Early version of Anaconda

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To go with the latest post on my TSOM blog about the Leicester Poly gig in Oct 82 as part of the tour with The Psychedelic Furs, @spiggymr7 has uploaded a couple of songs from the gig onto YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nc676rgO9E, including a very early version of Anaconda, when the lyrics were still in development. After a truncated version of the later full verse lyric, :von: 's chorus is reduced to "We will walk away", giving a different slant to the narration. Other gigs from that tour (Leeds and York for example) have similar but different versions, as the song slowly evolved into its final version, as can be heard at the end of November shows that year.
Not only (like the early SKOS, the Peel session NTTC, the early live Walk Away and the various bizarre FALAA hybrids such as Red Skies Disappear) does it give an insight into Von's lyric writing process, and the willingness to try out songs publicly before they were fully developed, but could this unfinished Anaconda lead to a re-evaluation of some of the dates attributed to demos of the song ?
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