In this volume we get the New Haven 88 recording; the
line-up for this concert was
Mick Taylor on guitar and vocals, Max Middleton on keyboards, Shane
Fontayne on guitar, Wilbur Bascomb on bass and Bernard Purdie on drums. Here is
a good version from Maidenlane, but the previous sources were better: two
versions can be found, both lossless and coming from the same source. One is
more complete but saturated especially on the first disc until Red House; the
other has a better sound, runs at a good speed but it’s incomplete (the biggest
part of Blind Willie McTell was missing) and thee are lots of little digi-noises
in the 3 first tracks.
To have the
best and the more complete recording here is a combination of the 3 versions.
The bulk comes
from the ‘not saturated previous version’. Now it’s been restored: all the
little faults deleted one by one with Audacity. The Maidenlane recording provides
the banter at the end of Goin’ South which was missing on both previous
versions. The previous saturated version (not so saturated for this track) gives
the first 7 minutes of Blind Willie McTell after a deceleration of -3%.
In Goin’
South the channels had to be rebalanced (+30% for the left channel from 2’31 to
3’01.
As
introduction to the show has been added a short extract from Mick Taylor’s radio
interview from the same day where he presented the new band and some radio ads.
This is a great job that offers the best possible document of this gig in
awesome shape and the fact that Taylor plays very well increase the charm of
this job.
