Tom Waits - 1975-08-16 - West Hollywood, CA (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Tom Waits

Troubadour Nightclub

West Hollywood, California

August 16, 1975

KMET Saturday Night At The Concert Hour

source:

KMET-FM  > Revox A77 @ 7 1/2 ips > Revox B77 @ 7 1/2 ips (me) > Phase Linear 1000 > Sony DTC-690 (LP)

Transfer:

Sony DTC-690 > Audigy 4 Pro (via toslink) > Audacity (clean up, splice tape flip and convert to 44.1 KHz) > CD Wav > Flac (Level 8)

Michael Melbourne-keyboards

Teddy Edwards-sax

Jim Hewart-bass

Jim Gordon-drums

(missing the instrumental introduction)

01. On A Foggy Night

02. Better Off Without A Wife (2 momentary speed issues between 1:20 and 1:35 )

03. Warm Beer And Cold Women

04. Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)

05. (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night

06. Eggs And Sausage

07. San Diego Serenade

08. Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission) (spliced tape flip @ 2:11)

09. Drunk On The Moon

10. Diamonds On My Windshield >

11. Band Introductions >

12. Diamonds On My Windshield (reprise)

encore:

13. Martha

[64:46]

This is a very nice stereo radio broadcast of an early Tom Waits show. Reception (and-or broadcast) quality is not perfect and this has an electrical hum in places and that slightly fuzzy tuned off center sound. I had poor reception in the middle 70's (living in Tujunga, California). There is also a momentary speed issue during Better Off Without A Wife. Never lean over the reel-reel when you're recording (a lesson a day back then). The tape flip was spliced @ 44:56 (2:11 of track 8) and one verse was lost.

This is from a first generation reel to reel @ 7 1/2 ips.  Transferred to a DAT tape in the middle 1990's. I used the Phase Linear 1000 auto-correlator (mild noise reduction and dynamic expansion) during transfer to DAT. Copied to DAT during times of financial distress (student) and I recorded this at the Long Play speed. Audacity changed the sample rate to 44.1KHz. A few dropouts and some intermittent electrical noises were removed during the clean up review.