Delaney & Bonnie fans are in for a treat - the long out of print album, Motel Shot, is getting an expanded release in February. I believe Duane Allman appears on quite a bit the album, but I have no idea about the unreleased tracks.
Here's some info:
[q]The project began not in a hotel room but in the living room of engineer Bruce Botnick, with November 1970 sessions as a prospective release for Elektra Records. But, after Delaney had a falling out with label head Jac Holzman, the project moved to Atco, who put the “band” into a proper studio to re-record much of the material. Those later sessions comprise the original album, which has heretofore only appeared briefly on CD in Japan; but, after hours of tape research, co-producers Bill Inglot and Pat Thomas uncovered the original “living room” sessions that yielded the eight unreleased tracks on this Expanded Edition CD release – and notably is the first American CD release of the original Motel Shot album as well. Remastered by Inglot, with an essay by Thomas that includes exclusive (and extremely candid) quotes from Bonnie Bramlett, Bobby Whitlock, Bruce Botnick, and Jac Holzman, Motel Shot finally is presented here the way it was originally conceived, and takes its rightful place as one of the great albums of the classic era of the roots rock movement.[/q]
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NBEJ1TI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_P2lqybQ1RJA1T
Duane is on three tracks of the original album. I'm not sure about the bonus tracks.
This one has been hard to find on CD over the years. I finally picked it up last year when I found someone selling it under $20.
The new album cover is horrible for this, but I will be picking it up.
I waited for years and finally caved last year and bought the Japanese edition off of amazon when the price dropped. I will gladly upgrade, one of my favorite albums.
How much is this new one going for?
How much is this new one going for?
Amazon has it listed for pre-order at $18.99
I'd be surprised if Duane was on any of the bonus tracks. Sounds like that was recorded well before they went into the studio.
It would be fabulous if he is.
"There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute force and ignorance"
Let me guess the scenario that Bobby Whitlock paints:
I basically produced the album with Delaney
A lot of the guys were out of tune.
I was basically Delaney's collaborator on this album and am really proud of what we did.
Here is something from Steve Hoffman's Bobby WHitlock thread, posted by Bobby himself:
When we did the "Motel Shot" record we didn't record in any motels...It was done at Bruce Botnick's and their manager Alan Pariser's houses both in the Hollywood Hills...Alan's house was a brown chalet that was up a very winding road right at the top and it had a beautiful view if Hollywood, and the ocean when the wind was right...His house was supported by steel poles because it hung off the side of the mountain...The only thing attached to the ground was the front edge of the house...I was told that those steel poles held the those houses down...It sure did look to me like they were being held up, not down...Either way it always made me very nervous being there, suspended out over the edge with all of those earthquakes that they have...I could just see me sliding down that mountainside with that house right behind me and me hanging on to that hand-railing all the way down...........None of the recording processes were ever really involved...It was always something real simple like Delaney banging on a briefcase or something else out of the ordinary....Like Sandy Konokoff's sphincter-phone!.........."Now that I've stopped laughing maybe I can get on with this story!"..........This is really true!...Delaney could come up with some crazy ideas I'll tell you!...It must have something to do with having been born and raised in Mississippi in that mud-hole deep state of consciousness...Animalistic!...As a matter of fact I'm sure it does!...Anyway he wanted a different sounding real, true, pure form of a percussion sound...He was into all sorts of sheiit...Recording his heartbeat and one thing after the next...Then he decides to record someone playing on their stomach...He talked Sandy Konokoff into sticking a mike the size of his finger up his butt!...This was just waay too much for me...I had to leave the room...That Delaney had done topped himself this time!..They hit the record button and he started playing away on his stomach...He's got credit on the record as well!...Sandy Konokoff...sphincter-phone................BW c2008
Apparently they are only releasing this on CD, no digital copies, which is kind of odd.
duane IS on the bonus tracks..."gift of love" and Bonnie says in liner notes all of them...the bonus tracks are the original album they recorded at a house in the Hollywood hills...liner notes explain...its worth buying...even the tracks Duane aint on
