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Curtis Ensler's Collection

B.B. King & Friends   04/15/1968

The Generation Club, New York, NY
Source SBD
Media CDR   2 discs
Notes Upgrade
J-Card Comment Jimi Hendrix, BB King and Paul Butterfield Blues Band
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April 15th, 1968 - Generation Club NYC
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Source: Lossless Legs tracker - thanks to seeder 'mtownsend'
http://www.shnflac.net/details.php?id=1edb915a676725ecd4096cf865db97153711e755#peers

Lineage: SBD > ? > flac download (sounds an earlier tape generation than Dime id# 103760)

Editing:
1. Cross-mix channels (80:20 ratio) - instruments are now clearer and separate in the mix
2. Fixed different levels pre- and post- flips
3. Fixed the tape flip / Glitches (details below in set list)
4. Gentle 2db Nero noise reduction (just to take the edge off the noise, not affect the music)
5. Eliminated 8 min of drunken BB King forgetting band members names (now fits on a CD-R90)
6. Edited / Cross-faded most tracks for smooth track-to-track transitions (sounds like a real show)

Transfer: Nero > CD-RW > EAC > Flac Frontend (level 6)
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When I was recommended (by member 'dsgtrane') the recent Dime post as an upgrade, I
grabbed it and compared it to a previous download I got from Lossless Legs (now dead).
To my surprise, the LL version's quality was significantly better than the Dime one, it
sounded like a couple of tape generations earlier and did not have the tape flutter that
made the Dime version's instruments sound 'flat'.

It also has 2 extra tracks at the beginning, 2 continuous tracks (with tape glich / flip) that
are split into 2 parts (San-Ho-Zay and Slow Blues) on the Dime version and longer versions of Fast
Blues (inc. second part after tape flip / glitch) and It's my Own Fault. Also the L/R tracks are
reversed ed in the 2 versions - except for (Dime) Slow Blues (part 2) which is the same as after the
tape flip on the LL version, which logically makes it the earlier level.

Listening very carefully to both versions, it is clearly the same identical concert and the
first tracks (without Jimi) have identical instruments in the same place in the sound mix and the
talk continues into the Dime tracks, so they are definitely part of this set - and not other dates
identified in db.etree. The sound mix itself was typically strange with mainly rythym on LH and solo
on RH channels, so I decided to do some remix / remastering in the same way as my previous Jefferson
Starship and Henry Cow posts...

The end result is fantastic and a credit to the quality of the underlying master recording, although
it is rather mis-named as BB King seems only to sing and play a few bad guitar notes on the last
track, Jimi appears officially on the last 5 tracks, although it is sometimes difficult to tell if
he or Elvin Bishop (sounding like he has learnt the licks from the recently departed Mike Bloomfield
- a realcompliment !) is playing, whilst the core of the music is a great performance by the
transitional Paul Butterfield Blues Band, with Al Kooper filling in beautifully for (absent) Mark
Naftalin and a new bass / drums team.

To balance my 'heresy' for editing out BB's ramblings, original Dime uploader, member 'audiophile63'
encouraged me to post this upgrade and provided some extra information which is included as an extra
'Historic Info' file - as this is a great upgrade of a truly historic high quality recording not
to be missed...

...Enjoy !!

Band:
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Jimi Hendrix - guitar & vocals
B.B. King - guitar & vocals (@)
Elvin Bishop - guitar & vocals
Buzzy Feiten - bass
Paul Butterfield - harmonica
Al Kooper - organ
Philip Wilson - drums
(+ inaudible)
Stuart ? - piano
Don Martin - guitar


Set List (82.11)
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06.48 "Ad-Libbed Impromptu Blues (in E#903)" *
07.22 Kooper's Shuffle *
07.40 Like A Rolling Stone
25.47 San-Ho-Zay - Instrumental Blues Jam (tape flip / glitch at 19.24 mostly fixed)
18.25 Slow Blues (tape flip / glitch at 4.29 mostly fixed, patched mono for a few seconds)
06.40 Fast Blues (+) (tape flip / glitch at 3.40 completely fixed)
09.23 It's My Own Fault (@) (glitches at 2.06 & 3.19 fixed)

Note: Performance is continuous so it will fit on 1 CD for those with CD-R90 capability

* = Extra tracks (no Jimi Hendrix)
+ = Additional 3 min not on Dime version (after tape glitch)
@ = True 1 min longer than Dime version (which misses the first verse around the first glitch)
Trades Allowed Yes
Owned by Curtis Ensler · Last Updated May 23, 2023