Jethro Tull
Kiel Convention Center
St. Louis, MO
1972-05-05



Setlist & Fingerprints:

Track 01 - TAAB 1 Really Don't Mind....flac:4c7b90bdbe4c5c1d97e2f5b01be5d300
Track 02 - TAAB 2 I've Come Down From The Upper Class....flac:c5f0ce9f42013c45ce4fefdaaf7c64c2
Track 03 - TAAB 3 Flute Solo.flac:e4cfa122f00d4e64e391c01e6e940dc0
Track 04 - TAAB 4 Your Bread And Water's Going Cold....flac:86899fa37c798a537e154ebb95f10ffd
Track 05 - TAAB 5 Six O' Clock News.flac:14d937cf7a89d1134239c07eccc84394
Track 06 - TAAB 6 See There, A Man Is Born....flac:66ddb85f8e5f32f149da83b659fab6a8
Track 07 - TAAB 7 Well, Let Me Help You....flac:5bb75fc06fa42a97fc10281ba1ba24c8
Track 08 - Cross-Eyed Mary.flac:71af64d4894c1f4914614395258467d4
Track 09 - A New Day Yesterday.flac:ce72014ac7e52444108c0244897cc5c9
Track 10 - Aqualung.flac:70498647de124ad3b836e1f2cfcee626
Track 11 - Wind Up.flac:fceebf51475462a9fd625c67d8eff47d
Track 12 - Locomotive Breath.flac:5ad3771550a03f1a9980aace157e8eeb


Disc 1: 75:17

01. TAAB 1 Really Don't Mind....
02. TAAB 2 I've Come Down From The Upper Class....
03. TAAB 3 Flute Solo
04. TAAB 4 Your Bread And Water's Going Cold....
05. TAAB 5 Six O' Clock News
06. TAAB 6 See There, A Man Is Born....
07. TAAB 7 Well, Let Me Help You....

Disc 2: 49:02

08. Cross-Eyed Mary
09. A New Day Yesterday
10. Aqualung
11. Wind Up
12. Locomotive Breath

TT: 124:19


Lineage:

Unknown mic > unknown analog tape recorder >
unknown master tapes > TDK SA 90 high-bias cassette tapes, 3rd gen >
JVC TD-W505 stereo double cassette deck >
Aiwa XC-RW700 CD/CD recorder >
Memorex Black CD-Rs, 80 min.>
Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (transferred wav files onto HD here) >
Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (edited and retracked wav files here) >
Trader's Little Helper
(encoded wav to flac, level 8, aligned on sector boundaries)

This SHOULD not be one of my typical long-winded concert
descriptions because there's not too much to say except for
a lot of bitching and moaning. I got this tape from a good
taping friend ~ 20 years ago and he told me it was a 3rd
gen copy from the master. Well, I don't know if he dubbed
my copy himself or got it from somebody else but it is
totally fucked up ! It is the Crown Prince of fucked-up
tapes. The setlist shown above is in the correct order; here
is the order in which the tracks exist on the 2 tapes:

Tape 1, side A

01. TAAB 3 Flute Solo
02. TAAB 4 Your Bread And Water's Going Cold....
03. TAAB 5 Six O' Clock News
04. TAAB 6 See There, A Man Is Born....
05. TAAB 7 Well, Let Me Help You....

Tape 1, side B

06. Cross-Eyed Mary
07. A New Day Yesterday
08. Aqualung
09. Wind Up


Tape 2, side A

10. TAAB 1 Really Don't Mind....
11. TAAB 2 I've Come Down From The Upper Class....
12. Locomotive Breath

As you can see, this is a recipe for insanity. Luckily,
it didn't take too long to sort this out and get it into
some semblance of order. I was NOT at this show so I'll
tell you what I know about this tape:

I broke up TAAB into 7 distinct titled tracks so it would be
easier to listen to and so that you, the Tull fanatic,
would not have to deal with one 75:17 track. The track
splits were done in what I think was a very logical
manner. TAAB, which is all of CD 1, is virtually complete.
There are a few brief missing moments but that's the way
that I got the tape. I'd say that TAAB is 98-99% complete.
As far as CD 2 is concerned, Track 9 cuts out, the beginning
of Track 10 is missing & Track 10 also cuts out. According to
the Ministry Of Information UK, Hard-Headed English General and
Wind Up (reprise) are also missing from this tape. I've got
a lot of respect for those guys ; they may be right, but
they've been wrong before...

I know that all of you are curious about sound quality. I would
rate this as a solid very good to very good plus. Any higher
rating would be, IMHO, a lie. There is a low-level more or less
constant hiss to the tape. There are volume fluctuations that
seem to be from an electrical problem within the recorder and
there are mic handling noises. On the other hand, there is NO
distortion, NO speed fluctuation problem, very little talking
around the taper and a clear to very clear sound capture.
Remember, we're dealing with 1972 technology here ; this was
probably taped on Mom's GE tape deck (dictionary-sized) with
a less-than-wonderful microphone. All in all, though, I think
it's a pretty good-sounding tape and I think that you'll enjoy
it. My tapes are ~ 20 years old so they should be pre-bootleg
generation. I WILL post at least one sound sample so you'll
know what you're getting into...

As always, if you have a complete or better-sounding copy of
this show, up it by all means. If you are a technical remastering
wizard, you have my go-ahead to remaster this as long as you
upload the results here on Dime for everybody to enjoy.
I did NO EQing, hiss reduction or anything else to this tape.
You're getting my raw tape as I have it. The only thing that I
DID do was to track it.

That's about all that I have to say, so let's wrap this up.
No buy, no sell, no mp3. Please seed this as long as you can.
I'm unsure but I don't think that this tape has been widely
circulated so JUMP ON IT !!! Well, thanks for reading
this and Mr. Natural would like to add these few comments:
have fun, don't freak out, enjoy the concert and don't throw
shit at the stage ; Ian may have to come down there and kick
your ass...