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Rose Tattoo - Billy Thorpe LA Sessions

Rose Tattoo "The Lost Album". 

Citation from Rose Tattoo's official website (BIO - 1993):

"Around 1979, Mick and Georgie took leave of absence and the band continued on as a tour piece with guitar godfather and the early seventies' leader of Melbourne's infamous Coloured Balls Lobby Loyd on incredibly loud bass.
That lineup went to the U.S. in 1980 and recorded in the Hollywood studios of ex-patriot Australian hard rock king, Billy Thorpe. Those sessions which included the use of synthesizers and backward guitar techniques were the advance blueprint for the 1982 album. Scared For Life have never been released and remain in the vaults.In 1981, the band regrouped, recorded the Assault And Battery album and carried out a search and destroy mission on Europe and the U.K. to capitalize on the glowing response imported copies of the first album had received in those parts.

Liner notes for the "Nice Boys Don´t Play Rock´n´Roll" Compilation 1992 by Murray Engleheart"
Rose Tattoo "The Lost Album" also know as Scarred for Life The Lost Album


line up for this recording

angry anderson - voc
pete wells - guitar
lobby lloyde - bass and guitar
dallas royale - drums

Including artwork.

Tracks:
01 scarred for life
02 the creeper
03 its a shame
04 rosetta
05 holocaust
06 high line
07 suicide
08 4th form fantasy
09 street fighting man


Aztec Music are planning an official remastered release of this album for later this year????????? with the complete cooperation of Angry Anderson.


That story about Aztec records dates from 2008. No sign of the album being released.

And according to an interview with Angry Anderson, the album will never be released. He says Albert Productions own the rights and will not release it.