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Jeff Kaisershot's Collection

Return to Forever   10/12/1974

Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Source SBD
Media FLAC
J-Card Comment Four alive in Ohio
Return to Forever
Chick Corea- keyboards
Al DiMeola- guitars
Stanley Clarke- bass
Lenny White- drums
Kenyon College, Ohio
October 12, 1974
performance quality: A-
recording quality: B to B+
source: soundboard tape (low-gen,unknown lineage)
setlist
disc 1: 62:24
1: band introductions and tuning
2: beyond the seventh galaxy
3: vulcan worlds
4: the shadow of lo
5: song to the pharoah kings
disc 2: 67:57
6: space circus
7: acoustic jam and solos, in order:
(Corea, DiMeola, Clarke, White) >
theme to the mothership
comments:
I got this in a snail trade many years ago from a fellow in Ohio. The
recording is pretty good, the mix is a little off in parts, a little distorted
in parts, pretty clear in most parts. (Alot of these RTF college gigs have
strange mixing, see my Worcester 2/1/74 show for more evidence of that) White
and Corea come through clearly throughout, Clarke and DiMeola's mix varies a
little more. Track 7 is about 48 minutes long. This is one of the longer RTF shows
I've heard with Al DiMeola. It is a very good performance. Vulcan Worlds is 22
minutes +. The only tape flip interruption comes just after the acoustic jam, just
before theme to the mothership starts the first group segment. You may not even
notice the splice. Beyond the 7th galaxy is only about 3 min. (this is not very
unusual) all the other songs are much longer. It sounds like this recording comes
from an all normal bias/eq setting tape lineage. (this does tend to help preserve
the clarity of a normal-bias/EQ recording, which all analog tapes were until high
bias tape came out circa later 70's, whereas an all high-bias tape lineage helps to
keep tape noise down and bass response good.)
do not sell this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly.
Then there will be Al to
go around when the lights
(or life itself)
grow dim(eola).

01 band introductions and tuning.flac:f1c549814170648fc466b73496708b36
02 beyond the seventh galaxy.flac:f38cb0bb9c59080e9f85a5d1d92871bb
03 vulcan worlds.flac:e1a5d7c785f545256594692ee4e17e81
04 the shadow of lo.flac:b0cc8ad6a33ba3a6ef5144477187940e
05 song to the pharoah kings.flac:cf62ce01e0f8ead7bfec352a4d595284
06 space circus.flac:04067f97752abd4c8eb2d4fe7b980a25
07 acoustic jam and solos Corea DiMeola Clarke White theme to the mothership.flac:73a0873888ddb6ce650b11d113096f71
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Sound: A
Lists Jazz/Fusion
Owned by Jeff Kaisershot · Last Updated May 23, 2023