The Who 1969-May-25

The Who 1st Gen (off the Master Tapes)

Merriweather Post Pavilion Columbia, MD


Disc 1 - 76.37
1 Heaven And Hell 3.13
2 I Can't Explain 2.13
3 Fortune Teller 2.23
4 Tattoo 2.48
5 It's A Boy .32
6 1921 2.21
7 Amazing Journey 3.14
8 Sparks 5.16
9 Eyesight To The Blind 1.51
10 Christmas 3.17
11 The Acid Queen 3.28
12 Pinball Wizard 2.46
13 Do You Think It's Alright? .22
14 Fiddle About 1.13
15 There's A Doctor .22
16 Go To The Mirror 3.31
17 Smash The Mirror 1.08
18 I'm Free 2.29
19 Tommy's Holiday Camp .56
20 We're Not Gonna Take It 7.44
21 Shakin' All Over 3.45
22 Summertime Blues 5.41
23 Magic Bus 15.54



Notes that came with this recording:

Recording info:
Unknown mic > unknown recorder
Masters were 2 x 60 minute tapes
Pauses/stops present between some tracks

Lineage:
Maxell XL-II gen 1 Cassette obtained in ~ 1991

Transfer:
Nakamichi RX505 > kindkables RCA/XLR >
Apogee Mini Me @ 24bit/48kHz > kindkables coax >
MT24/96 > wav

Processing:
Wav > Adobe Audition (fades, normalize) >
CD Wave (tracking) > TLH > flac

Additional processing:
Flacs > wav > Adobe Audition 3.0.1
(appending, speed correcting (+1.6%), downsampling) >
wav > CD Wave (tracking) > wav > Flac Frontend >
flac 8 (tagged and verified)

Transfer & processing by 'ellaguru' (08-Mar-30)
Additional processing by 'pernod' (10-Feb-27)


original notes by ellaguru:

A tape trading friend had access to the masters
in the early 1990's and ran both himself and me
a 1st gen cassette off the masters. Not a perfect
master by any means, being littered with assorted
tape pauses, microphone bumps, off balance imaging,
and the bands themselves 'coloring out of the lines'
a bit at times. I'm far from the person who has
the ability to correct those speed changes, although
they are less than 1 second long each. For the life
of me I can't find my specific notes, which included
if it was a cassette or reel-to-reel master tape.
My hunch (and lack of memory) leads me to think
they were cassettes. Note the tapers' "no no!!!"
right at the end of 'Magic Bus' when the tape runs
out. No idea why only 'Whole Lotta Love' was recorded
from the Zeppelin set. Perhaps (and obviously) they
just didnt bring enough tape to record both bands
and chose to just capture a taste of the opener,
which is one of the earliest known live versions
of 'Whole Lotta Love'. On a positive note, the
atmosphere is captured nicely and there isn't too
much clapping or other audience distractions during
the tape. The Who's set tracked out to the best of
my ability.

enjoy!
pernod