MAIDENLANE FRANKESTEIN PRODUCTION VOL.20

Disc One: 1. Intro & Tuning, 2. I Wonder Why, 3. Laundromat Blues, 4. My Eyes (Keep Me In Trouble), 5. Red House, 6. Goin’ South.

Disc Two: 1. Intro & Tuning, 2. I Wonder Why, 3. Laundromat Blues, 4. My Eyes (Keep Me In Trouble), 5. Red House, 6. Goin’ South.

In this volume we get the 1st show from New York from early November 90, here the line-up was: Mick Taylor on guitar and vocals, Jon Paris on guitar, vocals and harmonica, Wesley Nagy on keyboards, Wilbur Bascomb on bass and Damon Duewhite on drums.

Two recordings circulated of this show, one of which coming from a box of 4 cds that had the best sound and mixing/merging it with Maidenlane recording proved to be interesting.

Maidenlane and the other taper flipped their cassette during Red House… but not at the same time, so patches were used to rebuild the complete track:

In detail:

0’00 to 13’38: mix of both sources

13’38 to 14’24: just Maidenlane recording

14’24 to 15’29: mix of both sources

15’29 to 15’49: just the previous source

15’49 to the end: mix of both sources.

Since both mixes and merges versions were good it was decided to keep both versions.

All recordings used have been de-clicked , amplified, both channels rebalanced and, of course, synchronized. On Disc Two the left channel has the Maidenlane recording & the right channel the previous source. This is an excellent release but listening to the start of the show the impression is that it runs too fast until Red House, which starts with impromptu new lyrics: “Love don’t come easy, baby” with the real lyrics starting at 12 minutes into the song. The first disc is interesting due to collate job that allows the most complete possible version of this show, but the second disc presents what can be called another source due to the fact that you can hear the keyboards on one channel and the guitar on the other, it seems a different mix and in fact it is.