How Can I Live? - Complete Recordings [CD]

Fat Mattress - How Can I Live? - Complete Recordings [CD]

Complete anthology of Noel Redding's post-Jimi Hendrix Experience band. Comprises their three albums (one unreleased at the time), non-album single tracks, out- takes, radio and TV sessions as well as the first-ever reissue of the alternative US-only mix of their debut LP. Primarily a songwriting vehicle for former Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding, Fat Mattress were launched in a blaze of publicity in the summer of 1969. With Redding (now reverting to his preferred instrument of guitar) joined by former Flower Pot Men singer Neil Landon and ex-Engelbert Humperdinck touring band members Jim Leverton and Eric Dillon, Fat Mattress recorded a fine debut album (actually cut in December 1968) that charted in America. Unfortunately, Redding quit the band midway through a volatile US tour, the rump of the band going on to release a second album without him before he returned to the line-up for a third Fat Mattress LP. But a disagreement with manager Chas Chandler meant that the third album failed to gain a release at the time, and Fat Mattress split again, this time permanently. The final word on a talented but star-crossed band, How Can I Live? assembles everything that they recorded during their brief existence, including BBC radio and German TV sessions as well as the first-ever reissue in any format of the American mix of that impressive debut album.

 
Tracks

- Disc 1 -
1 All Night Drinker
2 I Don't Mind
3 Bright New Way
4 Petrol Pump Assistant
5 Mr. Moonshine
6 Magic Forest
7 She Came in the Morning
8 Everything's Blue
9 Walking Through a Garden
10 How Can I Live?
11 Little Girl in White
12 Eric the Red
13 Naturally (Single Mix, Stereo)
14 Iridescent Butterfly
15 (Non-Album Single, Stereo) 15 Magic Forest (Single Mix, Mono)
- Disc 2 -
1 All Night Drinker
2 I Don't Mind
3 Bright New Way
4 Petrol Pump Assistant
5 Mr. Moonshine
6 Magic Forest
7 She Came in the Morning
8 Everything's Blue
9 Walking Through a Garden
10 How Can I Live
11 Naturally (TV Performance)
12 Mr. Moonshine (TV Performance)
13 Magic Forest (Tvperformance)
14 Happy My Love (Radio Session)
15 Mr. Moonshine (Radio Session)
16 Naturally (Radio Session)
- Disc 3 -
1 The Storm
2 Anyway You Want
3 Leafy Lanes
4 Naturally
5 Roamin'
6 Happy My Love
7 Childhood Dream
8 She
9 Highway
10 At the Ball
11 People
12 Hall of Kings
13 Black Sheep of the Family
14 Margarita
15 Cold Wall of Stone
16 Long Red
17 Words
18 The River
19 Future Days
20 Which Way to Go