Official Audience Tapes

The JEMS transfers of the Hopkins masters are as good as it gets for the Boston run, and likely good as it will ever get.  Unless of course "official" audience versions of those shows surface or we learn that those shows were mysteriously recorded via mobile truck.  Given the legal chaos at the time, doubtful that happened.  I wonder if the lawsuit impacted professional recording of shows during that period.  Anyone know if audio from the Thrill Hill vault stuff on the Darkness box was multitrack or just straight mixing deck? 

That's beyond my pay grade...

Not quite sure which material you are referring to. All the unreleased audio on the Darkness box was multi-track. And the video material shot in the studio has been synced to the multi-tracks. Some of the live vault stuff is not.

Also, I'm working to get our DATs of these "official audies" pulled from the vaults and we will review (and potentially release) more formally in the coming months.

Something else to look forward to, thanks.

I was referring to something in the night from red bank. Wondering if that was a multi track audio source.  Was curious if the litigation impacted his ability to record live or was it just a studio issue

From what I remember reading, I believe it was just the studio he was restrained from because he was contracted to Appel's Company, Laurel Canyon, for the studio work.  That's why they were still able to tour.  I'm guessing they could have taped anyway they wanted to as long as they didn't try to produce it.

Makes sense that it was a studio issue.   

OK, finally able to circle back on this. I can confirm the four "known" '77 recordings made with mics at the sound desk are:

 

Richfield, OH Feb 17

Milwaukee Feb 22

St. Louis Feb 28

Townson, MD March 13

 

these four tapes all came to JEMS from the same source and are marked "stage mics."

 

A further search of the JEMS vault revealed one additional recording also marked stage mics from another source, and that's New Haven, March 18. It is missing the first two songs and is presumably the second source noted on Brucebase as excellent quality and "most likely recorded by Bruce's sound crew."

 

Transfers are forthcoming and we'll dig into this project soon along with a few other '77 tapes.

 

 

 

Looking forward to it as usual.

i can't wait. thanks as usual for your work JEMS

AWESOME! Thanks so much guys.

1977 is one helluva tour, can't wait to hear those recordings.

Thanks for all you've shared with us JEMS.

 

I'm going to take buckshot's re-post as an implied question as to the status of this project. The good news is work is underway and we will likely post six and possibly more '77 shows, including the four "original" official audience tapes noted above. Richfield will come first and it is the most problematic tape, as there's a large chunk of the show missing that has to be filled in from an inferior source. But it is still a worthwhile listen and other shows are quite nice indeed.

So the "a few other '77 tapes" are the JEMS masters from Toronto and Detroit?

I'm must confess. I'm still lost on the Jacksonville recording. Does anyone have a clue as to it's provenance? It has been around forever right?

New Haven and Binghamton almost certainly. Binghamton is a first gen of the familiar tape. New Haven is likely the source alluded to on Brucebase as another official audience tape. It starts in Spirit in the Night but is excellent quality on par with Milwaukee.

 

Fresh transfers still need to be done for Detroit and Toronto, but I would hope the series would spur those to inclusion as well.

 

As for Jacksonville, no, I have no idea. To your point it has "always been around" though is it possible its a John Tsalikes (sp?) tape?

That was my understanding.  Jax came from John T.