What is "Bag of Tricks"?

[Winston Wrong]

Hey all,

Does anyone know what "Bag of Tricks" is supposed to be?

Is it an early version of Heroes and Villains "introduction", which became the Mrs O'leary's Cow intro?

[The Heartical Don]

Hey all,

Does anyone know what "Bag of Tricks" is supposed to be?

Is it an early version of Heroes and Villains "introduction", which became the Mrs O'leary's Cow intro?

That has to be 'Track Of Bigs', the working title for '15 Big Ones'. Didn't you know?

[A Million Units In Jan!]

Hey all,

Does anyone know what "Bag of Tricks" is supposed to be?

Is it an early version of Heroes and Villains "introduction", which became the Mrs O'leary's Cow intro?

It's similar to H&V intro. Just more whistle blowing and piano banging-it isn't as 'put together' sounding as the normal H&V intro.

[Bicyclerider]

It was recorded to be part of Heroes and Villains, it has the bass line of Fall Breaks, and is similar though sparser and more percussive than "Intro" (which only "became" part of "Fire" when David Leaf put it in front of Fire on the Mark Linnett 1988 Smile tape compilation, put together to submit to Capitol to consider release at that time.  Brian must of liked the idea because he then did the same on BWPS, but it was "intro to Heroes and villains" when it was recorded up to Leaf's reassignment of the piece).  It probably was a reworking of the Intro (because there is also an earlier intro with chimes/bells that Bag of Tricks likely supplanted, only to have Brian redo the Intro again in March).

[petsite]

It has that "old movie" clock work / industrial feel to it. Reminds me of a Harlold Loyld / Keystone Cops sound.