Joe Cocker & The Grease Band
1969-06-29 Denver, Colorado Mile High Stadium Denver Pop Festival (M1-AUD)

01. Let's Go Get Stoned
02. Dear Landlord
03. I Shall Be Released
04. With A Little Help From My Friends

Total Time ::: 24:46

::: Fine but a bit thin/shrill/transistor sounding stereo AUD. Check samples for trials or tribulations.
::: Warts: Needs some bass added. Little bit of audience talking. Few mike bumps lessened in impact but discernable. Surely missed some dullspots but fixed most, a few were not repairable. 1st 30 seconds of "I Shall Be Released" is jittery but would have taken a couple of hours to repair, so I left it. Seem to be a few firecrackers in the audience (or?).
::: Day 1 : June 27 : Big Mama Thornton, The Flock, Three Dog Night, Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention, Iron Butterfly.
::: Day 2 : June 28 : Aorta, Zephyr, Poco, Johnny Winter, Creedence Clearwater Revival.
::: Day 3 : June 29 : Aum, Zephyr (unscheduled 2nd appearance), Rev. Cleophus Robinson, Joe Cocker, Three Dog Night, Jimi Hendrix Experience (final performance together).
::: Tickets $6 per day or $15 for all 3 days. http://www.bobwyman.com/hendrix.html has a lot of detailed festival info.

Recording Information ::: unknown stereo reel-to-reel recorder & microphones -> master stereo audience reels -> 1st generation VHS Hi-Fi audio tapes -> CD-R -> wav -> M1* flacs (*call it whatever you want).
Note : A few spots slightly over-recorded during digital transfer from VHS HiFi tape. Still felt better to use this than the 2nd gen. cassette version. This particular one of the Denver Pop recordings had terrible tape damage problems, particularly in "I Shall Be Released". As stated I didn't attempt the first 1/2 minute of that song, but I did fix almost everything else fairly successfully. There were very wierd dull spots across both channels for the most part & damned frequent. Anyway, now they have been minimised.

Mastering 2013-03-29 ::: flacs from 1st generation VHS Hi-Fi audio tapes -> computer -> Audacity (normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment mainly from wide stereo spread, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch / dropout / bump / pop / click / dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, speed corrected at +.04, NO equalisation) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. First uploaded week of 2013-03-30.

Line-up ::: Joe Cocker - vocals // Henry McCullough - lead electric guitar, background vocals // Neal Hubbard - rhythm electric guitar // Chris Stainton - keyboards, background vocals // Alan Spenner - electric bass, background vocals // Bruce Rowland - drums.

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

CoolSonics 227 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! This copy from that fine musicologist, GS by way of The Florida Kid, many thanks to them both! ::: Corrections welcome ::: I have all the recordings of bands from this Festival this source made, some 1st gen. & some 2nd. The ones not commonly around I will try to finish mastering & upload to yr ears in the near future. Joe's set is not quite as good quality as some others, but there's a full 25 minutes & with some bass added it goes down quite nicely. 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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Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!