Live Music Podcast n°27 : The Who - Pinball Wizard (1969)

J’ai bien conscience qu’on est au 21ème siècle, que la technologie aidant, on a accès à de la musique en qualité parfaite (soit dit en passant, les morceaux sur Deezer, c’est pas ça…), mais voyez-vous, cette fameuse soirée de mai 1969 le Monsieur qui a enregistré le concert avait oublié son MiniDisc.

Bref, voici un petit morceau des Who, en concert au Meryweather Post Pavillon of Music. Et vous avez vu qui jouait le même soir ??? Mon Led Zep, oui madame ! (je vous mets la totale de l’historique de la cassette en info ci-dessous). Dommage que le mec qui a enregistré n’ait pas été plus fan de Led Zep, on aurait peut-être eu droit à un peu plus que la fin de WLL…

Pinball Wizard, en enregistrement Audience, à partir du transfert d’une cassette de 1ère génération. Au casque, ça se laisse bien écouter.

The Who, Led Zeppelin
Merriweather Post Pavillion, Columbia Md
May 25, 1969

recording info:
unknown mic > unknown recorder
masters were 2 x 60 minute tapes
pauses/stops present between some tracks

lineage:
maxell xl-II gen 1 cassette obtained in ~ 1991

transfer:
nakamichi rx505 > kindkables rca/xlr > apogee mini me @ 24bit/48kHz > kindkables coax > mt24/96>wav

processing:
wav>adobe audition (fades, normalize) > cdwav (tracking) > trader’s little helper>flac level 8

these are 24bit/48kHz flac files

led zeppelin
01. whole lotta love

the who
01. heaven and hell
02. i can’t explain
03. fortune teller
04. tattoo
05. it’s a boy
06. 1921
07. amazing journey
08. sparks
09. eyesight to the blind
10. christmas
11. the acid queen
12. pinball wizard
13. do you think it’s alright?
14. fiddle about
15. there’s a doctor
16. go to the mirror
17. smash the mirror
18. i’m free
19. tommy’s holiday camp
20. we’re not going to take it
21. shakin’ all over
22. summertime blues
23. magic bus

a tape trading friend had access to the masters in the early 1990’s and ran both himself & me a gen1 cassette off the masters. not a perfect master by any means, being littered with assorted tape pauses, microphone bumps, off balance imaging, and the bands themselves ‘coloring out of the lines’ a bit at times. the tape pauses were left intact, which leaves the occasional tape speed change @ the pause point. im far from the person who has the ability to correct those speed changes, although they are less than 1 second long each. for the life of me i cant find my specific notes, which included
if it was a cassette or reel 2 reel master tape. my hunch (& lack of memory) leads me to think they were cassettes. note the tapers’ “no no!!!” right @ the end of ‘magic bus’ when the tape runs out. no idea why only ‘whole lotta love’ was recorded from the zeppelin set. perhaps (& obviously) they just didnt bring enough tape to record both bands, &
chose to just capture a taste of the opener, which is one of the earliest known live versions of ‘whole lotta love’. on a positive note, the atmosphere is captured nicely and there isnt too much clapping or other audience distractions during the tape. the who’s set tracked out to the best of my ability.

enjoy!

transfer & processing by ‘ellaguru’
on march 30, 2008

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