Wizz Jones
1984-09-02 _ Brighton, England _ The Friday Club* _ (M1orM2-AUD)
(* a Brighton folk club, upstairs room in some pub)

~*~ Carefully remastered fixing various issues, without EQ ~*~

Set One :::
01. Shake Shake Mama
02. Sometimes In This Life Are Beautiful
03. Sitting On Top Of The World
04. Happiness Was Free
05. Moving On Song
06. Magical Flight

Set Two :::
07. Shuckin' Sugar Blues
08. Corrine, Corrina ->
09. ? (instrumental) ->
10. Angi
11. See How The Time Is Flying
12. Fishin' Blues ->
13. Touch Has A Memory ->
14. Mississippi John ->
15. Spike Driver Blues
16. Too Shy To Say
17. --applause & club promoter gig announcements--

Encore (with Danny ? on 2nd guitar) :::
18. -Wizz comments & tuning up & banging around--
19. Hard Times Ain't Gone No Where (with some ad-libbed vocals)

Total Time ::: 1:21:08

::: Very fine AUD. Check samples to scope it out or for some pre-meal snacks.
::: Warts: Repaired dullspots & dropouts but surely missed a few. Slight volume dropoff ALC artifacts after sudden loud vocals but 'tis not a big problem! Occasional bar/door noises in background, but lowered most of 'em. Wizz is somewhat noisy moving around himself. TINY bit of UK folkclub singalong in #5&12.
::: A very small audience but Wizz is playing hard!
::: Wizz describes "Magical Flight" as, "...Sorta the standard Roy Harper type trip, but much more condensed"!
::: Anyone remember what pub the Brighton "Friday Club" happened in?

Recording Information ::: unknown mono recording equipment with ALC on -> master mono audience cassette -> 1 or 2 cassette generations -> DAT.

Playback 2009-xx-xx :::Tascam(?) professional portable DAT recorder -> Tascam CD-RW900SL professional CD recorder -> CD-RW with track splits.

Playback 2011-08-31 ::: CD-R in computer -> EAC secure mode (logs made) -> wav files.

Remastering 2015-10-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, -1.7% averaged pitch (speed) fix with single pass after frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2015-10-24.

Line-up ::: Wizz Jones - acoustic guitar, vocals // Guest on #20 only: Danny ? - acoustic guitar.

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

DimeTravel 221 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader! ::: Corrections welcome ::: So far, all my Wizz uploads haven't brought any archival recordings to light from other sources. Kind of discouraging, I know they're out there. I also know some folks taped Wizz Jones & John Renbourn on their tours together & we've only seen one of those appear - it would be great to hear some more! Love the style differences in these different eras of Wizz Jones' playing. His attack is different with many different twists to the songs than the 90s & 00s would bring. Freakin' energetic playing! Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yrs truly, Knees

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