JL/Cheap Trick

[834]

Supposedly there were three songs that John recorded with CT. Aside from "I'm Losing You", what were the other two, and did they ever surface on any boots? Been looking for these for awhile.

[834]

I did find the 1998 video featuring John's drawings with Rick Nielsen, Bun E. Carlos, and the incredible Tony Levin. Pretty cool.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JwWBWn9m1LU

[kmac]

Cool vid, I had not seen that before, thanks.

I found this interview with Rick Nielsen By Ronnie Dannelley that does discuss the demos:

Article originally printed in Indie File - Sept 1997 (http://www.earcandymag.com/blatrick.htm)

Here is the excerpt regarding the demos:

But the session that I most wanted to know about were the legendary John Lennon "Double Fantasy" sessions with Cheap Trick in 1980. Only three songs were recorded before Yoko banned Cheap Trick, citing that they were using John. I told Rick that I recently found a bootleg with the three unreleased Cheap Trick/John Lennon tracks. He asked, "so, could you tell the difference?" I sure could, the tracks seemed to rock more, with even Yoko's song sounding inspiring. Rock comments, "that's the only way you could handle it, have us behind her voice & you need kind of schizophrenic stuff going on." But, why did the band do only one session with Lennon? Nielsen didn't blast Yoko, just explained diplomatically, "we were asked to do more for vocals. What I call those John Lennon baby voices (sings a little). But & ah & by then they were finished. We didn't get lucky enough to play on that one." Still no real answer as to why the recordings didn't wind up on the final record. I guess the story in Albert Goldman's book, "The Lives of John Lennon" is the closest to getting the story correct & ......

[pattiboyd's slave]

I did find the 1998 video featuring John's drawings with Rick Nielsen, Bun E. Carlos, and the incredible Tony Levin.

That was neat and Tony Levin is great! :teeth1: