Trying Too Hard?

[Stevie Barr]

I have a bootleg CD on Saka records entitled "Tight But Loose" on the sleeve but "Loose Ends" on the actual CD 🤔 It's the usual mishmash of live stuff of varying quality but there is a track on it that I can't find out any info about anywhere- it is entitled "Trying Too Hard", artist unknown, the only info in the sleeve notes is "Unreleased Immediate session from 1965" so I imagine JP was probably involved as a session player. 

It sounds a little bit like The Four Seasons doing Rag Doll or something like that and has a very Spectorish "Wall Of Sound" type production.

Anyone know of any info on it?

[SteveAJones]

2 hours ago, Stevie Barr said:

I have a bootleg CD on Saka records entitled "Tight But Loose" on the sleeve but "Loose Ends" on the actual CD 🤔 It's the usual mishmash of live stuff of varying quality but there is a track on it that I can't find out any info about anywhere- it is entitled "Trying Too Hard", artist unknown, the only info in the sleeve notes is "Unreleased Immediate session from 1965" so I imagine JP was probably involved as a session player. 

It sounds a little bit like The Four Seasons doing Rag Doll or something like that and has a very Spectorish "Wall Of Sound" type production.

Anyone know of any info on it?

No. It's either the wrong title, the wrong label, the wrong year or this is just a hoax post.

[Stevie Barr]

Well it's certainly not the latter. 

[Stevie Barr]

Track 7

https://www.discogs.com/Led-Zeppelin-Loose-Ends/release/9215944

 

[Fat Albert 72]

2 hours ago, SteveAJones said:

No. It's either the wrong title, the wrong label, the wrong year or this is just a hoax post.

It’s the wrong trousers

[The Only Way To Fly]

2 hours ago, Fat Albert 72 said:

It’s the wrong trousers

Wallace and Gromit? I LOVED those shows! 

[Mr. Snrub]

It's a demo from Page's days at Immediate Records, 1965. Jimmy played guitar and produced it but he didn't sing on it. The same song was later recorded by a guy named Russ Loader.

[Stevie Barr]

4 hours ago, Mr. Snrub said:

It's a demo from Page's days at Immediate Records, 1965. Jimmy played guitar and produced it but he didn't sing on it. The same song was later recorded by a guy named Russ Loader.

Thank you!! A sensible answer at last.

[SteveAJones]

5 hours ago, Mr. Snrub said:

It's a demo from Page's days at Immediate Records, 1965. Jimmy played guitar and produced it but he didn't sing on it. The same song was later recorded by a guy named Russ Loader.

I see the recording was released by Russ Loader on Columbia on Sep 17, 1965, but nothing connecting the song to Jimmy Page.

http://www.45cat.com/record/db7696

[Stevie Barr]

It appears to have been written by a "G. Stephenson"

[Mr. Snrub]

On 2/9/2020 at 7:24 AM, Stevie Barr said:

It appears to have been written by a "G. Stephenson"

That's Geoff Stephens. Prolific songwriter.