Patti Smith - 1976-02-15 - San Francisco, CA (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Boarding House, San Francisco, California, USA

This complete "best" version combines 3 incomplete sources; details below in "Notes".

*Lineage*
All sources are FM from broadcast on KSAN
Source 1 (~32 minutes): CDR>EAC>WAV
Source 2 (~2 minutes): I received as WAV files
Source 3 (~22 minutes): I received as WAV files
Patching and remastering: WAV>Cool Edit Pro 2.1>FLAC(level 8)

*SQ*
Varies even within sources.
Source 1: Excellent, I rate it "A" (in places it varies as low as "B+")
Source 2: Good, I rate it "B" (I grade hard and use all the letters ABCDF)
Source 3: OK, I rate it "B-"

01 We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together 3:14
02 Privilege 3:30
03 Ain't It Strange 7:09
04 Kimberly 4:30
05 Redondo Beach 4:34
06 Free Money 3:59
07 Pale Blue Eyes > 3:55
08 Louie Louie 2:12
09 Pumping 2:22
10 Time Is On My Side 3:37
11 Flying Saucers Rock And Roll reading 6:19
12 Gloria 7:06
13 My Generation 4:09

Time: 56:34
Size: 350MB

Per http://setlists.pattismithlogbook.info/ there were 2 shows on this date; it is unknown if this recording is from the first or the second show.

*Notes*
The original posting was a significant upgrade from a previous version, I'm extremely pleased with this version. All the sources are partial and remastered. Plugins used: Sony Wave Hammer 1.0a and Sony Noise Reduction 2.0h.

Both sources used for the first 6 seconds faded in; I raised the levels to 'unfade' them, and fixed some noise that became audible in doing so.

During the talk between the first two songs, t1 between 2:48 and 3:11 the levels had jumped up too high so I lowered them to match.

Source 1 of this complete "best" version is the excellent-SQ version in circulation. It's 42 minutes long, but unfortunately the last 10 minutes are corrupted by digital noise and distortion, so here it is patched with other sources. Source 1 was remastered (particularly towards the end of the uncorrupted part, for 1 minute 2 seconds starting 1 second into Louie Louie) to balance level drops, with special attention to many spots where I improved levels or the mix.

Source 3 is the last 22:31 (from the middle of Pumping to the end), where it sounds better than Source 2. I patched a glitch on Source 3 with Source 2 t12@7:01

Source 2 (53:56) was patched by Vineland from other sources. I used Source 2 to patch numerous gaps in Source 1, mostly between songs (I'll speculate that many of these gaps might be the result of edits before the rebroadcast). The gaps are: the first 5 seconds, 5 seconds@2:16, 6 seconds@2:26, 5 seconds@6:36, 0.2 seconds patching diginoise@27:08, 14 seconds@30:09, 36 seconds@32:16, and 55 seconds@33:05
Most of the gaps weren't obvious, including the 14 seconds@30:09 in the middle of Pale Blue Eyes.