Here is the track listing for The Subs Bench, the bonus CD
(6) that will be only ever available with the 1st edition of the
Anthology. None of these tracks have ever been released before.
1. Storm And Stone (Shine On Joe). Sourced from the ¼” master and recorded during March 1972 at Basing St during the Rabbit Sessions (for Jess’ first but aborted) solo album. The track features Rabbit (keyboards), Robbie Blunt (guitar), Kellie (drums), Pat Donaldson (bass) and Jess (acoustic guitar)
2. Love Me (The Alan Bown Set). A demo
recorded at Pye Studios in London on December 19th 1966. Sourced
from the original ¼” tape.
3. On Your Life. Written
by Rabbit and also recorded during the sessions from which, ultimately, only
What The Hell became part of Jess’ first solo album. Kellie plays drums with
Rabbit mixing Mellotron and Hammond Organ as well as playing bass pedals. Sourced from the original ¼”
master. As a footnote, the version
that Rabbit has in his own archives is different again (indeed, he never knew
this version existed until very recently… and was pretty surprised that it
did).
4. Desperado (The Jess Roden Band). As a
track, it needs no introduction whatsoever. This was recorded live at Leicester
University during November 1976 on the Island Mobile and has been sourced from
the original 2” multitrack.
5. Loving In Your Sake. Also recorded during March ’72 at Basing
St this features Gerry Conway, Rabbit and Pat Donaldson and has been sourced
from the 2” multitrack. The actual take (there are two) of this demo is a good
deal longer but… in the cold light of day… the coda contained way too much
ambient noodling (Jess’ phrase) equals it really didn’t work so we extracted
the song and… here it is.
6. Special T’anks (Jess Roden / Pete
Wood). One of the short instrumental tracks that
were to have formed linking passages to the (never recorded) 2nd
Rivits album that Jess and Pete were working on at Compass Point while waiting
for their riddim section (the mighty Sly ‘n Robbie) to tip up. They were
delayed for ‘business’ reasons in Jamaica and… this was one of the tracks
recorded at that time… indeed, at the same point that Jess and Island finally
parted company. Sourced from the
original 2” multitrack.
7. Surrender To Your Heart (Jess Roden
& The Humans). Could be described as a Humans demo… only very
recently discovered (by Bob Pridden) and recorded at Quarwood, John
Entwhistle’s home studio on the day the actual writing of the tune was
completed with Jim Capaldi (drums), Gary Grainger (guitar), Nick Graham (bass)
and Steve Winwood (Hammond Organ). Harmonica courtesy the singer of songs.
8. Too Far Gone (The Jess Roden Band). From the first (recorded) night at The
Marquee… sourced from the 2” multitrack.
9. Love Will Grow. A vocal
demo (#take 1) from the Summer ’78 Player Not The Game sessions with John
Cartwright (bass), Rob Mounsey (Fender Rhodes) Cliff Morris (guitar) and Chris
Parker (drums). Jaki Whitren (John’s wife) can also be heard (briefly) on
backing vocals. Sourced from the 2” multitracks.
10. Let Me Make Something In Your Life. This is Jess
backed by The Muscle Shoals ‘Swampers’– essentially
the main Muscle Shoals rhythm players who later formed the backbone to Traffic
at the time of the Low Spark / Shoot Out and On The Road albums – together with
the Muscle Shoals Horns… Sourced from the ¼” and recorded in 1974… as a
possible contender for Jess’ first solo album.
11. Eight Days On The Road (The Jess
Roden Band) Sourced from the 2” multitrack and recorded in
September ’76 during the Pinewood Sessions… sessions that, for a number of
reasons, were largely unproductive… just prior to the proper recording of the
Play It Dirty album.
12. Feelin’ Easy (The Jess Roden Band). Live at The
Marquee (altho’ for those who were actually there or remember JRB perfomances
of the time, not all of the band featured on this track when played live) and
sourced from the 2” multitrack.
13. Sweet One. Recorded
during October ’72 this, for a while, confused us. How so? Well… it was
actually one of the first tunes that we unearthed and, when we listened back
(all those many months ago)… all was running along in ship-shape Bristol
fashion until… up pops a Soprano Sax. Nothing weird there as you may imagine…
The Sax worked perfectly within the context of the tune but… who the heck was
the mysterious Sax player? We simply didn’t know. After a bit the song title
assumed brackets in which it said: The Mysterious Sax Player edit. Months went
by and we still couldn’t work out who it was. Undeterred, we started listing
out every Sax player we could think of who might have been around Basing St at
the time (some, sadly, no longer with us) and… still… we couldn’t work it out. More
months went by. Until (spooky as this is) on the very same day about six months
ago there was an exchange of early morning emails that crossed each others
incoming path. Jess’ note said: I reckon the sax player is… while mine to him
said; d’you think it might be..? And the answer..? It most certainly is John
Helliwell.
14. Ain’t No Sunshine. Recorded
one late night in March ’73 at Basing St… its just Jess and an acoustic guitar…
We found it, unmarked, on a 2” multitrack in amongst a whole heap of ambient
studio nothingness… there were two takes… and this is the best of ‘em.
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