(Soundboard FLAC)
Pentangle
1991-08-01 _ Boston, Massachusetts _ The Channel _ M-SBD
01. --tuning up & greetings--
02. Bramble Briar (aka 'Bruton Town')
03. Sally Free & Easy
04. Kingfisher
05. Sweet Mother Earth
06. Meat On The Bone
07. O'er The Lonely Mountain
08. Lassie Gathering Nuts
09. Gaea
10. The Baron O' Brackley
11. So Early In The Spring
12. Yarrow
13. Cruel Sister
14. I've Got a Feeling
Total Time ::: 1:22:20
::: SUPERB, crisp, clear, stereo SBD. Check samples for perusal and/or preliminary pentangular pleasure.
::: Warts: Almost none! Fixed dull spots but maybe missed a few. Tapeflip between #9
 (no songs missing). Board limiter sometimes slightly audible in left channel.
::: Opening acts (as per The Channel site).: The Lotterers (from ?), Musiceili (Irish-American band from Williamsburg, VA).
::: Same week their "Think Of Tomorrow" album released, tho' this set has more than 1/2 the "So Early In The Spring" album live.
Recording Information ::: soundboard -> Nakamichi 580 cassette deck -> master Maxell MX-S 100 metal cassette, Dolby B on.
Playback 2014-05-27 ::: master Maxell MX-S 100 metal cassette on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth adjusted for individual tape, heads cleaned & demagnetized -> Sony Linear PCM Recorder PCM-M10 (LPCM 44.10kHz/16bit WAV files) -> computer -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, -2.2% averaged pitch (speed) fix with single pass after frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2015-06-13.
Line-up ::: Bert Jansch - acoustic guitar, vocals // Jacqui McShee - vocals // Peter Kirtley - electric & acoustic guitars // Nigel Portman Smith - electric bass, piano // Gerry Conway - drums, percussion.
Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.
DimeTravel 142 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader, meself! ::: Corrections welcome ::: ::: At one point Bert forgets he's not at the Iron Horse in Northampton (another night on the tour) & makes a comment to "Jordi" (the Iron Horse owner), so don't be confused. This was an odd gig. To be honest, the band just didn't really fit into this particular rock club environment - or at least that was my feeling. Two bands opened (I guess - only a vague memory). The whole thing seemed too clinical or something. Still, the club had a fine sound system in a large room (held 1700, but nowhere near that many present for Pentangle), so everything was fairly well miked. That was often not true in the folk clubs Pentangle played in, where Gerry's drums were often far too loud to be in the PA mix at all). So in the end, it's a very nicely done, somewhat narrow but stereo, soundboard master of a live Pentangle show. Once the mix is mostly balanced somewhere in the midst of #1 (tho' the bass doesn't get properly done 'til later). I think this is one of the best recordings there is of the era, soundwise, and the performance is very solid. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yrs truly, Knees
