John McLaughlin and the One Truth Band
My Father's Place
Old Roselyn, NY
07.27.78

Pre-FM SBD feed > Nak 550 > Maxell UDXL2 (no NR) via Peter Hedeman
Transfer: MC > Aiwa AD-850 > Ted's THC cables > Edirol UA-5 > USB > Dell PC > Wavelab 5.01a @ 24/96.
Re-Master: WAV > Wavelab 5.0 (X-noise to remove hiss, S1-Imager to recenter stereo image, 192kHz resampler > 44.1 kHz, L3-Multimaximizer to dither to 16 bits and increase headroom) > FLAC


Performed after the release of "Electric Guitarist" (recorded in January and February 1978) and billed as "The One Truth Band, featuring John McLaughlin."

1. Song of The Soul* >
2. Meeting of the Spirits **
3. WLIR Air Play and Commercials > [omit, if you like]
4. Dennis McNamarra intro > [omit, if you like]
5. Goodbye Porkpie Hat >
6. Friendship
7. Two Sisters
8. Mind Ecology (cross fade, aproximately 1:00 into the track) >
9. Percussion / "Portraits of the Universe"
11. Do You Hear The Voices You Left Behind? >
12. Piano >
13. Do You Hear The Voices You Left Behind? >
14. Bass > Do You Hear The Voices You Left Behind?
15. Crowd
Encore:
16. Vocal Jam >
17. Hope

The master cassettte is labeled July 27, 1978, but this recording also circulates as July 28, 1978. The band played SUNY Stoneybrook, nearby on July 29, so either date could be correct.

Even if you take out the commercials and the crowd noise, the performance runs about 85 minutes. Split the show at track 7 or 11, if you want to use 74 or 80 minute CDRs.

* A poem by Alan Hovhaness composed especially for the program "WORLD UNITY: The Song Of The Soul" --
October 28, 1975. See http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/jmsf/MBMP.html

** At the end of Meeting of the Spirits, JM says "we're going to break for 30 seconds, but we'll be right back." Then, the tape fades into WLIR airplay and DJ chatter. There is no break in the recording. It sounds like there was an early show or set that wasn't broadcast, and that the broadcast picked up after this break.

The One Truth Band:

John McLaughlin - guitar
L. Shankar - acoustic and electric Violin
Stu Goldberg - keyboard
TM Stevens - bass
"Sunship" Theus - percussion

Enjoy!

--mhg :: November 7, 2005