LIVE 1982 VOL.4 WITH MICK TAYLOR

1. Intro, 2. An Eye For An Eye, 3. Band Introductions #1, 4. Rock It In The Pocket, 5. Have You Heard, 6. Black Cat Moan, 7. My Time After Awhile, 8. The Stumble, 9. Oh Pretty Woman, 10. Checkin’ Up On My Baby, 11. Road Show, 12. Band Introductions #2, 13. Encore Break, 14. Room To Move, 15. Happy Birthday Mick Taylor.

John Mayall and his Bluesbreakers Berkeley 2^nd show is the subject of Volume 4 of this series. For this show there were two sources:

Source #1: hissy sound and the passages between the songs were edited out

Source #2: circulating as ‘soundboard source’, probably coming from Dimeadozen; it has a great sound but with some defaults in the beginning of An Eye For An Eye and even more in the first minute of Oh Pretty Woman.

Back in 2016 a reworked version of this show appeared using source #2, completed by source #1. Therefore, now were offered two versions of this show:

-        First version: is an upgrade for the previous version of source #2

-        Second version is a merged version with source #2 on the left channel and source #1 on the right channel.

We opted here for the first version of this recording that has been equalized and de-clicked with the transitions between the tracks reworked. Here more valuable information about the first version:

The San Francisco and Berkeley shows were recorded by ‘ riffcliche69’ that must be thanked for taping the shows and the background info provided:

“…I recorded these shows on a Sony TDC 5 Pro with an AKG C33 stereo condenser mic. The Stone, San Francisco was done from a table on the floor and the Keystone, Berkeley was done from a table on the front of the balcony, next to the mixing board. The mixing desk had one (maybe two) reel-to-reel, running at 7&1/2 ips (half-track), combining the PA mix with a live mic (pointed at the back wall!). I offered them my mic, but they declined…”

Despite having called a soundboard this is just an excellent audience tape (just like the Faces October 1970 recording) that, however, allows to listen to Taylor licks at his best. The concert ends with Happy Birthday Mick Taylor, most likely because it was already January 17^th.