Dr. Feelgood – Taking No Prisoners (with Gypie 1977-1981)

Dr. Feelgood

‘Taking No Prisoners (with Gypie 1977-1981)’

*** includes rare & previously unreleased material ***

Release date: 17th June, 2013


A 4CD+DVD newly remastered box set of the four studio albums and two live albums Dr. Feelgood recorded between 1977 and 1981 with ‘Gypie’ Mayo, with added rare and previously unreleased material is set for release on EMI Records on 17th June 2013.

CD1 features the band’s 1977 album Be Seeing You and 1978’s Private Practice, which featured their only ever Top 10 hit, ‘Milk and Alcohol’. This disc also includes the 1979 re-recording of ‘As Long As The Price is Right’ and ‘Down At The (Other) Doctors’, and a previously unreleased demo, recorded at ‘Feelgood’ House, of ‘Riding On The L & N’ which was subsequently recorded for the Let It Roll album.

CD2 features the band’s final two studio albums with Mayo; Let It Roll (1979) and A Chase Of The Shakes (1980). The disc also includes the final Dr Feelgood single for the UA label, ‘Waiting For Saturday Night’ – and b-side ‘Eileen’ - which features Gypie’s replacement, Johnny Guitar.

CD3 is a live disc, which begins with a June 1977 live show at ‘The Paddocks’, Canvey Island of which only two tracks have been previously released (in earlier mixes as 12” B-sides). It was mixed at Abbey Road with Sparko (their bass player) in attendance. The disc also includes the As It Happens live album, originally released in June 1979.

CD4 opens with the four live tracks from the ‘As It Happens’ EP, which came with early copies of the LP, and seven unreleased recordings from the Hemel Hempstead show which did not appear on As It Happens LP and their second live album from this period On The Job (1981).

The DVD features a BBC TV Sight & Sound In Concert, TOTP performances, promotional videos, TV appearances on ‘Alright Now’ and The South Bank Show, and extensive interviews with the producer of the Private Practice album Richard Gottehrer and guitarist John ‘Gypie’ Mayo.

The set is contained in a 7x5 long-form, hardcover package (like the original Wilko set) with a 60+ page colour booklet, which includes 3000+ word sleevenotes written by Will Birch and a full, illustrated discography, sections from tour programmes, a piece on the photographer Keith Morris (whose exceptional photography features both on the cover and throughout the long-form booklet), as well as memorabilia and many previously unseen photographs.


‘TAKING NO PRISONERS’ – FULL TRACKLISTING


CD 1
Be Seeing You
1-Ninety Nine and a Half (Won’t Do)
2-She’s A Windup
3-I Thought I Had It Made
4-I Don’t Want to Know
5-That’s It, I Quit
6-As Long As The Price Is Right
7-Hi-Rise
8-My Buddy Buddy Friends
9-Baby Jane
10-The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock ‘N’ Roll (No 2)
11-Looking Back
12-60 minutes Of Your Love
Private Practice
13-Down At The Doctors
14-Every Kind Of Vice
15-Things Get Better
16-Milk And Alcohol
17-Night Time
18-Let’s Have a Party
19-Take A Tip
20-It Wasn’t Me
21-Greaseball
22- Sugar Shaker
23-As Long As The Price Is Right (second version)
24-Down At The (Other) Doctors
25- Riding On The L & N (demo version) (previously unreleased)


CD 2
Let It Roll
1-Java Blue
2-Feels Good
3-Put Him Out Of Your Mind
4-Bend Your Ear
5-Hong Kong Money
6-Keeka Smeeka
7-Shotgun
8-Pretty Face
9-Riding On The L & N
10-Drop Everything And Run
A Case Of The Shakes (September 1980)
11-Jumping From Love To Love
12-Going Some Place Else
13-Best In The World
14-Punch Drunk
15-King For A Day
16-Violent Love
17-No Mo Do Yakamo
18-Love Hound
19-Who's Winning
20-Coming To You
21- Drives Me Wild
22-Case Of The Shakes
Final UA single - with Johnny Guitar
23-Waiting For Saturday
24- Eileen (2.34)

CD 3 (LIVE)
The Paddocks, Canvey Island 10th June 1977 (previously unreleased)
1-You’ll Be Mine
2-My Buddy Buddy Friends
3-Looking Back
4-Homework *
5-You Upset Me Baby *
6-Hey Mamma Keep Your Big Mouth Shut
7-Cheque Book
8-Back In The Night
9-Lucky 7
10-Lights Out
11-Sneakin’ Suspicion
12-Great Balls Of Fire
As It Happens
13-Take A Tip (2.50)
14-Every Kind Of Vice (3.18)
15-Down At The Doctors (2.54)
16-Baby Jane (2.49)
17-Sugar Shaker (3.50)
18-Things Get Better (2.11)
19-She’s A Windup (2.02)
20-Ninety Nine And A Half (Won’t Do) (3.08)
21-My Buddy Buddy Friends (3.10)
22-Milk And Alcohol (2.53)
23-Matchbox (2.53)
24-As Long As The Price Is Right (3.54)
25-Night Time (4.22)

CD 4 (LIVE)
As It Happens EP Tracks 1-4
1-Riot In Cell Block No 9
2-Blues Had A Baby (And They Named It Rock ‘N’ Roll
3-Lights Out
4-Great Balls Of Fire
The Pavilion Hemel Hempstead (unissued recordings)
5-Looking Back
6-Going Back Home
7-Stupidity
8-I Thought I Had It Made
9-Shotgun
10-Roxette
11-Johnny B. Goode
On The Job
12-Drives Me Wild
13-Java Blue
14-Jumping From Love To Love
15-Pretty Face
16-No Mo Do Yakamo
17-Love Hound (
18-Best In The World
19-Who’s Winning
20-Riding On The L & N
21-A Case Of The Shakes
22-Shotgun Blues
23-Good Night Vienna


DVD
BBC SIGHT AND SOUND IN CONCERT
1-Looking back
2-Stupidity 3-You'll Be Mine
4-You Upset Me Baby
5-Homework
6-Baby Jane
7-The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock And Roll
8-That's it I Quit
9-Lucky Seven
10-She's A Windup
11-Lights Out
TOTP
12-Lights Out (12/5/77
13-She’s A Wind-Up (15/9/77)
14-Down At The Doctors (14/9/78)
15-Milk And Alcohol (25/1/79)
16-Milk & Alcohol (8/2/79)
PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS
17-She’ A Wind-Up
18-Baby Jane
19-Down At The Doctors
20-Milk & Alcohol
21-No Mo Do Yakomo
22-Violent Love
Alright Now (Tyne Tees Television 17th July 1980)
23-Java Blue (1.35)
24-Pretty Face(2.08)
25-South Bank Show
Interviews with Lee Brilleaux and The Big Figure.
Transmitted 21st June 1981
26- Interview with Richard Gottehrer (18.50)
27- Interview with John (Gypie) Mayo (55.05)