Nevertheless, You'll Do

[strabley]

This song needs to be covered by old school Hole--too late for that, but I would love to hear the pre-Hollywood Courtney Love cover this...

[tannis]

Kate Bush - Nevertheless
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMbgXDjWojg

[musiclover]

So how does one get these demos in CD form?

[tannis]

Bootleg or mp3 downloads...

I thought some people might be interested in this link. It contains mp3 downloads of nearly all the known demos plus some others.
www.dongrays.com/kate-bush/mp3/
I imagine many board members will already have the Phoenix demos but my main reason for including this is because it has what Gaffaweb likes to call the "legendary" or "near mythical" Early Years album and also Organic Acid. Unfortunately the last two songs from The Early Years are missing but I'm sure the rest are still welcome. It also ends the debate (if one still exists) over whether these were piano only or band recordings. (They're the former.)
The Kick Inside demos are also present, as well as some of the more familiar later ones. Then there's a set of "other rarities". It should be noted that these include a few officially released tracks, which I'm not encouraging anyone to download. Finally, there's an attempt to decipher the various distorted sections of Watching You Without Me, which I'll let you judge for yourselves.
Hope there are items of interest to at least some.
thehomegroundandkatebushnewsandinfoforum.yuku.com/reply/294401/t/Demos-and-other-rarities.html#reply-294401

HOW THE DEMOS REACHED THE PUBLIC EAR
The first presentation of the demos to the public was in 1982 when local DJ John Dixon presented 22 piano demo songs on his KSTM radio station in Phoenix. [During the first year of the EMI contract Kate makes two further demo tapes. These are very possibly the songs known to us originally from the Phoenix broadcast and later from the various bootlegs. The date 'Nov. 1976' is written on the reel tape, the DJ played in 1982 (?) on KSTM. 5 songs which appear on The Kick Inside, Lionheart AND Never for Ever [!] (Violin!), can be found on the demo tape!] He had worked for EMI at the time of Kate's initial signing, and aquired the tapes then. It is not clear if all the available bootleg versions of the demos come from this source. There are several differences in the recording quality, which might indicate different sources. Also "Organic Acid" the 23rd piano demo, which only appeared once on the fifth Demos-EP points to a second source. There are also rumours about other demos in the possession of DJ John Dixon, like TMWTCIHE, Kite etc.
THE HISTORY OF THE DEMOS
gaffa.org/phoenix/index.html

Kate has never commented on any bootleg material, and so she hasn't said anything about these as bootlegs. But she has said plenty of things about these recordings - generally to the effect that there are about 200 or more of them (20-30 have been 'released' on bootlegs) and that they should remain buried and will never re-record any of them. The sound quality of all of them reminds of a boombox set to 'record' in a living room. Nevertheless most fans do LOVE these songs and would almost kill to hear the rest. The Experience Music Project reportedly has a white tape box as part of an exhibit labeled "Cathy Bush". Paul Allen is reportedly a Kate fan.
gaffa.org/faq/faq_cathydemos.html

" -Early Years- Bootleg stopped in its tracks"
Someone, somehow has got hold of one of Kate's early (circa 1973) demo tapes, which appears to have contained not only a number of Kate's early songs, but embryonic versions of more well-known tracks. A West German company appeared to believe that it had bought the 'rights' to this tape and was set to issue an album entitled: "Kate Bush: The Early Years". EMI-Electrola in Germany were aware of this, but some reason took no action to prevent the release. The album was in fact pressed and white labels send out in an attempt to secure overseas distribution deals.
At this point Kate became aware of the proposed release, and feeling that her early mistakes are not fit for public consumption, took the appropriate legal action. The stockpiled albums will now be destroyed (sorry, we don't know how to get hold of one!). [It was a single album containing ten songs recorded by Kate in her early Gilmour days in 1973.]
THE HISTORY OF THE DEMOS
gaffa.org/phoenix/index.html

[musiclover]

tannis - thanks!