The Persuasions
September 13, 1978 [1978-09-13]
Paradiso
Santa Cruz, California

from pre-broadcast reel master. This one needed a lot of remastering to remove hundreds of pops and clicks throughout it all (from clipping in the mix). I'm very happy with how it came out and that I was able to preserve what is now a nice soundboard recording. The problems were manually removed as much as possible. Some imperfections still remain in spots from the somewhat overloaded signal but nothing that should scare you away from checking out this (now nice) recording! This is unfortunately not the entire show since it fades on the last song’s applause.

Lineage: Revox B77 > KUSP pre-broadcast 1/2 track 10.5 inch stereo soundboard reel master at 7.5 ips speed.
Transfer [grner1 circa 2000]: Revox A700 (with azimuth adjustment) > Macintosh with Digidesign Audiomedia III sound card > Pro Tools (numerous file clipping spots removed, normalization & tracking - no equalization or noise reduction) > AIFF > xACT (Flac level 8 files, tagged with sector boundaries verified) > you.

01 [3:29] I Won't Be The Fool Anymore
02 [1:26] Chain Gang >
03 [2:37] One Mint Julep
04 [0:51] talk
05 [2:57] Mortal Man
06 [0:30] band intros
07 [1:29] Battle Of New Orleans
08 [3:38] Handy Man
09 [4:31] Stardust
10 [3:59] My Beautiful Black Woman
11 [3:23] So Much In Love
12 [5:39] You Make Me Feel Brand New
13 [1:22] talk
14 [1:20] Ain't Nothin' But A Party
15 [3:02] What's Your Name?
total - 40:13

Jerry Lawson
Jayotis Washington
Jimmy Hayes
Joseph Russell
Herbert "Tuobo" Rhoad

grner1 notes 2020-12-25: For many years, KUSP-FM stored many of their pre-broadcast reels in the outer hallway of their studios. After a few times visiting friends who DJ’ed at the station, I convinced one of them to let me borrow a few, one or two at a time to transfer and then bring right back. I grabbed what looked most interesting, and this was one of them! By the way, the venue, Paradiso, was in The Catalyst original location, on the ground floor of the St. George Hotel. (The Catalyst moved to its present location in 1976.)

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