Return to Forever - 1974-02-01 - Worcester, MA (pre-FM/FLAC)

(pre-FM FLAC)

Return to Forever (Bill Connors) 1974-02-01 Clark University, Worcester, Mass. (2 shows, 1st gen.) (FLAC)

Return to Forever: "Clarke at Clark"

Chick Corea: keyboards

Bill Connors: guitar

Stanley Clarke: bass

Lenny White: drums

Atwood Hall (I think, not absolutely sure of this)

Clark University, Worcester, Mass. (I am sure of this and date)

February 1, 1974

(Two Shows!) Total (unedited*) runtime 183:45* (see Note below)

Source: 1st generation cassettes of master sbd reel (WCUW Worcester 91.3 FM radio, which was at this time Clark University's radio station before going independent/public radio, long before I worked there) performance quality: B+/A, some unusual songs for RTF recording quality: B/A It varies some, mostly due to some weird mixing. I have made some adjustments that

has helped this considerably. It's a nice clean source recording, transferred from Revox reel to Tascam cassette deck with no dolby used.

lineage:

WCUW radio station master reel (10", 3 3/4 ips) > (played on Revox reel deck into Tascam cassette deck, dolby off)my copy (Maxell XLII-S cassette) > soundforge 4.5 (to WAV) >

FLAC 6 > torrent. 1st seeded in march of 2009.

reseeded in 2015 with track times and a flac > wav > flac (sb's aligned) reconversion to remove the sbe's.

first show 88:37

1: band introductions 3:41

2: beyond the 7th galaxy 4:11

3: after the cosmic rain 20:13

4: theme to the mothership 21:51

5: children's song (Corea & Clarke duet) 6:41

6: space circus 15:08

7: captain senor mouse 16:51

second show 95:08

1: band introductions 3:03

2: captain senor mouse 17:05

3: bass folk song 15:16

4: sometime ago 45:02

5: encore: space circus 14:41

runtime 183:45 (minutes/ seconds)