!*! NEW 2017 Mk2 version with a more accurate speed/pitch average !*!
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Robin & Barry Dransfield
1978-11-19 St Pancras, London, England Pindar of Wakefield (Mk2-M1-AUD)
~*~ Carefully remastered fixing various issues, without EQ ~*~
!*! NEW 2017 Mk2 version with a more accurate speed/pitch average !*!
01. --opening comments & song intro--
02. Catch The Morning Dew
03. Violin
04. It's Dark in Here
05. Be Your Own Man
06. The English Medley: St. Clement's Jig -> The Huntsman's Chorus -> Nancy
07. The Conscript's Farewell
08. Dr. Slime
09. The Holmfirth Anthem
10. Up To Now
11. Too Much To Do
12. Blacksmith
13. You Can't Change Me Now
Encore :::
14. Reels: The Trip To Derrow -> The Traveller -> St. Anne's Reel
Total Time ::: 1:07:09
::: Very fine, clear, up front AUD in small folk club. Check samples for tonal trials, autonomous empiricism or blessed, blissful bites.
::: Warts: PA cuts out in 1st song for ~3 mins. Bass a bit low (turn it up!). Taper mike noises between some songs (now reduced). Some clapping in 5,7,13. Dullspots mostly fixed.
::: COMPARISON CLAUSE: The 2013 version is now known as "Mk1". This new 2017 Mk2 version has same remastering, but a more accurate pitch average.
::: Pindar of Wakefield pub in Gray's Inn Road. Possibly an evening of Ewan MacColl's Singers' Club.
Recording Information ::: unknown recording equipment -> master mono audience cassette -> 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, no Dolby.
Playback 2013-05-02 ::: 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby off, azimuth adjusted 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, -1.3% averaged pitch (speed) fix with single pass after frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. Mk2 remaster first uploaded 2017-05-xx.
Line-up ::: Barry Dransfield - electric & acoustic fiddles, acoustic guitar, electric dulcimer, vocals // Robin Dransfield - acoustic guitar, vocals.
Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.
CoolSonics 241 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader! ::: Corrections welcome ::: By now I would hope this one will pretty much speak for itself. If you are still missing "The Fiddler's Dream" from your music collection, rectify the situation ASAP. For that matter, you basically can't go wrong with any Dransfields, from Barry's astounding first solo album & the Trailer releases right on up to the superlative "Up To Now" collection. These guys floated around the top of the heap of the Britfolk empire for many the year & made loads of fantastic music. Aside from the BBC In Concert material, the only live material of a full show I am aware of aside from this rarity is a live show on the Robin Dransfield "A Lighter Touch" release, but assuming that one sounds as shitty as the Martyn & Graham releases from the Medway, this Pindar Of Wakefield set should take the cake. So rosin up your bows, hoist a pint or two, haul a tab outta the freezer, steal yr kid's water pipe or put on yr music meditation cap - whatever yr method of choice & do little time travel with Robin & Barry, live at the Pindar of Wakefield, some odd 40 years ago. Enjoy!
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