Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
1969-06-27 Denver, Colorado Mile High Stadium Denver Pop Festival (M2-AUD)
01. ...Ball N' Chain
02. I've Had My Fun
Total Time ::: 9:41
::: Quite enjoyable ambient wide stereo sound. Check samples for bluesification audio edification or a touch or two of Big Mama's charisma.
::: Warts: Nothing major. Track 2 has a bit of aud. talk, a plane flies over & at end a little wind rumble in right channel.
::: Day 1 : June 27 : Big Mama Thornton, The Flock, Three Dog Night, Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention, Iron Butterfly.
::: Day 2 : June 28 : Aorta, Zephyr, Poco, Johnny Winter, Creedence Clearwater Revival.
::: Day 3 : June 29 : Aum, Zephyr (unscheduled 2nd appearance), Rev. Cleophus Robinson, Joe Cocker, Three Dog Night, Jimi Hendrix Experience (final performance together).
::: Tickets $6 per day or $15 for all 3 days. http://www.bobwyman.com/hendrix.html has a lot of detailed festival info.
Recording Information ::: unknown stereo reel-to-reel recorder & microphones -> master stereo audience reels -> 1st generation VHS Hi-Fi audio tapes -> 2nd generation Maxell Metal 100 cassette, Dolby B on.
Playback 2013-03-01 ::: 2nd generation Maxell Metal 100 cassette on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth & speed adjusted (pitched!) for individual recording, heads cleaned & demagnetized -> Sony Linear PCM Recorder PCM-M10 (LPCM 44.10kHz/16bit WAV files) -> computer -> Audacity (normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment mainly from wide stereo spread, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch / dropout / bump / pop / click / dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, NO equalisation) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. First uploaded week of 2013-03-30.
Line-up (unknown to me) ::: Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton - vocals // ? - piano // / ? - upright bass // ? - drums.
Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.
CoolSonics 227 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! My copy from that fine musicologist, GS - Hopefully he is doing well wherever he is in the world. ::: Corrections welcome ::: I have all the recordings of bands from this Festival this source made, some 1st gen. & some 2nd. The ones not commonly around I will try to finish mastering & upload to yr ears in the near future. Heres all the taper recorded of Big Mama, an enjoyable couple of numbers of this legendary blues artist - a scarce vintage unissued live recording by her. Enjoy!
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Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!