TORRENT TITLE
Snakefinger - 1983-12-07 Milan, Italy
ARTIST NAME
Snakefinger
BOOTLEG TITLE
N/A
VENUE, CITY, COUNTRY, DATE
Milan, Italy 1983-12-07
TRACK LISTING
DISC 1 (73:40)
HISTORY OF THE BLUES PT. 1
01 Creeper's Blues (FURRY LEWIS) (END)......(1:57)
02 I Will Turn Your Money Green (FURRY
LEWIS)..............................(2:01)
03 Preachin' Blues (ROBERT JOHNSON).........(2:18)
04 Diamonds At Her Feet (MUDDY WATERS)......(2:35)
05 Crawling King Snake (JOHN LEE HOOKER)....(2:58)
HISTORY OF THE BLUES PT. 2
06 PART 2 WARM UP...........................(1:17)
07 She Walks Right In (?!?) (?!?)...........(4:42)
08 36-22-36 (BOBBY BLUE BLAND)..............(2:24)
09 These Kind Of Blues (JUNIOR PARKER)......(3:47)
10 Cryin For My Baby (JUNIOR PARKER)........(2:54)
11 I Can't Be Satisfied (MUDDY WATERS)......(2:36)
12 UNKNOWN TITLE (?!?) (?!?)................(3:17)
13 UNKNOWN TITLE OR PIANO SOLO (?!?) (?!?)..(2:06)
14 Go Back 10 Years (?!?) (BUDDY GUY).......(5:55)
15 Everyday I Have The Blues (ELMORE JAMES)
(END)...............................(2:54)
16 You Upset Me (B.B. KING).................(2:45)
17 The Stumble (FREDDY KING)................(2:48)
18 I'm Tore Down (FREDDY KING)..............(2:33)
19 Crosscut Saw (ALBERT KING)...............(2:43)
20 Natural Ball (ALBERT KING)...............(4:31)
ENCORE
21 It Hurts Me Too (ELMORE JAMES)...........(4:06)
22 Stolen Moments (OLIVER NELSON)...........(7:54)
23 Days Of Old (B.B. KING)..................(2:26)
(Song) (ORIGINALLY RECORDED BY)
LINE UP
Snakefinger - guitar, vocal, harmonica, piano
Joshua Ende - baritone
Stephen Mackay - tenor
Richard Marriot - trumpet, trombone, tenor
Raoul N. Diseimbote - piano
Jonny B. Ryan - drums
Michael (aka Miguel) Bertel - guitar
Eric Drew Feldman - bass
(this per the LP that would come out the next year)
SOURCE / LINEAGE
Stereo SBD trade tape
Trade tape > Computer WAV > TLH v2.4.1 > FLAC 8 > DIME > you
Big thanks to the original taper, and to the trader (Gregg) who hooked me up with a copy.
I originally mastered this 2009-07-18.
The left channel was up higher than the right, so I dubbed this down at a 38-to-46 ratio to try to rebalance things a bit.
Beyond that, the only thing I did on the computer was place track marks before each piece.
This FLAC fileset comes from WAVs from this dub, which only needed SBE corrections in TLH; no CD-Rs or EACs.
NOTES
The venue for the show was not noted on the tape I got.
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By ear, I had always thought this was mono, tho it IS stereo; the distant clapping indicates a soundboard tape.
But it is kinda WEIRD sounding for a board tape, like perhaps it was recorded on a type I tape - clear sounding in general, but lacks highs.
The tape source sound seems to change a bit after track 12, like there was an edit there (tho I cannot "see" it on the computer).
I put a break point there at that spot.
My source tape had Natural Ball on side 1 and 2 with some intentional overlap, and I sealmessly stitched the two parts together.
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The "Snakefinger's History Of The Blues, Pts. 1 & 2" tour was a total change-up.
He felt it was time for some "music from the heart", as a contrast to the disco and electronic music of the day.
The show was literally a step through time, from the roots of blues on up through to the sixties.
NONE of the tunes from his usual repertoire are present here - it's all blues.
As I understand it, "Pt. 1" was just Snakefinger on guitar or piano; "Pt. 2" was with a full band.
This show had a brief "Pt. 1" set & a nice long "Pt. 2".
If you're familiar with the official LP from this tour, you can see there's many other tunes here that couldn't fit on one LP.
And so you're probably in for a fine, fine listening session indeed.
This is the one show I have from this tour which WASN'T a venue used for the official LP, so it did not need any removals / you get it all straight up.
Snakey certainly wasn't an original bluesman, but you sure can tell he had it in his heart.
And this was a great performance.
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Crank it up and ENJOY! it as I have, and share it so others can hear it.
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Filenames have numbers on the end that are the TIMES (ex. - "...-359" is 3min59sec long).
Some filenames have "QMEXQM" in the name, as "?!?" isn't allowed in names.
I mark the start of tracks when the music or count-in begins, not the talking about it before it starts.
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The usual schmack applies here:
Please don't post this anywhere but DIME.
Please retain this original info file data with any reseedings.
Please don't transfer to MP3 or other lossy formats.
Please only trade this with others, don't sell it.
Please support the artists involved by purchasing their official product in massive quantities.