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Curtis Ensler's Collection

Buddy Guy   04/14/1986

Lone Star Cafe, New York, NY
Source SBD
Media CDR   2 discs
J-Card Comment Notes: Great sounding SBD of Buddy blues jamming.
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> > The first two songs of each set are played by Buddy's band. Buddy
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> > calls Stevie to the stage for a few songs, starting on D2t04. In
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> > mastering, I tracked out the second set as listed; > however, this
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> > really just a long blues jam by Buddy and you can occasionally hear
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> > Stevie adding some fills here and there. For people that already had

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> > this tape, you might want to pick this up because I spent a lot of
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> > time mastering it. There were huge level swings during this tape, so

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> > much so that there were many passages that were nearly silent
followed
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> > by others that blew the speakers out. I mastered this so as to
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> > smoothe the wild swings, but to preserve the feel of Buddy's
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> > performance. As everyone knows, it's the volume changes that
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> > can add the emotion to the performance, so I didn't want to
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> > destroy that, but I did want to make the recording more listenable
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> > overall than it was before.
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> > I don't want to sound negative about Buddy, because I love his
music,
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> > but if you're like me, your opinion is that Buddy's shows of late
lack
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> > the originality and fire that we all know that Buddy has. That 'play

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> > the blues so funky you can smell it' line, along with the samples of

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> > Hendrix, Clapton, SRV, etc. just got very old for me the 5th show I
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> > saw Buddy. I wondered why he didn't play his ass off like the
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> > blues-man that he is. Anyway, you'll find this recording satisfies
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> > your thirst for the REAL Buddy Guy. Even though he did bring that
same
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> > shit out even back then, his playing in the small blues club scene
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> > really where Buddy is Buddy. I just wish that he'd play like this
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> > for all of his shows. I'd go back and start seeing him. Instead
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> > he just rehashes the same old shtick over and over and over, while
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> > maybe unveiling 2 or 3 songs off his latest album. It's very boring
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> > and diappointing after you've spent $20 for the
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> > 10th time hoping to see something new and original from someone
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> > that you just KNOW has the God given ability to knock the living
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> > socks off everyone whenever he touches a guitar
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> > or comes within miles of a microphone. I hope this doesn't make
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> > anyone mad...just my opinion. Like I said, this recording is
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> > different.
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> > Source: SBD
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> > Conversion: Cassette (unknown generation) >
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> > Audition 1.0 > CDWave
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> > (for track splits) > FLAC
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Owned by Curtis Ensler · Last Updated May 23, 2023