MORGEN (1969) reissued by Now-Again Reserve

[Frantic]

https://www.rappcats.com/morgen/

 

[greenfuzz]

Thanks, Joey. Looks like the only way to get this is to subscribe? I did so for the Hunger release years ago and this is the only other title I’ve been interested in since so I’ll have to pass.

 

[Hallucalation]

Apparently all ABC/Probe tapes died in Universal vault fire 10+ years ago. Where the bonus stuff came from? Morgen himself did not had anything save for crappy acoustic home demos which was used for bootleg Sunbeam CD.

 

[Heitkotter77]

The article mentions the alternate take of "Purple". When I first contacted Steve Morgen in the late 80s, he had told me about the other version of that song, which he thought was much better than the one used. He mentioned not having a copy of it (only having the "living room jams" used by Sunbeam).
During the Parallel World days, we were trying to work with Steve to do a legit reissue of the album. MCA/Universal confirmed they had the tapes in the vault, but were impossible to work with. He asked if as the artist he could have a copy of the tape for himself. They responded by offering him 5,000 cassettes for $10,000. Some much for that. (We later had the thought of rerecording the album with Steve backed by a current band we knew, but that never came to fruition.)
So I do wonder not only where the additional music came from, but how they obtained the rights to reissued this legitimately. Did they pay Universal a large licensing fee?

 

[Jim]

 

[Heitkotter77]

Wow! Where's that from, Jim.
I've never seen that.

 

[Frantic]

Wow! Where's that from, Jim.
I've never seen that.

Looks homemade.

 

[Jim]

Yes

 

[Heitkotter77]

Still really great looking.