The Who
August 24, 1968
Early show
Wedgewood Amusement Park
Oklahoma City, OK
Type: Audience tape
Quality: A-
Length: 28:47

Lineage: silver disc > WAV+adjustments (Soundforge) > FLAC (level 8)

This came from the old Long Live Rock website. "Magic Bus" and "Shakin' All Over" were one continuous track, so I split them into separate tracks, fixed SBEs, and tagged all of the tracks. I also fixed the artwork to match the split tracks.

SET LIST:
01. Substitute
02. I Can't Explain
03. Boris The Spider
04. A Quick One, While He's Away
05. Magic Bus
06. Shakin' All Over

The Who played two outdoor shows, 3:30pm and 8:00pm, on what must have been a hot summer day. This is likely most of the first show, minus their usual set closer, "My Generation". This is a really good audience tape once the taper repositions the mic at 1:36 into "I Can't Explain". Before that it's a bit muffled and the guitar is low in the mix. The taper must have been in front of John Entwistle, as the bass is strong throughout the performance.

The original poster's notes are below:

This is probably the best sounding audience recording from the summer of 1968 tour!
According to "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere", and most significantly, to the period poster (as
featured on the booklet rear page, kudos to Mike who put it on The Who Concert Guide web),
The Who played two shows that day; this is definitely the early show as Pete comments on
the sun bearing down on their necks and audience�s eyes, which would be the case of the sun
position in that latitude at circa 15:30 in late August (by 8 p.m. the sun had set).
It is doubtable if this is a recording of the complete show, lasting less than 30 minutes from
beginning to end, comprising just 6 songs. Those days they would end their sets with the
highly explosive �My Generation� and it is not probable that they omitted it this time; Magic
Bus and Shakin� All Over were often played right before it. It looks more likely that
somebody�s 30-minute side of a tape ran to an end (C-60�s were the standard-length cassettes
then, it seems to have run a bit faster during the recording � see comment below).
The quality of the recording is not stellar, but still pretty listenable. Definitely, it is a lot better
than the Singer Bowl and a wee better than Jaguar or Fillmore West tapes from the same tour.
Nevertheless, the recording suffered from several problems which needed to be rectified:
1) The speed/pitch was too (s)low because the tape ran a bit faster during the recording,
exactly by one whole semitone, and that was easily corrected in Soundforge. Therefore the
resulting playing time on the bootleg totalled 30�30�; after the pitch/speed shift it clocks
out at 28�48�.
2) Another very common bootleg disease was the channel swap, although stereo separation is
not prominent (yet just before the beginning of Substitute, tapping on the right channel
mike can be heard as if the taper was trying to check the controls and fiddled with them
15 seconds into the song). Also channel balance adjustment was necessary � the left
channel was a lot weaker so I amplified it, but it still sounds a bit muffled.
3) During �I Can�t Explain� there are tape anomalies � it sounds like the tape got chewed up
in the player some time later during playback, about half a second is missing, the worst bit
probably being cut. Due to the pasting of the tape back together, the head alignment after
the anomaly changed and the volume dropped. It stayed considerably lower in both
channels so I panned them to the previous recording level. Otherwise I made no other
sound adjustments or eq-ing.
Some sources claim this might be a recording of a show The Who played on 19th or 29th
March, during the previous US tour that year. This is quite improbable, Magic Bus had not
been released then and therefore was not played live.
I liberated this section off the "Cry Blue Murder" bootleg; the Dallas 1967 part of it has been
made available here already. I have included only the rear cover of the original CD, the front
contains Roger's picture from about '71/72 and really makes no sense. (The back cover pictures
are bogus as well; Keith used that drum kit in late 1966, by Dallas, and in Oklahoma, too, he
already had the �Pictures of Lily � Patent British Exploding Drummer� kit.)
I included a cover I made myself from various period sources. Mind you, it�s a Ploy d�Or.


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