Freedom Highway
1967-10-08 San Jose, California Santa Clara County Fairgrounds Family Park (M2-AUD)
Dr Sunday's Medicine Show
Haight Ashbury Medical Clinic benefit concert

"The fastest rising band in San Francisco"

01-[03:48]. Going To German
02-[11:57]. Freedom Highway

Total Time ::: 15:45

::: Quite fine up-close AUD (right at stage?). Check samples for bitchin' or blissin'.
::: Warts: Don't let 'em scare ya! Missed some dropouts & couldn't work on all dullspots in #2 but healed many. #2 has the jitters in a couple o' places, but it ain't bad. 1 cut in middle of #2 & removed 6 secs of warble (not much of song missing). #2 cuts right at end.
::: Advertised line-up: Big Brother & The Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Mad River, Mother Earth, Ace Of Cups, Congress Of Wonders, Dr. West�s Medicine Show.
::: Nice color poster for this gig circulates online.
::: Does NOT duplicate any songs on their sole (posthumous) album "Made in �68" (house rehearsals '69 & Sausalito Heliport '68).
::: A missing link with earlier material than the album & unissued trax including the band's theme song.

Recording Information ::: unknown mono recording equipment -> master mono audience tape (probably reel) -> 1st generation cassette, Dolby off -> 2nd generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby B on.

Playback 2015-04-xx ::: 2nd generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette 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, further pitch (speed) fixes if necessary with single pass per segment after frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2015-05-23.

Line-up (unconfirmed) ::: Richi Ray Harris - electric guitar, vocals // Gary Phillipet - electric guitar, vocals // ? - piano (#1), organ (#2) (possibly one of the guitarists) // Scott Inglis (or Dave Schallock?) - electric bass, vocals // Bruce Brymer - drums, vocals.

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

DimeTravel 123 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! ::: Corrections welcome ::: Very cool band & you KNOW there are more tapes out there somewhere. Don't really get why folks sit on so much stuff. Who cares?!? Forget the hoarding & dreams of untold, impossible riches. Share while people care. Ah well, I ain't really bitchin', just wishin'! Maybe the folks at Big Beat & Sundazed could just pass along their libraries of "less than releasable" quality. It sure won't stop folks from buyin' the better stuff - In fact, maybe just the opposite. The first song kinda remind me of The Charlatans, the second, a bit repetitive at the start, but then goes off into some fine psychedelic guitar & guitar/organ forays, perhaps reminiscent of Mad River, or.... You love this era & area, you'll probably love this. Probably it'll pop your eyebrows out another few centimenters. 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!