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Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin 09/05/1973

SHOWID 159763

Set I

A Love Supreme
Afro Blue
The Life Divine

Set II

 

Set III

 

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John McLaughlin - Electric Guitars
Carlos Santana - Electric Guitars
Khalid Yasin (aka Larry Young) - Organ
Doug Rauch - Bass
Billy Cobham - Drums
Armando Peraza - Congas

Collectors With This Show

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John H (5/5) flac / 1 A A View   fm broadcast
Notes: Reconstructed by TheTooleMan, May 2007 Lineage: FM -> FLAC -> Sound Forge -> FLAC Two recordings showed up recently on Dimeadozen. They generated a lot of discussion and some suggestions for a reconstruction project. The recordings were supposedly the early and late performances of Santana (the band) and John McLaughlin in Berkeley, CA, on September 5, 1973, but some of the files from the early show were later discovered to be from the Chicago show of a few nights earlier. I couldn’t resist the challenge, though in hindsight I underestimated its size. The results aren’t perfect, but they are as good as I can make them given my time and budget constraints. The performance is fantastic, and certainly worth the effort. The recordings presented more than a few obstacles. All of them had problems with EQ, tape hiss, FM noise and compression, cuts due to recording tape running out while the broadcast continued, and random adjustments to levels on one or both channels. The tracks from the “late show” recording were numbered in the wrong order. In the original recording, at about 30 minutes into track three, “A Love Supreme,” the recording cuts off, then resumes with some tape swishing. This is probably the result of changing a tape and resuming recording while the performance continued. I cut out the damaged part of the recording and cross-faded the two parts to make a seamless edit, but some difference in audio quality between the two tapes can still be heard. The quality of the recording on this tape improves gradually, but track four, “I’m Aware of You” ends prematurely. I faded out just before the abrupt cut on the original tape. The recording of “Flame-Sky” cuts off abruptly, so it was also faded out. Level changes occur randomly throughout the original recording, as if someone decided to adjust the levels on one or both channels of the tape recorder from time to time. These and other “false crescendos” created by FM dynamics processing were ironed out in the mastering process, though some may remain. After listening to the Berkeley recordings, I believe that one person recorded all of the tracks from an FM broadcast. All of the tracks have the same FM hiss and dynamic compression, which draws up solo sections of performances to the volume of the full band and causes some “pumping” on percussion sounds. Since it is not too likely that both performances were broadcast on one night, there’s a good chance that all of these recordings are of the same show. All of the tracks in this reconstruction required pitch correction of -65 cents, another bit of evidence that the recording originated from the same person and broadcast. My thanks to everyone who seeded the two recordings, and to everyone who contributed to figuring out exactly what we had there. Listening back to the completed reconstruction, I find this to be an engrossing, ear-pleasing reconstruction of most of the fantastic Berkeley performance of this incredible band. Hopefully you’ll agree! TheTooleMan May, 2007
Ron A (5/4.5) CD-R / 1 A View  
Carlos (5/5) cdr / 1 A A View  
Notes: SBD
Dwayne (5/5) FLAC / 0 View   FM
Notes: my version does not match the track listing in db.etree.org
Mergz (5/5) CD / 1 A B+ View   AUD
taraimo (5/5) CDR / 1 B+ View   SBD
Harm (5/5) CD / 1 View  
Alan (Slydell) (5/5) Flac / 1 View   SBD > ? > CD > EAC > FLAC
Harry P (5/5) CDR / 1 View  
Jeff (5/5) CDR / 1 A View   SBD > ? > CD > EAC > FLAC
Adam Lawler (5/0) .flac / 1 View   SBD
