1969-June-8 (1st Show)

The Who

The Guthrie Theater Minneapolis, MN


Disc 1 - 44.52
1 Pete's Banter 1.08
2 Heaven & Hell 3.46
3 Can't Explain 2.18
4 tuning 1.38
5 Fortune Teller 2.29
6 Tattoo (false start) .29
7 Tattoo 2.47
8 tuning 1.13
9 Young Man Blues 6.36
10 Pete's Banter 1.12
11 It's A Boy > .35
12 1921 > 2.21
13 Amazing Journey > 5.45
14 Sparks 2.56
15 Pinball Wizard 2.45
16 Pete's Banter 2.11
17 Go To The Mirror Boy > 3.28
18 Smash The Mirror 1.06

Disc 2 - 39.14
1 I'm Free > 2.22
2 Tommy's Holiday Camp > .58
3 We're Not Gonna Take It 7.59
4 tuning 2.36
5 Summertime Blues 3.56
6 Shakin' All Over > 1.25
7 Jam 19.34
8 applause .20


? Source > 2nd Generation Cassette > Digital Sources

Original Taper: Unknown


Notes that came with this recording:

Hello all,

As some of you may know, a new uncirculated tape of The Who's early show on
June 8, 1969 at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater has surfaced. In conjunction with
John over on WhoWeeds, we're teaming up to offer this show to everyone. This
WhoBoots tree will be audio only. The folks on WhoWeeds will handle SHN.
Before going any further, I'd like to give a big thanks to Rev. Mike In
Minnesota for offering to seed his source making this all possible.

According to the Who Concert File and the Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere books,
The Who rolled into Minneapolis to play two shows - one full performance at
7:00 P.M. and a shortened 45-minute show at 9:30 P.M. A four day break would
follow these shows before the Who wrapped up the tour playing in Los Angeles
and San Francisco. This is the early show and is typical of Who shows during
this first touring of Tommy. The playing is VERY tight and the quality of
the recording is quite good. The source is slightly bassy but fairly clear
with good separation of the instruments. There's no reason not to sign up
for this tree! Amazing that a tape like this has only surfaced now!!!


THE DETAILS

Below are the notes Rev. Mike sent me:


Opening act: Koerner, Ray, and Glover

Transferred and Seeded by Rev. Mike Rhodes


Notes:
-Balance was corrected +7db to the left channel using the Hhb 830 burnit
CD-R recorder-Fade ins were applied to d1t01, d1t10, d2t01, and d2t05. Fade
outs were applied to d1t09, d1t16, d2t04, and d2t08. All fades applied where
breaks occurred on source cassette -Sound in all four sections of the
recording was slightly different, all attempts were made during transfer to
match them -Warbly sound in I'm Free is from source cassette.

The story:
I was working with a woman in the summer of 2000 who was a big fan of The
Who, she knew I traded and collected live music and she let me borrow the
tape of this show which she said she had copied directly from the man who
taped it. After making the tape, I sent my copy to my friend Guy for
transfer to CD. Guy made one copy to CD and subsequently misplaced it as
well as my cassette. Recently, Guy had located the tape and was going to
mail it to me, but then he passed on. I was able to get the tape from his
mother's house during the funeral week and after getting home again, began
to research if this show circulated at all. I found it did not and began
the process of transferring it. I hope everyone enjoys this gem of a show.
Thank you to those people who responded to my original post on alt.music.who
for all of their information and assistance in spreading this show.

This as well as all future Transfers and Seeds is dedicated to the memory of
Guy Gimbrone (2/6/68 - 9/9/03), my friend and the greatest archivist I have
ever known.