Robin Trower .... Broadcast November 25, 1977
The Midnight Special; Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
(SBD audio only)


MODS NOTE: None of these tracks appear on
THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL DVD BOX SET.


Robin Trower - guitar
James Dewar (R.I.P.) - lead vocals
Bill Lordan - drums
Rustee Allen - bass


Taper: bpthree
Taping Gear: Cable TV broadcast> "Black Box" > Kenwood KX-630 Cassette Deck
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Quality: vg/vg+
Length: 14:59 minutes
Artwork: none.
Samples: none.


Set List:

01. Farther Up The Road (a/k/a Further On Up The Road)
02. Somebody Calling
03. Bridge Of Sighs


Taper's Comments:

1 - HELP!! If you have any uncirculated SPIRIT shows, or better quality FM
broadcasts than what's been posted here before, please share them. If you
know anybody who has shows that fit this category that aren't on DIME, please
dub off their stuff and share it. I'm trying to write a book on SPIRIT and need
all the information I can get. I have a database of over 1500 gigs 1967-1996, and
want to find as much information as I can to add to it. If you have any memories
of where you saw SPIRIT, the more specific the better (venue, city, date, supporting
bands, etc.), I'd love to know that as well. Please leave that in the comments
section or PM me. Thank you!

2 - Show description & comments follow:

Before I had a VCR, I rigged up a way to record the sound off of my TV. Most TV's
during this time frame did not have an audio out feature, so I purchased some sort
of "black box" thing that supposedly did something to help you play your TV sound
through your stereo. I opened my back cover on my TV, and got a cable with
alligator clips, that I attached to each of the inputs to the TV speaker. That ran to
the "black box", and then to my cassette deck. Understand that TV sound back then
was hardly high fidelity, but it was at least respectable, and worth having. The biggest
shortfall in sound was the high end. As a fellow DIMER so aptly pointed out, TV sound
only went to around +/- 5,000 Hz then, where most things considered high fidelity were
three times that.

This is Robin and company promoting the "IN CITY DREAMS" album. My video extra
from this session, "Bluebird", was posted earlier in Torrent # 24750. It was a shame
I didn't get my first Betamax until several months after this was broadcast, as then
we'd have the video as well. It's a shame that the official MIDNIGHT SPECIAL DVD
Box Set contains mostly Top Ten garbage, when stuff like this remains unreleased.
We can only hope it will show up in the future. Enjoy!

bpthree


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Prepared by Jeff James (roryglzep@aol.com)
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