The Square Root Of Two

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Release Date: 1979

Label: Hottrax Records

1979: the Hottrax remix LP

The Nightshadows broke up in 1969 and the members went on to various lower profile projects. Aleck Janoulis released a reissue of the LP on his Hottrax label.

According to some sources, only 200 copies were pressed. Nevertheless, the album is somewhat difficult to find today. Apart from the altered packaging, the tracks were remixed and edited to create something quite different from the original Spectrum LP.


Notes:

a) the "Prologue" is now almost 10 seconds shorter due to an earlier fadeout.
b) "So Much" has an excellent guitar lead that enters for about 10 seconds at the 1:10 mark, playing a figure somewhat like "Born To Be Wild". On the 1968 version there was no lead instrument in this break, just the rhythm section.
c) "60 Second Swinger" has seen even more drastic changes, as a loud fuzz guitar overdub plays the basic riff throughout the song; on the 1968 version the organ was the lead instrument, with no fuzz in sight. Just as on "So Much" this could be seen as an improvement.
d) "Anything But Lies" is drastically altered with a whole minute (almost exactly 60 seconds) of fuzz/organ rave-up removed vs the original 1968 version; the remix also downplays the psych-effect backing vocals somewhat.

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