« Back to Top Level | Who, The

The Who - The 1969 Soundboard Tapes Volume 3 (prof stoned) (1969)

Track listing:
  1. Bill Graham Introduction 0:36
  2. Heaven And Hell 4:06
  3. Can't Explain 2:41
  4. Fortune Teller 2:47
  5. Pete Dialogue #1 1:35
  6. Young Man Blues 7:05
  7. Pete Dialogue #2 1:46
  8. Overture 5:28
  9. It's A Boy 0:42
  10. 1921 2:32
  11. Amazing Journey 2:55
  12. Sparks 4:39
  13. Eyesight To The Blind 1:58
  14. Christmas 0:27
  15. See Me, Feel Me 1:32
  16. Summertime Blues 3:21
  17. Shakin' All Over 6:28
  18. My Generation 7:00

Notes

Tr. 1-14: Fillmore East, New York City (NY) 22(?) October 1969
Tr. 15-18: Unknown Date & Venue. Possibly same as above.

Although we do not know the exact date for the other songs,
they are a 100% certainly from between 20 to 25 October 1969,

Multitrack Soundboard Recordings -> (Rough) Mixdown -> R2R -> ? -> Silver Pressed Bootlegs -> EAC -> Wavemerge 2.1 -> Adobe Audition 1.5 (Speed Correcting, Editing, Manual Level Correction)

Used source: Accept No Substitute (BIG011)
and an unidentified tape source for Tr. 18.

Restored, Edited & Mastered by Prof. Stoned

Prof Stoned sez:


The recordings here -save for one track- are sourced from the bootleg: "Accept No Substitute" from 1992. The CD uses a tape source of unknown generation (I suspect 1st or 2nd) and it runs very slow. Many of you already got this. But this version reconstructs the recording as accurately as possible. Speeds have been adjusted, sources have been compared, an extra track has been added and it has been mastered. All this for the optimal listening experience.

The Who played five days in a row in the Fillmore East Theatre from Oct. 20 to 25. 1969. This is one of them for sure, but it's not entirely certain which day we have here. Because Of Pete's remarks after Fortune Teller ("See, we don't play the same every night", "Every night the same amplifier is always blown up during the solo of the first song" & "We have only done three shows so far") Wednesday Oct. 22 seems to be a likely date, but it could be Oct. 23 too.

*** About The Restoration

After comparing, considering and again comparing the music with generated 792 & 880 HZ tones, I corrected the speed with 0.64 (Track 1-14) & 0.87 semitones for Track 15-17. I believe that Tr. 15-18 are from another night. Not just because this portion runs in a slower speed, but mostly because there's no sign of the buzzing in John's amp which can clearly be heard at all times when he (and the band) are not playing during Tr. 1-14.

Another indication is a 50 second fragment of an unidentified version of Amazing Journey which can be found between Tr. 14 & 15 on the ANS bootleg. It didn't match with Tr. 11 or the versions from 1969/10/18 & 1969/10/19. I removed it from this compilation.

Channels were swapped in the correct order with Pete's guitar on the right.

I extensively compared two different sources of Tracks 8-13, namely the 'Accept No Substitute' and '1969: Wintertime Trip'

Track 18 is taken from a tape source of unknown generation, and does not seem to have been bootlegged yet. The soundquality is obviously less good than that of the rest, but at least it is in real stereo.