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From: "Samuel Petersson" <samuel@grandebarbe.com>
>I recently stumbled across the song "Faithless" from the The Big Shot
> Chronicles sessions. I just can't believe this beautiful and catchy 
> song
> written by bassist Fred Juhos wasn't included on the original 
> release of The
> Big Shot Chronicles. Anyone else agree? I guess it was included on 
> the
> rereleased CD but still...just a thought..

Actually, it was never meant to be on THE BIG SHOT CHRONICLES, which 
Fred Juhos doesn't appear on!  It was recorded in late 1984 or early 
1985, during early sessions for the previous album, REAL NIGHTTIME, 
but the original lineup of Game Theory split up before that album was 
released (that's why only Scott Miller was pictured on the cover) and 
since Fred was no longer in the band, his song was dropped from the 
track lineup.  When Alias did the reissue of BSC, they stuck 
"Faithless" and a couple of other tunes on the end as bonus tracks, 
but they really don't have anything to do with the album proper.

I had an off-and-on email correspondence with Fred Juhos close to 10 
years ago -- he's the guy who first hipped me to the Cardigans! -- and 
for what it's worth, he said that "Faithless" was the only song he 
ever wrote for Game Theory that he's at all proud of, and that it's 
"about" the fact that he regretted that he hadn't made better use of 
his time in the group.

For a couple years, the only Game Theory song I'd ever heard was 
Fred's "I Wanna Get Hit By A Car," which got occasional airplay on 
Texas Tech's college station when I was in high school in Lubbock.  So 
when I heard "Erica's Word" in late '86, my first thought was "When 
did Game Theory get a new lead singer?"

S