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1977-11-05 San Francisco, California Old Waldorf (M?-AUD)
Set One :::
01. Alone Again Or
02. Andmoreagain ->
03. Who Are You?
04. Good Times
05. Happy Song
06. Everlasting First
07. Keep On Shining
Set Two :::
08. Everybody's Gotta Live
09. August ->
10. Time Is Like A River// (cuts)
11. 7 & 7 Is
12. Old Man
13. Stand Out
14. Orange Skies
15. Singing Cowboy
16. The Lamb
17. My Little Red Book
18. Signed D.C.
Total Time ::: 1:26:58
::: VERY nice up close crisp AUD. Check samples for personal audio analysis or & flashes of suspense.
::: WARTS ::: Not many! Surely missed some dropouts. Small splice near beginning of song 3, almost unoticeable unless yer countin' beats!
::: Hiss increases very slightly after tape splice before track 14 but no obvious reason, same source. Possible taper changed tapes/tape type.
::: Seems to be more than one source/setlist for this material. Probably confusion with 2 nights & 2 sets night.
::: There are 9 songs (or more) that are traded from the night before (1977-11-04).
::: Possibly missing 2 encore trax according to an online list - 2nd versions of "Alone Again Or"&"Everybody's Gotta Live" between trax 17&18 above.
::: CONTRAST CLAUSE : This is longer & upgrades previous DIME version & is a different night than http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=382681 (1977-11-04).
Recording Information ::: unknown stereo recording equipment -> master stereo audience tape -> unknown generation (low! maybe off master) TDK SA-90 cassette, Dolby off.
Playback 2011-08-01 ::: unknown generation TDK SA-90 cassette on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby off, azimuth & pitch adjusted, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Tascam CD-RW900SL professional CD recorder -> CD-RW, no track splits -> computer -> EAC secure mode (logs made) -> wav file(s) -> Audacity (normalisation to remove DC offset, fades &/or glitches, dropouts, volume adjustments, no EQ) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. First uploaded week of 2012-07-15.
Line-up (help needed here!) ::: Arthur Lee - guitar, vocals, tambourine // Bryan Maclean - guitar, vocals // and MAYBE: George Suranovich - drums // John Sterling - guitar // Kim Kesterson - bass.
Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.
CoolSonics 169 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! ::: Corrections welcome ::: I decided to include this in the series as I believe it upgrades what's commonly circulating. Quite possible my cassette was off the master. It came from a Bay Area taper at a time where I was not so concerned about lineage. It must of have been strange for many of these bands who just 5+ years before had been filling dance halls, theatres and coliseums to be back to playing bars. But on the other hand, the Old Waldorf was a fine club. Must have been very nice to have in your neighborhood in the day. I only made it there once, around 1978, but what a night it was - a Country Joe & The Fish reunion gig. The mix is a bit odd here and I wish the guitar was louder in the mix. But overall, it's quite a clear audience recording, and stereo, and fairly up front with low audience noise, a killer songlist, and we get a lot of songs. The Old Waldorf was doing two shows a night by 1978 or so, but sounds like this might just be two sets as we get the introduction and the first set is too short to be a complete show. By the way if I missed a dropout that annoys you, most are easily patched from the other channel as it is very narrow stereo. Anyway, the band is in great form: I have heard varying comments about this performance, but I have always enjoyed this VERY much. Hope it's a pleasure for you!
Kudos to Zongo for life support, Lochner for mikes&more & 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). 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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