Robbie Basho
April 8, 1967
Reed College, Portland, Oregon


Lineage: SBD -> Master reel > cassette (1985, mono)

Transfer (2019 by grner1 & zuma11): Cassette > Nakamichi Dragon > Protools 12 (at 24bit/48kHz), tracking & trimming (no EQ or compression) > 16/44.1 > xACT 2.48 > flac

Cassettes courtesy of Steve Halpern
Thanks to grner1 for the transfer help

Length: 45:43

1. Medicine Raga
2. Lost Lagoon Suite
3. Song 3 - "Con saab" or "consob" or "Khan Saab" or ????"
4. Song 4 (cut)


Notes: Basho followed John Fahey at this show. The cassette label indicates this is Set 2.

I'm not that familiar with all of Basho's material. Maybe someone more familiar with Basho can help with 3 & 4th songs. I figured it was better to get this very old recording shared rather then spend forever trying to properly identify the songs.


A little background on these recordings:

In late 2019, fellow Neil Young fan and Reed College alumnus, Jim B contacted me. He said that Reed College alum Steve Halpern had a group of late 60's/early 70's Reed College recordings of Reverend Gary Davis, John Lee Hooker, John Fahey & Robbie Basho that needed transferring.

In 1985, Steve found the recordings among a cache of reels in a Reed College library backroom while researching poet Lew Welch. It appeared that most of the reels were of official college business - board meetings etc, but others were student run campus events including lectures and music. He borrowed a few of the music related reels and transferred them using a reel to reel player from the library's AV dept, to a radio shack "y" cable plugged the reel to reel's RCA jacks into one of those ubiquitous, small, portable Panasonic cassette player/recorders. He doesn't know if the originals were mono or stereo.

The library was remodeled in 2008. As Steve was later told, most of the miscellaneous contents of the library was stored in bins in another building while the remodeling occurred. Steve thinks the reels, many of which had no labels, may have been discarded afterwords.