Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks - 1971-05-xx - San Francisco, CA (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

The Boarding House 
San Francisco, California 
May 1971 

KMPX-FM Broadcast 

Source:
FM > unknown > CDR > EAC > Audacity (clean up breaks/dropouts, loud pops, crackles and balance issues) > Cool Edit Pro (DC offset correction and normalize) > CD Wav > Flac (Level 8) > Stamp ID3 Tag Editor 

first set: 
01. Introduction 
02. Evening Breeze 
03. How Can I Miss You (When You Won't Go Away)? 
04. Caught In The Rain 
05. By Hook Or By Crook 
06. Presently In The Past 
07. I Feel Like Singing (dropouts required a patch for the second repeat of the word "the moment") 
08. Station promo (KMPX-FM) 
09. The Rounder 
10. Shorty Falls In Love/Fujiyama 
11. Reelin' Down 
12. Where's The Money? 
13. The Buzzard Was Their Friend (patch for the applause) 
--station ID segment moved to the end-- 

second set: 
14. Peach Pickin' Time 
15. He Don't Care (Stoned) 
16. Woe The Luck 
17. The Rounder 
18. Shorty Falls In Love/Fujiyami 
19. How Can I Miss You (When You Won't Go Away)? (dropout repaired by replacing that section with another similar piece.) 

20. KSAN station promo's from Dan Hicks 

Received this CD in trade from my friend Rick many years ago. A nice sounding (but slightly hissy) stereo broadcast. Great performance but there were so many technical issues with the sound. Been waiting and watching for years’ looking for another copy to appear and nothing has. So it was Audacity, the mouse button and my headphones. Some patches were required as there were gaps and skips that interrupted the music. Many editing sessions later I had cleaned up the vast majority of these distracting noises and gaps. The balance was all over the place and I adjusted the channel amplitudes to keep the audio center more consistent. The source reels degraded towards the end of the second set. Tape bleed-thru and some break up on the last track is still audible (but not bad). No equalization or noise reduction has been applied during this clean up.