Chicken Shack
1969-11-20 Vienna, Austria unknown venue (M4-AUD Mk2 version)

~*~ Mk2 carefully remastered fixing various issues, with NR & EQ (compensating for some previous over-EQ!) ~*~

DimeTravel brings you "British Blues BOOM! Volume 05"

01. intro riffin'-> Midnight Hour
02. My Mood
03. The Things You Put Me Through
04. Horse & Cart
05. Look Ma, I'm Cryin'
05. Tell Me
06. Telling Your Fortune
07. Diary Of Your Life
08. Still Worried About My Woman//

Total Time ::: 39:16

::: Pretty decent AUD for its vintage (especially Mk2). Check samples for it sucks or suck it down self-determination.
::: Warts: Split second tapechew in #6 (mostly fixed). Reel lag glitch in #7. Distortion rises in #5 & again in #8 (esp. last 2 minutes of tape - bass&volume much louder at the show?). #8 cuts near end.
::: CONTRAST CLAUSE: This is the Mk2 version with EQ & noise reduction. Mk1 with NO EQ or NR is elsewhere.
::: Personally I prefer this Mk2 version which reduces many sound issues without twoo many new ones. Still a bit bright, but not bad! Makes yr own choices, matey.
::: NOT the same as Essen 1969-11-21 - setlist is partly the same.
::: Ten Years After played the Vienna Stadthalle 1969-11-21. Perhaps a festival going on? Anyone know the correct venue?
::: The Mk1 version was not EQ'd by me, but sounds like it was certainly EQ'd in the past - too bright. If you agree, check this Mk2 copy where I've fixed many of the issues.

Recording Information ::: unknown mono recording equipment -> master mono tape -> 3 analog tape generations -> 4th generation Maxell XLII-90 Dolby B on.

Playback 2015-xx-xx ::: 4th generation Maxell XLII-90 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, -3.3% averaged pitch (speed) fix with single pass frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification, some equalisation & noise reduction applied] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2015-04-25.

Further remastering notes: There was a huge noise floor in the recording, which I felt was greatly improved by noise reduction. The EQ was added to reduce the screwed a high frequency issue around 6000Hz & while I was at it, I reduced the bass (often overloaded) at around 80Hz, which improve the sound a lot. Some high end fluctuation is brought out a bit by the noise reduction, especially in the quietest passages, but I felt the benefits far outweighed the negatives (for me). I am no sound engineer, so if you don't think much of the samples, by all means download Mk1 which leaves off both NR & EQ.

Line-up ::: Stanley "Stan" Frederick Webb � electric guitar, vocals // Paul Martin Raymond � keyboards // Andy Silvester � electric bass // Dave Bidwell � drums.

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

DimeTravel 105 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! ::: Corrections welcome ::: The Chicken Shack - like a fine, aged wine that pops the cork out of the bottle when you put it on the stereo. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees

Support the artist! www.stanwebb.co.uk -- www.ufo-music.info (Paul Raymond)

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