DAVID CROSBY
If I Could Only Remember My Name: The Alternate Album

Definitive 2008 edition
Wally Heider's Studio, San Francisco, late 1970
Excellent quality


CD 1
1. Music Is Love - no conga overdubs
2. Cowboy Movie - instrumental, no Garcia overdubs
3. Cowboy Movie - rough mix, the longest version
4. Tamalpais High (At About 3) - "full blown" version
5. Laughing - rough mix
6. What Are Their Names - rough mono mix
7. Traction In The Rain - alternate mix
8. Song With No Words - short version aka demo version, mono
9. Orleans - alternate stereo mix
10. I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here - rough mix
11. Wooden Ships - studio demo


The recording details in the enclosed artwork.

In the history of bootleg collecting rarely a single set of tapes
aroused so many speculations and undivided interest during 
very long period of time as it was in the case of the recordings
od David Crosby during and after recording of his solo album 
“If I Could Only Remember My Name”, commonly called PERRO 
Tapes.

It all started in 1991 with 120 minutes PERRO DAT tape that 
Paul Kantner made from the original tapes that were in the 
possession of Graham Nash and at the same time C-90 cassette
with, presumably at the time, If I Could Only Remember My 
Name outtakes started to circulate. Later, the set of three C-90
cassettes was labeled “Perro tapes”, although a lot of materials
were instantly recognised as David And The Dorks Matrix tapes 
and so called Hart Jam. In 1997, the first set of four CD-Rs 
included the most of non-PERRO tracks from the mentioned 
cassettes. A year later, double CDR “If I Could Only Remember 
The Outtakes”, joint venture of a Dutch collector and Eastern 
European collector started making turns in the trades among 
the collectors of Crosby and company. Although often blamed 
as the set of outfakes it was widely circulated for a long time.

The first true reference set of PERRO discs showed up in 2001
and it was consisted of 2 CDR named “PERRO: The Stephen 
Barncard Rough Mixes” and 2 CDR named “The PERRO 
Supplement: A Collection Of PERRO-Related Tracks” The first 
two discs consisted of the complete legendary PERRO DAT 
recording in the best quality.  

The first “new” recordings started to circulate in 2007 with 
the compilation of IICORMN and PERRO tracks in the superior 
quality than ever before. The bootleg was called “Everybody 
Here Can Be In The Band”, but on the torrent sites it was called 
“David Crosby Sessions” or “IICORMN - The Sessions”. Later in 
the year, three sets of tracks started to circulate under titles: “
”Acoustic”, “Electric” and Residue”, all in similar superior 
quality. Some of the tracks were of suspicious origin, but the 
improvement in quality was obvious.

The set in your hands is the best quality and the most complete
collection of genuine IIORMN outtakes and the best quality 
versions of PERRO tracks. All outfakes were disregarded, same 
as the tracks that were not the integral part of David Crosby 
sessions, such was Jefferson Airplane Bark session that was 
included in PERRO Supplement.

Until something new would show up, I hope that this could serve
as true reference of magnificent David Crosby sessions 
from 1970-1971. 

PR
January 2008    
  
 
 

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