Steamhammer
1972-xx-xx _ Ludwigshafen, Germany _ Haus der Jugend _ (M1-AUD)
Bahnhofstrasse 30

*** DimeTravel brings you "British Blues BOOM!" Volume 49 ***

~!~ Carefully remastered fixing various issues, without EQ ~!~

01-[01:48]. --long promoter intro/announcements--
02-[14:22]. Telegram (Nature's Mischief)
03-[28:42]. Penumbra
04-[01:19]. --comments & bandmember intros--
05-[06:33]. Riding On The L&N ->
06-[13:45]. Hold That Train
07-[03:32]. --long encore break/audience clapping--

Encore :::
08-[18:07]. Drinking That Wine

Total Time ::: 1:28:09

::: Quite fine, steady AUD. Check samples for exit or admission strategy planning.
::: Warts: Repaired dullspots & dropouts but surely missed a few. 30 second muffled spot late in #5. 1&1/2mins clapping in #5 in middle & end, & some in #8. Very tiny bit of background bleedthru in a couple of quiet spots.
::: Labeled 1972. Based on sound, songs & line-up, date should be summer or fall & this was confirmed by DocTinker who attended & remembers it as "around Carnival" (November).
::: DIMER zubbid noted a musical passage which wasn't on June Stuttgart but IS on October Troisdorf, suggesting this show must have been AFTER June.
::: Many thanks to zubbid for helping fill in my setlist & for his extensive notes.
::: #3 has a break at ~15mins & the crowd applauds as if understanding the song was over & then the band continues 'Penumbra'.
::: zubbid & I agree it's hard to believe the #8 title is other than "Drinking That Wine" but if you know different, do tell!

Recording Information ::: Telefunken Magnetophon 300 TS mono reel-to-reel recorder with Grundig microphone -> master mono audience reel -> taper's 1st generation Revox reels. (circa 2010? transfer) 1st generation Revox reels (with azimuth alignment) -> Pioneer PDR 05 CD Recorder -> CD-R -> ripped to computer/wav/flac.

Playback 2015-12-xx ::: wav -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, speed varies slightly due to one of the reel to reel machines & +0.4% averaged pitch correction fixed a good bit of it & I decided to leave it at that. Pitch (speed) fix with single pass after frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2015-12-26.

Further notes ::: Possibly uploaded in 2004 (pre-DIMEbot & not found online) but if so, that copy was M2 (reel>reel>cassette), whereas this is an M1 version copied directly from HB's reel to digital. As many of you know, most HB masters weren't kept - non-azimuth aligned copies were made to reels. Luckily this recording doesn't suffer from muffling like many HB recordings & this M1 reel was copied correctly with azimuth adjustment. I then remastered the recording, fixing various issues (as noted above).

Line-up ::: Martin Pugh - electric guitar, vocals // Louis Cennamo - electric bass, electric bowed bass, vocals // Bruce Michael Paine (or Payne, depending on where you see it) - lead vocals, rhythm electric guitar // John Lingwood - drums, percussion.

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

DimeTravel 249 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! Thanks to HB for recording & to DIMER DocTinker for taking the time to carefully transfer the taper's only existing M1 reel, & for supplying me with the recording. ::: Corrections welcome ::: One of the longest Steamhammer recordings to surface so far. "Speech" material & a couple of long jammed out versions of Steamhammer classics, along with an unreleased song I don't believe has surfaced anywhere else (the encore). I spent MANY hours remastering this, fixing LOADS of dropouts & dullspots, then ended up running thru the entire thing again & fine tuning it, another 4 or 5 hours. One of the great bands & still woefully underrated. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yrs truly, Knees

Support the artists! Nothing to buy, but check Martin Pugh's at www.steamhammer.com & the Repertoire CD's are still floating, I think, so do yourself a favor & buy them & hope some of the royalities line the right pockets. Don't know where to start? If you don't own the first album (self-titled aka "Reflection"), it is one of the mighty, and its 2 follow-ups are royally excellent as well & "Speech" seems to be the Brain of choice for many. Also, John Lingwood is still gigging.

Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!