James Brown
1972-08-12 Westbury, New York Roosevelt Raceway Festival Of Hope (M-AUD)

*** remastered without EQ* from taper's original master cassettes ***

"He's got more moves than Bobby Fischer!"

01. Theme From "Shaft"
02. instrumental & cheering the JB's ->
03. Do Your Thing
04. Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head ->
05. I'll Take You There (?) ->
06. James Brown intro ->
07. Soul Power
08. Make It Funky ->
09. Try Me//
10 . ...? (instrumental) ->
11. ? ->
12. Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine
13. It's a Man's Man's Man's World ->
14. Watch Me
15. ? ->
16. ?

Total Time ::: 58:51

::: So-so AUD tape suffering from too much AUD noise & talking but certainly can be devoured by collectors. Check samples for edibility & audibility or some minute morsels.
::: Warts: 1st 20 seconds are a bit rough. From 1:58-2:16 there is almost silence (recording issue with tape deck that "happened on occasion, not a transfer issue"). Since the music is slightly audible I raised the levels & *applied some noise reduction to these 18 seconds only. Talking & clapping in MANY places. I reduced or removed what I could but it's a drag, relentless at times. A second of unrepairable tape chew at end of "Try Me" before tapeflip & at beginning of next intrumental. Last 25 seconds of recording has ~10 seconds of occasional diginoise.
::: Festival Day 1 : 1972-08-12 Saturday (order from Christgau review & announcements):
James Brown / Chuck Berry / Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen (approx 4pm) / Elephant's Memory / James Gang / McKendree Spring / Stephen Stills & Manassas / Jefferson Airplane.
::: Festival Day 2 : 1972-08-13 Sunday (order from Christgau review):
Billy Preston / Bo Diddley / Lighthouse / Shirelles / Ike & Tina Turner / Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show / Sha Na Na / Sly & The Family Stone
Looking Glass on Day 2 billing but not in review (Possibly a no-show as "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" was at top of charts?).
::: The taper has some recollection McKendree Spring didn't play, which is strange as they are still being announced as upcoming well into the afternoon.
::: This taper only taped Day 1 & did everything except McKendree Spring (didn't play?) & Chuck Berry's main set was lent out & never returned (only had his encore).
::: Benefit for Nassau Society for Crippled Children & Adults sponsored by Nassau Easter Seal Society.
::: Purportedly the first rock festival used to raise funds for an established charity.
::: Ticket Price: $10.00 per day, noon to midnight (tho' Day 1 apparently ended about 2AM).
::: Vintage Robert Christgau review at http://robertchristgau.com/xg/news/nd720820.php
::: One online listing has Malo listed on 1972-08-12. Incorrect as far as I know, however this taper recalls hearing they might have actually played AFTER the Airplane at the end of the day.
::: Perhaps some folks can contribute the correctl band line-up & fill in the setlist.
::: Quotes above & below attributed to the stoned audience particpant who makes so many of these tapes a difficult listen, but some of his dialogue is priceless.

Recording Information ::: $35 Lafayette monaural cassette recorder with adjustable recording level & unknown monaural Sony microphone -> master normal bias mono cassettes, no noise reduction.

Playback (circa 2008) ::: master normal bias mono cassettes on unknown brand azymuth adjusted cassette deck -> unknown digital equipment -> wavs @ 48 kHz on DVD-Rs.

Mastering (2013-08-xx) ::: 48 kHz wavs in Audacity (normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch / dropout / bump / pop / click / dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, NO equalisation (except on the 18 seconds where the sound cut out), dithered down to 44.1 kHz) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. First uploaded week of 2013-08-31.

Line-up (unconfirmed!) ::: James Brown - vocals // Lyn Collins - vocals // The J.B.'s - William "Bootsy" Collins - electric bass // Phelps "Catfish" Collins - electric guitar // Bobby Byrd - organ // John "Jabo" Starks - drums // Clayton "Chicken" Gunnells - horns // Darryl "Hasaan" Jamison - horns // Robert McCollough - horns // Johnny Griggs - congas.

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

CoolSonics 263 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader, The Florida Kid! ::: Corrections welcome ::: Said all I really need to say above. "He looks like Janis Joplin on a diet!" from our friend in the audience. The music sounds great but the audience is simply overwhelming & times & too distracting. I'm sure some folks will get into it anyway. Enjoy.

Kudos to Zongo for life support, Lochner for mikes&more & Fast Freddie for runnin' Video Dick's Record Emporium with the bathroom office full of tape decks. Thanks to Hanwaker (few among us can keep his pace). Mountains of gratitude to Davmar, D.White, Sanchez, Elliot, The Florida Kid, Kloiber, Zingg, JTW, Bershaw, Boston Gold, Dixon, Moore, Gough & SO many more for all that collecting & sharing... Royal thanks to The Man In The Palace, Doc Tinker, Brinkhoffs, Barely Eatin', Reel Master Gaule, Parrish & all the traders who housed me thru my music acquisition & travel years. Hats off to Brother Kent, Uncle Jake, Little Queenie (& her neighbor Frank) & his honor Ptomaine Thomas. Glasses raised to Byron for musical horizon expansion & much obliged to J & Thurston for keepin' my concert fires burnin' since my continental shift. Thanks to the Mods for keepin' DIME alive. Enjoy, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees

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