Personnel:
Ian Hunter - vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, percussion, backing vocal
Mick Ronson - lead guitar, organ, Mellotron, mouth organ, bass guitar
Geoff Appleby - bass guitar, backing vocals
Dennis Elliott – drums, percussion
Pete Arnesen – piano, keyboards
John Gustafson – bass guitar on "Lounge Lizard"
Release date: 28 March 1975
Running time: 40:38
Current edition: CBS
Highest chart places: UK #21, US #50.
On 23 October 2016 the gargantuan and unprecedented thirty-disc box set offering rare tracks, previously unreleased recordings, and video was released. Assembling the set meant culling the Hunter archives for Fostex and half-inch tapes. Ian listened to music not remembering some of it nor even who was on the tapes. The compilation released a smorgasbord of over 400 tracks on twenty eight CDs, including the seventeen original albums on nineteen discs, nine CDs of rare recordings, engaging unissued demos and live cuts, plus two DVDs of promotional, live, television, and archival footage.
There were expanded thirtieth anniversary editions of Ian Hunter, All-American Alien Boy, and You're Never Along with a Schizophrenic, plus special bonus track versions of Overnight Angels, Welcome to the Club, Short Back n' Sides, All of the Good Ones Are Taken, The Artful Dodger, Shrunken Heads, When I'm President, and Strings Attached, with two unreleased cuts.
The set was limited to 2,500 copies including an eighty-eight page book, signed Alien Boy lithograph, and a twenty-page replica Shades music paper of historic 1975-2015 press features, dated 1 April 2016. All of the discs were presented in replica LP card sleeves, many with custom artwork.
Proper Music also prefaced the box set with Sampling In Reality, a seven-track CD containing two unique tracks, a demo of American Music and Sweet Jane by Hunter and Tribes. In short, it is a mind-boggling set that took over three years to assemble. And, Ian deliberately released Fingers Crossed at the same time so it was clear Hunter was not done and not ready to release Salvation as his last effort. Salvation appears on the CD Experiments clearly Hunter was not done with music.
Your Way is only on the box set of Stranded In Reality.
Ian Hunter On Track for Sonicbond Publishing, TheDoctorOfDigital@pm.me
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