Arthur Lee & Love
(actually Arthur Lee backed by The Cheetahs)
1994-02-27 Northampton, Massachusetts Bay State (M-AUD)
01. Your Mind & We Belong Together
02. Orange Skies
03. She Comes In Colors
04. My Little Red Book
05. Alone Again Or
06. Andmoreagain
07. Signed D.C.
08. Can't Explain
09. Singing Cowboy
10. Everlasting First
11. A House Is Not A Motel
12. 7 & 7 Is
13. Everybody's Gotta Live
14. L.A. Caloca
15. Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark & Hilldale
Total Time ::: 1:01:33
::: EXC quality up-close master stereo AUD. Check samples for pleasure prognosis factors or ear bliss snippets.
::: Warts: Drums a bit loud. AUD participation GREATLY reduced during mastering, but still exists. Overall, EXC!
::: Other copies may circulate from this tape source, but this will upgrade all of them. Copied from master AUD cassette tape, borrowed from taper, played back on speed & azimuth adjusted Nakamichi BX-300 & copied directly into Sony DAT machine within 1 month of gig. Also I spent more than 15 hours reducing clapping & AUD noise near the microphone(s) & it sounds great!
::: I also recorded an DAT AUD of this show, but it is totally distorted. I also recorded a DAT SBD, but the small room mix is a mess - basically it's just a vocal mike mix (this AUD is MUCH better). However in time I'll upload the SBD & another nice surprise.
Recording Information ::: unknown stereo equipment -> master AUD cassette, Dolby off.
Playback 1994-03-xx ::: master AUD analog cassette on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby off -> Sony DTC-670 DAT Recorder -> 48KHz TDK-R120 Digital Audio Tape (DAT).
Playback 2009-xx-xx ::: TDK-R120 DAT on Tascam professional portable DAT recorder -> Tascam CD-RW900SL CD recorder -> 44.1KHz CD-R.
Playback 2009-12-xx ::: CD-R in computer -> Audacity (normalisation to remove DC offset, channel alignment, fades &/or glitches, dropouts, volume adjustments, no EQ) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. First uploaded week of 2013-01-05.
Line-up ::: Arthur Lee - acoustic & electric guitars, harmonica, tambourine, vocals.
with The Cheetahs (line-up unknown but certainly with some of the following folks: Nelson Bragg, Chris Soucy, Ezra Gale, Brent Nielsen & a flute player.
Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.
CoolSonics 207 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader, the promotor himself, the one & only, the man about many the town, the legendary Mal Thursday! Long may his 60's flag wave high ::: Corrections welcome ::: While I actually prefer the 1993 Northampton Arthur Lee gig, this was an truly outstanding evening. It was intimate as hell, in the back room of the Bay State, which was a VERY small space with no stage (the performers were playing in the room with no division from the audience except the microphones) & the room was packed on this occasion. There were far more people than the incredibly poor turnout in the large room at the Center For The Arts the previous October. The band, which I believe was more or less the same line-up as 4 months before, was more comfortable & the set selection & Arthur's performance were very fine. Enjoy!
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
Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!