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Blue Moon Ballroom
Elgin, Illinois
April 9, 1975

Lineage: FM => cassette => HHB CDR830/CD-R/W => EAC => Nero Wave Editor (track splits and fade in/fade out) => FLAC frontend (w/SBE correction)

Setlist:
01. Dayride
02. Beyond the Seventh Galaxy
03. Sofistifunk
04. The Shadow of Lo
05. Song To The Pharaoh Kings
06. ???? (abrupt fade at end of this song)

Chick Corea - Keyboards
Stanley Clarke - Bass
Lenny White - Drums, percussion
Al DiMeola - Guitars

This may or may not be a companion piece to another torrent posted on Dime-a-Dozen, with the same venue (but dated as April 18, 1975). Since I taped this direct from WXRT in June of 1975, I checked the dates at at that time for accuracy.

This is a good recording, which I'd rate a solid A-. It has some FM hiss which has not been corrected here, but it improves greatly with just a little noise reduction. It has a rawer sound than the other piece, with a sibilant sound to the cymbals, but otherwise all of the instruments are balanced in the mix; everything is driven a little high, however. There is no doubt that this venue is the Blue Moon Ballroom, since one of the band members mentions it during the set.

If anyone can identify the last track, I'd be very grateful!

tmat44