Richard Thompson Big Band
1983-10-26 Boston, Massachusetts The Channel (M-AUD)

01. ...Man In Need
02. A Poisoned Heart & A Twisted Memory
03. Tear Stained Letter
04. How I Wanted To
05. Amaryllis -> Nonesuch A La Mode De France
06. Don't Renege On Our Love
07. Shoot Out The Lights
08. Just The Motion
09. Hand Of Kindness
10. Alberta
11. Wall Of Death
12. Pennsylvania 6-5000
13. The Wrong Heartbeat
14. Two Left Feet
15. Back Street Slide
Encores (with T-Bone Burnett) :::
16. Not Fade Away
17. Danny Boy

Total Time ::: 1:29:51

::: Quite fine but slightly muffled & distant. Check samples for love or hate assessment or go directly to downloadin' if ya, "gotta have it for the databank, regardless!".
::: Warts: Cut 1 has some mike & AUD motion issues & starts late - 1st 7 secs muffled&mono, then comes alive in stereo. Some low level background AUD talk in quiet songs. Dullspots found were healed. Superfast tapeflip near start of cut 9, carefully spliced. Taper cut deck off betwixt some trax.
::: T-Bone Burnett plays & sings on Richard's encore songs & was also the opening act (not recorded by this taper).

Recording Information ::: Sony WM-D6 stereo cassette recorder (probably Sony ECM-929LT stereo microphone) -> master stereo audience Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby B on.

Playback 2013-03-11 ::: master stereo audience Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth & speed adjusted (pitched!) for individual recording, heads cleaned & demagnetized -> Sony Linear PCM Recorder PCM-M10 (LPCM 44.10kHz/16bit WAV files) -> computer -> Audacity (normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch / dropout / bump / pop / click / dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, further speed fixes if necessary, NO equalisation) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. Tape was in excellent condition - first play in almost 30 years? First uploaded week of 2013-06-22.

Line-up ::: Richard Thompson - guitars, vocals // Simon Nicol - guitars, backing vocals // Pat Donaldson - electric bass // Gerry Conway - drums // Pete Zorn - alto & baritone sax // Pete Thomas - tenor sax // Alan Dunn - accordion // Encores only : T-Bone Burnett - guitar, vocals.

Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.

CoolSonics 258 ::: Thanks to the original taper, Lochner! ::: Corrections welcome ::: WARNING: Opinionated notes... Ignore if easily offended. T-Bone Burnett.... hmmn. His varied career has included 2 highlights for me, Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue & the oddball psych record "by" Whistler, Chaucer, Detroit and Greenhill "The Unwritten Works of Geoffrey, Etc." of which I guess he was a major player. I tried the Alpha Band & various other vinyl excursions by him but not much else ever clicked. His opening set at The Channel was not memorable for me. I remember he was tall, that's all. The Richard set was not extraordinary, but very tasty. The band was first class, the core being somewhat of a UK folkrock supergroup. The tour was making it clear his star was in ascension in the States. Venues getting bigger. We trekked over to the opening night of the USA tour in Salem, MA, but >I actually remember the intensity of this Boston Channel gig better. One thing that was cool was how much was getting taped. Within a few months I pretty much had the entire tour - pretty good for snail mail days of a folkrock artist. Never had been particularly enamoured of horns, so was not sure about what we were going to get, but they were not intrusive or overpowering, in fact, just fine, thank you. A bit afraid of the accordian as well, not really into the overpowering, play-all-the-way-thru-every-song Kirkpatrick style, but Alan Dunn seemed to have it fairly together & didn't feel he had to play to beat the band (so to speak), though I can't really get into "Alberta". All in all, quite enjoyable events. Listening back, Richard IS in great form here - smokin' - a great chunky full sound & a number of older songs featuring intriguing new arrangements for the tour. By 15 minutes in his fingers are flying on the fretboard. Conway's drums are snappy & in fact the rhythm section is really happening in general, great. This recording is clear enough, though slightly distant sounding. There was a fairly noisy active crowd around us but they are pretty much just in the background here & not a problem. Between songs you are certainly aware you ARE in a Boston rock club... Having said that, Richard & crew do manage to hypnotise them into remarkable silence during the quiet passages in "Pennsylvania 6-5000". It was also a loud gig - you can hear things straining at the seams during the final encore song. We were somewhere straight back from the right PA stack, shoulda come out better (but it ain't bad!). Enjoy!

Kudos to Zongo for life support, Lochner for mikes&more & Fast Freddie for runnin' Video Dick's Record Emporium with the bathroom office full of tape decks. Thanks to Hanwaker (few among us can keep his pace). Mountains of gratitude to Davmar, D.White, Sanchez, Elliot, The Florida Kid, Kloiber, Zingg, JTW, Bershaw, Boston Gold, Dixon, Moore, Gough & SO many more for all that collecting & sharing... Royal thanks to The Man In The Palace, Doc Tinker, Brinkhoffs, Barely Eatin', Reel Master Gaule, Parrish & all the traders who housed me thru my music acquisition & travel years. Hats off to Brother Kent, Uncle Jake, Little Queenie (& her neighbor Frank) & his honor Ptomaine Thomas. Glasses raised to Byron for musical horizon expansion & much obliged to J & Thurston for keepin' my concert fires burnin' since my continental shift. Thanks to the Mods for keepin' DIME alive. Enjoy, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees

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