John Renbourn's Ship Of Fools
(John Renbourn with Steve Tilston, Maggie Boyle & Tony Roberts)
1987-12-02(*) _ London, England _ BBC Radio Two Studios _ "Folk On Two" programme _ (M1-FM)

01. Willy O' Winsbury
02. Death & The Lady
03. The Verdant Braes Of Screen
04. Cobbler's Jog/Maltese Brawls

Total Time ::: 28:31

::: EXC stereo FM studio recording. Check samples to quell qualms or quicken pulse.
::: Warts: Tad bit o' hiss.
::: First "public" performance as under the name "Ship Of Fools".
::: (*) 1987-12-02 should be the original broadcast date, so the show was probably recorded the previous week.

Recording Information ::: BBC2 stereo radio broadcast -> unknown equipment/receiver -> master off-air reel-to-reel -> 1st generation Maxell LII-90 cassette, Dolby B on.

Playback 2011-07-28 ::: 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth & pitch adjusted, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Tascam CD-RW900SL professional CD recorder -> CD-RW, no track splits -> computer -> EAC secure mode (logs made) -> wav file(s) -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, volume adjustments, a number of pops removed, -1% averaged pitch (speed) fix with single pass after frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification,NO equalisation] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2015-09-26.

Line-up ::: John Renbourn - acoustic guitar, vocals // Steve Tilston - acoustic guitar, vocals (& possibly mandolin) // Maggie Boyle - flute (& possibly whistle & bhodran), vocals // Tony Roberts - wind instruments of all colours - flute, pipes, recorder, sax (and?).

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

DimeTravel 190 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader! ::: Corrections welcome ::: Here's a fine session of "The John Renbourn Group" with this line-up making its first appearance under the name "Ship Of Fools". Not as polished as they became, preferable for me. Not quite the stunning studio mix of the '89 Nightride" session, but a REAL fine ball o' wax. I'll try to re-visit this cassette at some point in the future as this seems overly hissy. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yrs truly, Knees

Support the artists and/or their families! http://www.johnrenbourn.co.uk -- http://www.steve-tilston.co.uk -- http://www.maggieboyle.co.uk

Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!