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CD Rockville Music (2007)
The first 10 songs were originally recorded in 1977 and released as a bootleg with the album title "Third" and a differing track order
Bonus tracks are previously unreleased live and studio recordings from 1975-1977
"...a reissue of the band's notorious third album that was supposed to have been released in the late 70's but unfortunately didn't see the light of day due to disbandment of the band and label difficulties. The album was in fact released as a bootleg under the name Third and in some cases The St. Louis Hounds, featuring a picture of the actual Pavlov's Dog, but it wasn't until 2007 that the record would get an official release by the German label Rockville Music. Titled Has Anyone Here Seen Sigfried?, this new version of the album is a lot more polished than the previous bootlegs and features additional 10 bonus tracks of unreleased material from the 70's."
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=16132
Pavlov's Dog third album was entitled "The St. Louis Hounds" even though the band was still going by the name of Pavlov's Dog. The planned title for the third album was "Whatever Became of Siegfried?" This was a joking reference to electric violinist Siegfried Carver who left after the second album.
The original planned cover art was a wonderful drawing of an overhead view of Sherlock Holmes (in classic deerstalker hat) and Watson being led down a foggy London street by an English pit bulldog that just happens to look exactly like the dog in the woodcut on Pampered Menial, which became the band's logo. The cover of the album that was eventually released was a humorous black and white drawing of the group. The name "St. Louis Hounds" and the drawings of the band members on the album were borrowed from a comic strip about Pavlov's Dog that ran in the magazine, New Musical Express, during the band's heydey.
At the time the third album was recorded, the band was still called Pavlov's Dog and was under contract to Columbia. After the album was completed, Columbia Records cut the band from its list and put the album on the shelf, never to be released.
Each member of the band received a 1/4" reel-to-reel tape copy of the master to take home after the album was completed. Several members of the band bootlegged the third album on vinyl over the years (the most notable being the "St. Louis Hounds" version), and the worldwide bootleg CDs are bootlegs of these original vinyl bootlegs. The location of the original studio master is not known.
I have personally seen original (autographed) copies of this album selling for $100. However, I would say the music contained on the album is not worth that price. I have also seen sealed (unautographed) copies of the album for $25.00 at used record stores in St. Louis, Missouri USA.
The album was re-released on CD by a German label in 1994. The above picture is the cover from the import CD. The quality of the sound on the CD leaves a lot to be desired. The CD was most likely mastered from a clean copy of the vinyl album.
http://pavlovsdogband.tripod.com/indexframe.html
David Surkamp / vocals
- Douglas Rayburn / mellotron, piano
- Rick Stockton / bass
- Kirk Sarkisian / drums
- Tom Nickeson / keyboards, piano
- Steve Scorfina / guitar
- Sigfried Carver / violin (11-15)
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