Monday, April 20, 2015

ZZ Top - King Biscuit Flower Hour The Best Of King Biscuit ~ The Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey May 1980 (Pre-FM)

ZZ Top
King Biscuit Flower Hour - The Best Of King Biscuit
The Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey
To Be Aired On August 31, 1980
Pre-FM Recording
Vinyl Rip
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
Cue Sheet & Label Scans Included

Lineage:
ZZ Top live onstage > soundboard > multitrack recording > DIR broadcasting mixdown engineers > DIR broadcasting mastering engineers > records delivered to radio stations > the mysterious vinyl liberation front > me
Vinyl cleaned with Nagaoka roller record cleaner. Played back on Technics SL-1200 turntable with Stanton 681EEE cartridge through an Akai preamp into a SoundBlaster Live! 16 bit soundcard that has been grounded.
Wavelab 4.0 used for Digital ReMastering. Although I did use some compression techniques and De-Crackling plug-ins, in no way do they detract from the raw dynamism of the performance on stage.
Recording levels boosted and balanced, initial De-Clicker to remove most pops, stereo expansion 33%, multiband compression to re-enforce lows and air-out the highs, dynamics processing for smoothing, another De-Crackler to take out most ticks and picks, final mix compression and limiting.
Trader's Little Helper turned the wav files to FLAC level 8 files.


01 ZZ TOP KBFH Show Promo Announcer
02 ZZ TOP KBFH Show Promo Blank
03 KBFH ZZ TOP Test Tone
04 ZZ TOP KBFH Show Beginning
05 Honda Commercial
06 I Thank You
07 Waitin' For The Bus
08 Jesus Just Left Chicago
09 I'm Bad I'm Nationwide
10 Low Down In The Street
11 A Fool For Your Stockings
12 Cheap Sunglasses
13 Arrested For Driving While Blind
14 Budweiser Commercial
15 She Loves My Automobile
16 Hi Fi Mama
17 Dust My Broom
18 Jailhouse Rock
19 Tush
20 Honda Commercial 2
21 ZZ TOP KBFH Show Wrapup

Sourced From The Original Radio Broadcast LP Set

Billy Gibbons – vocals, guitar
Dusty Hill – bass, keyboards, vocals
Frank Beard – drums, percussion, backing vocals

King Biscuit billed this as ZZ Top's first radio concert (it says it on the cue sheet). ZZ Top were on tour for their 6 studio album Degüello. Degüello was the bands first release for Warner Brothers Records a relationship that continued until 1994's Antenna.


Santana - Santana III Outtakes & Rehearsals (studio)

Santana
Santana III Outtakes & Rehearsals
Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco, CA November 1970
Columbia Studios, San Francisco, CA January 24, 1971
Studio Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Bootleg CD > EAC > Flac

CD1:
01 Jungle Strut (Alternate Take) 5:07
02 Everybody's Everything (Instrumental Jam) 4:18
03 Ballin (Outtake) 6:12
04 Folsom Street (Outtake) 8:30
05 Friedneckbones & Home Fries (Outtake) 5:16
06 Guajira (Demo) 5:26
07 Tune In (Rehearsal) 3:16
08 Blues Jam 5:58
09 Everything Is Coming Our Way (Instrumental) 3:26
10 Batuka Jam (With Blues) 6:42
11 Rehearsal Jam 1 22:35

total time CD1: 1hr 16mn 49sc

CD2:
01 Rehearsal Jam 2 6:29
02 Fried Neckbones & Home Fries 6:12
03 Folsom Street (Expanded) 5:29
04 Ballin (Expanded) 6:26
05 Gumbo (Alternate Take) 4:29
06 Jungle Strut (Alternate Take 2) 5:29
07 Tousant L'Overture (Alternate Take) 4:39

total time CD2: 42mn 25sc

CD1: Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco November 1970
CD2: Columbia Studios, San Francisco, CA January 24, 1971


Neal Schon guitar
Michael Shrieve drums
David Brown bass
Carlos Santana guitar, percussion, vocals
Gregg Rolie keyboards, vocals
Jose “Chepito” Areas percussion
Michael Carabello percussion