Status Quo
1970-05-16 Duesseldorf, Germany Eisstadion "Joint Meeting" (M1-AUD)
Day one of the 3 day rock festival
~*~ Carefully remastered removing blemishes, without EQ ~*~
01. Junior's Wailing
02. Down The Dustpipe
03. Need Your Love
04. Spinning Wheel Blues
05. In My Chair
06. Is It Really Me
Total Time ::: 25:54
::: Slightly distant but fairly clear & steady with little AUD noise. Check samples for intake assessment or a few puffs for yr earpipes.
::: Warts: Sounds almost like #1 flips into stereo a few times, not sure why. Twas a bit o' mike feedback on stage off&on 'tween songs. Surely missed some dropouts & dullspots but fixed most of 'em & fixed volume cuts & fluctuations, so it's pretty damn steady.
The band has a bit of mike feedback on stage off & on inbetween songs
::: Band was still touring to support their "Spare Parts" album.
::: Very possibly their entire set.
::: Original Advertised bill:
May 16 - Spooky Tooth / Love Sculpture / Blodwyn Pig / Yes / Octopus / Shok Full / Plastic Feet / Ginger Baker's Air Force / The Move / Shoes / Status Quo / Family
May 17 - Edgar Broughton Group / Ekseption / Gee Brothers / Cuby & The Blizzards / Brainbox / Brian Auger / Love Affair / Amon D��l II / Keef Hartley / Humble Pie / Marmelade
May 18 - Chicken Shack / Steamhammer / Clover Leaf / Taste / Servants / Arthur Brown / Wallace Collection / Fleetwood Mac / King Crimson / Livin' Blues / Colosseum
::: Actual Bands & Order of Appearance (DIMER saschigor's list made during the festival).
May 16 - 1) Shoes 2) Octopus 3) Corporation 4) Brainbox 5) Love Sculpture 6) Plastic Feet 7) Rare Bird 8) Love Affair 9) Heavy Jelly with Jackie Lomax 10) Status Quo 11) Humble Pie (possible #6 & #7 were reversed in order).
May 17 - 1) Fashion 2) Amon D��l II 3) Love Affair 4) Ekseption 5) Marmalade 6) Steamhammer 7) Edgar Broughton Band 8) Move 9) Keef Hartley
May 18 - 1) Livin' Blues 2) Steamhammer 3) Cuby & The Blizzards 4) Wild Angels 5) Free 6) Arthur Brown 7) Taste 8) Colosseum 9) Family
(Another checklist showed that Wallace Collection did in fact play but I suspect they checked them instead of one of the unannounced bands).
::: Saschigor's corrected band/order appeared schedule above is included with his kind permission & his scan is in the folder.
::: Note that Love Affair and Steamhammer each played twice during the festival.
::: Concert poster not included in case someone takes proprietary offense. Seek & ye shall find.
Recording Information ::: unknown mono recording equipment -> master mono audience tape (played back on stereo deck) -> 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby B on.
Playback 2011-07-10 ::: 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth & pitch adjusted, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Tascam CD-RW900SL professional CD recorder -> CD-RW, no track splits -> computer -> EAC secure mode (logs made) -> wav file(s) -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, NO equalisation] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2014-05-23.
Line-up ::: Francis Rossi - lead guitar, vocals // Rick Parfitt - rhythm guitar, vocals // Alan Lancaster - bass, vocals // John Coghlan - drums, percussion // ...plus (presumably) Bob Young (roadie & songwriter) - harmonica.
Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.
DimeTravel 024 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader! ::: This one goes out to saschigor to take him DIME/time travelling back to his youth. ::: Corrections welcome ::: As I said in another upload from this festival... Back when festivals were scenes to be reckoned with. Where are our recordings by Plastic Feet?! Check out this most excellent recording of Status Quo worling their way thru some classics & culminating in a HEAVY 7&1/2 minute version of "Is It Really Me". While I'm a sucker for the Quo's early pop & psych material (and wish the CDs weren't brickwalled into unlistenablility), I also really dig "Spare Parts" & "Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon". I can parse my way thru some of "Dog of Two Head" as well, but the pre-71 material is more my cup o' tea. Hopefully 'tis yrs, too & this'll set the tempo for the weekend. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees
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