TEN YEARS AFTER
NEW YORK CITY
GAELIC PARK
AUGUST 6, 1971

3rd gen., complete, correct sequence.

Lineage: Lineage: My 3rd. gen DAT>CD-R>EAC>FLAC (level8)>Dime>lucky you!

Sound quality 5 (out of 6)/ex-

CD 1

1. ONE OF THESE DAYS
2. NO TITLE
3. ONCE THERE WAS A TIME
4. HERE THEY COME
5. HOBBIT
6. SLOW BLUES IN C
7. HARD MONKEYS
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TOTAL: 50:14 min.

CD 2

1. I CAN’T KEEP FROM CRYING, SOMETIMES
2. I’M GOING HOME
3. BABY, WON’T YOU LET ME R & R YOU
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TOTAL: 34:18 min.

3rd generation off master.

A version of this show has of course been around for quite a while since it was released on CD by the late 80's/early 90's "protection gap" label Oh Boy!, though that version lacked two numbers from the complete set ("Hard Monkeys" & "I'm Going Home"). Later, longer and in cases even complete versions of this 85 min. set have started making their rounds in trading circles, and have turned up on _numerous_ torrent sites. Though some of them were graced by nice full colour covers, some were still either incomplete (missing "Hard Monkeys") or had their track sequence insanely messed up. Big time Ugh on that, I tell you! Too, NONE of them came with a known lineage! This version here from yours truly aims at closing this "case" once and for all: this is the 3rd. gen off the master, it contains all tracks and has the sequence left intact (of frigging course!). So, I guess it can't get too much better that this.

This is one of the first, if not the first show after the band had taken about quarter a year off touring in order to spend their time on an entirely satisfing album. Background to that was that the band had been pretty much p*ssed that they had not been given more than merely two weeks to record "Watt" in September 1970. Too, "A Space In Time" not only meant the first for their new label Chrysalis but also aimed at breaking away from their hitherto formula by mellowing down their sound and wideing their musical scope by the use of synthesizers.

This show here proves that the studio-to-stage transfer of some may have a bit less easy as with numbers from their previous albums. As Alvin stated in an interview he gave ahortly after this show, the band felt they had got a bit "rusty" and generally weren't up to their usual standard at this show. Too, some of the new numbers may not have come across as well as they hoped, being taken out of their perfect studio production environment. Alas, Alvin has always had the tendency of dropping new numbers faily quickly if they didn't work out exactly the way they should have. Too bad he wasn't too patient with his own numbers as I myself do like them all and they should have been given a few more tries, IMHO. Hence we may all consider ourselves very lucky to ear-witness these "lost gems" before most of them would get dropped for good. I may add that their 1971 versions of "one Of These Days" were extra-long and simply exemplified the COOLNESS (yes, that's capital letters) in TYA's music I've always liked.

I got this show on DAT eons back from my low generation trading god Larry "Florida Kid" Clark - thanks a big lot again, mate! Hope you read this.

Enjoy - and share!
Th:-)mas

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Do not spread this show in lossy formats
Uploaded to Dime in February 2010 by Docdondy.