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 Posted:   Feb 21, 2022 - 5:52 AM   
 By:   mortenbond   (Member)

From my contacts in the Bond community, I was sent this link to what is supposedly the - famed - unreleased Licence to Kill demotrack, by Michael Kamen, Eric Clapton and Vic Flick.

https://m.soundcloud.com/michael-sawin-1/james-bond-theme-license-to-kill-eric-clapton-outtake

Sound good. And sounds like Clapton to my ears.



 
 
 Posted:   Feb 21, 2022 - 6:15 AM   
 By:   George Flaxman   (Member)

Interesting.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 21, 2022 - 9:08 AM   
 By:   mortenbond   (Member)

After listening to this several times - I think this is actually the one - the rejected Bond song.

Recorded at Townhouse Studios in February 1989.

The Bond theme guitar is very Vic Flick. The drums are very much like the score arrangement, and the Clapton guitar is pure Clapton.

 
 Posted:   Feb 21, 2022 - 10:53 AM   
 By:   rdj252   (Member)

Actual one or not, I like it. I'd heard about this years ago, and being a big Bond and Kamen fan, I've waited a long time to hear this (if it's the real deal-which it sounds like). Kamen's score was terrific and so is this.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 21, 2022 - 3:34 PM   
 By:   Graham   (Member)

Was not expecting that.

Graham

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 21, 2022 - 6:09 PM   
 By:   filmusicnow   (Member)

If there ever is an expanded edition of “License To Kill” they should include the demo track as a bonus track.

 
 Posted:   Feb 21, 2022 - 8:27 PM   
 By:   Peter Atterberg   (Member)

A pleasant and intriguing surprise. I wonder what the lyrics would have been.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 22, 2022 - 12:48 AM   
 By:   mortenbond   (Member)

A pleasant and intriguing surprise. I wonder what the lyrics would have been.

I`m not sure it was ever meant to have lyrics. It seems to be more in the vein of The Lethal Weapon musical approach - with an instrumental featuring a well known instrumental artist.

As interesting as this song is, I think this song is far inferior to the title song the producers finally landed on.

But the guitar underline, with the Bond motif is very cool! That repeating twang....very Vic Flick.

 
 Posted:   Feb 22, 2022 - 12:58 AM   
 By:   PollyAnna   (Member)

Has anyone matched it to the credit sequence yet?. Timing is not far off the Gladys Knight song. I would like to think it's the real deal although it is a tad repetitive.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 22, 2022 - 4:58 AM   
 By:   jfallon   (Member)

Wow I need this track in my life. This expansion needs to be approved… love this freakin score.

 
 Posted:   Feb 22, 2022 - 7:22 AM   
 By:   PollyAnna   (Member)

Must be genuine, it's been removed from soundcloud......

 
 Posted:   Feb 22, 2022 - 8:04 AM   
 By:   Lukas Kendall   (Member)

Interesting piece about it here:

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/music-eric-clapton-lost-session-song-licence-to-kill?fbclid=IwAR0dPEoqFVcnDWU908nAaYx3LyBjITE1rVWhwvtcPEKsD1RnhBIElG97nF8

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 22, 2022 - 10:02 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

And Eric Clapton is now about to sue anybody AND everybody who listened to it big grin


https://www.vulture.com/2021/12/eric-clapton-sues-woman-for-bootleg-album-ebay.html

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 23, 2022 - 2:26 AM   
 By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member)

Track has been removed from Soundcloud and Youtube.

 
 Posted:   Feb 23, 2022 - 2:35 AM   
 By:   AdoKrycha007   (Member)

Track has been removed from Soundcloud and Youtube.

Who cares. Nothing is lost on the internet cool Track is available even for download on archived website.

 
 Posted:   Mar 22, 2022 - 10:07 AM   
 By:   dbakes4   (Member)

New article from MI6 about the track https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/music-eric-clapton-lost-session-song-licence-to-kill-revealed?id=05032

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 23, 2022 - 5:49 AM   
 By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member)

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 23, 2022 - 7:13 AM   
 By:   jfallon   (Member)

I can def see how this wouldn’t work as a Bond song but I love it still, cheese and all.

 
 Posted:   Mar 23, 2022 - 12:17 PM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

That sounds like it was written for a filmed-in-Toronto* syndicated 1990s TV series about Bond.

*Apologies to all the Canadians here.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 23, 2022 - 12:56 PM   
 By:   bladerunner76   (Member)

Love parts of this. Think of Martin Riggs the other parts wink

 
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