PLEASE NOTE: THESE ARE NOT MY NOTES. THIS IS THE TEXT FILE FROM THE ORIGINAL SHN DISC THAT I RECEIVED AS A VINE ON A TRADING GROUP THAT NO LONGER EXISTS. THE "I's" ARE NOT ME.

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Strawbs
Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ
5 Dec 1976
This show was recorded for radio by FM station WNEW and was probably
broadcast in early 1977.

intro
The Golden Salamander (verses 1 & 2)
Simple Visions
The Golden Salamander(verse 3)
Ghosts
I Only Want My Love To Grow In You
Hard Hard Winter
Autumn
The Soldier's Tale
Turn Me Round
My Friend Peter
The River
Down By The Sea
Lemon Pie
So Close And Yet So Far Away
Out In The Cold
Round And Round
Hanging In The Gallery
The Promised Land
Drum solo
Hero And Heroine
at the station

Encores:
Banjo tune
crowd
Lay Down
New World
outro

2 CDR/2:12:27

A word about how I manipulated the show into state:

I got this in trade maybe 2 years ago. It arrived as a 3 CD set, 1 track
per disc. It sounds to me that this was recorded on 60 minute cassette
tapes originally: there were some nasty tape flips at roughly 31 minute
intervals. I extracted each disc, cut them together in SoundForge 4.5, and
smoothed out the transitions; thankfully none occured in the middle of a
song. The worst of these flips happens right after the song 'Autumn;' I did
what I could here, and it's more aesthetically pleasing than the
alternative. I also had an issue of one channel (right) being lower in
volume than the other: thanks to some suggestions from members off list, I
was able to boost that one channel (I've never done that, and was afraid of
bolloxing it up). Some EQ adjustment has also been performed to remove some
tape hiss and a low volume clicking that could be heard throughout the
recording: I believe this may have either been some tape issue or an FM
interferance issue.

CDWave editor was my friend in cutting the tracks. While the setlist on
StrawbsWeb indicated several tracks as 'medleys,' I broke the tracks out
individually. I left the station IDs intact; removing them would have
caused some degree of problems with regards to smoothing out the sound. The
'pre-show,' 'pre-encore' and 'post show' radio banter was left intact as
well, as it does have some bearing on the show and discusses some of the
band's history.

I can neither confirm nor deny that there is a bonus track on this set not
listed in the setlist above.