JOHN MAYALL'S BLUESBREAKERS - TROMSO, NORWAY 7.MARCH 1987
(featuring Coco Montoya & Walter Trout)

Recorded at Fokus Cinema, Tromso, Norway 7.march 1987
Audience recording recorded by Knut A.
Transferred from Master Cassette.
No info regarding recording equipment is available,
but some kind of portable cassette recorder with a built-in
microphone was most likely used.
Quality: Personally I'd rate it EX.
Edited 2007.

This recording was made by a friend of mine, Knut A., who used to tape a lot of concerts in the Tromso-area in Northern Norway in the 1980s and early 1990's. When he passed away in 1996, his sister gave me access to his tape collection, and allowed me to transfer the tapes to CDRs.

As for the recording itself, I think it includes pretty much the whole show. However: Track 1 cuts in, so this may not have been the first song played. There also seems to be a cut between tracks 1 & 2, at which point something may be missing. Before track 2 John makes a reference to something Coco Montoya said earlier, but that's not on the tape, so somewhere something IS definitely missing. Finally, the last track on disc 1 is cut, but that's simply because the tape ran out and had to be changed.

I haven't done any attempt to remaster the recording; I've just fixed a few obvious flaws, and that's about it. Here's what I've done:
1) Boosted the level about 2,48 dB.
2) Smoothened out tape start/ends by adding rapid fade-ins/fade-outs to remove or disguise tape recorder noises (No music has been lost!).
3) Removed some tape noise between tracks 4 & 5, disc 2, so the tape cut is no longer audible.
4) Inserted index marks.

Tracklist:

DISC 1
1 You Can't Take It With You (cuts in) - 4:13 //
2 (?) - 5:28
3 Band introduction - 1:01
4 The Bear - 5:19
5 Rollin' With The Blues - 8:55
6 Racehorse Man - 11:54
7 So Many Roads (end cut) - 8:29 //

DISC 2
1 Wild About You - 9:25
2 Checkin' On My Baby - 5:48
3 The Train Is Comin' - 8:27
4 Pretty Woman - 7:47 //
5 Room To Move - 14:01

No artwork is available.