Heartland

There are quite a few demos from the first era of the band that still remain "lost".

Gimme shelter
train
body and soul
on the wire
poison door
blood money
bury me deep
possession
9 while 9
amphetamine logic.

I found it realy astonishing that on the FALAA re issue, from all the demos that were available on bootlegs all these years, they came up with the skos demo that noone heard before. Pure accident or whoever choose the track realy knew what to put on the reissue..
Are there more demos in the vaults of the record company?

One thing i find weird is that all songs composed by Hussey are the ones floating around so what happened to Marx's and Eldirtich's demos?

Let's just hope they will surface in the near future

I think Gary Marx may have mentioned on the Ghost Dance forum a "Nine While Nine" demo with his own guide vocal on it, but I can't seem to find the thread now. It could've been some interview as well. Maybe you could try politely wrangling the demo from the man himself.

Other than that, Red Skies Disappear/FALAA was one of Marx's tunes, and isn't there a slightly rougher version of Train out there (as well as the WEA/alternative mixes of a few FALAA tracks)? Maybe it's just coincidence that more of Hussey's stuff survived, or maybe he was more disposed/able to whip up a rough recording. Do we know if separate demos of all the other tracks even exist?

Oh yeah, here the old thread, on HL rather than the GD forum: http://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=108048