The Clash - Life Is Wild (Rebooted)

Here's a word from Gerald Manns who remixed/rebooted this..."Well, like everyone I was extremely disappointed when CTC was released in 1985. I knew the new songs from different bootlegs, like Bring The House Down, Five Alive etc. All the years after I was hoping for the existence of some mastertapes that were smuggled out of the studio in munich by a mindful technician. But literature that was released decades later showed that Paul and Pete didn't take part in the recordings.
Last year I found two different audio editing softwares with different algorithms to separate vocals from an existing audio recording. The De-Berniator idea was born. So after ripping Joe's vocals from the tracks, cleaning them up (a lot of noisy bits, especially in The Dictator, had to be removed).
Next step was to get a good live performance of every song, copying Pete's drums beat by beat into a drum machine that sampled original drum sounds.
On songs The Clash didn't perform live I had to lay down the tracks in a Pete Howard stylee by myself. After that came listening, learning, rehearsing and recording guitars and basslines.
To get a better sound I had to buy a Les Paul to differ from my Telecaster sound (nice axe to have anyway). I had to add some backing vocals because the algorithms swallowed some of the football chants (didn't make them out as vocals). It took me a while to mix it all, but now it was time to kick it out of my house.
Especially in different Facebook groups are a lot of hate regarding the last line-up of The Clash. I think these were quite descent songs and a lot of fun to listen to now. For me, this is the CTC I expected and hoped for when it was released in 1985.
Feel free to spread these recordings wherever you like, maybe it will shine a better light on the last line-up.
Have fun!"
GMAN

[@robpaige2376]

Damn, this needs a legitimate release! An absolutely awesome job, this, my only minor gripe being that the lead vox are still a bit too far back in the mix on a couple of songs but this is infinitely more listenable than Bernie's abomination. Bravo!

[@miguelangelous]

And Thou should be known as The Redeemer 🙌🏼

[@eckiramone3178]

Superb work!

[@larry2569]

Great stuff! Thanks for doing this. I have always wanted to hear a more polished production of this album but without losing the heart and sound of CTC. I believe you have done this perfectly. Well done!

[@rhrothwell]

Amazing, this song has an ending now! Great work!

[@userk23c5d5]

Good point, but I have to say....... I disagree!!! I love the original ending!, I think its hysterical. Like somebody just hit the "stop" button by mistake

[@stefano720420]

Incredible great work... thank you!

[@userk23c5d5]

Terrific stuff :) this was always my favourite song from this album.

[@mikaelpihlblad6544]

Great work overall! I´m very impressed of your dedication.

[@Kresimirbozic]

Great!

[@rockulabacchus3786]

These are great. Any chance of doing 'Do It Now' to complete the project? ;)

[@mutantproof]

Well, "Do It Now" and "Sex Mad Roar" are the only songs that were played as a band, so I left them as they are.

[@rockulabacchus3786]

@@mutantproof Fair enough. Good work.

[@shotbalowski]

Really into this - gives CTC a new life. Any chance of WAVs?