Bootlevel

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1994

Labels: Alternative Records, Hanging Dog Records

"Not For Sale For Promotion Only" - No artwork on disc.
Pre-tracks may not be accessible in all CD players.
Track 17-A clip of Steve Scott during a vocal session called Shadow Play. Michael Roe, engineering, tells Steve "No Sister Hook" please, then track segues into a short clip of an unknown Pentecostal preacher Roe taped off TV.
Track 18 - "Don't This Way" until 4:12; silence until 6:20 "Brat's Club Theme." Brats Club theme Randy Richter (Layton), Scott & Denise Richter 1966
Track 01- Elvis Presley being interviewed at the start of the track for the first 15 seconds.

Catalog numbers:
ESPRO 4017 - Back insert
ES-4017 - Matrix

Excerpt from the standard release Various - Bootlevel Artists Liner Notes:
I wanted to keep this CD in limited circulation so that the artists involved wouldn't have to live with some of these demos and tragic masters forever!

The demos from the All Fall Down sessions (mercy/smokescreen/good directions) feature Steve Griffith on drums, although Mark Proctor was still the drummer at the time. The the days of "88" Mark Tootle was going through the end of a relationship that sparked his best songwriting-"locked inside this moment" and "don't this way" come from the same place as "love without dreams"-from the heart. Robert Vaughn came to Exit Record's attention thru songs like "across the nations" (1985). "Writing on the wall" is from the Love & War era; "open your window" is a great song rescued from a cassette-this is another "fire" track! 2LB Planet's "hard to believe" predates Songs From.."wash" is a Whispering.. outtake. Scott's tracks are sonic upgrades.