Reggae Night at My Father's Place
More Relations Band, Melodians, Larry Marshall, Jack Skirta, and some others
Aug 22, 1977
Early and Late Shows
AKG mikes? > Sony TC152 or 153 or 158 > Maxell XLI-S > Soundforge (eq on a bassy channel) > Flac 8 > Dime

I think the quality is pretty stunning.

I loved My Father's Place in the Village of Old Roslyn, Long Island, New York. It was a converted bowling alley, and the tables, which ran perpendicular to the stage, were made of the old alley wood. Until 1979 or so they didn't care about taping, so we'd get there bright and early and grab the end of the table that was right by a support beam that faced the main speakers. I taped a mike right to that pole, and once the show started and the levels were steady I'd take the the other mike and walk through the "dance floor" and stand in front of the stage to catch the stage amps. That was likely the case for this show, except being a reggae show we'd also smoke a ton of pot right in front of the stage and make sure to exhale towards the performers.

I started transcribing this over a year ago and couldn't figure out who was playing when, and there were a few false starts where it sounds like I was late deciding to tape a segment or a track ends prematurely. So I finally just gave up and never finished the project. This time, I decided to take it all and let you folks decide what to listen to. So sometimes there is a blip and we come back into the same act sometime later. Plus at least once the cassette just hit the end. Track marks go wherever they happened to fall although I did my best to catch the actual tracks. Mostly my style on tracks is to get the track mark at the start of the song, not the introduction, on the theory that anyone jumping forward or backwards to a track wants to hear the song and not the intro. The only real FU here is that the last track of Disc 1 has the beginning of the song that continues on Disc 2, but that is because I flipped the tape at that point and the break is there anyway.

Oh, during one of the early show Melodian tracks, Come On Little Girlie, one of my zonked out friends yelled into the mike that the Yankees were NUMBER ONE. So I dubbed in the other channel for a couple of seconds - it's just about at the 26 minute mark of the first CD. Also, for some odd reason, there was a few second segment in the fourth song on disc 2 that played back very slowly, but the cassette was moving at the right speed. So somehow the cassette was jerked forward during the recording. I have no idea how that could happen, but I simply clipped most of that out.

Ouch, an attempt at a songlist - all titles except Rivers of Babylon are guesses. I'm working from the notes I took while running this into SoundForge and then splitting it with EAC but it's still a mess! I'm expecting numerous corrections from the Dime reggae irregulars.

dgk August 29, 2006


Disc 1

More Relations Band
01) Fall In Love?
02)
03)

Melodians
04) Rivers of Babylon
05) Love Each Other
06) Come On Little Girlie
07) Sing and Dance

Larry Marshall
08) Nanny Goat
09) Think About It
10)
11)

More Relations Band
12)
13)
14)

Jack Skirta
15)
16)
17)
18)
19)



Disc 2

Larry Marshall
01)
02)
03)
04)
05)

Melodians
06)
07) Last Train To Africa
08) Come On Little Girlie
09) Sing and Dance
10) Brothers and Sisters

More Relations Band

11)
12)
13)