Stephen Stills
University Of Kentucky
Memorial Coliseum
Lexington, KY
March 2, 1974
(swittich Master Series Volume 4)

Maria Muldaur opened

Recording: Unknown Panasonic Cassette Deck with external mic

Transfer: Master Tape > Nakamichi DR-01 (azimuth adjusted) > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity > iZotope RX 8 / ozone 9 (mastered) > xACT 2.50 > FLAC

01 Love The One You're With
02 Wooden Ships
03 My Favorite Changes
04 Rocky Mountain Way
05 Special Care
06 Change Partners
07 Know You Got to Run
08 Cross Roads Blues > You Can't Catch Me
09 Blackbird
10 4 + 20
11 Word Game
12 Band Introductions Jam
13 In My Way
14 Four Days Gone
15 New Mama
16 Black Queen
17 Bluebird
18 49 Bye-Byes >
19 Percussion Solo
20 For What It's Worth

Known Faults:
-None

I am very excited to kick off a new mini-series of historic master recordings from dime member swittich.

Swittich taped 13 shows in 1973-1974 in the Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia area, four have been previously released from straight transfers and the balance are uncirculated. In the past collectors offering to transfer shows wanted to pick and choose specific shows, of course, we will be releasing every show...no tape left behind.

Volume 4 in our series is another very exciting find and we wanted to get it out now just in case the worst case scenario happens and we lose TTD.

For the first time directly from Scott's master tape, we get a complete 1974 Stephen Stills performance from Lexington, Kentucky.

I asked Scott for any memories of this show and he relayed the following:

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If I remember correctly, the sound quality of the solo Stills recording isn't very good. I hope I'm proven to be wrong. I think this is the show where Stills performed his acoustic set so quietly you could barely hear him. (I saw Stills solo twice within a year or so, and I might be thinking about the other show, which I didn't record.) People were yelling "Louder", but Stills just continued to play very quietly. He said we would be able to hear him if we stopped yelling, not true. He seemed very obstinate.

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I don't hear the audience yelling louder so this may or may not be the show Scott mentions though after "Blackbird" Stills does admonish the audience for talking, a fairly polite admonishment for Stills, telling them "...these soft songs, this place is like...this place is really severe...and everything, everybody rapping out there I can barely hear myself." I would bet this was a fairly common occurence for Stills playing arenas with an extended acoustic set during this tour.

Quality is limited by the recording equipment of the era combined with Scott not being as close to the stage as some of our previous releases. The acoustic section can be challenging at times, some tunes come through better than others. The electric portions do have some reverb due to the venue and location but, they are quite listenable. Bottom line, complete 1974 Stills shows are far and few between so I am thankful Scott was on hand to capture the evening and tapped me to help get is rare work out. This may not be one that stays in the playlist but if you are a Stills fan it is very welcome indeed.

Thanks to swittich for reaching out for assistance in getting these historic shows out, the tapes have been safely stored and so far so good on the transfers.

On the honor roll for this release is Goody, our resident pitch master, this one sure needed his help.

Artwork is included.

mjk5510

01 Doobie Brothers 1973-12-06 Louisville, KY
02 The Band 1974-08-31 Cleveland, OH
03 Emerson, Lake & Palmer 1973-11-23 Charleston, WV
04 Stephen Stills 1074-03-02 Lexington, KY

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