Tony Capstick
1973-xx-xx* (circa) _ Leeds, West Yorkshire, England _ Adelphi _ The Brig (folk club) _ (M1-SBD)

~*~ Carefully remastered fixing various issues, without EQ but with some NR in the 2nd set ~*~

Set One :::
01. The Cockfight
02. --tuning & talking--
03. The Rainbow
04. --tuning & talking--
05. Charlie
06. --tuning & talking--
07. John Blunt
08. "Three American Ladies"
09. --tuning & talking--
10. -- talking & musical intro--
11. Punch & Judy Man
12. --talking intro to "Hughie The Graeme"--
13. "The Ventriloquist"
14. Hughie The Graeme

Set Two :::
15. --talking & tuning--
16. Lazlo Fayre
17. --talking & tuning--
18. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? -> Can't Stop Thinking About It ->
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? (with joke break in the middle)
19. --talking & tuning--
20. Lloyd George
21. --talking & tuning--
22. Go To Sea No More
23. --talking & tuning--
24. "You Won't Like Bloody Wednesday"
25. --talking & tuning--
26. Battle Of New Orleans -> Mighty Quinn -> Battle Of New Orleans

Encore :::
27. Rocks of Bawn

After show comments & song fragment ("If This Tape's Still Running") :::
28. Wanking On The Banking(?)

Total Time ::: 1:16:17

::: VERY fine stereo SBD. Check samples for get outta here or get folked potential.
::: Warts: Tape was somewhat fatigued but did the job. Generally repaired worst dullspots & dropouts & volume fluctuations but a number remain (tho' 'tis much improved). Splices between songs as received, now smoothed out. #15 song intro has some sound issues. Parts of set 2 had very low levels in left channel which created some minor issues when raised. #14 very light fluctuating left channel hum from recorder motor.
::: The tape wasn't dated, but is probably circa 1973.
::: While The Brig folk club is long gone, the Adelphi pub is still operating today at the same premises.
::: Taped with permission of the artist, who would seem to be rather inebriated during the 2nd set.
::: Tony Capstick (1944-2003) was an English comedian, actor, musician & broadcaster (Wikipedia).
::: Opening act(s) were generally "floor singers" (unpaid local performers who got the chance to sing in public).

Recording Information ::: soundboard -> Aiwa quarter track stereo reel-to-reel recorder -> master 7&1/2 ips stereo reel to reel tape -> 1st generation cassette.

Transfer Information ::: 1st generation cassette -> unknown cassette recorder -> Boss 8-Track Digital Studio -> hard drive -> 44.1 kHz wav files.

Remastering 2017-04-xx ::: wavs -> Audacity [channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, -1.4% pitch (speed) fix with single pass after frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation, NO noise reduction in set 1 but set 2 had some hiss & other issues & some noise reduction was applied -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2017-08-xx.
NOTE: The pitch possibly varies some through the tape, but the average correction used seemed to work the best.

Line-up ::: Joseph Anthony "Tony" Capstick - acoustic guitar, vocals, jokes (sometimes not very p.c.).

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

DimeTravel 354 ::: SINCERE thanks to the original taper, DIMER Paul Hutchinson ::: Corrections welcome ::: Tony was a fixture on the Brit 70s folk scene, tho' better known for his years as a BBC presenter, & actor in the long-running British sitcom, "Last of the Summer Wine". He combined comedy & folk music, characteristic of many in the UK early 70s folk scene. 'Twas never my cuppa, tho' you can hear residual bits of it from other artists of the era of whom I am particularly fond. You had to have a gimmick to survive. At any rate, some of his comments & jokes are not exactly politically correct & I'm certainly not endorsing them by uploading this. I was introduced to Tony (as probably many others were) by his brief one-album stint with Hedgehog Pie (an absolutely superb 70s folk group). That was his first album & he then went on to make several others. He's got a fine voice & a comfortable acoustic guitar style that works well with the material. The 2nd set evolves (or devolves depending on your perspective) into what seems like more jokes & dialogue than music, but all in all, this show is of more than passing interest & will delight some folks, especially those who saw Tony back in the day, and it will introduce others to a man who was certainly a force on the UK 70s folk scene. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yrs truly, Knees

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