Jean-Luc Ponty- violin
Allan Zavod- keyboards
Daryl Stuermer- guitar
Ralph Armstrong- bass
Steve Smith- drums
An afternoon at
the Music Inn,
Lenox, Mass.U.S.A.
July 24, 1977
(opener for Renaissance)
runtime: 61:48 (minutes/seconds)
setlist:
1: tuning and sound adjustments 2:48
2: tarantula 12:43
3: imaginary voyage 24:11
4: gardens of Babylon 5:39
5: Jean-Luc Ponty introduces his band 1:17
6: Ponty solo: wandering on the milky way > 1:53
7: fight for life 9:55
8: encore: new country 3:19
lineage:
unknown mikes > JVC KD-2 cassette deck (dolby off) >
unknown brand master cassette >
copied to Maxell UD 7" reel >
played on Teac 3300 into soundforge (WAV) >
FLAC > torrentially yours. first seeded in 2008.
reseeded in 2010 with track times.
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely, losslessly and gaplessly.
comments:
The final show for Jean-Luc Ponty's lengthy
"Imaginary Voyage" tour. 3 months later I saw
JLP play a show from the Enigmatic Ocean tour
in Boston but opted to up this show first
partly because it's a good twin-bill with
Renaissance, and I thought the material in
this show was more interesting. (and it's earlier in
the year) I liked the 76 band better than this one
(especially Norm Fearrington on the drums, he was very
good w/JLP's band), but this was also a good band.
Ralph Armstrong was solid on the bass, Steve Smith is
a Boston boy and this Western Mass. show was as close
to a hometown gig for him as they got on this tour
(unless I missed something.) I don't know if this is
the same fellow as in "Vital Information", I think he is
the same fellow. A good drummer. Allan Zevod and Daryl
Steurmer were Ponty band mainstays for awhile, Steurmer
would join Genesis just a few months after this concert,
replacing the departed Steve Hackett. This band had been
together for awhile at this point and seemed to know and
play their material quite well. this is not one of the best
recordings I will upload, but it is quite listenable, not
too much crowd noise, only a few minor flaws, all the
instruments come through. If you like Ponty of the mid
to late 70's, my favorite time for his solo work since
leaving Frank Zappa in 1973, I think you'll find this
show and recording to be enjoyable to hear. Both were
rather standard length sets, Ponty's was the opener.
This was one of my first audience recordings. I think
it's all there, maybe a little missing for a flip cut
somewhere but if so, only a few seconds missing.
Fortunately by this point I had learned the basics of
recording a concert, like when to flip a cassette tape.
This was my 2nd Ponty show (1st with a recorder) and
1st Renaissance concert, and it would not be my last
for either.