MAIDENLANE FRANKESTEIN PRODUCTION VOL.9

Disc One (Mixed): 1. Intro & Tuning, 2. I Wonder Why, 3. Leather Jacket, 4. Giddy Up, 5. Red House, 6. Banter, 7. Goin’ South, 8. Band Introduction, 9. Blues In The Morning, 10. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking.  

Disc Two (Merged): 1. I Wonder Why, 2. Red House, 3. Blues In The Morning, 4. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking.  

In this volume we get back to New York’s Lone Star Café; the line-up for this gig was Mick Taylor on guitar and vocals, Max Middleton on keyboards, Shane Fontayne on guitar, Wilbur Bascomb on bass and Eric Parker on drums. For this show two recordings were already circulating: one is high-pitched (hissy) and compressed but with a very good quality of Mick Taylor’s voice. The other is lossless but muddy and a little saturated.

Different possibilities to upgrade the sound were tested. The best result came from combining both sources. The merging of both is my favorite but it doesn’t work for all tracks because of the saturation on the bass guitar in the middle of the recording, so only 4 tracks were kept.

The mixes are very interesting and here, to complete them, a short banter from the Maidenlane recording was used. For this reason, this compilation appears in the ‘Maidenlane Frankenstein’s Versions’ series even if the bulk come from already circulating sources. As usual all tracks have been reworked (de-clicked, channels equalized…) but the end result is quite fine. This concert has the shortest version of Can’t You Hear Me Knocking ever, lasting less than 4 minutes.