Yojimbo's Original notes from Nov 2005:
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From FZShows:
27-Nov 1974, St Paul Auditorium, St Paul, MN
125 min, SBD, A/A-
Tush Tush Tush, Stinkfoot (q: Whipping Post), RDNZL, Village Of The Sun, Echidna's Arf, Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?, Penguin In Bondage, T'Mershi Duween, Dog Meat, Building A Girl, Dinah-Moe Humm, Camarillo Brillo, Montana, improvisations, Oh No, Son Of Orange County, More Trouble Every Day (q: Rikki Don't Lose That Number [Steely Dan])
Lineage: Master clone CDR -> EAC -> SoundForge (some re-tracking) -> FLAC Frontend
This is yet another master clone of the famous Dick Barber tapes - for the full story and more lineage info, check one of bburnett's seeds from this series. Levels are very high in places, and some clipped peaks affect the sound. Other than that, this is one of the better sounding DB tapes, from a very dynamite show.
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Notes on fixes:
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Took this and repaired the evil, unexplainable digital crap in Penguin & Duween. Hope I got them all. There were also micro-gaps around many of the track splits. Got rid of those too. Looks like tape 2 begins with Camarillo, and that's the one that had the hot transfer where the levels clipped a bit. I brought all that down about 80% to match the levels of the rest of the show. Not much we can do with about the clipping. After that, the whole thing went to flambay for a speed-check, and the last 4 tracks were speed-corrected to make up for cassette tape stretch...
1974 11 27 SBD 13 improvisations 31:37
1974 11 27 SBD 14 Oh No 01:28
1974 11 27 SBD 15 Son Of Orange County 05:09
1974 11 27 SBD 16 More Trouble Every Day 05:59
speed correction:
13 improvisation:
- {0:00-7:00} (G.Duke & FZ intro): 0 to -15cts pitch bend
- {7:00-31:14} (from G.Duke funky stuff onwards): -15cts to -30cts pitch bend
tracks 14-15-16: -30cts
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What it is is now:
27-Nov 1974, St Paul Auditorium, St Paul, MN
124:22 min, SBD, A/A-
Master Clone CDR -> EAC -> SoundForge (some re-tracking) -> FLAC Frontend -> WAV -> Soundforge 5 (speed correction) -> FLAC Frontend level 7 -> Aiff -> Sound Studio (gap removal, interpolate filter for fixes & more re-tracking) -> xACT (SBE align & Flac level 5)
That's not the EXACT lineage, since flambay only worked on the last 4 tracks, but it is damn close.
This isn't the final for this date, but I think the final for this rip.
jaypfunk will eventually get time to get to his 3rd gen Cassette, and I think that will be better, but may also need to go through the same speed-CXing that this one did. So for now, this is it.
I couldn't find the tape flip anywhere, but there a few sort of obvious patches and a few drop outs from damaged tape. Nothing to really complain about. I'm sure you will find them if you look. Possibly there were 2 reels running, so there could be overlap during the reel change? I did remove a few seconds of overlap around the disc change so there are no repeats.
If you want to burn to discs, there's a music break between Dog Meat & Dinah-Moe, so split there. If you are all kinds of Perfectionist about your discs, there are some short fade tracks labeled "AS END OF DISC" & "AS BEGINNING OF DISC" tracks in the Extras Folder
Final time on this is 124:22
Disc One (55:34)
1974 11 27 SBD 01 Tush Tush Tush 03:28
1974 11 27 SBD 02 Stinkfoot 06:51
1974 11 27 SBD 03 RDNZL 11:59
1974 11 27 SBD 04 Village Of The Sun 05:11
1974 11 27 SBD 05 Echidna's Arf (Of You) 03:19
1974 11 27 SBD 06 Don't You Ever Wash That Thing 06:03
1974 11 27 SBD 07 Penguin In Bondage 08:16
1974 11 27 SBD 08 T'Mershi Duween 04:05
1974 11 27 SBD 09 Dog Meat 06:05
1974 11 27 SBD 10 AS END OF DISC 00:13
Disc Two (69:11)
1974 11 27 SBD 09 AS BEGINNING OF DISC 00:09
1974 11 27 SBD 10 Dinah-Moe Humm 08:41
1974 11 27 SBD 11 Camarillo Brillo 04:19
1974 11 27 SBD 12 Montana 11:45
1974 11 27 SBD 13 improvisations 31:37
1974 11 27 SBD 14 Oh No 01:28
1974 11 27 SBD 15 Son Of Orange County 05:08
1974 11 27 SBD 16 More Trouble Every Day 06:01
the Mothers of Invention tonight:
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Frank Zappa - guitar, vocals
Ruth Underwood - percussion
Napoleon Murphy Brock - tenor saxomophone, lead vocals
Chester Thompson - drums
James "Bird Legs" Youman - bass
George Duke - keyboards, vocals
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