David Sancious and Tone
David Sancious - Keyboards, Clavinet, Rhodes, Mini-Moog,
B-3 Organ, Ibanez 6/12 doubleneck guitar
Gerald Carboy- bass
Ernest "Boom" Carter- drums and percussion
Atwood Hall
Clark University
Worcester, Mass. U.S.A.
November 1975
soundboard recording
runtime: 58:14 (minutes/seconds)
setlist:
1: stage introduction > forest of feelings 9:10
2; transformation 23:07
3: sky church hymm #9 15:16
4: energy 10:39
soundboard master reel > played on Rexox reel (possibly
the one that recorded it?) and copied using Tascam
cassette deck onto Maxell XLII 90 min. cassette >
cassette played on Nak. 125 into soundforge with Realtek
soundcard (WAV) > FLAC (aligned on sector boundaries) >
torrentially yours.
comments:
this appears to be the full set from Tone. there are
rather long silences between the songs, which I left in
to maintain the completeness, although some may want to
edit some of that out. This may be a master reel > cassette
lineage, I'm not certain of that but this is likely the
best recording available of the earliest Tone concert
recording I know to exist. it is definitely from a sbd
(pre-FM) that was used for an FM broadcast. other than
the typically primitive 70's college station mix, the
quality is pretty good and there should be no SBE's.
Tone has 4 official releases, this show includes songs
from the 1st 2 (studio albums), "Forest of Feelings" and
"Transformation: Speed of Love", from 75 and 76. 78 gave us
"True Stories" and in 2004 they released "Dance of the Age
of Enlightenment". I haven't heard the later 2, the 1st 2
are (somewhere) among my albums and are nice listening,
jumpin' jazzy funky fusion, as is this set. David appeared
on Narada Michael Walden's 1st solo album in 1977 and also has
2 solo albums, "just as I thought" (1979) and "the bridge" (1980)
and was asked by radio station WNEW to play a 10 min. piano piece
in memory of then recently murdered John Lennon.
In later years Sancious would become quite familiar,
playing with Jack Bruce and Friends in 1980 and 81 and
others such as Stanley Clarke, Eric Clapton, France Gall,
Zucchero Fornaciari, Peter Gabriel, Youssou N'Dour, Sting,
Bryan Ferry, Natalie Merchant, Frances Dunnery and Robbie Dupree.
he also did some work with Vernon Reid & Living Colour, Seal,
Jon Anderson (of Yes) and Daryl Hall and John Oates. in early
2009 he toured Australia, New Zealand and Japan with Jeff Beck.
This is possibly the 1st recording many have heard of this fine
musician in a concert with his own group (after his work with
Bruce Springsteen & E St. Band, he was in Bruce's albums
"Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." and "the wild, the innocent
& E St. Shuffle" in 73, and 75's "Born to Run" as well as
"human touch" in 1992.) this guy gets around a little bit.
Do not sell this recording.
Share freely, losslessly and gaplessly.