Asia
1983-xx-xx
Alpha Beta
Studio Demos
Quality A
Artwork Included
Time:43 Mins.

Lineage Liberated Bootleg>HD>EAC>The Trader's Den

Checked SBE's with Trader's Little Helper


John Wetton - Vocals & Bass
Steve Howe - Guitars
Carl Palmer - Drums
Geoff Downes - Keyboards

Label:
Highland Project � HLP-097
Format:
CDr, Unofficial Release
Country:
Japan
Released:
2013

Tracklist

1 My Own Time
2 Open Your Eyes
3 Never In A Million Years
4 Midnight Sun
5 The Smile Has Left Your Eyes (Extended Version)
6 Daylight
7 The Last To Know
8 True Colours
9 The Heat Goes On
10 Barren Land


Asia's Alpha album recorded February to May 1983,so the demos must have been at the end
of 1982 or early 1983.
This is a major upgrade on the last version of this circulating.
The previous version had a lot of hiss and sounded second generation,or even more.
And Barren Land was mising too.
Barren Land was basically a demo of Lying To Yourself,
and supposedly when manager Brian Lane heard the lyrics sung by Steve,
about the Native American Indians,
he argued against using it.
A great insight into the demos of the songs for Alpha,some just have a basic
guide vocal and a do do do backing. Don't Cry was the last recorded song and
was a last minute addition for the album, not recorded at the time of these sessions.

Ritchie5 notes.........

How did I get this? Well a friend of Carl Palmers loaned me the tape around 1983
I sat on it for many years, although a few friends were given Cd copies.
There was also a demo of Barren Lands attached to it but that was Steve Howe singing and its been officially released by Steve,
so removed.

gmc1600 notes...........

The Barren Land demo was also there, but it's not the same version than the one on the Homebrew CD.
On the Homebrew CD it's clearly Steve with a drum machine and playing all instruments (multitrack)...
the one on my version is a full band demo, with Carl Palmer on drums and Steve taking the lead vocal.


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