Notes: SBD> ?> CD> EAC> FLAC
chooglin (5/0) / 0 View  
peterjamesmclaughlin@gmail.com (5/2) CDR / 1 A A- View  
Kevin (5/4.2) flac / 1 View  
Roger Walker (5/5) flac / 1 View  
Collins Nance (5/2) CDR / 1 A View  
Roger (5/5) cdr / 1 View  
openpath (4/5) FLAC / 0 View   flac16/44 ; SBD > ? > CD > EAC > FLAC
Michael Piper (4/4.8) CDR / 1 View   SBD > ? > CD > EAC > FLAC
Notes: some level problems for a few seconds midway through track 1
Matt D. (4/0) CDR / 1 A View   SBD > ? > CD
Notes: 1. A Love Supreme (Coltrane) (24:22) 2. Afro Blue (Santamaria) (21:39) 3. A Love Supreme (Coltrane) (14:51) Total Time: 60:53.32 Musicians: John McLaughlin - guitar (6, 12 string) Carlos Santana - guitar Khalid Yasin (aka Larry Young) - organ Doug Rauch - bass Billy Cobham - drums Armando Peraza - congas Notes: track 1, level problems @ 16:40-16:50. track 1 & 3 are significantly different.
a thomson (4/4.9) cdr / 1 View  
weedwacker (3/0) cdr / 1 View   sbd
Tangled&Twisted (3/0) CDR / 1 A++ A- View  
Notes: killer...
Geoff Baker (3/5) CDR / 1 B+ View  
Renee (3/5) cdr / 1 View  
Kenn Kerper (3/4) shn / 0 View   SBD > ? > CD > EAC > FLAC
OBIE (2/5) FLAC / 2 View  
zosa (2/4.9) FLAC / 0 A A+ View   SBD>??>FLAC
Notes: There are some level problems for a few seconds midway through track 1 but otherwise it is an awesome recording
Mike In Boone (2/5) CDR / 1 A A View   Soundboard
Notes: Carlos Santana (Guitar, Vocals) John McLaughlin (Guitar, Vocals), Billy Cobham (Drums), Doug Rauch (Bass), Larry Young (Keys), Armando Peraza (Percussion)
john s (2/5) cd / 1 View  
Abraxas2 (2/0) Cdr / 0 A View  
Mace (2/0) cdr / 1 View   SBD > ? > CD > EAC > FLAC
Notes: t1, level problems @ 16:40-16:50. t1 & 3 are significantly different
Paul Moreno (2/5) fl / 1 View  
Notes: on wsp 6/14/96
Jay (2/0) CDR / 0 View  
kevin boland (1/4.8) CDR / 1 View  
Phil (1/5) FLAC - HD / 1 View  
Notes: 50th Anniversary Upgrade Meditation The Life Divine A Love Supreme I'm Aware Of You Flame-Sky Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord
aikox2 (1/4.9) / 0 View  
phil (1/5) flac / 0 a View   sbd>?>cd
Notes: partial show only.
buc2220 (1/5) CDR / 1 A View   SBD
Hanf (1/5) Flac / 0 View  
Notes: SBD > ? > CD > EAC > FLAC (early & late show)
Jim (1/5) cdr / 1 View  
Janaja (1/5) CD / 1 A- View  
Randy Foley (1/5) CDR / 1 A- View   SBD
Notes: (60:53) [Billy Cobham, John McLaughlin, Armando Peraza, Doug Rauch, Carlos Santana, and Larry Young]
arthur (1/4.9) shn / 1 View  
Lynn S (1/0) CD / 1 View  
mark burnell (1/5) cdr / 1 A- View  
Notes: SBD, some dropouts/signs of age. great show !
Pete Morin-Smith (1/5) CDr / 1 View  
Jim Vogt (1/5) CD-R / 1 View   SBD > ? > CD > EAC > FLAC
Notes: SBD
Rebecca (1/5) CDR / 1 View  
James Easter (1/0) FLAC / 1 View   SBD > ? > CD > EAC > FLAC
Notes: 1. A Love Supreme (Coltrane) (24:22) 2. Afro Blue (Santamaria) (21:39) 3. A Love Supreme (Coltrane) (14:51) Total Time: 60:53.32 FLACs: 325 MB Musicians: John McLaughlin - guitar (6, 12 string) Carlos Santana - guitar Khalid Yasin (aka Larry Young) - organ Doug Rauch - bass Billy Cobham - drums Armando Peraza - congas Notes: track 1, level problems @ 16:40-16:50. track 1 & 3 are significantly different.
Scott Ratzmann (1/3) flac / 1 View   SBD > ? > CD > EAC > FLAC
Peter McLaughlin (1/3.5) CDR / 1 A B+ View  
Notes: Setlist for this show is incorrect as listed. Actual setlist is: 1. The Life Devine 2. A Love Supreme 3. Follow Your Heart 4. Follow Your Heart (Part 2)
Calvin (0/0) / 0 View  
Point Of Hue (0/5) CD-R / 1 View  
bacchus (0/5) / 0 View  
The Swingin'Pig (0/0) lossless / 1 View  
jodaar (0/0) FLAC / 1 View  
Central_Scrutinizer (0/0) CD / 1 A B+ View   AUD
colin dickinson (0/0) CDR / 1 View  
Jordan Wolfson (0/5) cdr / 1 View  
Notes: sbd
Justin Green (0/4.9) CDR / 1 View  
Hans (0/0) CD / 1 View  
Chris Haddock (0/4) cdr / 1 View  
pat yeager (0/5) cdr / 1 a a View  
j geene (0/0) / 0 a View  
Sydster (0/5) FLAC / 1 View   SBD
steve (0/0) flac / 1 View  
Collins (0/0) CDR / 1 A View  
Holden Oversoul (0/0) / 0 View