We screwed up.
While chronicling Colosseum track by bloody track, Chaz and Dr. Glund somehow went from Track 2 to Track 5 on Daughter of Time.
Thankfully, Achim Schulz noticed.
So this week: The Whoopsie Two-Fer — recovering the missing “Take Me Back to Doomsday” and “Daughter of Time.”
“Take Me Back to Doomsday” is driving, theatrical Colosseum: Clem Clempson on vocals, Jon Hiseman pounding away, Dick Heckstall-Smith doing his thing, and a 1970 Beat Club performance that reminds us just how formidable this band was live.
Then “Daughter of Time” — dark, grandiose and surprisingly epic for a song built around essentially one verse. The album version leads us to an April 1970 BBC performance that is radically different, longer and absolutely ferocious.
During that BBC performance, Chaz catches Dave Greenslade playing a keyboard idea that would later surface in “Those About to Die.”
So naturally we jump ahead 24 years to the 1994 reunion performance of “Those About to Die” at Zelt-Musik-Festival to hear it again — and end up marveling at a band still playing like their lives depended on it.
There’s also the small matter of Chaz once hijacking a wedding with this very recording.
Two accidentally skipped tracks. Two killer live performances. One musical idea traveling through Colosseum history.
Blame the brain fart.
Or the T.P. Aliens.
The Blade of Judgment remains sheathed.
The Doctor is in.
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