Kathy's Zak Starkey Site: Animal Soup recordings

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Animal Soup
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The Demos:

Simon Townshend, Zak Starkey, Peter Gordeno and Phil Spalding joined forces after touring with Roger Daltrey in 1994, and became Animal Soup. They managed to record a number of demos for a possible LP, as well as play a few live gigs. photo courtesy of Bob Kowalski

When She Sleeps (Zak on slide guitar)
Company (Zak on lead guitar) [Can be heard at Simon's MP3.com page!]
The Way It Is
Cold Water (Zak on drums, 2nd demo version also on lead guitar)
[demo#1 can be heard at Simon's MP3.com page!]
Girls On Girls [Is the bonus track on Simon's "Animal Soup" CD]
Ecstasy Heaven (Zak on electric guitar)
Sex Change
Head, Hips And Heart (Zak plays the guitar solo. The band never got around to recording the vocals.)
Comeback (Zak also on lead Guitar)
Blood Blue Genes (an instrumental)

Fans of Simon's Among Us CD will recognize a few of the titles. However, the ANIMAL SOUP versions tend to be slightly harder and heavier than the later "stb" ones. (Especially "Girls On Girls"). The electric guitar part in "Ecstasy Heaven" credited to Zak on the CD, was apparently taken directly from this Animal Soup version. Zak also plays the slide guitar part on "When She Sleeps" (also from this demo session version). It is also quite possible that Zak is the second (or additional) guitar on a few more of these early versions. Zak DOES play the guitar solo in "Head, Hips And Heart". [Surprised he's playing guitar? Don't be, as he played most of the guitar on his own 1989 ICE:A2Z CD].

Animal Soup also played a few gigs around London in 1995 - see Live

Simon has talked about possibly putting out a CD of these demos! Visit his official site and EMAIL him telling him you want to HEAR MORE 95 'SOUP!

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