rehearsal - Play For Today, The Cure - 1979

Live recording from a rehearsal session. Early version of an early Cure. An instant Cure Classic with a new bassist at that time: Simon Gallup. INFO UPDATE En Attendant, Belgium, May 1980 - (translated from French) - On the records, the whole band gets credits for the songs but the basic ideas and the lyrics come from you, don't they ? Robert: Yes, I usually come up with the basic ideas. For this record (17 Seconds), I had most of the songs on tape. Just guitar chords I recorded along with a bass pedal and drum machine. Some kind of demos. I played them to Lol and Michael. Lol liked them, Michael didn't. It's one of the reasons he's not with us anymore. I played them to Simon, who wasn't in the band at the time, and he liked them a lot. So the songs existed before we got into the studio, but just in rough form. Once the backing tracks were recorded, everyone added what they thought was good. INFO UPDATE From other source @xxx2172: "This is a rehearsal in 1979 with Rob on guitar and voc, Michael Dempsey on bass, and Lol on the drums Rob sung it with same lyrics but with simon on bass at the Amsterdam Paradiso 1979"

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