Mountain 2005-06-25 Northern Lights Clifton Park, NY [AUD]

Upgrade Notes:
My original release of this show (Dimeadozen torrent #50787 uploaded 7/15/05) involved an optical dub from MD to CD-RW, then an EAC rip. This release eliminates those additional steps by using SonicStage to convert the raw ATRAC directly to WAV.




Skyraider Collection #3A

Source: SP-CMC-4 cardioid mics > SP-SPSB-1 battery box > Sony MZ-R500 MD recorder (SP mode)

Transfer: Sony MZ-M200 MD Recorder > USB > SonicStage > WAV > Goldwave (track split, fade, etc.) > Flac frontend > flac


1) Born Under A Bad Sign (7:50)
2) Blood Of The Sun (11:47)
3) Crossroads (7:57)
4) Theme For An Imaginary Western (9:05)
5) Blowin' In The Wind (5:58)
6) Corky Solo (2:48)
7) Jam (1:21)
8) Going Down (10:20)
9) Mississippi Queen (5:18)
10) Never In My Life (3:50)

Running time: 66:14


Personnel:
Leslie West - Guitar, Vocals
Corky Laing - Drums
Richie Scarlet - Bass, Vocals


Notes: Awesome show from a band that still has no trouble bringing it live. Some great moments. Leslie West let an audience member do some of the strumming during "Blood of the Sun" while he took care of the left hand. At one point, Corky Laing flipped a drumstick onto his back and had to fish around for several seconds to recover it. In a classy and gracious move, the boys let Richie Scarlet take the vocals on "Imaginary Western", and he did Felix proud. And of course, Corky did his trademark jerk-off-the-drumstick-to-get-more-applause trick. I missed a little bit of the intro to "Never In My Life" because I was doing a disc swap; it turned out not to be necessary, but who knew?