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Curtis Ensler's Collection

Mick Taylor   07/06/1987

Rick's Place, Barnecut, NJ
Media CDR   2 discs
J-Card Comment Mick Taylor - Aud Ex
7-6-87
"Rick's American Cafe"
Barnegat, N.J.

The original tapes were used for this upload.
Recorded 15 feet from the stage with a Sony WM-D3>Maxell XLII-S90's>upped to hard drive/tracked/audio fixing via Adobe Audition1.5. Total size 998 MB>Flac level 8> 639 MB.
"Aud Ex", but has problems as noted below.

Tracks:
1.) Good evening/tuning
2.) Tusks ------------>------>----> (audio fixing done)
3.) Hot Water Music
4.) Blues in the morning
5.) Going South
6.) Baby What You Want Me To Do
7.) Giddy Up
8.) Band intro
9.) Solilioquy
10.) CYHMK ---------->-------->------> (cut at very end)
11.) Wait for encore
12.) Third Stone From The Sun
13.) House music

Mick Taylor: gtr/voc
Max Middleton: keyboards
Wayne Hammond: bass
Mike Cullen: drums

After "Going South" there was a tape-flip, which was editted to start back up with the next track - IE, nothing was lost here.
Tape ran out on "CYHMK" during it's final moments - sorry about that chief. During the tape-switch, the band left the stage, and the recording resumes with "wait for encore".
After "Third Stone From The Sun", the audio sounds like they're breaking into a new song because some keyboard is playing that sounds like Max playing. So I let the last track run so it's clear that the last track is indeed the final moments in the venue.

We got to Rick's a few hours before the show, and the three of us took the best seats in the house (tall bar stools about 15 feet from the stagefront) and started drinking. Mick came out and had dinner about 7 stools away, so it was just us, him and the bartender. We didn't interrupt dinner. After that, the band came into the bar and they took turns playing pool.
During the show, Larry, the roadie, couldn't get the attention of the monitor-man. Flashing a flashlight at the guy didn't get noticed, so eventually Larry took ice out of drinks and started throwing it at the guy, which finally got the guy's attention.

Note: Both SONY WM-D3 recorders that I've owned recorded with a slightly slow tape speed which results in a higher-than-natural pitch when played-back on a correctly-speeded player. Since I don't know the EXACT correction ratio it was left "as is": no audio fixing of any kind was used EXCEPT ON TRACK 2 "Tusks".

Track 2 "Tusks": Due to SOMEbody messing with the mic-jack (to ensure that the connection that was already fine was ok), there were some single-channel drop-outs and super-loud pops (lots).
The single-channel drop-outs were deleted, and pasted over with the other channel's audio. The pops were normalized either 30% or 20%, depending. I think that it's listenable now - it absolutely wasn't before clean-up.

To my knowledge, there is no commercial content whatsoever - so help me God.
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Owned by Curtis Ensler · Last Updated May 23, 2023