{"id":16547,"date":"2021-09-09T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16547"},"modified":"2021-09-06T22:47:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T22:47:01","slug":"the-found-l-a-m-f-masters-to-get-cd-release-with-bonus-disc-and-32-page-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16547","title":{"rendered":"The Found L.A.M.F. Masters to get CD release with bonus disc and 32 page Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>After 44 years of hearing only outtakes, remixes and mud \u2026 NOW IT REALLY SOUNDS LIKE A M.F.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5hy61-4vAA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>FOUND IN AN ATTIC &#8211; a copy master of the original tape, without &#8216;mud&#8217;! This classic punk album, made in London by New York Dolls Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan&#8217;s new band the Heartbreakers, was always controversial &#8211; and not just for the acronym. Upon release on Track Records in 1977, it was universally condemned in the music press for having a &#8216;muddy mix&#8217; &#8211; later found to be a mastering fault. When Track went bust the following year, manager Leee Black Childers managed to burgle the Track Records&#8217; Carnaby Street office and liberated the tapes that belonged to him and the band &#8211; but he found everything except the master-tape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Johnny-Thunders-and-the-Heartbreakers-2017-billboard-1548-compressed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16551 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Johnny-Thunders-and-the-Heartbreakers-2017-billboard-1548-compressed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1548\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Johnny-Thunders-and-the-Heartbreakers-2017-billboard-1548-compressed.jpg 1548w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Johnny-Thunders-and-the-Heartbreakers-2017-billboard-1548-compressed-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Johnny-Thunders-and-the-Heartbreakers-2017-billboard-1548-compressed-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Johnny-Thunders-and-the-Heartbreakers-2017-billboard-1548-compressed-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Johnny-Thunders-and-the-Heartbreakers-2017-billboard-1548-compressed-1140x754.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1548px) 100vw, 1548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subsequent releases were remixed from the multi-tracks (&#8216;Revisted&#8217;, 1984) or compiled from outtake mixes &#8211; the &#8216;lost &#8217;77 mixes&#8217; (1994) being the version most known since. A tweaked needle lift from vinyl for a &#8216;definitive&#8217; box set removed a lot of the &#8216;mud&#8217; but still didn&#8217;t achieve full clarity. Meanwhile, fans found that the 1977 cassette version didn&#8217;t have that infamous &#8216;mud&#8217;, nor did certain European vinyl matrixes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unexpectedly, in 2020 a chance meeting led Jungle to Daniel Secunda&#8217;s archives. Danny was an old-school music biz pioneer who became a Track Records director &#8211; and the Heartbreakers &#8216;L.A.M.F.&#8217; co-producer. In amongst his archives stored in his attic were numerous tape boxes, including two with no artist name, marked: &#8216;Copy Master 12.7.77&#8217;. They turned out to be a crystal-clear &#8216;L.A.M.F.&#8217;, just as the band and producers intended it. Sadly, in August 2020 the Heartbreakers co-lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Walter passed away. He was the last of the Heartbreakers &#8216;L.A.M.F.&#8217; line-up &#8211; Johnny Thunders died in 1991, Jerry Nolan in 1992, and Billy Rath in 2014. Walter&#8217;s punk memoir autobiography is published in paperback in June 2021, and his band The Waldos also get their album &#8216;Rent Party&#8217; reissued on blue vinyl for Record Store Day&#8217;s RSD Drop2, followed by a CD reissue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;L.A.M.F. &#8211; the found &#8217;77 masters&#8217; was released on vinyl for Record Store Day 2021 RSD Drop2 on July 17 as a limited edition in transparent purple vinyl. It has an inner bag with new notes by Simon Wright, plus a 12&#8243; poster of a Roberta Bayley cover outtake pic. A CD version will be released at the end of October.