Climax Blues Band
1972-10-18 Bern, Switzerland Jugendzentrum Gaskessel (M-AUD *remastered*)

*~* Carefully remastered version removing or reducing many issues *~*

01. ...Flight
02. Baby, What You Want Me To Do
03. Standing By A River
04. All The Time In The World
05. Country Hat
06. Come On In My Kitchen
07. Shake Your Love
08. Let's Work Together

Total Time ::: 48:03

::: Quite! fine, greatly improved AUD. Check samples to use yr own yardstick or a quick few booty shakes.
::: Warts: #6 & #7 each have a single splice in middle (not much missing). Some clapping, but during music it was GREATLY reduced (each clap individually). #1 (fragment anyway) has some speed issues (hard to tell what's happening) & then there are a couple of brief speed fluctuations later which aren't really problematic. Dropouts & dullspots were almost non-existent in right channel, but may have missed a few. Taper shut off deck between songs.
::: COMPARISON CLAUSE: This is a remastered version of the original "WILLIAM TELL EDITION 038" upload, no longer on the tracker.
::: Lucifer Burns request, "Also I would like to ask those that still have such "treasures" tucked away to please consider sharing them the way these generous people have. None of us are getting any younger & what good will any of your recordings be when you're DEAD!" - I second that. We finally got to hear this show after every member of the band had passed away.
::: http://www.vintagecassette.com/philips/el_3302 has a nice page on the cassette deck that was used, with photo!

Recording Information ::: Philips EL 3302 ("2nd generation") mono cassette deck -> master AGFA FE mono cassette, no noise reduction.

Playback circa 2013 ::: master AGFA FE mono cassette on Nakamichi 682 ZX cassette deck -> Sony CDR-W66 Standalone CD Burner w/"super bitmapping on" -> CDR -> Plexwriter Premium II CD-Transport -> iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core Duo with iTunes 9.2.1 into WAV -> DVDR -> WAV -> Trader's Little Helper -> flacs -> DIME.

Playback 2014-xx-xx ::: flacs -> wavs (TLH) -> 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, -2.3% overall averaged speed fix with single pass after spectral analysis with pitchpipe verification, light EQ to remove bad hum] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2014-07-05.

Further remastering notes: Removed bad glitches from decks shut offs between songs & edits smoothed out. This was a MONO master. After remastering doubled-up & used ONLY right channel as left channel had MANY hundreds of dullspots (in effect dropouts) thruout the recording which were very annoying, while the right channel was in very lovely condition!

Line-up ::: Pete Haycock - guitars, vocals // Colin Cooper - saxophone, harmonica, vocals // Arthur Wood - keyboards // Derek Holt - electric bass // George Newsome - drums.

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

DimeTravel 035 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! MEGA thanks to DIMER Lucifer Burns for the original upload & loads of respect for the gentleman who recorded the show, "Judge Free", and hats off to his friend "William Tell" for providing the raw file. ::: Corrections welcome ::: I was quite looking forward to this when it was originally uploaded, as early Climax Blues Band tapes are few & far between and, if I am not mistaken, this is the earliest to show up so far. However, when I went to try to listen to it, there were so many problems with the recording that I found it unlistenable, first & foremost because the speed was so off. There was also a lot of clapping & there were constant dropouts & then there was hummmmmmm. I am happy to report that most all thes issues have been fixed. Essentially ALL the dullspots/dropouts are gone. The hum was greatly reduced. Claps were lowered in volume (or removed) one at a time. Overall averaged speed correction was applied that tuned it up nicely in most places, tho' there are still a few funny spots/issues with speed variation which I couldn't fix (mostly near the start). I am happy to report that at this point it is a MOST enjoyable listen of a superb UK bluesrock outfit in their prime, albeit with a few remaining quirks. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees

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