different longer intro comparing to the Rally Kap recording. The vocalization parts from the Rally Kap version are missing .
* Starting To Fly - additional backing vocals during the verses. Longer space between the first chorus and the second verse.
* Believe Me - different background guitar throughout the song.
* Morei Sky - completely different song structure. Much longer intro. No "Power Chorus" as I call the part when Chester explodes.
Album version: 30 sec Intro -> 1st Verse -> Chorus -> 2nd verse - > Chorus -> 1st Solo - > Power Chorus - > 2nd Solo -> 1st Verse refrain
Demo version: 66 sec Intro -> 1st Verse -> Chorus -> 1st Solo -> 2nd verse -> Chorus -> 2nd Solo - > Fade Out Outro
* Shouting Out - Mindy from Lemon Krayola instead of Kimberly Rogers. The order of lines during the first and second chorus is swapped.
Album version: "I didn't mean to let you down/I didn't mean to run from you" during the first chorus and "I didn't mean to run from you/I didn't mean to let you down" during the second one.
Demo version : "I didn't mean to run from you/I didn't mean to let you down" during the first chorus and "I didn't mean to let you down/I didn't mean to run from you" during the second one.
Also, extended fade out outro.
Download:
mp3 (.zip)
Release notes:
Unfortunately the demos were only supplied in mp3 form.
The tracks were remastered, the humming and part of the noise were filtered and all tracks normalized.
The original mp3 file is included in the release as well.
The tracks were remastered, the humming and part of the noise were filtered and all tracks normalized.
The original mp3 file is included in the release as well.
Source: LPLive
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