Stoneground
1971-06-xx _ London, England _ AIR Studios _ 214 Oxford Street _ Fourth Floor
"Air" _ UNISSUED "first" album session tracks _ (M2-ST)

~*~ Carefully remastered fixing minor issues, without EQ ~*~

---[00:00]. You Better Come Through ___ (OMITTED - PARTIALLY THE SAME VERSION AS ON "3")
---[00:00]. Ajax ______________________ (OMITTED - PARTIALLY THE SAME VERSION AS ON "3")
01-[04:07]. Love's Made A Fool Of You
02-[04:34]. I'm A Woman
03-[03:37]. Alligator Man
04-[03:50]. Cosmic Clown
05-[07:17]. How Do You Sleep

Total Time ::: 23:25

::: Superb sound quality. Check samples for pre-flight take-off.
::: Warts: There ain't none! (except brevity).
::: Some of these, perhaps the final mixes, apparently finished on 1971-06-12.
::: Likely another try at recording LP trax for Warners, who sent the band into an L.A. studio 2 or 3 months later to record what was later issued as their official 1st LP.
::: #1&#2 remixed with a lot of new instrumentation in '72 & issued on their LP "3". IMO the early mix versions are far superior, but can't be uploaded.
;;; #3 is a totally different version than the one that appeared on "Stoneground 3".
::: #5 is a different & better (IMO) version than the '69 Valentino 45 & the '72 "Dracula A.D. 2000" OST versions.
::: #6 may be correctly titled "Cosmic Clown (I've Been Searching)"
::: #7 probably recorded just weeks before the Lennon "Imagine" version was.
::: NOTHING here appears on the self-titled officially released "first" Stoneground album.
::: NOTHING here appears on the now officially released, misleadingly-named "On Stage" August 1970 London Trident studio demo tapes rejected by Warners as the 1st album.
::: Stoneground, a pivotal band from the SF scene, hung out in London for just over a year in '70-71.
::: Air Studios was opened by George Martin when he left EMI.

Recording Information ::: master studio reel -> 1st generation reel -> 2nd generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby B on.

Playback 2015-04-15 ::: 2nd generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth adjusted for individual tape, heads cleaned & demagnetized -> Sony Linear PCM Recorder PCM-M10 (LPCM 44.10kHz/16bit WAV files) -> computer -> Audacity [channel/phase alignment, fades, a few glitch, pop, dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, -.7 pitch/speed change 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 2015-04-25.

Line-up (unconfirmed) ::: Sal Valentino (born Salvatore Willard Spampinato) - guitar, vocals // Tim Barnes - guitar, vocals // John Blakeley - guitar // Cory Lerios - organ, piano // Brian Godula or Pete Sears - electric bass // Stephen Price - drums, percussion // Dierdre La Porte - vocals // Lynne Hughes - vocals // Lydia Phillips - vocals // Annie Sampson - vocals.

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

DimeTravel 102 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader! ::: Corrections welcome ::: This should damn well speak for itself. You like Stoneground? This ROCKS! Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees

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