Tom Waits
The Troubadour
West Hollywood, California
August 16, 1975
FM

KMET Saturday Night At The Concert Hour

Another Goody Speed/Pitch-adjusted Remaster via Flying M

(missing the instrumental introduction)
01. On A Foggy Night 7:33
02. Better Off Without A Wife 4:09 (2 momentary speed issues between 1:20 and 1:35, some other warped audio sound as well)
03. Warm Beer And Cold Women 5:35
04. Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street) 11:26
05. (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night 7:22
06. Eggs And Sausage 5:00
07. San Diego Serenade 3:29
08. Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission) 4:39 (spliced tape flip @ 2:11)
09. Drunk On The Moon 5:43
10. Diamonds On My Windshield (incl. Band Introductions) 7:52
encore:
11. Martha 4:21
[67:09]

Tom Waits-vocals, acoustic guitar, acoustic piano
Michael Melvoin-keyboards
Teddy Edwards-sax
Jim Hughart-bass
Jim Gordon-drums

source:
KMET-FM > Revox A77 @ 7 1/2 ips > Revox B77 @ 7 1/2 ips (me) > Phase Linear 1000 > Sony DTC-690 (LP)

Transfer:
Sony DTC-690 > Audigy 4 Pro (via toslink) > Audacity (clean up, splice tape flip and convert to 44.1 KHz) > CD Wav > Flac (Level 8) >

Goody's additional lineage:
TLH (WAV) > Audition (Pitch Bender, various; levels adjusted; recombine split up 'Diamonds On My Windshield' to one single track) >
TLH (FLAC Level 8; Align sector boundaries; .ffp) > foobar2000 (tags)

Original notes by -M-:
This is a very nice stereo radio broadcast of an early Tom Waits show.
Reception (and-or broadcast) quality is not perfect and this has an electrical hum in places and that slightly fuzzy tuned off-center sound.
I had poor reception in the middle 70's (living in Tujunga, California).
There is also a momentary speed issue or two etc. during 'Better Off Without A Wife'
Never lean over the reel-reel when you're recording (a lesson a day back then).
The tape flip was spliced @ 44:56 (2:11 of track 8) and one verse was lost.

This is from a first generation reel to reel @ 7 1/2 ips.
Transferred to a DAT tape in the middle 1990's.
I used the Phase Linear 1000 auto-correlator (mild noise reduction and dynamic expansion) during transfer to DAT.
Copied to DAT during times of financial distress (student) and I recorded this at the Long Play speed.
Audacity changed the sample rate to 44.1KHz.
A few dropouts and some intermittent electrical noises were removed during the clean up review.

Not the best sounding recording, but decent and this is from my first generation reel.
For historical reference only and not intended for resale or any commercial use.
Enjoy
-M- (April 2011)
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Final notes for this edition:
I found the speed to be quite inconsistent, resulting in pitches that ranged from between approximately 115 flat to 38 cents sharp at various stages of the recording.
It took some work but I was able to coax it back much closer to 'reality' than the condition in which I found it.
Thanks to Mike for providing his source from which this remaster is taken.
Despite the weak signal at times etc., the finished audio sounds much better than you might expect, after reading some of this info - listen closely and you'll even notice the buzz creeping in to annotate Tom's storytelling at just the right time in 'Nighthawk Postcards' if your imagination's followin' my drift... makin' the best of a not really so bad situation.... hope y'all enjoy this as much as I am right now is all I'm sayin'...

Text updated - November 28, 2022 - Goody

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