Hi there Moderator. I recall that there was a demo version of Bob Is Not Your Uncle Anymore, but only available as a download to overseas folks. Can we now make that available to us friendly USA fans? Here? That would be swell, thanks!

"Dark Horse Dub" is a beautiful, atmospheric track which I only know from someone kindly posting 4 of its 6 minutes over at Great Big Public Music Sharing Site. I'm curious to know why it was cut from the finished North American album - legendary Aesthetic Perfectionism, or maybe some more prosaic technical limitation (running time, sample copyright & etc.)? I suppose I am also subliminally hoping that the gorgeous finished object might appear here one day like a starfish on the beach, revealed by an ebbing tide. FWIW Circus Money is my favorite of the post-reunion records, SD & solo, one that has provided so much listening pleasure over the years. In every show I attended post-2008 (& there were a lot of those...) I kept hoping one of its tracks would receive the full-band + WB vox treatment, but no dice. But the album has its own warm autonomy & maybe that, in the end, is enough.

Tony and cjb...-- the bonus track for the euro version was "Dark Horse Dub", and we can definitely sling that up here before too long. Tracking down that Bob Demo may take a tad longer...but it should go up here too so we will get it. Cjbrayshaw, DHD wasn't cut from the N.A.. version., but was made specifically for a euro bonus.

Then there was the free New Years' download for Newsletter subscribers; "Hammerhead Remix", another dub fantasia. Yeah, those tracks should be posted -- thanks for reminding me of them

Circus Money Hammerhead Remix

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Circus Money Hammerhead Remix

(bonus track for Newsletter subscribers)

Walter Becker 2007

[NOTE: NEW FINAL VERSE AFTER FADE]

they bang the hammer and they pitch the tents

throw up some posters for the residents

your daddies' footfalls on the rain slick streets

you try to keep up with your tiny feets

take it easy baby

nice and slow

little Walter got a

ways to go

I lacks a nickel momma

don’t you know

circus money for the early show

the tiger's sleeping and he can't wake up

you pitch some pennies in a paper cup

they guess your age they guess yr weight

you toss the softballs at the china plates

hold'er steady baby

there you go

let me hit you honey

sweet and lo

thus the tab is written

blow by blow

circus money for the evening show

all the horses baby all the men

round the circle and around again

you watch some hobo take a nasty spill

laugh like a bastard oh you know you will

you got to have it when you first walk up

drop a dollar in the old tin cup

you're gonna need it

when it's time to go

circus money for the late late show

The denim sneakers and the leather vest

the grim fruition of the life long quest

the dancing monkey cum the human wife

the mighty ruin of a middling life

dogs and ponies in a

tidy row

a little trickle or a

mighty flow

won't you tell me darlin

what I owe

circus money for the midnight show

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© Zeon LLC, 2006

Vocals: Walter Becker


Bass: Larry Klein


Drums: Keith Carlock


Guitar: Jon Herington


Piano: Ted Baker


Keyboards: Jim Beard


Percussion: Gordon Gottlieb


Tenor sax: Chris Potter

Background vocals: Carmen Carter,

Kate Markowitz, Windy Wagner

BOB IS NOT YOUR UNCLE ANYMORE (Demo)

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BOB IS NOT YOUR UNCLE ANYMORE (Demo)

B-side to Euro single

(W. Becker, L. Klein -2007)

This old house
 looks just the way it was


Just a tumbledown of pine and river stone

But it’s only just a shadow

of the place you knew before


Because Bob’s just not your uncle anymore

Winter’s here


And the day don’t last too long


Barely thimbles full of sunshine to go on

There’s an ocean full of midnight

rolling right up to the door
I guess

Bob’s just not your uncle anymore

And I say it without pride and without shame

That the dopey Irish Setter dog — Regan’s still his name


Well he looks right glad to see you

But he might not want to be you

Even though he loves you madly

from before


Before Bob was not your uncle anymore

Good old games


Like they play them back in town

Where the wayward daughter’s luck

runs strong and pure


You might feel like you’re a winner

but you never know for sure


Now that Bob’s just not your uncle anymore

And so we see


You can find your way back home


And that maybe when you get there

There’s a lock on every door


Now you know for certain


What the big wide world is good for


And that Bob’s just not your uncle anymore

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© Zeon LLC 2006

Vocals, bass: Vision opticope: Walter Becker


Thank you!

just to make sure to have a friend check you in an hour, to make sure you haven't fallen into a dub coma :-)

That would be a very pleasant coma to fall into!

Such great stuff. Thank you so much!