Steve Miller Band - 1968-08-04 - Los Angeles, CA (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

California Shrine Exposition Hall (M1-AUD)

Should UPGRADE most circulating copies* & is a known generation

Steve Miller - electric guitar, harmonica, vocals
Boz Scaggs - electric guitar, vocals
Jim Peterman - keyboards, vocals(?)
Lonnie Turner - electric bass, vocals
Tim Davis - drums.

01. Living In The U.S.A.
02. Got Love If You Want It
03. Fannie Mae
04. Steppin' Stone
05. I Shall Be Released
06. Driving Wheel (->)
07. Mercury Blues ->
08. You're So Fine
09. ...Louise
10. Your Old Lady

Total Time ::: 1:12:02

::: Somewhat distant AUD but with high end still relatively intact & virtually no audience noise. Check samples for yr own personal take it or leave it factors.
::: Warts: Distant, bass heavy at start, bit o' hum, but overall pretty damn steady. More notes below.
::: *Should UPGRADE most circulating copies & is a known gen. Seemingly last on DIME in 2006 as unknown gen but I don't have that one to compare to. If yrs is better, let out a holler.
::: Steve Miller Band played 2 nights with different bands on the bill each night. August 3: Jeff Beck Group/Blue Cheer/Steve Miller Band/Big Mama Thornton & the original Hound Dog Band/Charles Lloyd. August 4, 1968: Butterfield Blues Band/Ike & Tina Turner/Electric Flag/Magic Sam/Steve Miller Band/Kaleidoscope.

Recording Information ::: unknown mono reel-to-reel recorder & microphone -> master mono audience reel tape -> 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby B on.

Playback 2011-07-30 ::: 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth & pitch adjusted, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Tascam CD-RW900SL professional CD recorder -> CD-RW, no track splits -> computer -> EAC secure mode (logs made) -> wav file(s) -> Audacity (normalisation to remove DC offset, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch / dropout / bump / pop / click / dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, NO equalisation) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. First uploaded week of 2013-02-16.

NOTE : Twas HARD not to EQ this but I managed not to do it. Someone with real EQ know-how could presumably do some magic to this like knock out low end hum which is not problematic during the music (you hear it inbetween songs) but I imagine things would be clearer without it. Also a fairly inaudible electric current cyclical noise (heard at slow speeds) might be able to be reduced. Plus the usual EQ wizardry & likely things would improve even more, though it'll always be distant.

1st 7 minutes bass boomy, then settles down except for seconds here & there ("You're So Fine"). Some hum but not audible except between songs. Some distortion in 1st 2&1/2 minutes of "Your Old Lady", then calms down but after 10 minutes on my copy the volume dropped WAY down & had to be manually corrected & the distortion returns somewhat with some volume fluctuation & occasional noise, so I suspect battery power (mike or deck) might have played a part. Original tape flip presumably between trax 8&9.