THE DIGITALLY REMASTERED BOOTLEGS
1967 - Jamming
1968 Remasters
Live at the Fillmore
Remaster Quality: This was an audience well back in the theatre. The guitars and drums overwhelm the PA so vocals are a bit distant. Noise has been reduced with the hard pause/starts tidied up and the usual bottom end boost to give some deep bass prescence. Sound is now good with the guitar realistically dominant but bass and drums clear. Comment: This is when they started getting into the long jams so it is indispensible. Spoonful is a very different version so worth it for that alone.CD1 (60 min) (CD2 is Live at the Fillmore - March '68)
Fillmore Theatre, San Francisco, 3rd September 1967
1. Tales of Brave Ulysses (Clapton/Sharp) 4.01
2. Sunshine of Your Love (Bruce/Brown/Clapton) 5.27
3. NSU (Bruce) 9.48
4. Lawdy Mama (Trad.) 4.53
5. Sweet Wine (Baker/Godfrey) 10.56
6. Spoonful (Dixon) 12.03
7. Sleepy Time Time (Bruce/Godfrey) 7.08
8. Stepping Out (Bracken) 11.14
EAST COAST, SEPT 1967 (reviewed)
Brandeis Remastered Quality: Instruments better balanced with the bass much clearer and improved attack on the guitar. Vocals remain undermixed but clearer. Drums remain clear as the recording was centre stage. Volume variations and mike repositioning effects have been smoothed. Noise levels especially tape hiss significantly reduced. Final quality is not as good as Grande Ballroom but very listenable especially in conjunction with the excellence of the performance. Psychedelic Supermarket Remastered Quality: Original recording quality was very low. The remaster has improved the balance but the bass remains dominant (much to the delight of Bruce fans!) but muddy. Noise levels are reduced but they remain noticeable. Final quality can only be classed as reasonable. CD1 (44 min)1. Tales of Brave Ulysses (Clapton/Sharp) 4.52 2. Sunshine of Your Love (Bruce/Brown/Clapton) 12.04 3. NSU (Bruce) 19.20 4. Sitting on Top of the World (Chester Burnett) 6.55CD2 (71 min) Brandeis University, Waltham Mass, 10th September 1967
1. Stepping Out (Bracken) 14.38 2. Traintime (Bruce) 8.32 3. Toad (Baker) 17.02
Psychedelic Supermarket, Boston Mass, [10-16th] Sept. 1967
4. Spoonful (Willie Dixon) 11.44 5. Sweet Wine (Baker/Godfrey)- Inc 7.59 6. Tales of Brave Ulysses (Clapton/Sharp) 4.26 7. Sunshine of Your Love (Bruce/Brown/Clapton) 7.11
GRANDE BALLROOM, OCT 1967 (reviewed)
Grande Ballroom Remastered V2 Quality: The original recording was done with quality equipment off the PA mixer with the balance favouring the guitar and vocals. The remaster has significantly improved bass presence and lifted the drums especially the bass drums. The guitar retains its attack unlike the remasters on "Those Were The Days". Volume variations, dropouts have been smoothed and pitch corrected. Noise levels were not overly high but again have been reduced, especially the layers of tape noise. Final re-remaster quality is now extremely high. The latest remaster is from a digital copy of the master tape or quality 2nd gen at worst!
Comment: One of THE great Rock concerts! And damn good sound - very live and up front.
Grande Ballroom, Detroit Mich, 15th October 1967
CD1 (43min)CD2 (64 min)1. Tales of Brave Ulysses (Clapton/Sharp) 4.01
2. NSU (Bruce) 15.39
3. Sitting on Top of the World (Chester Burnett) 4.21
4. Sweet Wine (Baker/Godfrey) 13.21
5. Rollin' and Tumblin' (Morganfield) 7.15
1. Spoonful (Dixon) 20.20
2. Stepping Out (Bracken) 10.49
3. Traintime (Bruce) 7.05
4. Toad (Baker) 16.25
5. I'm So Glad (James) 9.37
Remaster Quality: The tracks from the Fresh Live Cream video were typical film soundtrack quality with "We're Going Wrong" being the worst. Digital filtering and modest digital equalisation has made them excellent (from 3+ to 4+ in quality). The Concert bootleg is from a record of an audience recording but still reasonable quality, however it was sped up. Digital speed correction extended the recording by just over 2 minutes. Bass has been boosted to lift the drums but they remain distant as does the vocals- it was a poor PA. Remastering has reduced the tape noise so from 2 to 3 in quality. The added tracks give an accurate representation of a typical set on this tour - all in all it is a pretty good performance with "Stepping Out" to "I'm So Glad" excellent.
1. Tales of Brave Ulysses (Clapton/Sharp) 3.41
2. Sunshine of Your Love (Bruce/Brown/Clapton) 4.55
3. We’re Going Wrong (Bruce) 3.53
4. Spoonful (Dixon) 14.34
5. Stepping Out (Bracken) 9.58
6. Traintime (Bruce) 4.53
7. Toad (Baker) 10.54
8. I'm So Glad (James) (Incomplete) 7.19Tracks 1 & 2 recorded at "The Revolution Club", London, Dec 1967
Track 3 recorded for BBC TV Nov 26 1967
Tracks 4-8, Unknown Venue, Oct - Nov 1967
Tracks 1-3 remastered from "Fresh Live Cream" video
CD2 (69 min)
Stockholm, Sweden, "Konserthusert", 14th November 1967
Remaster Quality: The original was very poor quality - all versions I have got. It was one of my most difficult reamsters but worth it because it was a great show. This is now remastered from a newly discovered and higher quality source. Unfortunately it was incomplete and "I'm So Glad" has been added from the original remaster so you get a chance to compare the quality.
Some rebalancing, pitch correction and filtering was still required and patches of frequency modulation are present. It was an audience tape of goode quality as they had a good PA. The concert is great - one of there best if relatively short. They are in great humour, Ginger in particular. Quality from 3+ to 4+ - (Glad - 3-) a very successful remaster.
1. Introduction .57
2. Tales of Brave Ulysses (Clapton/Sharp) 4.08
3. Sunshine of Your Love (Bruce/Brown/Clapton) 8.03
4. Sleepy Time Time (Bruce/Godfrey) 7.44
5. Stepping Out (Bracken) 12.01
6. Traintime (Bruce) 6.50
7. Toad (Baker) 11.29
8. I'm So Glad (James) 9.109. Spoonful (Dixon) 8.31
Track 9 recorded at "The Revolution Club", London, Dec 1967, remastered from "Fresh Live Cream" video