Tom Waits
Troubadour Nightclub
West Hollywood, California
August 16, 1975

KMET Saturday Night At The Concert Hour


(missing the instrumental introduction)
01. On A Foggy Night
02. Better Off Without A Wife (2 momentary speed issues between 1:20 and 1:35 )
03. Warm Beer And Cold Women
04. Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)
05. (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night
06. Eggs And Sausage
07. San Diego Serenade
08. Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission) (spliced tape flip @ 2:11)
09. Drunk On The Moon
10. Diamonds On My Windshield >
11. Band Introductions >
12. Diamonds On My Windshield (reprise)
encore:
13. Martha
[64:46]

Michael Melbourne-keyboards
Teddy Edwards-sax
Jim Hewart-bass
Jim Gordon-drums

source:
KMET-FM > Revox A77 @ 7 1/2 ips > Revox B77 @ 7 1/2 ips (me) > Phase Linear 1000 > Sony DTC-690 (LP)

Transfer:
Sony DTC-690 > Audigy 4 Pro (via toslink) > Audacity (clean up, splice tape flip and convert to 44.1 KHz) > CD Wav > Flac (Level 8)


This is a very nice stereo radio broadcast of an early Tom Waits show.
Reception (and-or broadcast) quality is not perfect and this has an electrical hum in places and that slightly fuzzy tuned off center sound.
I had poor reception in the middle 70's (living in Tujunga, California).
There is also a momentary speed issue during Better Off Without A Wife.
Never lean over the reel-reel when you're recording (a lesson a day back then).
The tape flip was spliced @ 44:56 (2:11 of track 8) and one verse was lost.

This is from a first generation reel to reel @ 7 1/2 ips.
Transferred to a DAT tape in the middle 1990's.
I used the Phase Linear 1000 auto-correlator (mild noise reduction and dynamic expansion) during transfer to DAT.
Copied to DAT during times of financial distress (student) and I recorded this at the Long Play speed.
Audacity changed the sample rate to 44.1KHz.
A few dropouts and some intermittent electrical noises were removed during the clean up review.

Not the best sounding recording, but decent and this is from my first generation reel.
For historical reference only and not intended for resale or any commercial use.
Enjoy
-M- (April 2011)
FLYING M PRODUCTIONS

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