Two years have passed since STATUS QUO issued the “The Early Years 1966-69” collection that, as fans assumed, was a standalone dive into the British ensemble’s psychedelic era, yet they were wrong, because July 3rd will see the release of another five-disc box set that picks up where the old one left off and moves the narrative into the band’s boogie period.
Titled “The Early Years Vol 2 (1970-1972)” and following the template of its predecessor to make completists happy, it offers no fewer than four CDs of rare material – mainly alternatively sounding pieces, although there is an outtake – so there’s a lot to enjoy. A further volume will hardly appear, however, given the flow of the quartet’s expanded reissues of classic albums.
The Early Years
Vol 2 (1970-1972)
CD 1
Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon:
1. Spinning Wheel Blues
2. Daughter
3. Everything
4. Shy Fly
5. (April) Spring, Summer And Wednesdays
6. Junior’s Wailing
7. Lakky Lady
8. Need Your Love
9. Lazy Poker Blues
10. Is It Really Me / Gotta Go Home
Dog Of Two Head:
11. Umleitung
12. Nanana (Extraction)
13. Something’s Going On In My Head
14. Mean Girl
15. Nanana (Extraction)
16. Gerdundula
17. Railroad
18. Someone’s Learning
19. Nanana
CD 2 – Everything –
Argentinian Mono Version Of Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon:
1-10 – as on CD 1
CD 3 – A & B-sides, Demos & Outtakes:
1. Down The Dustpipe (A-side)
2. In My Chair (A-side)
3. Gerdundula (B-side, 1970 version)
4. Tune To The Music (A-side)
5. Good Thinking (B-side)
6. Railroad (Part 1) (A-side, mono mix)
7. Railroad (Part 2) (B-side, mono mix)
8. Mean Girl (A-side, mono mix)
9. Gerdundula (A-side, 1971 mono mix)
10. In My Chair (Flexidisc)
11. Laughing Machine (outtake)
12. In My Chair (backing track)
13. Time To Fly
14. Shifting Sand (1971 Rossi / Young demo)
15. Tune To The Music (instrumental)
16. (So Little) Time To Fly (previously unreleased version)
CD 4
Alternate Mixes & Versions:
1. Down The Dustpipe (alt. mix)
2. Daughter (working mix)
3. Junior’s Wailing (alt. mix)
4. Is It Really Me (previously unreleased version)
5. In My Chair (alt. mix)
6. Gerdundula (alt. mix, 1970 version)
7. Gotta Go Home (rough mix)
8. Something Going On In My Head (previously unreleased version)
9. Mean Girl (previously unreleased version)
10. Nanana (previously unreleased version)
11. Gerdundula (previously unreleased 1970 version)
12. Nanana (previously unreleased version)
13. Mean Girl (rough mix)
14. Tune To The Music (previously unreleased version)
15. Good Thinking (previously unreleased version)
16. Tune To The Music (previously unreleased backing track)
BBC Sounds Of The Seventies Session (7/2/72):
17. Mean Girl
18. Railroad
CD 5 – Live & In Session 1970-1972
Dave Lee Travis BBC Sessions:
1. Junior’s Wailing (6/4/70)
2. Down The Dustpipe (6/4/70)
3. Spinning Wheel Blues (6/4/70)
4. In My Chair (6/4/70)
5. Need Your Love (15/6/70)
Live In Manchester:
6. Roadhouse Blues
7. Down The Dustpipe
8. Spinning Wheel Blues
9. Is It Really Me / Gotta Go Home
Beat Club Session (26/9/1970):
10. Spinning Wheel Blues
11. (April) Spring, Summer And Wednesdays
12. Is It Really Me / Gotta Go Home
