Wild Turkey
1973-01-28 Frankfurt, Germany Festhalle (M2-AUD)

~*~ Carefully remastered fixing many issues including extreme speed problems ~*~

Mk2 Version with EQ

01. --introduction & tune-up--
02. Good Old Days
03. Tomorrow's Friend
04. See You Next Tuesday
05. Eternal Mother -> The Return
06. Butterfly
07. Traffic Island Jam (Part One) ->
08. bass solo ->
09. Traffic Island Jam (Part One conclusion)
10. Traffic Island Jam (Part Two) ->
11. drum solo ->
12. Traffic Island Jam (Part Two conclusion)

Total Time ::: 58:16

::: Non hi-fi but a quite edible, succulent bird & MUCH better than it's ever been! Check samples for take it or leave it prognostication or a few quick puffs.
::: Warts: Mike bumps, distortion, etc.
::: This is the Mk2 version with EQ. If you 'need' the Mk1 version with speed & volume corrections, but without EQ, please request it.
::: This went from 55:12 to 58:15 after speed corrections. The HUGE shift was just in the last 40 minutes when the batteries were dying & the tape got progressively faster (when played back at normal speed). 29 speed change increments were applied, after checking the entire recording at 1 minute increments - each with trial & error speed adjustments checked with spectral analysis & pitchpipe verification - culminating in a -13.5% speed correction for the last 2 minutes! It ain't perfect but it is now very much OK.
::: Opening act for, and on tour with, Ten Years After. Some of TYA's Frankfurt set appeared on "Recorded Live". Both groups were on Chrysalis so possibly Wild Turkey was also taped professionally (& perhaps on more than 1 night of the tour).
::: Been meaning to finish this for several months, but the speed fix issue was daunting. However, here 'tis, a late tribute to a GREAT musician who left our mortal coil in 2014, Glenn Cornick.
::: Wild Turkey was really a kind of UK rock super group, with an allstar cast of players, some of whom changed through the years.
::: The group was touring to promote their new, second album, "Turkey".
::: Here's one for DIMER zubbid, whose enthusiasm, assistance & comments are appreciated.

Recording Information ::: Telefunken Magnetophon 300 TS mono reel to reel recorder & Grundig microphone -> master mono audience reel to reel tape -> 1st generation reel to reel -> 2nd generation Maxell XLII-S 90 cassette, Dolby B on.

As has been documented more thoroughly elsewhere, HB unfortunately did not keep most of his original masters & didn't azimuth adjust at transfer to the 1st gen. dupes he kept. We got what we got, but thanks to him, we got a lot we never would have heard otherwise! If YOU are transfering your old tapes & don't understand about azimuth adjustment for each individual tape, PLEASE seek help. It can make a HUGE difference to the sound of the transfer & brings many recordings back to life.

Playback 2011-10-08 ::: 2nd generation Maxell XLII-S 90 cassette on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth adjusted for individual tape, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Tascam CD-RW900SL professional CD recorder -> CD-RW, no track splits -> computer -> EAC secure mode (logs made) -> wav file(s), heads cleaned & demagnetized -> Sony Linear PCM Recorder PCM-M10 (LPCM 44.10kHz/16bit WAV files) -> computer -> wavs.

Remastering 2012-06-xx & 2015-01-xx ::: wavs -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, insane speed fixes were applied, each with a single pass per segment after spectral analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2015-01-10.

Line-up ::: Gary Pickford-Hopkins - lead vocals, harmonica // Glenn Douglas Barnard Cornick - electric bass, vocals // Alan 'Tweke' Lewis - electric guitar // Michael Dyche - electric guitar // Steve Gurl - piano // Jeffrey Jones - drums.

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

DimeTravel 084 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader, from whom I did get my copy many years ago, "HB" aka Heribert ::: Corrections welcome ::: This is a challenging listen. It reminds me of seeing Steve Stills, circa 1974, at Duke University, or UNC Chapel Hill, where he declared the sound in the gymnasium was like, "playing inside a toilet bowl" - or what I always imagined my friend Mr Hamer's recording might have sounded like of the Allman Brothers in Charlotte, when Duane got busted and the two horn players sat in for him. Hamer took his tiny mono portable recorder with built-in condensor mike and stuck it up in the concrete hole of the toilet in the back hall of the Park Center. Never did hear that one, but you can imagine... We have great distance, large echoing hall, poor recording equipment, AND, worst of all, dying batteries - the works. The speed was fixed in increments throughout the recording & some EQ was applied & it approaches a form of listenablility. It is an interesting timepiece as it seems to be one of the rare artifacts we have of more than a 45 minute set of the Turkey at work in this era. It has a 4&1/2 minute Cornick bass solo & another 6 minutes is taken up by one of the era's prerequisite drum solos. There's some very fine music contained within, but... Be on the safe side, check the samples, or know your Wild Turkey love is real & can withstand all comers. I thought the band was really excellent, particularly the 2nd album, and the one time I got to see them in 1972, they were outstanding. Whatever your passion, do remember Glenn Cornick. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees

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Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!