Leon Russell & The Shelter People
1971-02-05 Baarn, The Netherlands Castle Groeneveld (M*-FM)

01. DJ intro

Leon Russell solo:
02. Come On Into My Kitchen ->
03. Girl From The North Country ->

Leon Russell & The Shelter People
04. Medley: ? (instrumental-partial) -> Girl From The North Country -> Blues Power (partial) -> Shoot Out On The Plantation
05. Dixie Lullabye
06. Pisces Apple Lady
07. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
08. Prince Of Peace (DJ voiceover last 9 seconds)

Total Time ::: 28:00

::: Superb recording & better quality than most all circulating early unreleased Leon. Turn up the bass! Check samples for personal prognosis or initiatory stimulation perusal.
::: Courtesy of Commander "Floyd" Brinkhoffs.
::: Kind of interesting we know so little about this tour. Does anyone have the tour intinerary?

Recording Information ::: Hilversum 3 FM, VPRO Radio "Nachtleven" program, VPRO-FM stereo rebroadcast circa 1998 -> Revox B260 tuner > Pioneer D05 DAT Recorder-> off-air master DAT @ 32k LP mode.

Playback 2009-08-xx ::: master off-air DAT -> 48khz DAT clone(* - call it what you want) on professional portable Tascam(?) DAT recorder -> Tascam CD-RW900SL pro CD recorder -> CD-RW -> CD-RW ripped in computer on 2011-10-31 EAC secure -> wavs -> Audacity (fades, volume adjustments, no EQ) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. First uploaded 2011-06-15.

Line-up ::: Leon Russell - piano, vocals // Don Preston - lead electric guitar // John Gallie - organ // Carl Radle - bass // Chuck Blackwell - drums // Claudia Lennear - background vocals // Kathi McDonald(?) - background vocals.

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

CoolSonics S-110 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader, Commander "Floyd" Brinkhoffs! ::: Corrections welcome ::: The King Of Cool. If I ever worshiped a rock star in the early 70s, it was Leon. I went to a stadium in 1972 & watched the the man preach with kick-ass songs, a piano, a powerful voice & often an electric guitar played standing on top of a grand piano, looking cool as sh#t. I was already a convert, having seen the "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" movie in the theater on its initial run & quickly understanding, though I had an inkling already, that as right on as Cocker was, his right-hand man Leon was the real Prince Of Rock. I don't know what went haywire with the guy in the later 70s, but for several years he was laying down a groove like no-one else. When I want to remember who I am & where I come from, listening to Leon warps time with lightning speed & takes me home again. Here we have a stellar quality set, though the joy seems somewhat eclipsed by short half hour length of the recording & the shortened versions of great songs in the medley. The band may well also be stripped down a bit for the Euopean tour. Having said all that, a stunner, something to turn up & groove to. What I wouldn't give to time travel. I know one of the places on top of the list.

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, Weeks, 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!