Castle Farm –Hot Rod Queen/ Jewels of Fire -EMIDISC Acetate (1972 UK)
With a title like Hot Rod Queen, it’s difficult to go wrong and this track is all you would expect it to be with a high octane delivery and exuberant performance at the crossroads of Junkshop Glam and Punk’d out Boogie. Castle Farm were from the Romford area and it appears that they only released one single (Hot Rod Queen/ Mascot) on their own Farm label. Both sides of the released single were recorded at Tangerine studios in London, but this acetate has the rampant dual guitar fuelled Jewels of Fire instead of Mascot as its B side. So the question is…is the version of Hot Rod Queen presented here the same as the A side of the released version? The released version can be found on something called Cosmorama: Blow Your Cool Vol 2. If anyone has that comp, could you please compare the tracks and get back to me with the answer –thanks!
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Yup, two different versions.
Both good!
: )
As Castle Farm's drummer, I might be able to shed some light here!
Yes, they certainly are two different versions of 'Hot Rod Queen'. The two tracks on the single were recorded at Tangerine Studios in London on 15th Feb 1972 and mixed down on 22nd Feb 1972.
'Jewels Of Fire' was recorded on 25th March 1972 at Pye No. 1, and produced/engineered by Miki Dallon. We then went back to Pye No. 1 on 13th April 1972 to re-record 'Hot Rod Queen' as Miki was interested in reworking it.
The version of HRQ that you have here is actually an edited version of the original recording, which ran to over four minutes - Miki being a 'pop' producer with a strict timing policy. We much preferred the longer version!
Hope this helps.
Steve
Thanks so much for the info...god I love doing this blog for times like these...
I can't make the Jewels of Fire sample play, are these tracks available anywhere I have Hot Rod Queen on vynil with Mascot as the B SIDE. sa
Hi
I'm afraid Divshare had a massive failure a few years ago and about half the sound files were lost. Those files were on another laptop that has since died. However I also have the official single (with Mascot) and may be featuring it in the near future, which may spur me into making new sound files of the acetate
Thanks, I will watch out for it, I would love to hear Jewels of Fire again after 40 years !!
Have you got around to re-doing the Castle Farm sound files yet? long and short versions of Mascot and Hot Rod Queen are now on youtube but not Jewels of Fire - the world is waiting !!
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