Return to Forever
Chick Corea- keyboards
Al DiMeola- guitar
Stanley Clarke- bass
Lenny White- drums
Evergreen State College,
Olympia, Washington, U.S.A.
(that's Wash. state, not D.C.)
November 3, 1974
runtime: 121:08
Recording quality: B+ to A (some variation)
Performance quality: B+/A-, if you like real long ones,
you may consider this show an A performance. Even for
a R.T.F. with Al show, this is a pretty good one by all.
source: soundboard reel (2nd generation, all-reel no dolby lineage)
setlist:
disc 1:
1: beyond the seventh galaxy >
2: vulcan worlds
3: song to the pharoah kings
disc 2:
4: acoustic solos
5: celebration suite
6: band introductions
comments:
I got this on a reel from a guy who had it on a reel...
there may be a third reel in the lineage of this but I'm
certain that no cassettes and no dolby was used on any of
them. It sounds like the whole show (unless after half an
hour of solos and a 25 minute Celebration Suite, they had
enough gas left in the tank for an encore) although all
the talking by Chick and the band was edited out on the
copy I recieved. Disc 1 ends with a 25 minute (standard
length) Song to the Pharoah Kings, one of my favorite live
RTF songs. The quality on this is pretty nice, not quite
pristine, doesn't sound "generated" and a decent mix of
the instruments (some a little off, but not as much as in
the Clark Univ. w/Connors show of Feb. 1, 74). It's got
plenty of energy. It was impossible to avoid a cut on this
master, even on a reel unless somebody had the foresight
to know after the Pharoah Kings (about an hour into show)
would be the last break with enough time to flip a reel
over- unless they were using a two-directional reel machine
(those come in very handy at RTF concerts), but whoever
recorded this managed to cut twice, once near end of Corea's
piano solo, and again near the end of Lenny White's solo,
just before they go into the Celebration Suite. (This would
seem to be the logical place to flip it over, if the recording
person did not know the setlist before the show.) Not much is
missing, the rest of the music appears to be all here, nice
to hear Pharoah and Celebration in the same show (and both
uninterrupted) Good ones too, those are my favorite parts
of this show. I'd be quite surprised if any copy of this
sounds noticably better than this. I think all the reels
in this lineage were/are Maxells recorded at 3 3/4 ips.
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely, losslessly and gaplessly.
Share the Al (and Chichk and Stanley and Lenny).