Bull Angus
1972-02-09 ::: Commack, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, USA
Long Island Arena ::: 88 Veterans Highway ::: M-AUD

~*~ Carefully remastered fixing various issues, without EQ* or NR ~*~

01. ...A Time Like Ours (-end only-)
02. ==audience/tuning/song intro==
03. We're The) Children Of Our Dreams
04. ==audience/tuning/song intro==
05. City Boy (aka "Hot Dusty Roads"*)
06. ==partial bandmember intros/audience/tuning/song intro==
07. No Cream For the Maid
08. ==audience/tuning/song intro==
09. Run Don´t Stop
10. ==audience/thanks/inbetween set announcements==

Total Time ::: 30:50

::: VG+ slightly distant AUD. Check samples for "Toodle-oo" or "All on board" fomentation.
::: Warts: Repaired dullspots & dropouts but surely missed a few. #01 is ending only (fades in ~5mins late)&1st 30secs has several now-spliced less-than-1sec cuts. Tape maybe missing other opening song(s) from set. #03 ~2mins in has 3sec seamless patch from later in song. #06 split sec cut in talk omits name. #09 some clapping, esp.1st 2mins&later some strangely timed ones. Few spots w/duller high end due to lowered or obstructed mike but not too problematic.
::: Concert bill: Bull Angus/Cactus/Badfiinger, all taped by this source. Cactus also coming&maybe Badfinger later.
::: Bull Angus recording better than Cactus from same taper/venue & tape itself aged MUCH better (FAR less repairs).

==ASSORTED BONUS FACTOIDS FOR THOSE INCLINED TO READ 'EM==
::: This is the first-ever Bull Angus live tape to appear AFAIK. Anyone have others they could share?
::: Seems like their 2nd&final LP "Free For All" had come out not too long before this show (both LPs on Mercury).
::: As of 2020, neither album has had official CD release, but were booted on Mandala & Dogtoire labels.
::: Poughkeepsie area's Bull Angus played from '69-72 & toured a lot but had marginal success.
::: Bull Angus never cracked the big nut. Now described as psych/heavy metal/prog-bent post-psych heavy blues.
::: Producer Vinny Testa on the 1st LP notes notes band style... "Riff-rock should be played loud".
::: If you, like me, wondered if Bull Angus was better live than represented on LP, here's yr chance.
::: Franke Previte had played in the Oxford Watch Band & had 80s fame in poprock band Franke&The Knockouts.
::: Pre-Bull Angus, LaFalce&Venditti played w/The Pyramid (NY band) & Piccolo had been in The Revells.
::: Online sources credit Bull Angus' name as "inspired by the bull farms near a barn they'd rented for rehearsals"
::: *Unsure why Bull Angus re-titled Steve Stills' "Hot Dusty Roads"to"City Boy"but they did credit him for songwriting.
::: Long Island Arena often called "Commack Arena", renamed "Suffolk Forum" in late '76, held ~7000 for concerts.
::: Venue was south of Veterans Highway just west of Sunken Meadow State Parkway (by the old Commack Drive-in&roller rink).
::: Venue often used as a hockie rink & there was a fully iced rink covered by wooden boards for this event.
::: Speaking of bands which "might have been better live", does anyone have any tapes of Sir Lord Baltimore?

Recording Information ::: unknown cassette recorder & microphone -> master mono cassette -> (2020 1st-ever playback since recording!) in Kenwood CT-201 cassette deck with azimuth adjusted -> unknown method digital transfer -> master 44.10Hz/16bit wav -> flac.

Remastering 2020-10-xx ::: master 44.10Hz/16bit flac -> computer -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, clap, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, +1.6% averaged pitch (speed) fix with single pass after frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation (*except small 35KHz notch), NO noise reduction] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. Freed 2020-10-xx. (NOTE: Small file sizes as master came as 2 channel MONO, almost same KHz in each, so after being sure they were synched, combined to lessen extensive patching work. Also, you can brighten this up a bit with treble, but no beneficial EQ was immediately forthcoming so only produced this one version. Some better clarity is possible with good EQ).

Line-up ::: Franke Jon Previte - vocals // Larry La Falce - electric guitar, vocals // Dino Paolillo - electric guitar, vocals // Ron Piccolo - organ, piano, vocals // Lenny Venditti - electric bass // Geno Charles - drums, percussion.

Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.

DimeTravel 681 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader, The Florida Kid, for his generosity! Sincere thanks to whomever uploads this for me. ::: Corrections welcome ::: Went looking for more 1972 live Cactus material & this showed up as a bonus. I sorta recollect having seen this group circa '72, but had no memory of substance, so I was curious. Very fine playing with some cool slide guitar & a solid rhythm section, tho' overly pre-meditated arrangements at times, which, along with the vocal & keyboard sound, likely gave the band their "prog-bent" attributes, tho' some songs fall into a more mainstream rock category in the actual context of their era (like #03 &#09). As with many Mercury LPs in those days, seemingly poor promotion efforts landed Bull Angus albums in the cutout bins around the USA, tho' they played loads of high profile gigs in 1971-72 & had previously opened for Cactus at Madison Square Garden in '71. Certainly the psych/prog accreditation (and cool album covers) & some unquestionable musical hipness have all helped dealers continue to sell their LPs over the last 5 decades (creeping up well over the $100 range at times) & there are some fine psych moves in places - check out the jamming in "City Boy", it's excellent - likewise in "No Cream For the Maid". The albums will certainly get into the listening rotation in the next couple of weeks here - long overdue for a listen. I'd certainly be interested in hearing an entire show with 3 times the material to get a better idea what they were really up to live, but quite happy this appeared at last to take the edge off my curiousity. Maybe it'll do the same for you. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yrs truly, Knees

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Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!

SugarMegs note...I was AT that show...*lol* Cactus, Badfinger and Bull Angus peter