Blue As A Jewel question
I've told a couple of people in the past week that Blue As A Jewel was not only the first time the listeners heard your e-bow playing, but that it was from 1978, appearing first as a B-side to the Panic In The World single.
Feels like I've got that information wrong because Blue As A Jewel is included in the Sunburst Finish reissue and I remember being either age 10 or age 11 when I first heard Sunburst Finish as a new release on a seriously booming system in 1976 in the car of a significantly older friend of mine and I was wearing a pair of red-white-and-blue-rimmed sunglasses a gal pal gave me. We were en route or coming back from sling-shot shooting at Mt. Diablo (in Northern California).
Nineteen seventy-six is obviously not nineteen seventy-eight!
Yes, the bonus tracks on that first batch of CDs were a all over the place. "Shine," which appears on the 1990 "Sunburst Finish" CD, was the B-side to "Kiss of Life" and so should have been on ""Modern Music," where it now resides on the newer reissues. "Lights" was the B-side to "Maid in Heaven" single but it appears on the 1990 "Drastic Plastic" CD. But no matter. It's all Be Bop Deluxe at the end of the day. And, if I can trust the new bulti-disc boxsets for accuracy (and I do), "Drastic Plastic" was shaping up to be a double album, and so almost all the remaining bonus tracks that are spread across those early CDs now appear on the "Drastic Plastic" boxset. By spreading all those tracks across the other CDs, they made each disc more enticing to fans.