Mott The Hoople
1970-12-06 Schorndorf (*), Germany Künkelinshalle (1st gen. AUD)
01. Ohio
02. No Wheels To Ride
03. Walkin' With A Mountain
04. Long Red
05. Thunderbuck Ram
06. The Debt
07. Rock n Roll Queen
08. Keep a Knockin'
Total Time ::: 48:29
NOTES ::: Considering the volume these guys likely played at, an EXCELLENT audience tape for the time period, check the samples & get ready to ROCK. Clear, warm & well recorded, with great instrument & vocal balance. There is some volume fluctuation & tape degradation in places, but hey it's over 40 years old! If you can dig it, likely you are too!
::: * Tourlists say "Schorndorf TV Hall, Stuttgart", but I'll go with the taper. Schorndorf is only 26 kilometers from Stuttgart. The taper was meticulous his labeling & it usually matched other circulating info. If you know differently, speak up... It came as Künkelinshalle but on the net I only see Barbara-Künkelin-Halle, a mystery for another researcher...
Recording Information ::: unknown equipment -> master audience tape -> 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby B on
Playback 2011-07-29 ::: 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth & pitch adjusted, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Tascam CD-RW900SL pro CD recorder -> CD-RW -> computer -> EAC secure -> wav file(s) -> Audacity (for fades and/or glitch repair, volume adjustments, no EQ) -> CD Wave for track splits -> Trader's Little Helper -> various ears around the world.
Line-up ::: Ian Hunter - piano, vocals // Mick Ralphs - guitar, vocals // Overend Watts - bass // Verden Allen - organ // Buffin - drums
Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.
Thanks to the original taper! This guy made some monster audience recordings of bands that just weren't taped often enough, at a time when it was neither easy nor common. Mucho gracias.
Corrections welcome. If the pitch is still incorrect, email me & maybe I can fix it. I use a pitch pipe, check 3-4 songs & when in doubt compare 1-2 songs on a time-appropriate album, but sometimes I'm off. I've learned a lot since this transfer & likely would do it differently now, so maybe someday I can re-run it. but it is more than fine the way it is.
Cool Sonics Series CSS-012 ::: This one's for Ena Karen Meredith Swansea Whisnant, the original Rock & Roll Queen. Long may your red locks rock. Along with Fillmore West July 1970 & Stockholm, one of my favorite live Mott gigs. If you did the early 1970s concert trips, this recording will really take you back. If the neighbors can't see thru yer windows & yer wife & kids are outta the house, crank it up, play some air guitar, shake yer hair if you still got any & boogie on down. As much as I love "All The Young Dudes", I would be hard pressed to say it got better than this vintage. Ballads, heavy rock & revolution. Get it now before Angel Air charges you a brickwalled pound for it without telling you it's not album quality! More recordings on the way. Til Sept. 2011, I suffered from SERIOUSLY slow internet access & am fixing my ratio as fast as I can, now that I am able. Enjoy, share, give, spread peace.
Since we're gettin' older & reminiscin' is in vogue... Kudos to: Zongo for life support & Lochner for microphones & much more. A bow to Fast Freddie for running Video Dick's Record Emporium with the bathroom office full of tape decks. Thanks to Hanwaker (few among us can keep his pace) for over 30 years of trading & friendship. Mountains of gratitude to Davmar, D.White, Sanchez, Elliot, The Florida Kid, Kloiber, Zingg, JTW, Bershaw, Boston Gold, Weeks, Dixon, Moore, Gough (G.-if you read this, get in touch!) & SO many more for all that collecting & sharing... Royal thanks to The Man In The Palace, Doc Tinker, Brinkhoffs, Barely Eatin', Reel Master Gaule, Dean Parrish & all those traders who housed & fed me through my music acquisition & travel years. Steppin' back to the roots - hats off to Brother Kent, Uncle Jake, Ena Whisnant (& 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.
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