Auto Tech Pilot

Written by: Mark E Smith, Steve Hanley

Initial release: Mr. Pharmacist (12″)

Date: 1 September 1986

Subsequent releases:

Bend Sinister
Box Two
458489 B Sides
The Fall: Singles 1978 – 2016,
Bend Sinister/The Domesday Pay-Off – Plus

Group on initial recording:

Mark E Smith – vocals: Brix Smith – guitar; Craig Scanlon – guitar; Simon Rogers – keyboards; Steve Hanley – bass; Simon Wolstencroft – drums

NOTES

“Auto Tech Pilot” was the 12” bonus track for  the “Mr Pharmacist” single

This track has a heavily edited, entire middle-eight spliced in between 2:17 and 2:42, in which Simon Wolstencroft seems to struggle to keep up with the rest.

A vague memory stirs in the back of my mind that the late great jazz trumpeter and musical iconoclast Miles Davis heard this and expressed an interest in playing with The Fall as a result of same.

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