RE-SEED Thanks to original uploader
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Chicken Shack
1970-03-xx Hannover, Germany Niedersachsenhalle (M?-AUD)

01. Midnight Hour
02. Accept
03. Tell Me
04. Telling Your Fortune
05. Night Life
06. Just A Little Love
07. Anji
08. Still Worried About My Woman
Encore :::
09. It'll Be Me

Total Time ::: 56:14

::: Quite fine AUD with some dullspots & minor distractions but LOTS o' juice. Check samples for "do or do not want this on my drive" decision or anticipatory needle & pin pricks.
::: Warts: Taper cut off deck between many songs. Some clapping & light mike bumps in #4. Some number of dropouts/dullspots remain but fixed the most egregious.
::: One of only a handful of pre-1972 Chicken Shack tapes to ever surface, more's the pity!
::: If you can upgrade this one, please do!

Recording Information ::: unknown recording equipment -> master audience tape -> unknown analog generations -> unknown generation Maxell XLII-S 90 cassette, Dolby B on.

Playback 2013-03-22 ::: unknown generation Maxell XLII-S 90 cassette on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby B on,
& speed adjusted (pitched!) for individual recording, 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 / dropout / bump / pop / click / dullspot repairs,
volume adjustments, single averaged digital speed correction, NO equalisation) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) ->
yr ears. First uploaded week of 2014-01-25.

Further remastering notes ::: I did a sorta rough remaster on this, only about 6 hours, trying to only work on the worst of the dropouts/dullspots, or it would have take me too long as there are many minor dullspots. However think it will muster up interest in enough listeners of AUD tapes to be more than acceptable & probably leave some CShackfreaks' jaws on the floor.

Line-up ::: Stan Webb � electric guitar, vocals // Paul Raymond - keyboards, vocals // 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.

CoolSonics 297 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! ::: Corrections welcome ::: In 1971 Dave Peverett, Roger Earl & Tone Stevens all left Savoy Brown to form Foghat. And, after being dropped by Blue Horizon label, Paul Raymond, Andy Silvester & Dave Bidwell all left Chicken Shack to join a most excellent new line-up of Savoy Brown along with Dave Walker & Kim Simmonds & then recorded "Street Corner Talkin'". Old history for most of you, but worth repeatin' for a little background.

Another one I'd been meaning to transfer & once I did, it then took me almost a year to get around to listening to it for the first time in 15+ years! Stan is really rippin' it up. He sounds a bit buzzed when he speaks... His guitar solos's are fascinating here. They are unusual & unique, a kind of blurred, frenzied attack on the fretboard. A couple of years later the style had changed significantly. "Imagination Lady" is a WHOLE lot of heavy, but quite a different approach, more sparse note-wise & very chord heavy. This gig (& presumably tour) follows immediately after, or perhaps in the midst of, the "Accept" album sessions which seem to have happened from December 1969 thru the end of March 1970 (Wikipedia is wrong assuming the dates in the Blue Horizon book are correct, as at least 2 tracks from "Accept" were recorded at the END of March).

From back in the day where I used seamail & sent blanks overseas! Much better quality than I remembered - closer & much clearer. At first there is the impression of some distance, but the fact that there is so much high end & a lack of audience interference makes for pretty swell listening. The instrumental titled "Accept" here... Does anyone know the story? The band should have been in the midst of recording the album at this time (or just hit the road at the end of the month after completing the recording). Is this the title track of the album & was it deleted before the album's release? What other versions of the song circulate? If you are into the Shack, this one's for you. Enjoy!

Kudos to Zongo for life support, Lochner for mikes&more & Fast Freddie for runnin' Video Dick's Record Emporium with the bathroom office full of tape decks. Thanks to Hanwaker (few among us can keep his pace). Mountains of gratitude to Davmar, D.White, Sanchez, Elliot, The Florida Kid, Kloiber, Zingg, JTW, Bershaw, Boston Gold, Dixon, Moore, Gough & SO many more for all that collecting & sharing... Royal thanks to The Man In The Palace, Doc Tinker, Brinkhoffs, Barely Eatin', Reel Master Gaule, Parrish & all the traders who housed me thru my music acquisition & travel years. Hats off to Brother Kent, Uncle Jake, Little Queenie (& her neighbor Frank) & his honor Ptomaine Thomas. Glasses raised to Byron for musical horizon expansion & much obliged to J & Thurston for keepin' my concert fires burnin' since my continental shift. Thanks to the Mods for keepin' DIME alive. Enjoy, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees

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