Soundboard > Rabbit Bundrick’s personal archive cassette master > analog cassette (Free Fan Club/FAS) > TDK SA 90 cassette (azimuth adjusted, **speed corrected**)>CDR
The other version ran about half a note slow.
Sound quality is 4/5 out of 6 (vg++)
PAUL KOSSOFF’S 22ND BIRTHDAY
15. SEVEN ANGELS *
* Bracknell Sports Centre – October 14, 1972
Quite a special show, this: the show was presumably recorded by the mixing desk, and ended up it keyboard player Rabbit Bundrick's personal archive.
The sound guy or whoever obviously forgot to flip the C 90 cassette in his mixing desk which is why the end of "Everyday I Have The Blues" and most of "Seven Angels" are missing; therefore added is an intact version of the rarely played latter from exactly a month later (the Bracknell Sports Center show on October 14, 1972).
Since Free’s reunion in February 1972, Koss had increasingly become quite a prob, and on this autumn tour, shows were either completely ruined or simply impossible. This show here is pretty early into the tour and Koss was still OK and had an “on” night, thankfully – seems he really pulled himself together on his 22nd. birthday. The other two known recorded shows (Bracknell and Coatham) are both _much_ less enjoyable.
Free did a real interesting set on this tour, with not-yet-released numbers (“Heartbreaker”, “Wishing Well”, “Seven Angels”), and non-Free numbers such as the magnificent “Lady”, and the lovely future Bad Co. track “Like Water” that stem from Paul Rodgers 1971 solo group Peace, plus “I’m On The Run”, and the completely vanished “Unseen Love”.
FWIW, this is simply Free’s last real good show.
Paul Rodgers, Paul Kossoff, Simon Kirke, Rabbit Bundrick, Tetsu