Jefferson Airplane - 1969-10-25/26 - San Francisco, CA (SBD/FLAC) "A Weekend At Winterland"

(Soundboard FLAC)

Winterland
A Weekend At Winterland [ This Place Records TPR CD 006 ]

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Grace Slick - vocals, piano, organ, recorder
Marty Balin - vocals, rhythm guitar
Paul Kantner - rhythm guitar, vocals
Jorma Kaukonen - lead guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals
Jack Casady - bass guitar, fuzz bass, rhythm guitar
Spencer Dryden - Percussion

CD1:
01. Somebody To Love
02. Young Girl Sunday Blues
03. Wooden Ships
04. Volunteers
05. Won't You Try / Saturday Afternoon
06. Uncle Sam Blues
07. Fat Angel
08. Greasy Heart
09. Martha
10. The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil

CD2:
01. Eskimo Blue Day
02. 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds
03. Mau Mau (Amerikon) Jam
04. The Other Side Of This Life
05. Good Shepherd
06. Wild Tyme (H)
07. Greasy Heart
08. We Can Be Together
09. Come Back Baby

CD3:
01. Martha
02. Plastic Fantastic Lover
03. Drifting
04. It’s No Secret
05. The Other Side Of This Life
06. Wooden Ships
07. Eskimo Blue Day
08. You Wear Your Dresses Too Short
09. The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil

Notes
This release combines two consecutive nights at Winterland on 3 CDs. CD1 and CD2 tracks 1 to 5 are from Saturday October 25, 1969. CD2 tracks 6 to 9 and CD3 are from Sunday October 26, 1969. The sources used for this release are superb sounding soundboard tapes (possibly transferred directly from the master reels), already circulating in the past. But the present release is different than the previous circulating versions, because the main problem of the original reels was corrected (or at least attenuated). Indeed, the original recordings were made using extreme stereo separation, with vocals on the left channel only, and rhythm section on the right channel (the guitars are often left channel oriented, but it changes sometimes during the recording). While the stereo separation itself was not a problem, the balance between the two channels was fluctuating a lot, most of the time with drums too loud compared to the vocals. And even for a single channel, there were level fluctuations too (the vocals were mixed much louder than the guitar tracks, resulting in a left channel with very loud vocals during the verses and barely audible guitar parts during the instrumental sections). The purpose of this remaster was to correct all these fluctuations (between channels and inside each channel) so that the recording can now be enjoyed with a good and consistent balance between the different instruments and voices. As usual, I also tried to clean manually every flaw that could be corrected. A small missing portion on Eskimo Blue Day (CD2 track 1) was restored. The intro on Good Shepherd (CD2 track 5) was partially restored too. Please note that the remastering process did not use any EQ or NR, and that there was no attempt to have a more "centered" recording. So, the stereo separation is still extreme, but that's an interesting listening experience, since you can hear all the details. If you listen only to the right channel, you have a fantastic example of the strong interactions between Jack Casady and Spencer Dryden, showing how much powerful and groovy this rhythm section of the Airplane was. And if you concentrate on the left channel, you can hear all the subtleties of the vocal harmonies. Cuesheets are included for those who like to burn CDRs with all the required text info.