FIX with Craig Adams vocals

[markfiend]

in retrospect, the track doesn't have any hint of craig's strong west yorkshire accent on it either

Now that you mention it, the rhythm of the bass is a bit... wonky too. Whereas Lurch is metronome-steady.

[ianmacd]

Now that you mention it, the rhythm of the bass is a bit... wonky too. Whereas Lurch is metronome-steady.

It's actually a normal six string guitar, a Vox, if I remember correctly. And you're right, I was learning to play at the time, so it is, indeed, a bit wonky.

[Dan]

Have you still got the tape? It might contain some out-takes!

[Quiff Boy]

Have you still got the tape? It might contain some out-takes!

he should sell the original tape to taylor

[taylor]

[Quiff Boy]

[Izzy HaveMercy]

I don't believe you, for the simple reason that you were 3 years old when this thread was started

IZ.

[Quiff Boy]

Post #1 Posted: Thu 01 Jan, 1970 12:00 am

and

[ This Message was edited by: pikkrong on Oct 18, 2002 4:38pm ]

that's quite a while to wait between posting and then revising the original question




(damn that technical hitch/old date f*ckup )

[abridged]

Didn't write the Reptile House music completely on his own? And if he had trouble with Wayne's lyrics later on, how much would he have hated Craig rambling on in an Crowley stylee to Fix?

[ianmacd]

Have you still got the tape? It might contain some out-takes!

Ha! I might have it in storage somewhere, but at this point I doubt I'd even recognise the master tape if it were right under my nose. I can't even remember what on earth possessed me to record that version of Fix, nor why I replaced the real lyrics with a spell. I was probably reading about magic and thought it would sound all mysterious and enigmatic.

No outtakes, though, I'm afraid. It was strictly a one-off. Thank goodness.

[stufarq]

No, it was me! On the grassy knoll with a candlestick no less....

I'm Spartacus!

Didn't write the Reptile House music completely on his own?

No, that was me. There are no real Sisters records, they're all just fan hoaxes.

[Ozpat]

No, that was me. There are no real Sisters records, they're all just fan hoaxes.

[markfiend]

No, it was me! On the grassy knoll with a candlestick no less....

I'm Spartacus!

Didn't write the Reptile House music completely on his own?

No, that was me. There are no real Sisters records, they're all just fan hoaxes.

I'm Andrew Eldritch and so's my wife!

[Norman Hunter]

The Marching Men's version - where I recite the Revie team - is much better.

[Being645]

If you mean "I happened to speak to Craig about it once and he said it wasn't him" then that's fine and I believe you. But why not just say that?

Well, even if Craig had told me that, I'd still only have his word for it, right?

I said that I was 100% certain that it wasn't him and that's a statement I could only make if I knew who it truly was.

"My source is better than sources close to Craig" sounds like a self-aggrandizing line from a bad spy movie.

Forgive my being cryptic. It's just that, after more than a quarter of a century of the myth persisting, I'm fully aware that I might not be believed when I reveal the truth.

For what it's worth, the truth is this:

In 1985, a friend and I -- we were eighteen at the time -- recorded a version of Fix with me on guitar and my friend on vocals. I plugged my guitar amp into my hi-fi in order to record it without ambient sound.

The vocals were, indeed, taken from some book of magic incantations. I can no longer remember where I found the book. Perhaps it came from the local library.

A year or maybe two later, I was heavily involved in trading tapes of Sisters gigs with other fans. Somewhat mischievously, I decided to dub a copy of our very dodgy version of Fix onto the remaining space of a few C90s I was sending out.

I can't have done it more than about four or five times, and I'm pretty sure that I wrote nothing about it on the inlay card in most cases, but once or twice, I recall writing something like "Fix (with Craig Adams on vocals)". As an impish youngster, I was probably curious whether I could start my own little Chinese whisper about the Sisters. After all, there were so many stories and myths doing the rounds at the time.

The nineties came and my life took some interesting turns. I got totally out of tape trading and, for years, almost totally out of music.

Then, the digital age arrived and it was inevitable that I'd find my way back into live music collecting, via torrents and such.

Well, imagine my surprise when I downloaded a collection of Sisters demos and outtakes from DIME in what must have been 2007, only to find amongst those rare gems a version of Fix that possibly featured Craig Adams on vocals.

I couldn't believe my ears as I listened back to an obviously high generation copy of that little ditty my friend and I had recorded more than 20 years earlier. I hadn't heard it myself in about 17 years.

I played it to my wife and then forgot about it again until recently, when I did a Google search for it and was surprised to find that it had made it onto some lyric sites and even onto a couple of silver bootleg CDs. The Chinese whisper had done its work!

Then I chanced upon this thread and you can imagine my amusement as I read that sources close to Craig had confirmed that it was, indeed, him. Either Craig's winding up his friends, or his brain is so fried that he actually thinks it might have been him, or his friends are exaggerating whatever he told them.

Whatever the case, I can tell you that it definitely isn't Craig Adams.

The mischievous side of me almost hopes that I won't be believed and that the myth will continue to propagate, in spite of the truth having been told, but for anyone open-minded enough to accept the simple notion put forward by one poster in this thread, namely that it's nothing more than a bootlegger's hoax, that is essentially the truth.

... lovely experiments , ianmacd ...