
2002
CD 1: Original Album
1. King Of America
2. Lucky Break
3. Friday On My Mind
4. In My Own Way
5. As Rock Rolls On*
6. If The Sky Should Fall
7. So Far So Good
8. Gotta Get Hold
9. Seems Like I Only Fool Myself
10. Morning Song
Bonus Tracks:
11. As Rock Rolls On (Alt)
12. If I Was King (working title)
13. On My Love
14. Nothing On Earth
* guest vocals Alice Cooper
CD 2: 1974 Lake Tahoe Recordings
1. As The World Turns On
2. Love's Opened Up My Heart
3. I Kicked Da Blues
4. Someone Like You
5. I Can't Leave
6. No-one Knows The Stranger (Instr)
7. In My Own Way (Alt Lyrics)
8. Got To Get Hold
9. Love Love Love
10. Morning Song
11. Feeling Like Somebody Else
12. Something In This Life
13. When You're On The Outside
14. Ain't That Just Like Life
15. Life Will Be Our Music
16. So Far So good
17. Lucky Break |
Michael Bruce (Alice
Cooper) - In My
Own Way: The Complete Sessions 
This 2 CD set are recordings of Bruce's first solo
album "In My Own Way" with bonus tracks with alternative lyrics,
working titles or some that just didn't make the final cut.
The second CD are recordings from 1974 Lake Tahoe Sunburst Recordings.
Disc 1 contains the original album (review of that CD
is in this section) with some bonus tracks. An alternative "As
Rock Rolls On" and working title "If I Was King" is "King
Of America" demo. "Oh My Love" I first heard on a radio
interview with Michael Bruce back in '74.
Last is "Nothing On Earth" which is a pretty good song that
has some guitar work.
Disc 2 titled 1974 Lake Tahoe"Sunburst" Recordings
consist mostly of ballads. Some of the tracks are very Beatlesque, Little
Feat, even a few songs remind me of McCartney and Wings.
"Love Love Love" reminds me of Dave Mason.
Two instrumentals one is "No-one Knows The Stranger" which
should of been a 3 minute instrumental but it sounds they were struggling
to find a finish so it took them 7 minutes to complete it. Second is
"Feeling Like Someone Else". Both have good drumming on it
that isn't credited but from the inside interview it could be Curly
Smith.
Alternative lyrics "In My Own Way" seems to drag as well.
I like the one they used for the original album. "Got To Get Hold"
is "Gotta Get Hold" from IMOW album too.
"Life Will Be Our Music" is IMOW lp "If The Sky Should
Fall" and two more tracks from this lp "So Far So Good"
and "Lucky Break".
It's interesting to hear the session recording of some of these songs.
The 2 CD comes with a booklet with a February 2002 interview with Michael
Bruce who talks about the making of this and the Battle Axe album plus
future projects. |