Just got my cd of Earth Tour. No Fantasy is Reality.
School boy error 
I had the CD version before I got the vinyl, so I was pretty surprised when I heard it on there. But I had heard it before on that Tear The Roof Off compilation. I loved that comp, I got it pretty early so there were a bunch of tracks on there hadn’t heard before. Happy days. 
If anyone isn’t familiar with Fantasy Is Reality, it was originally recorded during the Invictus days and later turned up on First Thangs.
Here’s some different versions.
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The Osmium album also has it on the CD version, not sure about the vinyl.
Yes true! Like this one:
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I prefer the original. Such a great soulful and beautiful song and killer guitar riff splattered thru-out.
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I’m wary of Osmium now as I don’t want any of the bonus tracks missing. They really elevate the album from a bit of a curiosity to one of my favourites; I’d be similarly gutted at no Come in out of the rain - and even more so at the lack of Red Hot Mama.
Need to be sure, to be sure.
Take your point about the original; there’s a lot to love about it: the drumming, the twinkly Bernie notes at the end.
This is a proto version, that predates the Invictus version. Oddly, GC is not credited.
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While this tune isn’t my favorite P-Funk tune (in any form), I always found the Osmium-era version noteworthy for Bernie’s decidely out of tune electric piano.
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Wow, thank you for that! I see that Mike Terry arranged it. Welcome to the forum!
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Fantasy is Reality from the Earth Tour album is one of my favorites.
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I do like the original a lot but I have to agree. If I could only take one tune to a desert island, that would be the one I’d start and end each day with. There aren’t enough tunes with Eddie AND Glen together, sadly.
What? Another couple of collaborations , tops?
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