Stoneground
1971-xx-xx(*) San Francisco, California KEMO Television Studios (M3-TV line recording)

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

01. ...Black Sheep Boy -> Highway 61 Revisited ->
Don't Make Promises -> Black Sheep Boy
02. Where Will I Find Love
03. Love's Made A Fool Of You
04. Ajax
05. You Must Be One Of Us
06. You Better Come Through
07. Bad News
08. Colonel Chicken Fry
09. Won't Be Long
10. Gonna Have A Good Time
11. Stroke Stand
12. Big River
13. Cosmic Clown
14. You Got The Right
15. Richmond Woman
16. Super Clown

Total Time ::: 1:25:45

::: VERY fine, steady TV line recording. Check samples for avoidance quotient or to catch an early buzz.
::: Warts: Tad o' hiss. Very SLIGHTLY flat/muffled. Fixed dullspots & dropouts but surely missed a few. #1 fades in. Occasional slight distortion from vocal mike overload. Bass(?) was too loud first 30 seconds of #06. Sometimes some claps or finger snaps sound like glitches as they're often right in mike(s).
::: Tape was labeled 1971 or 1972. I guess it's between Nov '71 and Jan '72. They are just recently back from the UK.
::: #13 may be correctly titled "Cosmic Clown (I've Been Searching)".
::: Really one of the loveliest bands out of Bay Area from this era for my ears.
::: This station apparently had LOTS of killer, full-length live broadcasts & almost none have ever shown up. Can YOU help rectify this?

Recording Information ::: mono television broadcast -> unknown equipment (line recording) -> master analog tape (probably reel) -> 1st generation analog (probably reel) -> 2nd generation analog reel -> 3rd generation Maxell XLII 90 cassette Dolby B on.

Playback 2015-04-xx ::: 3rd 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 [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, from 46 minutes to end +.6% averaged single pass pitch (speed) fix 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. (NOTE: I ran a noise reduction version I quite like that got rid of most of the hiss, but there were some artifacts, so I decided not to upload it. The hiss is totally constant so if someone who really knows what they are doing(!) with the NR wants to take a stab, that would be cool with me.).

Line-up (unverified - Oct. UK line-up) ::: Sal Valentino - guitar, vocals // Tim Barnes - guitar, vocals // John Blakeley - guitar // Cory Lerios - organ, piano // Brian Godula - electric bass // Stephen Price - drums, percussion // Dierdre La Porte - vocals // Lynne Hughes - vocals // Lydia Phillips - vocals // Annie Sampson - vocals // ? - horns on 2 or 3 tracks. Guest artist #6 (and more?): Karen Clements - vocals(?).

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

DimeTravel 106 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! My copy came from The Man In The Palace ::: Corrections welcome ::: With Tom Donahue as their manager & good times on both side of the pond, this west coast hippie clan made some righteous music; still woefully under-represented in the world. Wonderful live shows of this vintage line-up. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees

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