Versions of "A Quick One"

["Schrade, Scott" <sschrade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I prefer the Live at Leeds remaster.  Great sound and some funny stage 
> banter ("I say, steady on").  

The LAL version doesn't flow as well as the RnR Circus version.  It's
plodding at times & too slow, especially the beginning.  The RnR Circus
version explodes.  It's a big bang full of power & heat.  Superb.

Still, the LAL version isn't near as weak as the Monterey version which
is lurching & unsteady throughout with occasionally weak vocals (Pete
botches some lyrics).  But we'll cut 'em some slack.  It was '67.

The studio version, even with all its tentativeness, is still quaint & en-
joyable, IMO anyway.

> I understand it's edited, though, yes?  Presumably that point where it 
> sounds like something falls over in the drum kit and Pete is heard to 
> say, "Oh Dear."

It became a habit for Moon, after the "Soon Be Home" segment to pick up
one of his floor toms & wing it somewhere.  I *think* there may be a small
edit at that point on the official release as compared to the LAL COMPLETE
boot.

On the RnR Circus version, as Moon picks up the floor tom to heave it, one
of the "legs" hits his front crash cymbal rather intrusively.  That acci-
dental cymbal smack was edited out of TKAA soundtrack.


- SCHRADE in Akron