lazarus corporation wrote: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.
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They guy had it on a cassette along with some other stuff. It was "more than his life was worth to give out a copy", etc... I'm sure we're all familiar with such things.