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An example: &#8216;It&#8217;s Not Enough&#8217; &#8211; when choosing tracks for &#8216;the Lost mixes&#8217; from the attempts at assorted studios, there were only two versions to choose from. One had vocals mixed far too high; the other very low. We went with the low vocals version &#8211; they almost fade away at one point. Now, we can hear the correctly balanced mix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TRACKCD77-hardback-book-mock-up-3000pix-RGB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16548 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TRACKCD77-hardback-book-mock-up-3000pix-RGB-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TRACKCD77-hardback-book-mock-up-3000pix-RGB-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TRACKCD77-hardback-book-mock-up-3000pix-RGB-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TRACKCD77-hardback-book-mock-up-3000pix-RGB-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TRACKCD77-hardback-book-mock-up-3000pix-RGB-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TRACKCD77-hardback-book-mock-up-3000pix-RGB-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TRACKCD77-hardback-book-mock-up-3000pix-RGB-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tracks: Born To Lose, Baby Talk, All By Myself, I Wanna Be Loved, It&#8217;s Not Enough, Chinese Rocks, Get Off The Phone, Pirate Love, One Track Mind, I Love You, Goin&#8217; Steady, Let Go, Can&#8217;t Keep My Eyes On You*, Do You Love Me*. Cat. no: TRACKLP77. *Includes two tracks originally released as single b-sides. Direct Metal Mastered from 24-bit transfers from analogue tape.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WHERE TO BUY? The vinyl has SOLD OUT so it&#8217;ll be difficult to find. Don&#8217;t pay stupid prices; <strong>there&#8217;ll be another pressing in summer 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The CD edition &#8211; with a bonus disc of four demo sessions 1976-77 and a 32-page booklet in a hardback book &#8211; will be available to preorder our Direct Webstore around a month prior to the release date of November 5th 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Upon release in 1977, Johnny Thunders &amp; the Heartbreakers\u2019\u00a0<i><b>L.A.M.F.<\/b><\/i>\u00a0had a mastering fault, widely condemned as a \u2018muddy mix\u2019. Track Records went bust and the master was lost &#8211; so subsequent releases were compiled from outtakes or re-mixes. Forty-four years later, the master has been found in the attic of producer Daniel Secunda, a crystal-clear 1977 \u2018Copy Master&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Now\u00a0<i><b>L.A.M.F.<\/b><\/i>\u00a0can at last be heard as the band and producers intended!<\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u201cPreviously buried clarity enables the astounding live chemistry sparking between band-members to rear unfettered at full power \u2026 Nobody in love with this definitive NYC classic should hesitate to splash out\u201d<\/i><\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Kris Needs, Classic Rock,<b>\u00a09\/10<\/b>\u00a0review.<\/p>\n<p>First released as a much sought-after vinyl LP for RSD in July 2021, this CD version comes together with a bonus CD &#8211;<i>\u00a0&#8216;the L.A.M.F. demos, plus&#8217;<\/i>; a 19-track collection of four demo sessions from 1976 &#8211; 77 and three tracks from Track singles.\u00a0\u00a0They are packaged in a hardcover 32-page book, with notes by Simon Wright and a 2012 interview with Walter Lure (the last of the LAMF Heartbreakers who sadly passed away in 2020), together with rarely-seen photos.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>More info:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jungle-records.net\/index.php\/156-heartbreakers-l-a-m-f-the-found-77-masters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.jungle-records.net\/index.php\/156-heartbreakers-l-a-m-f-the-found-77-masters&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1630870971507000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHBQML8U7vX0V3vLxDAU-SfSv6N9g\">http:\/\/www.jungle-records.net\/<wbr \/>index.php\/156-heartbreakers-l-<wbr \/>a-m-f-the-found-77-masters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jungle-records.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.jungle-records.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1630870971507000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGgFn-_dJEVfdnH4CLYUd2b20UtHw\">www.jungle-records.com<\/a><\/b>\u00a0~ ~ ~\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JungleRecords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JungleRecords&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1630870971507000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHCnMwlHm1xQDjLYZNzUMyHE108Ww\">www.facebook.com\/JungleRecords<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 44 years of hearing only outtakes, remixes and mud \u2026 NOW IT REALLY SOUNDS LIKE A M.F. FOUND IN AN ATTIC &#8211; a copy master of the original tape, without &#8216;mud&#8217;! This classic punk album, made in London by New York Dolls Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan&#8217;s new band the Heartbreakers, was always controversial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[537,7105,536,534,7104,7106,7103,535],"class_list":["post-16547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-billy-rath","tag-daniel-secunda","tag-johnny-thunders","tag-jungle-records","tag-l-a-m-f","tag-simon-wright","tag-track-records","tag-walter-lure","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16552,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547\/revisions\/16552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}