Joni Mitchell - 1974-04-22 - London, UK (FM/FLAC)

(BBC broadcasts FLAC)

Lineage
probably FM > cassette of unknown generation > WAV > Split in CDWave > flac level 8 in TLH

The Complete New Vic Theatre

Disc 1
Joni Mitchell-1974-04-22-New Victoria Theater, London, BBC TV--from Exellent sounding 1st. Gen Cassette--
Friends, here´s a beautiful & mostly exellent sounding rarity from Joni Mitchell,
recorded from TV by a friend in the mid 70´s!
Only a few portions with the the full band are slightly overrecorded,
but most songs are solo performances or have a only 1 or 2 band members playing with Joni
& so the overall sound is really great.
Since Joni plays some really rare songs live here, this show makes a nice addition to the
BBC 1970 audio & DVD uploads in summer.
Many thx to this great guys who shared these & other fabulous BBC Rebroadcasts!
I really hope that this 1974 broadcast also will be rebroadcasted in digital format soon!!

Joni Mitchell- voc. g, piano, autoharp
Unknown band
with dr.,b,keyb.,g,horns
probably the LA. Express?
Lineage:
!st gen Cassette-Nak Dragon-PDR-05-EAC-flac

01-Cactus Tree
02-Big Yellow Taxi
03-All I want
04-A case of You
05-For the Roses
06-Cold Blue Steel and sweet Fire
07-Blue
08-Real good for Free
09-Help Me ?
10-Car on a Hill
11-Both Sides Now
12-Raised on Robbery
TT:ca. 51 mins

Disc 2

Joni Mitchell
New Victoria Theatre, London, England, 24 Apr 1974 -- tracks NOT broadcast on BBC2 TV

As mentioned on the comments page of "Spring Songs", this complements the audio of the BBC2 TV broadcast, which can still be found here http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-d....php?id=123403. My memory played me false when I said this was an audience tape -- clearly it isn't, and my guess is that this was also recorded by the BBC. The concert was simultaneously broadcast on BBC2 TV and BBC Radio 1 FM in stereo (no stereo TV broadcasts in those days!), and it seems likely that more of the concert was put out on the radio than on the TV (this often happened). There's what sounds like radio interference here and there (12 sec into "Just Like This Train", for example), so it's more likely that this went out on Radio 1 than that somebody nicked it from the BBC's archives. Unfortunately, like the other torrent, this is mono; either the taper didn't have the equipment for receiving in stereo or the signal was too weak -- we'll never know. There's always the possibility that a stereo recording of the whole lot will eventually turn up, which would be nice, but in the meantime at least we have an early 1974 Joni concert virtually complete in pretty decent to very decent quality.

01 Free Man in Paris
02 You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio
03 The Same Situation
04 Just Like This Train
05 Rainy Night House
06 Big Yellow Taxi
07 People's Parties
08 Blue
09 Help Me
10 The Last Time I Saw Richard
11 Twisted (23 sec snippet!)

--the source tape continued with three more songs, "For the Roses", "Both Sides Now" and "Raised On Robbery", but as these are all the better quality TV tape I haven't included them here.

with The L.A. Express:
Tom Scott, flute & saxes
Robben Ford, guitar
Roger Kellaway (NOT Larry Nash), keyboards
Max Benett, bass
John Guerin, drums