The BADFINGER Album-By-Album Thread

Did Pete and Tom sell their publishing decades ago or never owned it in the first place?

 

How was it?

 

Coming from a third party seller out of the country -- expected any day now!

 

The Ham/Evans estate are represented by Dan Matovina, the Apple and Warner Records Publishing is still owned by those labels...

 

a rare discovery from BBC camera operator, Ron Green - photo of The Iveys appearance on Lulu show January 4, 1969

[ thanks @botfinger ! ]

Happening for Lulu (January 4, 1969) : Badfinger covers

Ron Green's work at BBC
Ron Green’s Photo Collection Page 1 | The Tech-ops History Site ​

 

November 9, 1970 ~ November 9, 2020



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Pete Ham's acoustic demo
(from wonderful '7 Park Avenue' CD!)

"No Matter What"

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Pete's piano demo
(from wonderful 'Golders Green' CD!)

"Midnight Caller"

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Pete's demo "If It's Love"
(Without You)

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Tom's demo "I Can't Live"
(Without You)

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Badfinger's studio demo

"Without You"

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Top of the Pops #294
BBC Transcription disc

Badfinger

"I Can't Take It"

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Top of the Pops #294
BBC Transcription disc

Badfinger

"Believe Me"

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Pete's demo for "Blodwyn"

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a fun Bonus track from 2010 Remasters is the Instrumental version of "Love Me Do", hearing Pete's solo guitar work!

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Another great No Dice track "Better Days' Live on this '72 appearance of Granada television's "A Set Of Six"

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Pete Ham used a 1964 Gibson SG almost exclusively for all Tours performed from early 1970 through late October of 1974.

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Pete w/ his Martin acoustic on Greyhound bus during 1st US Tour, Fall of 1970
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"The Death of The Songwriters"
by Maik Bierwirth

Jungle.World
( a german publication )



Der Tod des Songwriters ​

 

Maybe Tomorrow arrived today from the Amazon third-party seller. It's actually pretty great!

Not sure about the legitimacy of this -- the label, Audio Clarity, appears to be Russian. There's a bit of Russian text in the corner of the rear cover.

The label weirdly states the title of the album to be "Maybe Tomorrow Worm"...

However, the mastering on this is surprisingly excellent. No idea what they'd have used for a source -- a CD, a tape...who knows. But it sounds fantastic. I don't have another vinyl copy of this to compare, but to my ears it sounds as at least as good as the '92 CD. I do recommend this, as the price was right. It did take quite a while to arrive from overseas, but totally worth it.

 

Thanks for this. I have the 1992 UK double LP and it sounds pretty good, but I ordered one of these anyway. I'm assuming both are from digital masters but for 20 bucks, what the heck?

 

@intv7 , @dasacco

Great to read about the Iveys LP and for discussion and photos above!

 

Anyone else find great similarities between Badfinger and Chris Bell era Big Star?

 

Number 7 on the List!

21 Important Rock Albums That Turn 50 This Month



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an October 20, 1973 ad from Music Week announcing Warner signing and debut of Badfinger's first Single with the new deal.

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