Steve Miller - Seattle 1969

Steve Miller Band
November 29, 1969
Seattle, Eagles Auditorium

Flac
-VG

*Original Notes

This is another curiosity from a tapers aspect.  What you get is an FM radio broadcast...but was it intended, and planned by the station KOL-FM...or is it a broadcast of a bootleg recording?  I don't know.

Air tape copy was made by Howie...we owe this listen to him. Hi Howie!

 The hall tape may have been made by Mike Reid....one of a series of his tapes?  It appears on his "for sale" list, but he might have been audience taping while a planned FM broadcast was ocurring.  This is certainly not a "board" tape.  It would be Mike's best sounding tape if it was him.

Enough of that.  Here's a mind numbing night with the Steve Miller Band, It's the drummer's,..Tim Davis'.... birthday, and the band makes the most of it. Tim died many years ago in Arizona. Got diabetes and had both legs amputated...but he would want you to forget that...and dig his work here.  This is a party for him!

 What Howie recorded was one full side of a standard 7 inch reel at 3 3/4 ips...96 minutes officially...maybe stretched to 97 with conservative manufacturers safe area.  My tape is to reel too. This has never seen a cassette.  My reel should be a first gen off the radio.

The second set is incomplete.  The tape just plain runs out.  But you get more than an hour and a half of absolutely stinging blues rock.

A few spots where one channel duffs out, but this won't keep you from enjoying this wonderful show.  Let's go:

*** Set One ***
01 - Can't You Hear Your Daddy's Heartbeat
02 - Don't Write Me No Letters
03 - Steppin' Stone
04 - Space Cowboy
05 - Kow Kow Calqulator
06 - Blues With A Feeling
     KOL radio I.D. insert
07 - Mercury Blues w/ Happy Birthday

*** Set Two ***
08 - Gangster Of Love (14 minute jam)
09 - Motherless Children
10 - Don't Let Nobody Turn You 'Round
11 - Got Love If You want It (end is cut, and rest of show is gone)

Steve Miller - guitar/vocals
Lonnie Turner - Bass/bkg vocals
Tim Davis - Drums/bkg vocals

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Cream - Detroit 1967

Thank You for your music Jack Bruce

CREAM
Live At The Grande Ballroom

Detroit, MI, October 15, 1967
Extraordinary stereo soundboard remastered by Graeme Pattingale

MP3 320

Disc 1:
101. Tales Of Brave Ulysses
102. N.S.U.
103. Sitting On Top Of The World
104. Sweet Wine
105. Rollin' And Tamblin'

Disc 2:
201. Spoonful
202. Stepping Out
203. Traintime
204. Toad
205. I'm So Glad

*Original Notes
The very best Cream live recording and the performance superior to the later recordings officially released.

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Procol Harum - Rockpalast TV 1976

MP3 256
VG+

*Original Notes
Recorded at the famous Rockpalast TV show on the 17th of January 1976, this is often proposed in DVD format but here only in audio file. The sound is quite deceiving for a TV show but I never found a better one (even on the payment sites). The setlist is much better than the Faithfield Halls one (no awful "Blue Danube" here, neither the weak "I Keep Forgetting"). And the playing is also much better (strange since a TV show should decrease the individual involvement of musicians compared to a stage) with in particular a fantastic organ work done by Chris Copping and a great Mick Grabham (listen to him on "The Unquiet Zone" and tell me if he's not an axe master). A shame that the sound doesn't allow to taste the revived quality of the band. Even if this seems to contradicts what I wrote about the band in my previous post, I still created a cover sleeve with skeletons (actually only one). More a joke than anything else.

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Procol Harum - Stockholm 1971

Procol Harum

Stockholm Sweden

Oct, 16 1971

MP3 256

VG

Six months after the WPLJ concert in New York, we find a new Procol Harum. New because Robin Trower is now gone and his place has been taken by Dave Ball, new because they have now a full-time bassist (Alan Cartwright), and new because the band, probably a Brooker's wish, goes back to the music they played before Home, more keyboards driven than the one they played the 2 former
years due to the Trower's influence toward a more straight rock sound. Honestly, it doesn't work so good here. The band does not find the magical atmosphere that these songs from the first 3 album deserved. In particular, Gary Brooker seems quite not at his most confortable on the oldest tracks, often missing the beginning of the words. The tracks from Home are the best, leaving Dave Ball show his style, quite different from the Trower's one, and who did not fit well with the Procol's style, in particular when he had only to be a discrete companion of the piano-keyboards duo. The frustration of Ball will be that he has no proper song to play and this must have been quite uneasy to deal with. But of course, any live set from Procol can be listened with pleasure for BJ Wilson, as good as ever here. Actually, it's a precious document of the transformation of the band from the rock era of Home and Broken Barricades to the classical ear of Live with the Edmonton Orchestra and Grand Hotel. This live set is here recorded from a good source apparently and is due to theultimatebootlegexperience blog, which is no more active it seems but maybe I don't have the new link. One of the best moments here is the extracts of the "In Held Twas I" suite, haunted and rough as rarely and from which I put in streaming "In the Autumn of my Madness" which was sung originally by Matthew Fisher but fits well to Gary Brooker. The end is pure doom and even Black Sabbath did not play so funeral music. Enjoy the whole set here.

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Jethro Tull - An Undusted Collection of AlbumWraps

I pondered whether to separate these concerts or bundle them as one selection. I chose to bundle. A collection of raw single track recordings I found beneath a dry pile of last years leaves.

Wrap 1

            Jethro Tull
            San Antonio, TX
            1969

            MP3 151
            Low quality -G
            56:51 Mins

Wrap 2

          Jethro Tull
          1969-03-13
          Fillmore West, San Fransisco

          MP3 175
          Low Quality G
          48:45 Mins
       

Wrap 3

           Jethro Tull
           1972-6-14
           FairGrounds Pavilion, OK

           MP3 202
           Fair Quality G+/-VG
           2:19:43 Mins

Wrap 4

          Jethro Tull
          1973-03-18
          Laufi Bologna, Italy

          MP3 211
          Good Quality -VG
          1:56:44 Mins

Wrap 5

          Jethro Tull
          1991
          In Concert BBC

         MP3 256
        Very Good Quality VG+
        53:53 Mins
   

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                         Happy Turkey Day Everyone


Thanksgiving wishes from the Great White North.
Well, as my collection of boots dwindles down, (the cupboards are bare), I'm always searching for more. I want to thank everybody for their kind words of appreciation over the last year. I love this blog and will continue to keep it going. If it's quiet, not to worry, I check the site daily and will always reply to your messages. 
Have a happy weekend.