Of course we have a copy of this, but if it’s not a thing he wants out there, we will respectfully not put it up there. You can still find copies of this on eBay if you really want.
This is an interesting case and I’ve written about it on the blog before. The playing on that tape, and on the first album, is not “real”, in the sense that there is no apparent synchronization between the hands. It’s just two things moving really fast in no relation to each other with no accuracy. Notes not being hit, strings being hit during string changes, and so on. If this were all he ever released, I would have chalked it up to just another person not playing what they thought they were playing. Which was very common in the '80s.
But… whenever the next album came out, all of a sudden, accurate. It’s rare that someone suddenly becomes the clean player they were attempting to be earlier, and rarer still that it happens after a person has already achieved a degree of notoriety for being an accurate player, even though they were not. It’s crazy actually.
I can see why he doesn’t like that tape, I wouldn’t either. But he’s a good player so it really doesn’t matter too much. It’s more of an interesting question to ask him what exactly changed in the interim. I reached out to him years ago for an interview and he wrote back I think briefly but not again.