Tim Gaze talks about "Band On The Run":
Due to the requests I’ve had in the past, I’ve recently embarked upon the mission of sorting and mixing all the material I’ve done since the ‘70s.
This includes albums, soundtracks and various ‘live’ performances with bands etc. Some are CDs – others DVDs – so I’m getting these finalised as soon as can be achieved, and they will be available through my site soon.
Besides the recordings already available, the first ‘unreleased’ offering will be a 2 CD set of material that was written on the Sydney northern beaches peninsula during ’78 and ’79 for the 1980 surf film ‘Band On The Run’ by photographer and director Harry Hodge – a voyage not unlike Endless Summer, in that a group of top pro surfers, Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Bartholomew, Brian Cregan, Bruce Raymond and Paul Neilsen, go around the world in search of great surfing experiences.
The original soundtrack included songs by Paul McCartney, J.J.Cale, Van Morrison etc., but owing to legal problems, at the time of the supposed album release the companies controlling these artists would not agree to the release of the music on a soundtrack album, thereby effectively vetoing any chance the Tim Gaze Band had of getting their music released, as their music was part of the original recording package. As you could imagine, this left us feeling pretty disappointed about the whole situation – we had worked hard only to be told at the last minute that the ‘job’s off’… ah..the music biz….
The film was actually released, and a handful of albums were manufactured, but then the legal hassles concerning the release of the other artists cancelled the run, and that was that. This situation stayed as it was, until the advent of the digital realm. After realising that we still had all he raw materials at out fingertips, and the means to pull them all together by way of our own recording studio, it finally meant that we can remaster and release this music in a new format.
Originally there were 10 tracks used for the soundtrack, but we actually wrote more. In this new release, there are the original demos, (1st Wave). These we did to get the approval and go-ahead from the interested parties, and then the final recordings, or the ‘real’ ones (2nd Wave) that were done and used for the final soundtrack release on the movie. In those days, you usually had to do ‘demo’ recordings first, so as all and sundry could get an idea of what it was you were proposing to do.
I remember that it was all a bit weird doing a whole lot of recording, only to get the nod to ‘go ahead with the actual recording...’ and then do it all again, with the same people, in the same studio!
Sure, it was a process, and you did uncover some different angles, but in a lot of cases, we found that the original demo recordings had more excitement and spontaneity due the fact that it was the first draught, and therefore had more of a newness and spark to the whole project.
Peter Bolton and I figured that those original ideas deserved to be heard as well as the final recorded versions. Also there are some things in the demo recordings that didn’t make it to the final soundtrack, so that’s a bonus, while there are two different versions of three of the tracks as well as a couple of other versions - instrumental and vocal.
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CD 1 - Second Wave: Songs from the Soundtrack
1. Lazy Day Fever
2. Brothers and Sisters
3. Looking For Answers
4. Bermuda
5. This Is A Place
6. Give Me Life
7. Oceans
8. Beautiful Lady
9. Mauritius
10. Goin Down
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CD 2 - First Wave: Demos
1. End Theme
2. Brazillian Millions
3. Hawaii
4. LA Theme
5. London
6. Paradise
7. Looking For Answers
8. This Is A Place
9. Day Tripper
10. Lazy Day Fever
11. Paradise 2
12. Beautiful Lady |
