Jeffrey Frederick & The Clamtones
Steve Weber & The Holy Modal Rounders
December 10, 1977 (1977-12-10)
Shady Grove
San Francisco, California, USA

EX matrix mix from 1 channel soundboard and 1 channel AKG D1000 microphone reel master.
These recordings were shared here circa 2005 in their original unmixed form. This new 2018 version is a very much improved matrix mix. Many minor problem spots were smoothed over seamlessly and the tracking and titles have been improved with FLAC tags now added too.

There's a story that goes with this series of four shows from the San Francisco Bay Area in December, 1977. I did not own a working portable recorder when this show happened but I REALLY wanted to get a recording so I packed my very heavy Tandberg reel deck in my car trunk (for the record, the car was a 1963 Rambler Classic) to this storefront club on Haight Street in San Francisco, arrived during the afternoon soundcheck and politely asked if I could tape. The venue's sound guy directed me to bass player, road manager and defacto soundman Dave Riesch. He gave me permission to record, but did complain that they had allowed a lot of recordings over the years but never seemed to ever get copies later from anybody. I assured him that I would give him copies, though I had no idea of how long it would take to get them to him in a good enough version. To best assure that I got a full mix, I did one channel soundboard with the other channel a microphone. The tape did come out very well except that there was a very noticeable time delay between the two channels because the microphone was back at the front of house soundboard rather than close to the stage. Anyway, I became friends with them all throughout that long evening and Dave was nice enough to offer to put me on the guest list for three more nights later that same week at another small club, Mountain Charley's in Los Gatos with similar taping privileges.

I did not have any available time alignment capabilities during those pre-digital years other than running one channel through a second recorder to get the 2 channels better time-aligned and did not do any analog remixing either. It was just hard pans of each mix in the separate channels. I didn't do anything more with these recordings until the digital age when I saw Dave Reisch many years later (in 1998 when he came to my area backing Michael Hurley). I got his contact info and soon after that finally sent him digitally time-aligned but still un-remixed recordings of the shows. A few years after that I saw Dave again backing the Holy Modal Rounders on their 2001 "Bound To Lose" tour. He told me how much he loved these recordings because they included quite a few songs that he had completely forgotten about and was now doing again with his current band (The Freak Brothers). So then fast forward another 10 years and I finally made a new attempt to remix, retrack and better title all four shows. I had them all done except for the info files a couple of years ago so I called up Dave Reisch on the same phone number that I had from circa 2000 and he answered! I sent him the new version. It's taken another year for me to call him back again but I finally did. He said that hardly any recordings from that era sound any good but these are the exception. He had no song title corrections and had no problems with me sharing them here, although he was quick to say that he didn't have the rights to any of it. Anyway some of the song titles were "my best guesses" so any additional corrections will be much appreciated! (grner1 - www.dimeadozen.org - 2018-01-01)

CD1 - 70:47 - Clamtones main set:
101 [05:53] Oh Me Oh My >
102 [05:32] Release Me
103 [03:08] Griselda
104 [04:32] What Made My Hamburger Disappear?
105 [05:02] Sweet Lucy
106 [04:44] Debbie Delight (Sugar In, Sugar On The Rim)
107 [04:51] Window
108 [03:50] Jaunita
109 [04:47] Mind Your Own Business
110 [05:22] Fooey, Fooey
111 [07:32] Poor Otto
112 [00:12] talk
113 [01:33] Penile Malfunction
114 [02:25] Starlet
115 [03:32] Rosebud
116 [00:36] instrumental bit (based on Whiskey Willy)
117 [07:16] Jackknife - Red Newt

CD2 - 79:51 - The Holy Modal Rounders set:
201 [01:16] talk and tuning before Holy Modal Rounders set
202 [06:32] The STP Song
203 [05:09] Snake In The Grass
204 [01:31] talk
205 [06:44] Blues In The Bottle (with Jill Gross on backing vocals)
206 [00:20] talk
207 [04:08] The Bird Song
208 [01:25] talk and tuning
209 [06:35] City Blues
210 [00:46] talk
211 [03:50] My Name Is Morgan
212 [01:02] talk
213 [11:22] Boobs A Lot
214 [00:21] talk
215 [05:30] Pink Underwear
216 [00:31] talk
217 [04:43] Sea Of Love
218 [00:28] talk
219 [08:48] Euphoria [fades immediately on applause after music ends]

Jeffrey Frederick and The Clamtones [show encore]:
220 [00:51] instrumental bit (waiting for band members to get back on stage for the encores)
221 [07:59] Rotten Lettuce [cuts in near beginning of song]

CD3 - 11:12 - "Lonesome Wayne and The Clamtones" closeout to show:
301 [01:59] talk
302 [04:06] Save The Trees Save The Grass or The Good Lord Will Kick Your Ass (It's Urgent) (with Lonesome Wayne - vocals, guitar)
303 [00:26] talk
304 [03:08] Heartbreak Hotel (with Lonesome Wayne - vocals, guitar)
305 [01:33] The Star Spangled Banner (with Lonesome Wayne - vocals, guitar)

Jeff Frederick - guitar, vocals (Clamtones tracks only)
Jill Gross - vocals (Clamtones tracks and one Holy Modal Rounders song noted above)
Steve Weber - guitar, vocals (Holy Modal Rounders tracks only)
Robin Remailly - fiddle, mandolin, guitar, vocals
Dave Reisch - bass, vocals
Ted Deane - sax, flute
Roger North - drums
Richard Tyler - piano
plus vocals and guitar by guest Lonesome Wayne where noted.

Lineage: 1 channel Sbd + 1 channel AKG D1000 microphone > Maxell UD 35-90 reel > Tandberg 9241XD (3.75 ips, Dolby B encoded)
Transfer: Tandberg 9241XD (3.75 ips, Dolby B decoded) > Macintosh with Digidesign Audiomedia III sound card > Pro Tools (time alignment, matrix mix, minor "nip & tuck" edits, normalization & tracking - no DNR or EQ) > AIFF > Xact (Flac level 8 files, tagged with sector boundaries verified).
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