J. Geils Band - Broadcast October 31, 1975 (SBD Audio Only - BP3 Master - 15 Minutes Long) The Midnight Special; Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

This is not a RESEED, but is a newly prepared offer.
I'm always looking for uncirculated, alternate versions, upgrades, etc., of anything J. Geils Band.
If you have any of those & can not share, please get them to someone who can do so - THX!!!
Enjoy!!!

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J. Geils Band .... Broadcast October 31, 1975
The Midnight Special, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
(SBD Audio Only)(BP3 Master)


MODS NOTE: These songs have not been released on
"The Midnight Special" DVD Box Set.

J. Geils - guitar
Peter Wolf - lead vocals
Richard "Magic Dick" Salwitz - harmonica
Seth Justman - keyboards, vocals
Danny Klein - bass
Stephen Jo Bladd - drums, vocals


Taper: bpthree
Taping Gear: Cable TV broadcast> "Black Box" > Akai GX-220D Reel @ 3 3/4 IPS
Lineage: Scotch 207 Master Reel> Akai GX-220D playback> TASCAM CDRW-700> Trade CD-R> (wav) EAC (secure mode)> (flac) Trader's Little Helper level 6 (align on sector boundaries)
Quality: vg/vg+
Length: 14:27 minutes
Artwork: none.
Samples: none.


Set List:

01. Love-Itis
02. Orange Driver
03. Give It To Me


Taper's Comments:

1 - HELP!! If you have any uncirculated SPIRIT shows, or better quality FM
broadcasts than what's been posted here before, please share them. If you
know anybody who has shows that fit this category that aren't on DIME, please
dub off their stuff and share it. I'm trying to write a book on SPIRIT and need
all the information I can get. I have a database of over 1500 gigs 1967-1996, and
want to find as much information as I can to add to it. If you have any memories
of where you saw SPIRIT, the more specific the better (venue, city, date, supporting
bands, etc.), I'd love to know that as well. Please leave that in the comments
section or PM me. Thank you!

2 - Show description & comments follow:
Before I had a VCR, I rigged up a way to record the sound off of my TV. Most TV's
during this time frame did not have an audio out feature, so I purchased some sort
of "black box" thing that supposedly did something to help you play your TV sound
through your stereo. I opened my back cover on my TV, and got a cable with
alligator clips, that I attached to each of the inputs to the TV speaker. That ran to
the "black box", and then to my tape deck. Understand that TV sound back then
was hardly high fidelity, but it was at least respectable, and worth having. The biggest
shortfall in sound was the high end. As a fellow DIMER so aptly pointed out, TV sound
only went to around +/- 5,000 Hz then, where most things considered high fidelity were
three times that.


This kind of marks the end of the J. Geils Band as a blues group, and unfortunately my
interest in them. Never got into "Centerfold", "Freeze Frame", and all their pop stuff. I
can remember seeing them a couple of times circa 1973/1974 and they were just killer!
I especially remember a gig at the Baltimore Civic Center in January 1974 where JO JO
GUNNE opened, and have always hoped that recordings of both bands would surface.
Anyway, this TV appearance is great. Only wish I had the video to go with it. Enjoy.

bpthree


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