Elvis Costello & the Attractions with special guest John McFee The Palomino North Hollywood, California, U.S. February 16, 1979, 11pm show "California's Costello Country!" From the JEMS archives Audience Taper and Original Equipment: Unknown Transfer: first or second generation cassette from the RG collection (believed to be obtained from the taper) > Nakamichi CR-7A azimuth-adjusted transfer > Peak 5.2 > FLAC The 2003 and 2004 reissues of "Get Happy!!" and "Almost Blue" each contain bonus tracks from "Palomino Club, North Hollywood, CA (16 February 1979)", but the liner notes do not indicate whether they're from the early or late show. When Butterking provided this new transfer of the 11pm show, I asked another Dime member to compare the seven tracks in common between it and the reissues. He found them all to be different -- in lyrics, stage patter and drum fills. The conclusion then is that if this is the late show, then the Palomino tracks on the reissues are from the early show. In January 2008 another version of this recording was torrented (a vinyl rip of "Live At The Palomino"). At the time, there was still uncertainty about possible overlap with released tracks, so to play it safe, the uploader omitted those seven tracks. We know now that those omissions were not necessary, and a reupload of that version would be great. Thanks again to Butterking for providing the wav file. Huge thanks also to the Dime member who identified and documented the differences between this performance and the one used for the reissues. His detailed notes are below. I used Audacity to split the wav into tracks. Editing lineage: Audacity (tracking) > TLH > FLAC 8 (align SB) > Foobar2000 (flac tags). 01. intro 02. Big Boys 03. Hand in Hand 04. Opportunity 05. Accidents Will Happen 06. Goon Squad 07. Two Little Hitlers 08. The Beat 09. Green Shirt 10. I Stand Accused 11. Radio, Radio --- (cassette flip fix) 12. Stranger In The House 13. Psycho 14. If I Could Put Them All Together (I'd Have You) 15. Motel Matches 16. He'll Have to Go 17. Girls Talk 18. Alison 19. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes Encore 20. band intro / Mystery Dance Duration : 59:02 NOTES - - audible tape pause between "Stranger In The House" and "Psycho". - Elvis namechecks Los Angeles at the end of "Red Shoes" BUTTERKING's NOTES - My dear friend RG has seen it all in his 30 + years of Southern California concert going. And he taped many a show, though not this one. However, when going through his cassettes several years ago, I stumbled upon this tape which he said he had gotten from the taper who had labeled and annotated himself with the title "California's Costello Country". While the recording isn't stupendous it is very clear and the Nakamichi transfer seemed to help. I patched up the flip between side one and two because upon further investigation it was clear the master recording had continued uninterrupted. There's a slight dip in levels where I joined the two halves and side two is just a bit brighter sounding than side one was despite azimuth adjustment. All that being said I thought it was worth posting because it was such an unusual show at an historic venue. Some very cool covers too and relatively rare Costello originals. I have no idea what versions of this show have circulated previously, but I have never seen this on DIME and given RG's history (he got the tape from the taper in 1979 or 1980), I suspect this is as low-generation as this particular recording is going to get. I found it very appealing. Hope you do too. Samples provided. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ COMPARISONS TO THE BONUS TRACKS ON GH and AB REISSUES - All songs have different drumming at the end. All stage patter is different. There are also some minor lyric variations I've listed below. If the audience recording is from the late show, the officially released songs must be from the early show. OPPORTUNITY aud (1:42): "The Fitness Institute was full of General Motor men" rhino (1:39): "The Fitness Institute is full of General Motor men" aud (2:20): "don't turn around, whoa!" rhino (2:18): "don't turn around" STRANGER IN THE HOUSE aud (0:46): "but I thought you'd also have those young girl's eyes" rhino (0:25): "but I thought you'd always have those young girl's eyes" aud (3:20): "there's a stranger in the house no one will ever see, but everybody says he's taken my place" rhino (2:56): "there's a stranger in the house, nobody's seen his face, but everybody says he's taken my place" PSYCHO aud: "This song was written by a gentleman called Jack Kittell." rhino: "A man called Jack Kittell wrote this song." (There's no real point in comparing the vocal performances on this song, since EC obviously re-recorded his vocal in the studio for the official release. Nevertheless, there are enough subtle differences in the instrumental track — including the different drumming at the end — to conclude that these are different performances.) IF I COULD PUT THEM ALL TOGETHER (I'D HAVE YOU) aud (0:57): "oh" rhino (0:57): "oh yeah" MOTEL MATCHES aud: "We're going to do a new song of mine now. It's called 'Motel Matches.'" rhino: "This is a new song of mine." aud (0:20): "antlers(?) crawling 'round your door" (he probably doesn't actually say "antlers") rhino (0:15): "someone's crawling 'round your door" aud (1:04): "I can remember thinking" rhino (0:56): "I remember thinking" HE'LL HAVE TO GO aud: EC stops singing the first line and restarts: "Put your sweet lips a little closer, put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone" GIRLS TALK aud (1:29): "ooh, girls talk!" rhino (1:28): "oh, oh" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ; wholefile md5 checksum file generated by Trader's Little Helper ; generated on November 9, 2008, at 03:15:29 e3aed6e5e589106c9a7d85ec372ec7e1 *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-01- intro.flac e07508f86ff32d8d58b4b0459432ca4a *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-02- Big Boys.flac 49dc6a83727ad240a6d26e55dd4837f9 *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-03- Hand in Hand.flac 82939d8db2e9088638e269bce6eb65d4 *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-04- Opportunity.flac e9854fd853d3fd31d58bd7f42c815f6b *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-05- Accidents Will Happen.flac 412661d54c949fb735fe5f433533208b *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-06- Goon Squad.flac 14535d9beb640a1e20d933b752351ffe *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-07- Two Little Hitlers.flac 3ee6c4c525ba408594220ae68532b7de *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-08- The Beat.flac 5dc79fb744a6b9600a4fdef63f9994c2 *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-09- Green Shirt.flac ed55ac2c1a07abf969c4b0348059a84d *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-10- I Stand Accused.flac 304c30fd3081e971ef022bb5588f0a6d *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-11- Radio, Radio.flac 496e1de3d2c9b9054c24c083297b6522 *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-12- Stranger In The House.flac 5b928fa0998c37a1d7e11657fc355171 *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-13- Psycho.flac 61cbfa928cfa14d474275efc8e84c08d *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-14- If I Could Put Them All.flac 3e6c0400e513eeef644e7fd6f5794190 *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-15- Motel Matches.flac 0836250788851acd9227cfbcee741189 *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-16- He_ll Have to Go.flac 85911c132c849e47c3edfe11846b05a3 *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-17- Girls Talk.flac 01148d05c0c2f05140bd640dbb24c9d0 *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-18- Alison.flac b7d2c6b8cf3067c1617ef6afa53451d1 *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-19- Red Shoes.flac 60040b50bd7b41641eec3d74ae24a20e *EC-19790216 North Hollywood-20- Mystery Dance.flac ; 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