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EMSheldon's Collection

The Byrds   01/04/1970

Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA
Source soundboard-->reels-->possibly hi-fi VHS...
Media FLAC   1 disc
Notes Byrds
Fillmore West
corner of Van Ness & Market Sts.
San Francisco, CA
probably January 4, 1970
(speed corrected version--final refix)

Disc 1: early show
You Ain't Going Nowhere
Feel A Whole Lot Better
Old Blue
You All Look Alike
Positively 4th Street
Jesus Is Just Alright
Mr. Spaceman
It's All Over Now Baby Blue
Take a City Bride pt 1//
//Take a City Bride pt 2
Turn! Turn! Turn!
Mr. Tambourine Man
Eight Miles High pt 1
Eight Miles High pt 2
Hold It

Disc 2: late show
tuning
Feel A Whole Lot Better
This Wheels On Fire
Positively 4th Street
Roll Over Beethoven
Close Up the Honky Tonks medley
So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star
You Don't Miss Your Water
Jesus Is Just Alright
Nashville West
Turn! Turn! Turn!
Mr. Tambourine Man//
Eight Miles High
He Was A Friend Of Mine
Hold It


Roger McGuinn/guitar & vocals
Clarence White/guitar & vocals
Skip Battin/bass & vocals
Gene Parsons/drums & vocals

lineage:
soundboard-->reels-->possibly hi-fi VHS (CD1 and tracks 13-15 on CD2)??(tracks 1-12 on CD2 seem to have a cassette generation)-->WAV (with EAC?)-->flac-->WAV (again)-->SoundForge 7.0-->flac level 8-->you


notes on the speed correction:

I used SoundForge 7.0 and several live releases, official (Untitled, Live at Fillmore 1969) and unofficial (Louisville 4.20.70) as well as a few studio cuts for reference as per what keys things should be in. CD1 was just all over the place, it had various degrees of slowed-down-ness that were addressed painstakingly, one song at a time. CD2 seemed for the most part correct or at least in-the-vicinity of close, so I left it alone after much experimentation, except for the last 3 tracks that follow the tape cut in the middle of Mr. Tambourine Man... these were a semi-tone slow and were corrected. Hopefully all of this (going on 6 hours of intense effort) will add up to a much more listenable experience. I also tightened up the tape cuts in Take a City Bride (CD1) and Mr. Tambourine Man/Eight Miles High (CD2) using CD Wave Editor, to make these transitions a wee bit less disjointed... I left these track breaks as they were in the original torrent, though, so each CD still has 15 tracks. Oh yeah, I included the artwork that came with the original torrent as well.

Very many thanks to Pink Robert for the original seed... this was not one to take to one's grave, it's just too fantastic to sit in a musty old coffin for eternity. And special thanks to Torrential1 for his invaluable input and encouragement. Hope y'all will enjoy this one as much as I enjoy hearing Clarence (R.I.P. always) whip a sermon of syncopated, B-bent 16th notes on an unsuspecting audience!

notes on the refix:
When I played it all back after a night's sleep, I saw by the tuning between Take a City Bride and Turn Turn Turn that the last 5 tracks on CD1 were still a bit slow, so I went back and redid it. My apologies for dragging everyone through multiple downloads but the end result seems worth it.
Tech Notes All
J-Card Comment dimeadozen
Trades Allowed Yes
Reference / Generation 0006090928
Owned by EMSheldon · Last Updated May 23, 2023