Big Brother & The Holding Company (post-Janis)
1970-06-29 Salt Lake City, Utah Terrace Ballroom (M2-AUD)
"Be A Brother" all guys in the band tour
"Now we're going to turn you on really hard!" (promoter) "Gotta get higher..." (band)
01. --introduction & warmup--
02. Keep On
03. Sunshine Baby
04. Nu Boogaloo Jam
05. All Is Loneliness
06. Someday
07. Home On The Strange (with lyrics)
Total Time ::: 41:47
::: Fine AUD but a bit distant with some audience noise. Issues compensated for somewhat by relatively clean nice stereo sound. Check samples for personal assessment or gleams of the psychedelic torch about to burn from yer stereo.
::: Warts: More below, but still some unrepairable dropouts. Audience talking is too apparent at times, but not yelling or clapping so mostly not an issue.
::: The bill was Wishful Thinking, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Traffic.
::: "Nu Boogaloo Jam" is just introduced here as "Boogaloo Jam".
::: "Home On The Strange" is an instruemtnal on the album, but here it has lyrics.
::: Taper shut off recorder between most songs.
::: NOTE: This one is ripe for EQ. If someone really knows what they are doing, the high end IS THERE to be rescued & this thing sounds far better with EQ without increasing hiss. I'd be very interested in a properly EQ'd remaster, so please have at it & post. Thanks in advance!
::: Poster available for viewing by the artist at http://www.robbrownart.com/commercial/commercial5.htm
::: CONTRAST CLAUSE: Boombox posted an unknown gen of this in 2006 which is NOT on the tracker now. I've not heard it, though interesting he also felt it worth EQ'ing. This upload is a known 2nd gen & perhaps 2-3 minutes longer. If someone gets around to comparing, it would be interesting to hear the results.
Recording Information ::: unknown stereo recording equipment -> master stereo audience tape -> 1st generation cassette, Dolby off -> 2nd generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby off.
Playback 2012-03-12 ::: 2nd generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby off, azimuth & pitch adjusted, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Tascam CD-RW900SL pro CD recorder -> CD-RW -> computer, EAC secure -> wavs -> Audacity (fades &/or glitches, dropouts, volume adjustments, no EQ) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. First uploaded week of 2012-04-05.
Line-up ::: (unconfirmed) James Gurley - guitar // Peter Albin - bass, vocals // Sam Andrew - guitar, vocals // David "Ravy Davy" Getz - drums // probably David Schallock - guitar, vocals. Kathi McDonald & Nick Gravenites were previously listed on this recording but I don't hear them at all & there are no Nick songs, I very much doubt either of them is playing.
Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.
CoolSonics 138 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! Believe my copy hailed from his honor NS outta the NW, hope his chemical attenuation is perfectly aligned & his collector obsessiveness continues to flourish. BTW if you read this, email me, I gotta question for ya. ::: Corrections welcome ::: This one's for Zongo & Kate who had Big Brother play their wedding party, holy matrimony indeed! I'm a huge fan of this band & the all-male versions are just fine with me. In my opinion, the biggest mistake Big Brother has ever made is the multitude of Janis wannabes in & out of the band, all the way as far back as Kathi McDonald right on up thru the past year, just plain unnecessary, distracting & self-defeating (not that my opinion counts for much!). Anyway, we need more tapes of this all male band, both before & after Janis. "Be A Brother" is a very fine album & this recording included some of the only live versions I have ever heard of some of the songs. Too bad they didn't did "Heartache People" here, as the live versions of that one are excellent. All in all it sounds like it was taped with fine equipment, but too far back in the hall. Then every once in a while we get the guys right near the mikes. "What do you do, pavement?"! What I do find odd is how little the audience sounds like they are paying attention. Perhaps it is the main local party & hangout scene or perhaps they were mostly there for Traffic. Big Brother was doing a lot of very far out, spacy, subtle jamming: perhaps just not what the freaks of Salt Lake City were looking for. I mean Salt Lake City 1970. Conservative as hell... Surprised the bands were even cruising thru there. Having said that, some folks in the audience are clearly getting it, check the guy's scream near the start of "All Is Loneliness". The jamming, drumming & hypnotic trance space on that song is superb. The dropouts were hard to repair on this one, the channels are VERY different, so cross channel patches didn't always work well, but that & other methods fixed about 80% of them & the distractions are almost gone! There were also a lot of volume fluctuations, mostly fixed. Listening loud is essential & the thing shines pretty bright, so turn 'er up! Enjoy.
Kudos to Zongo for life support, Lochner for mikes&more & Fast Freddie for runnin' Video Dick's Record Emporium with the bathroom office full of tape decks. Thanks to Hanwaker (few among us can keep his pace). Mountains of gratitude to Davmar, D.White, Sanchez, Elliot, The Florida Kid, Kloiber, Zingg, JTW, Bershaw, Boston Gold, Weeks, Dixon, Moore, Gough & SO many more for all that collecting & sharing... Royal thanks to The Man In The Palace, Doc Tinker, Brinkhoffs, Barely Eatin', Reel Master Gaule, Parrish & all the traders who housed me thru my music acquisition & travel years. Hats off to Brother Kent, Uncle Jake, Little Queenie (& her neighbor Frank) & his honor Ptomaine Thomas. Glasses raised to Byron for musical horizon expansion & much obliged to J & Thurston for keepin' my concert fires burnin' since my continental shift. Thanks to the Mods for keepin' DIME alive. Enjoy, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees
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