This is my first time reading these particular interviews. After reading all that, I think I'm more convinced all this- from the thrift store tape, all the arg stuff and the "Random Tunes", has to be their early recordings,,,without a doubt.
I believe that this was all done by design. They knew no one would ever believe that there's a discovered VHS tape containing their music, so they or someone involved staged a YT channel. I mean,, c'mon, it's so clever. Why not get someone in the states to go under cover and pick a place to pretend where they supposedly found the tape? They knew this would be swept under the rug as a fake. Then again I could be wrong, but in my mind this is what's really taking place.
It's the "Home Recording" of them playing piano and guitar at the end of Random Tunes that really stood out to me.
They used the same melodic structure or fragments. You can also hear a Scottish voice for a split second at the beginning of the recording.
EDIT: Track 17 Live rehearsal 1988 - You can clearly hear the actual synth that was used in the track Skimming Stones from the Old Tunes album. You can clearly hear it is also the same melodic structure as well. I believe this to be where. that track originated from before it evolved into Skimming Stones.
Maybe I'm just losing my mind
