Stoneground
1971-03-xx San Francisco, California KSAN-FM Studios (M1-FM)
Haight Ashbury "Hashbury" Free Clinic Call-In Benefit
Live in studio performance
Top of the Argonaut Building, 211 Sutter Street
01. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
02. Stroke, Stand
03. <><><>-DJ babble-<><><>
04. If You Gotta Go, Go Now
05. <><><>-DJ babble-<><><>
06. Dreaming Man
07. <><><>-DJ babble-<><><>
08. Come Back Baby (6 second reception edit in middle)
09. <><><>-DJ babble-<><><>
10. Don't Waste My Time WIth Your Jive
11. Added Attraction (Come & See Me)
12. <><><>-DJ babble-<><><>
13. Brand New start
14. <><><>-DJ babble-<><><>
15. Strange Change
16. <><><>-DJ babble-<><><>
17. Bad News
18. Roll On Elijah
19. Gypsy Lover
20. Colonel Chicken Fry (->)
21. Total Destruction To Your Mind
22. Corrina
23. Rainy Day In June
24. Have You Seen My Baby?
25. <><><>-DJ babble-<><><>
Total Time ::: 1:18:01
::: Very fine superstereo FM, tho' my cassette is 30 years old! Check samples for corroboration & substantiation or just to sip the vintage wine.
::: Warts: There are some dropouts which were hard to work on as the channels are completely different & I'm sure I missed some. There are a few brief bad reception spots.
::: Original taper noted: "With too much commentary by Abe 'Voco' Kesh" (DJ), including some voiceovers at the starts of songs. The taper cut some dialog between songs while recording originally or when he did mine. I cut out a bit more & tracked it so you can cut out a lot more.
::: Other artists played the benefit later in the day including Taj Mahal (tapes circulate), John Lee Hooker, Wayne Talbot & who knows...
::: This is great, right from Stoneground's heyday, with their hardest edged hip sound around the first album release.
::: Seems like Stoneground started playing late Saturday night, so it was either March 5,12,19,26. Taj played at roughly 2am Sunday.
Recording Information ::: KSAN-FM stereo radio broadcast -> off-air master reel -> 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby B on.
Playback 2012-04-14 ::: 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 -> wavs -> Audacity (normalisation, fades &/or glitches, dropouts, volume adjustments, no EQ) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. Weird it was out of phase for just the first 3 songs, no idea how that could have happened, presumably the FM signal, now fixed. First uploaded week of 2012-06-15.
Line-up (unconfirmed, likely incomplete) ::: Sal Valentino - vocals, guitar(?) // Pete Sears - piano, bass // Tim Barnes - lead electric guitar // ? - bass (whoever plays when Pete Sears is on keyboards) // Dierdre LaPorte - vocals // Annie Sampson - vocals / Lynne Hughes - piano, vocals / John Blakely - guitars, bass // and very possibly others.
Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.
CoolSonics 160 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader, Mike the Dean! ::: Corrections welcome ::: One of the very first recordings I got offa this gentleman's list. I was very excited to finally see some Stoneground recordings. Killer hip & heavy Bay Area rock outfit with rippin' electric lead guitar playing by Tim Barnes, totally fat creative bass (presumably by Pete Sears) & great male & dual female vocals. The band of course, features the righteous Sal Valentino of Beau Brummels fame on vocals. This could well convert some folks who are on the fence about Stoneground, as the sound is very consistent & the songs are jammed out. Rock on!
More recordings on the way, making up for years of slow netspeed. Kudos to Zongo for life support, Lochner for mikes & much more, & to 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) 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 & 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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