George Harrison - 1974-11-20 - St. Louis, MO (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

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Audience recording > unknown fiddling about over the years > CD > CDR > trades > CDR > EAC > wav > ClickRepair > Cool Edit Pro 2 (edits, time adjustments, EQ, volume) > wav > flac

George Harrison (Guitar)
Robben Ford (Guitar)
Willie Weeks (Bass Guitar)
Andy Newmark (Drums)
Billy Preston (Keyboards)
Emil Richards (Percussion)
Tom Scott (Horns)
Chuck Findley (Trumpet)
Jim Horn (Saxophone)
Kumar Shankar (Percussion)

01. Hari's on Tour (Express) (Harrison) 5:12
02. While my Guitar Gently Weeps (Harrison) 5:29
03. Something (Harrison) 4:05
04. Will it go Round in Circles (Preston) 3:54
05. Sue Me Sue You Blues (Harrison) 5:29
06. For You Blue (Harrison) 5:38
07. Band Introductions (Harrison) 1:04
08. Give me Love (Give me Peace on Earth) (Harrison) 4:02
09. Sound Stage of Mind (Harrison) 4:20
10. In my Life (Lennon/McCartney) 5:56
11. Tom Cat (Scott) 4:11
12. Maya Love (Harrison) 5:21
13. Dark Horse (Harrison) 4:21
14. Nothing from Nothing (Preston) 3:46
15. Outta Space (Preston) 4:51
16. What is Life (Harrison) 5:37
17. My Sweet Lord (Harrison) 8:11

Total time 81:27

Show IDs:
0:51 of track 1 - "Hello St Louis!"
4:35 of track 1 "Welcome to St Louis. It's very nice to be here!"
0:56 of track 7 "My name is Neil Diamond"

Extras:
Two faded (10, 11) tracks for CD version (CD1 - 1-10; CD2 - 11-17)
Raw version of "Sue Me Sue You Blues" for die-hard purists! The cut is at 2:38.

Source - I'm Neil Diamond (Publisher: Howling Leg)

George Harrison and friends at the St Louis Arena - the only show played that day. This is the 16th show of the 1974 North American tour. Not the complete show, with the Indian section missing. George is in good humour, and seems very positive about the show and his reception. He provides a few vocal lines in "Soundstage of Mind", and gives a brief thank you speech before "What is Life". "For you Blue" includes bass solo by Willie Weeks and a trumpet solo by Chuck Findley. The sound is average for an audience recording of the era - distant and a bit indistinct, but with a clean sound.

Two versions of this show have shown up here - Barrier's "Live at the Arena" and Black Cat's "Playing for 70 000 Yobbos". The latter is the most complete, including "Tom Cat" and "Nothing from Nothing", but is split over two discs. This is an edit of the two - mainly the Barrier version, with the missing two songs added from the Black Cat edition - presenting the show as a seamless whole for burning to DVD-Audio.

There also exists the Green Grape CD "1974-11-20 St. Louis, MO, USA", which squeezes all the tracks here onto one disc. A tape version of the entire show (i.e. including the Indian section) is said to exist.

A comparison between the Barrier and Black Cat version showed that the latter had been altered quite a lot - a big treble boost, which unfortunately merely served to emphasise its unevenness, and a large volume increase between songs - or just some sort of brickwalling normalisation. Also, there was some discrepancy on the speed - a section of the studio version of the song "Dark Horse" was used as a reference, and to correct them, the 1st version was slowed by 2%, and the Black Cat sped up by 0.3%. Some EQ was applied to the Black Cat tracks to match the sound of the Barrier version, and the volume of all tracks was raised.

A couple of songs had continuity breaks - "Sue Me Sue You Blues" had a [very smooth] cut in the middle of about 5 seconds - two sections have been patched in from elsewhere in the performance to restore it. "In my Life" had been patched already at the 1:30 mark, with a couple of jarring noises leaving the patch obvious (less so in the Black Cat version, where some sort of noise reduction/overlaying had been performed) - a new patch has been made. The was a break before "What is Life", and George's speech cuts in, and another before "My Sweet Lord" - the applause has been [further] shortened (by about 0.5 seconds) to smooth the continuity.