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Originally Posted by Wario
Actually Who needs the Young was performed for executives, to their horror, according to To hell and Back. along with him saying "One day well get that on an album" or something like that. dont have the book on me atm
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Correction: Jim once auditioned for the same executives with the score for a musical that featured "Who Needs The Young." Meat tells the story of Jim's bad audition to (presumably) suggest that the Warner Bros. head honchos had a different reason for turning the album down flat than the publicly stated excuse that the performance of "Paradise..." was too explicit.
As for Meat wanting it to be on
Bat, as per a conversation with someone close to them at the time, he also wanted to cut "Martha" for
Bat. The album was probably many different things at different times, song-wise, until it became what we now know (let's not forget Jim telling the story of how the intro to "Bat..." was born out of the chord progression for a cover of "Jailhouse Rock").
Last but not least, if the album was sped up by 5% (although I've also heard 8%) as Meat claims, then how come (ragged edges notwithstanding) he was able to perform the album material in those keys for 11 months in 1977/78, and then just quietly lowered many of the keys over the years live, only occasionally reversing course on a few? (For that matter, as the original poster says, how come we've never heard the album slowed down now that technology can correct this?) I love Meat, and would not wish to be seen as criticizing him or calling him a liar, but I think he's really just defending hurt pride (and who could blame him) over his vocal issues that some people (arseholes, I think they're called) never fail to point out, and further I think the album was never sped up to begin with. Let's not forget that in 1999, on
Classic Albums, he was singing along with the master takes and over-enthusiastically claiming he sounded the same as thirty years ago. No mention of sped-up tape then. I could, of course, be wrong. I wasn't in the room. But that's just how it appears to me.