1.6% fast
Remastered 2009 by Mick the Merciless
CASS (1ST GENERATION, TDK CHROME SA90)
The master cassette of this gig is missing, believed lost.
The original recording was made on a mono Philips cassette recorder. The taper was seated in the front row of the audience, and the microphone was hand-held (as is evident at times!)
The speed fluctuations at the end of "Desolation Row" were on the original recording, and are due to a fault on the tape recorder as it neared the end of the first side of the original C-60 cassette (not, as the bootleg disc sleevenotes suggest, battery problems). Similarly, the "quiet" section of "Baby Blue" is just a long drop-out in both channels (NOT the microphone being covered up!) The tape ran out during "Tom Thumb's Blues"; however, the taper and his friend chose to leave the concert during the next song. Apparently it was "painfully loud"...... Dig that distortion!!!!