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Steve Miller Band - The Arena, Long Beach April 4, 1970

Track listing:
  1. Kow Kow 5:04
  2. Baby's House 4:51
  3. Seasons > 3:05
  4. I Love You 2:36
  5. The Story Of Bb Leary 3:34
  6. Can You Hear You're Daddy's Heartbeat > 4:10
  7. Gangster Of Love 3:51
  8. Stepin' Stone 5:30
  9. Living In The Usa > 5:42
  10. Space Cowboy 6:34

Notes


STEVE MILLER BAND
The Arena, Long Beach, California
April 4, 1970

Caveat: reduced bandwith of 16KHz from DAT recorded at LP

very bass heavy recording

(Recording starts with concert in progress)
01. Kow Kow (fade in) (3 extreme volume swings) *
02. Baby's House
03. Seasons >
04. I Love You
05. The Story of BB Leary (The Blues) (4 extreme volume swings) >
06. Can You Hear You're Daddy's Heartbeat > (23:32 tape flip cuts song) *
07. Gangster of Love *
08. Stepin' Stone
09. Living in the USA >
10. Space Cowboy
[44:57]

* Incomplete


Source:
1 Sennheiser 805 shotgun microphone > Uher 4000 1/2 track R2R Recorder @ 7 1/2 ips on 5" diameter 3M Scotch tapes

My Copy:
Tandberg 9000X (master reel playback) > Teac AN-180 (Dolby) > Revox B77

Transfer to DAT:
Revox B77 > Teac AN-90 (Dolby) > Phase Linear 1000 auto-correlator > Sony DTC-690 (LP)

Transfer to Hard Drive:
Sony DTC-690 > Audigy 4 Pro (via toslink) > Audacity (clean up, equalize and convert to 16-44) >
CDWave > Flac (Level 8) > Stamp ID3 tag editor


A great Steve Miller Band concert from the TMoQ tape collection.
Good mono recording from this time period.
This one is a bit overdriven from the heavy bass.

Notice how hard it was for the taper to adjust the recording levels.
That was because this Sennheiser mic was overdriving the recorders input.
The input knob was likely just a tiny bit past it's minimum and just touching it the levels jumped too high.
If Dub had only used a 20dB pad when recording, but he didn't.

The bass was so heavy that equalization was done to reduce it.
Still overdriven in places but nicer sounding now.

For historical reference only and not intended for resale or any commercial use.
-M- (July 2011) (Oct. 2014 Rev a - reduce bass, additional clean up, tag files, update info and artwork)
FLYING M PRODUCTIONS

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See Steve Miller play Live as he is still great in concert
Steve made so many wonderful records from this time period that are worth having.
Pick Up one of the official releases that you don't already have.



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