>Regarding "The Last Protest Singer"...........can anyone tell me---it >looks like it was put out after Harry's demise. Are the songs from other >albums---outtakes? Just what kind of cuts are they and where did they come >from? >Thanks! >-Mitch >"You can always count on the cheap seats!" Well actually it was "recorded" and released post-humously. It was taken from some recordings that Harry did before his death - some were cruder than others. Let me explain.... Harry had demos of several of the songs you hear on last protest. Some were with his guitar, some were just vocal tracks off a hand-held recorder he kept with him while travelling. In any case each song had to be built based on these bear bones recordings that were left after his death. In the studio, this proved to be formidable task. At times Harry's guitar was not tuned to concert pitch and at others not in tune at all. For the song for which only vocal tracks existed, the vocal parts wove in and out of key. To solve such problems of pitch the engineers use a technique of using "variable" speeds during the recording of accompanying instruments and vocals i.e. speeding up or slowing down the recording to match the pitch of the tracks that existed and couldn't be changed (Harry's). Many recording artists do this to acheive high notes that cannot otherwise reach. Some songs had him singing the chorus only once and thus digital technology was used to copy choruses over as if they were text on a word processor. The result is a real mixed bag of songs for sure, not a record tat Harry would be proud of perhaps but one his fans the world over were longing for after his death. If there are other questions let me know. MULVS