Loudon Wainwright
My Father's Place
Old Roslyn, NY
04/09/1978


Pre-FM SBD feed > Nak 550 > Maxell UDXL2 (no NR) via Peter Hedeman

Transfer: MC > Nak CR7-A (azimith adjust) > SBM-1 (s/pdif) > Lynx Studio Technology One (soundcard) > SoundForge 4.5 > CD Architect 4.0f > Red Book CDR
Re-Master: CDR > WAV > Wavelab 6.10 (tracking, cleanup) > FLAC

Set I, Disc 1
1. LW intro
2. Say That You Love Me
I Am The Way
3. Ode To Pittsburgh
4. You're Going To Be Sorry
5. One Day I'll Be Dead And Gone
6. Dump The Dog
7. Muse Blues
8. Wine With Dinner Intro >
9. Wine With Dinner
10. Story about golf
11. Golfin' Blues
12. Surfer Queen intro >
13. Surfer Queen (John Burleigh)
14. Motel Blues
15. Hardy Boys At The Y
16. Rufus Is A Tit Man

Set II, Disc 2 (Slow Train joins)
1. tuning
2. Heaven And Mud
3. The Lowly Tourist
4. Two Song Set
5. Smokey Joe's Cafe (Lieber & Stoller)
6. Mr. Guilty
7. band intros
8. Watch Me Rock I'm Over 30

Encore:
9. Dead Skunk
10. California Prison Blues

Encore 2:
11. crowd
12. Prince Hal's Dirge

Slow Train opened, and was:
Stephen Tubin - piano (from Brooklyn)
Glenn "Sperm" Mitchell - organ (Stillwater, OK)
Richard Crooks - drums (CA)
John Crowder - bass (Fairfax, OK)
Ron Getman - guitar (Fairfax, OK)
Loudon Wainwright - Vocals

The usual high quality pre-FM SBD, this one had several pops and ticks from the analog realm, which were fixed. You're stuck with the mic hit during Hardy Boys at the Y, though. The right channel was recorded hotter than the left, and it dropped out a half-dozen times during the set with Slow Train, once for over a minute. These have been corrected by using the left channel to fill the gap seamlessly, although you may be aware of the patch. It sounds like Loudon's mic shorts out for a split second during Mr. Guilty and during the "thank you" at the end of Watch Me Rock. The problem comes back during California Prison Blues. It sounds like stuttering or skipping. Ain't nothing for it.

This performance circulates mislabelled 4/19/78. The 9th is correct. At the end of One Day I'll Be Dead And Gone, Loudon says: "How can you people get so crazy on a Sunday night?" The 9th was a Sunday; the 19th was not. Broadcast on WLIR, May 5, 1978.

Enjoy!

--mhg :: 02/17/13