[Heeplist] Bernie Shaw & Praying Mantis download

[David Amendolara]

Cool stuff, Jay!

Many thanks,

Eddie




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 From: Jay Pearson <deepheep at yahoo.com>
To: Heeplist <Heeplist at travellersintime.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 7:58 PM
Subject: [Heeplist] Bernie Shaw & Praying Mantis download
 

Hi y'all!

http://rapidshare.com/files/2682137932/Escape.rar


This download includes two bootleg albums featuring Bernie that many of you may already have, but if you don't, here you go!

The first is Clive Burr's Escape, which is basically Praying Mantis with the late, great Clive on drums. I believe it was Clive's first recordings after leaving Iron Maiden, and PM renamed themselves to reflect their much more famous new bandmate. The album was finished, but never released. To my ears, it doesn't sound like it ever received a final mix, but it's still quite good. If you like the material on Demorabilia, you should enjoy this! Some of the songs do appear on Demorabilia, but in a more fully produced form (at least that's what it sounds like to me, but maybe the songs on the boot just are inferior quality, someone with better ears/equipment than me will have to decide).

At some point, the band renamed themselves Stratus and released one album. If I remember my Heepstory right, Mick spotted Bernie at a Stratus show either shortly before or after firing Steff Fontaine and soon Heep had their new lead singer.

The second album is Praying Mantis's 1982 Reading Festival appearance. It's short (25 minutes, 6 songs), but it's good quality.

The two albums combined will fit onto 1 CD.

ENJOY!

Jay
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