The Crickets were the first garage band. At least if the liner notes of the Not Fade Away box are anything to be believed. The group recorded a number of home demos in the Holley family home's garage. Once again, these are lo-fi recordings, in line with the Buddy & Bob recordings, except these tracks are very plainly rock and roll. Immortals like "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" and "Blue Suede Shoes" find homes here. These aren't all of the Crickets' garage tapes, however. During these demo sessions, they also did versions of "Bo Diddley" and "Brown Eyed Handsome Man", of which I've included the studio versions as bonus tracks on the previous "Holly Hits!" EP. However, if you wish to include them, and to catigorise this as a live album, by all means.
I wasn't keen on the overdubs of these, as I found that the professionally recorded backing tracks clashed with the existing lo-fi instrumentation.
Side One
- Rip It Up
- Good Rockin' Tonight
- Gone
- Have You Ever Been Lonely? (Have You Ever Been Blue?)
- Honky Tonk
Side Two
- Shake, Rattle, and Roll
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Blue Monday
- Ain't Got No Home
- Holly Hop
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