Dank Sonic Juice bin ich auf dieses tolle Album gestoßen:
12 HITS FROM HELL: THE MSP SESSIONS
Halloween
Vampira
I Turned Into A Martian
Skulls
London Dungeon
Night Of The Living Dead
Horror Hotel
Ghouls Night Out
Astro Zombies
Where Eagles Dare
Violent World
Halloween II
London Dungeon (alternate take)
This album was originally scheduled for an October 30, 2001 release but was cancelled due to Jerry Only’s disappointment with the mix and Glenn Danzig’s disappointment with the artwork. About 2000 promotional CD copies were pressed and distributed. 40,000 regular CD copies were pressed, but later destroyed. Several record sleeves were printed and distributed (without vinyl) to members of the band. The original plan was to press 2000 copies of orange vinyl and 1000 copies of white vinyl. The album was „postponed“ on October 15, 2001. (von MisfitsCentral.com)
Und das sind die original Liner Notes, die für die Veröffentlichung geplant waren:
Originally intended to be a full-length release, like so many recordings before it, the MSP session instead became the launching pad for their legendary Walk Among Us album. Recorded on August 7, 1980, several of the twelve recorded tracks ended up being released on two classic Plan 9 Records singles, while the rest of the tracks remained unheard outside of tape dubbing and bootlegging. Part of the „Halloween“ single was taken from these recordings while the „3 Hits from Hell“ 7″, which came out in April 1981, drew upon this session for „London Dungeon“, „Horror Hotel“ and „Ghouls Night Out“.
These recordings came at a very important time for the band. A time in which they ultimately and unceremoniously kicked out guitarist Bobby Steele and replaced him with Jerry’s little brother, Doyle. In
fact, both Bobby and Doyle recorded various guitar tracks in this session (with Bobby laying down a vast majority of them) although the band was never actually a five-piece. Together, however, their styles intertwined to create a sound that the world hadn’t experienced to date, and hasn’t heard since.
This album is sequenced exactly as the band had envisioned it back in 1980, based on original hand-written notes on MSP letterhead (the handwritten song titles on the back are from those very notes). Like Static Age before it, 12 Hits From Hell gives us all a proper historical view of the band. It’s not simply a compilation or a splicing-together of random tracks from over the years – 12 Hits From Hell is very much a perfectly focused picture of the band. This allows us a glimpse of where the Misfits were at the time as well as where they were going in the years to come.
Tom Bejgrowicz / 2001
PRODUCTION / TRACKING NOTES:
The versions of the recordings included here have been completely re-mixed and mastered for this release. They were taken directly from the original 16 track 2″ master tapes as they were recorded in 1980.
This mix is not meant to re-invent the past nor is it to emulate the original mixes either. It is a mix which draws heavily upon a bigger and fuller stereo sound, Bobby Steele’s guitar tracks, Jerry’s bass and the kick drumming of Googy.
All of the songs were recorded in one take except „London Dungeon“ which took two full run-throughs in the studio. The band chose the first take as the version they’d use on the 3 Hits From Hell single,
Take two, never before heard outside of those sessions, is included here as a bonus track. The sound on this version is more straight forward based on the fact that the band did not bother recording over-dub tracks on guitar, bass or backing vocals for this take.
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