the Live Music band (local Brandeis jazz band)
Charles Alexander: tenor sax and flute
Mike Castro: guitar
Gil Winoski: keyboards
Cliff Massey: soprano and alto sax
Bill McCoy: keyboards
Doug Gray: bass
Craig Kahn: drums and percussion

and

George Benson group
George Benson: guitar, lead vocals *
Ronnie Foster: keyboards, vocals
Jorge Dalto: piano, keyboards
Stanley Banks: bass and foot tambourine
Dennis Davis: drums
(this is believed to be the lineup, thanks agalli for info.)

Shapiro Gym,
Brandeis University
Waltham, Mass. U.S.A. (a west of Boston suburb)
November 12, 1977
source: master audience tape
Live Music Band runtime: 32:41 (minutes/ seconds)
George Benson runtime: 88:58
total runtime: 121:40

setlist:
opening act
the Live Music band
1: intro > always there 8:19 (Ronnie Laws)
2: mythro? 8:15 (Kahn/ Winoski, with band introductions)
3: spur of the moment 6:20 (Mike Castro)
4: soul 5:06 (Miles Davis)
5: mischief 4:40 (Bill Mccoy)
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

headline set:
George Benson group (thanks to rzipper and jazamo)
6: tuning 1:51
7: stage introduction of George Benson > ? (instrumental) 9:08
8: affirmation 6:29 (spliced at 2:34, tape flip)
9: everything must change 8:56 *
10: six to four 6:14
11: El Mar > 10:41
12: gonna love you more 4:25 *
13: Lady Blue 4:00 *
14: lady 4:45 (cuts in, tape change)
15: the world is a ghetto 9:40 *
16: the greatest love of all 5:43 *
17: masquerade 11:22 * (band intros at end)
18: encore: breezin' 5:45
lineage:
unknown microphones (probably mismatched, decent ones) >
Technics 646 cassette deck (dolby off) >
Maxell UD 90 min. master cassettes (normal bias) >
played on tascam 112 into soundforge (wav) >
flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours.
A this and that, You are there production.
recorded, digitized and posted (RDP) by glasnostrd19.
Do not sell this recording.
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this show was first seeded in 2008, again on Nov. 12, 2009, same flac files
with a few info additions (band lineup, track times and most of set list).
both of those came from extracted CD copies with sbe's in them.
re-transferred from the original master cassettes in november of 2014.
this time including the opening act set and corrected set order.
comments:
This one comes from my audience master and is a complete show of about
100 minutes that includes a good variety of Benson style. He sings a little more
than I'd like, but this is thankfully before George (as Ian Anderson might
put it) "put the electric guitar back in its case." He plays jazz, pop,
some R & B/ ("soul" was the word used for it back then) and shows himself
to be quite a versatile stylist.
The singing is pretty good too here, but I like first and foremost about
George Benson music, the guitar. He is a brilliant guitar player,
and there is plenty of that to hear in this concert at Shapiro Gym,
that's where most of the Brandeis Univ. shows were, so the sound sucks
especially for music like this. This was the only show I ever saw at
Brandeis Univ. mainly for that reason but there have been some good ones there.
the recording came out clearly and I was probably about 25-30 feet from the stage,
just about dead center. It was a general admission. There is a moderate
amount of crowd noise in the recording as the crowd was into the show,
but it's not overbearing. The crowd was respectfully appreciative. This
sounds better than I thought, definitely better than when I was there.
Seems like the crowd knew all the tunes, cheering at the start and end
of every one. I don't know who else is in this band, 4 are introduced by GB,
but it is very difficult to hear over the cheering.
seem to recall there may have been 2 guitarists but maybe not.
the mikes were about 10 feet apart so there is some stereo feel in here.
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