The Flying Aces
1976-09-01 ::: Chalk Farm, London, England
Roundhouse ::: M2-AUD *remaster*

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

01. ==tuning/talk==
02. Yellow Cab
03. ==applause/tuning/talk==
04. Atlantic Roller
05. ==applause/tuning/talk==
06. Last Soldier In Ulster
07. ==applause/tuning/talk==
08. Starbright
09. ==applause/tuning/talk==
10. Moonlight Kiss
11. ==applause/tuning/talk==
12. Carry On
13. Bourgeois Blues
14. ==applause/tuning/talk==
15. Holding Back The Tears//

Total Time ::: 43:11

::: VG++ fine stereo AUD. Check samples for derision&dismissal, dabblin'&decidin', or to get yr toes wet before divein'
::: Warts: Repaired dullspots & dropouts but surely missed a few. #01 tuning&intro talk still has some noise&mike bumps. #15 cuts halfway thru.
::: COMPARISON CLAUSE: "Mk1" is original mossa version. This is an Mk2 DimeTravel remaster.
::: NOTE: MAN band is NAB but there are no known issues w/Martin Ace or The Flying Aces uploads.
::: Full Flying Aces set except end of #08 (unless they did an encore).
::: Flying Aces opened for Hot Tuna. 7:30pm. Tix �1.90 advance.
::: Color newspaper ad: http://www.tunabase.com/images/posters/19760901_ad3.jpg
::: The Flying Aces "Seashell"CD (UK/2002/Point) recorded at Man Studios in Wales.
::: 3 songs here that are on the "Seashell"CD are different versions (live vs. studio).
::: "Seashell"recorded early 70s&unissued 'til '02. w/Dave Charles drums&other Man/Help Yourself guests.
::: The Flying Aces only actual 70s release_1cut '73 V/A"Christmas At The Patti"double10"LP.
::: The Flying Aces 1973 Patti line-up was a trio w/Dave Charles drums (no Treece or Gibbons).
::: On average, Roundhouse tix have gone up �1 a year, every year, since this gig.
::: Band is members/ex-members of Man/Splendid Humans/Help Yourself/Badfinger, etc.
::: Before departing this mortal coil, Treece guitared for The Green Ray - NOT to be missed!

Recording Information ::: unknown stereo recorder/microphones -> master stereo audience tape -> 1st generation tape -> 2nd generation tape (unknown method digital transfer 2021-04 by mossa).

Remastering 2021-05-xx ::: 2nd generation flacs -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset (NOT to normalize volume), channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, clap, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, pitch (speed) was OK but band tuning seems to "vary" somewhat when checked in frequency analysis, NO equalisation (excepts on a few bass overload spots), NO noise reduction] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> 48kHz/24bit flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. Freed 2021-05-xx.

Line-up ::: Martin Ace - electric bass, vocals // Georgina "George" Ace - acoustic (+electric?) guitar, vocals // Richard Treece (�R.I.P. 2015�) - electric guitar // Mike Gibbins - drums.

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

DimeTravel 803 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! Thanks to DIMER mossa for the"Mk1"transfer. Sincere thanks to whomever uploads this for me. ::: Corrections welcome :::Still don't get the quite misguided MAN torrenting ban, even if they just limited it to AUD tapes. Their fan base is dwindling, to say the least, and the "tape trading" profile has always been a bonus for them. Then of course, the headliner at this gig, well, best not run off at the mouth, but I'll just say, same goes. At least we can still torrent the bass players' offshoot bands, SVT & The Flying Aces... hmmmm. This set is rather delightful. Only song I find really weak musically& lyrically on here is "Starbright", but Treece plays a killer guitar solo - the first 90 seconds or so are meltdown quality, so don't miss that break between verses... In fact, Treece freakin' lights up the room with his guitar in many songs, but do check out his playing in "Moonlight Kiss" as well - wow. Would have been cool if he'd had gone out&jammed with 1976 Hot Tuna. Mrtin hardly cuts loose on bass here at all & in fact is relatively unoticeable until the jam "Bourgeois Blues", which is a shame, as the guy can pump the strings. What a superb venue to see Hot Tuna in - or most any electric band from what I could see when I FINALLY caught a gig in that venue about 3 years ago. Fantastic weird room & the sound was pretty damn good. All those years of going to the Camden Town record stores&stalls & I never even realised the Roundhouse was right up the road... but then I couldn't believe Alexandra Palace 10 years ago either - that's a spectacular corner of London... Guess you have to spend years there to really learn that city, but you'd need to have a full wallet... I do remember, pre phones for dummies daze, that it always suprised me that even after 50 years of living in the city, The Man In The Palace was pretty religious about carrying his A-Z (London map book) but later the ancient book came apart at the seams so he could just carry the relevant pages... That city is a maze. Speaking of The Man In The Palace, a couple of those Help Yourself guys, I believe including Mr Treece, lived with him in The Palace back in the early 70s... The Man taped some Man, and another legendary taper, The BozeMan was at The Palace a couple of times while I was there - in fact, not impossible that this tape is one of his, he went over to visit The Palace to tape some Man related events in the 70s, and I even saw Mr Treeze sit in with The BozeMan's band at Terrastock London, then circa 2000 The BozeMan orchestrated a new Man album... It's all a big MAN maze. And I worked on a Game Theory show today, ANOTHER big fave of The BozeMan, and, and, and (Hey, you ain't gotta read this stuff, but the number of connections are humorous). I miss Terrastock Festivals - it was great seeing a lot of the folks a couple of summers ago at Woolf 2, but jeez, how fleeting it all is. Having said that, neither The Man In The Palace nor I, were particularly impressed with Man's set at Terrastock London, rehash upon rehash... I'd seen them play an almost identical set almost a decade before... and The Man had seen Man play fairly identical sets several decades before, but "ya takes what ya gets", at least they were groovy songs. Some groovy songs here, too - some are somewhat pre-meditated songs for songs' sake, but HOLY TREECE! DIMER tonytill gets it. He's a one-MAN Green Ray POWERHOUSE. I think I have almost 50 RAY shows from him, and I've listened to most of them at least once, a first class outfit, even after Treece's demise. Speaking of demise, don't YOU miss your Cross-era "Bucketful's"? Decades gone. Here's some Aces to beef up yr stash or perhaps upgrade it a bit. Certainly the best live set to surface so far... and we're 45-48 years into the future here, so... Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yrs truly, Knees

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