Humble Pie - Great Western Festival Bardney Linconshire UK - Monday 29th May 1972

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Philips mono cassette recorder (EMI C60 tape) > WAV> audacity flac level 8

It was 50 years ago this year! 29th May 1972
A bit of background information as to how this recording came about
I had previously been to my 1st festival the year before - The Weeley Festival 'of Progressive Music' and then a year later decided to go for this one with a friend from Bristol
The Great Western Express Festival was billed as the 'festival they could not stop' and was held at Tupholme/Bardney near Lincoln UK over the period Friday 26th May 1972 to Monday 29th May 1972. The advance ticket price of �4.50 got you four days worth of music
A great site to get all the information you need to know about these UK festivals is https://www.ukrockfestivals.com/
A third friend who couldn't make it asked if I would record a few bands on my Philips mono cassette recorder. He bought me a tenner's worth of EMITAPES - not the best quality but all he/we could afford at the time. They were a mixture of C60's and C120's
So off we went on the train - badly equipped with just plastic bin type bags to sleep in/shelter from the elements. It was a typical British May Bank Holiday weekend - the weather was mostly dreadful - windy and wet
With the limited amount of tapes I had to be selective as to what I recorded and also I was given a list of bands to record by my friend. For this reason - for example - I did not record Genesis or Joe Cocker - which I have regretted ever since - but heyho at least I captured some which in the circumstances was quite an achievement. There was a lot of tape turning and using blank bits at the end. Overall I recorded some as follows Beach Boys (A NAB here), Jackson Heights, Atomic Rooster, The Faces, Slade, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Heads Hands and Feet, Rory Gallagher (Days 1 & 2), Wishbone Ash, Alexis, Buddy Miles, Roxy Music, Lindisfarne, The Strawbs, Don McLean, Stone the Crows and what is here in this torrent - Humble Pie. Some are only very partial and not very clear (rain etc). For Humble Pie I think the rain mainly cleared.
This recording is not too bad taking everything into consideration. There is a bit of can bashing roughly in times to the music in parts. I digitised all these back in the 90's to try and combat further deterioration in the original cassettes tapes. I really could have done with a player with azimuth adjustment to do the transfer and have not done any processing at all to the sound. This recording is short in length - about 25 minutes - so not sure how much was not recorded - the final track cuts out at the 3 minute mark.

I got the band list from an internet site so hopefully it is accurate

After starting on this I decided to read the Steve Marriott book - 'All or Nothing' which strangely omits his appearance at this festival - a very good read

I've never seen any other recording of this festival (I did upload one day of the Rory Gallagher sets I recorded a while ago and the Lindisfarne set recently) - I have Rory's 2nd day performance to do still plus some others shown above) or Weeley recordings (other than T Rex, King Crimson and VDGG) - if anyone has any tucked away please dig them out. I do remember seeing 'mics on poles' near the front in the audience at this festival! One day they could get tossed away as of no interest and lost forever.

So here is the third recording I have uploaded from this festival so far - I've prioritised this one at the request of Les_Mountain

1) Rory Gallagher
2) Lindisfarne
3) Humble Pie

Humble Pie festival photograph - https://www.ukrockfestivals.com/gwrecollections.html

Setlist (partial?)

00 = Intro stuff on tape
01 - Hallelujah (I Love Her So) (08.35)
02 - Honky Tonk Women (Rolling Stones Cover) (04.10)
03 - I Don't Need No Doctor (09.07)
04 - Rollin' Stone (Cuts out - tape end) (03.00)

Line - up

Steve Marriott (1947-1991) � guitar, vocals, keyboards, harmonica
Jerry Shirley (1952- ) � drums, keyboards
Greg Ridley (1941-2003) � bass, vocals, guitar
Clem Clempson (1949- ) � guitar, keyboards, vocals

Sample included

As usual do what you like with this recording