Next up: 2400 ft. “Professional quality” Realistic tape, i.e., Radio Shack, with no reel number or date, but under “subject” it says “ROLLING STONES FM\/LIVE.”<\/p>\n
You’ve probably already guessed — yes, it’s the King Biscuit Flower Hour again. A 90-minute one, actually — the regular show and a follow-on interview with Mick Jagger.<\/p>\n
I’ve identified it as an October 1973 concert that KBFH used at least four times, in ’74, ’75, and the ’80s. The interview wasn’t included on the bootlegs that are my best reference source, so I can’t place it. The interviewers are Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore, though.<\/p>\n
I recorded this in either ’74 or ’75, but I don’t know which.<\/p>\n
I screwed up the beginning when I was recording it, so after a few minutes of lousy, impossibly-low-volume music there’s my voice saying, “Oh, shit,” and then a click as it switches from microphone to line feed. And despite what Bill Minken of KBFH says, it’s not really ninety minutes; after about 88 minutes there’s a little dead air, then the WYDD DJ comes on and says, “They told me it was ninety minutes!”<\/p>\n
As an interview, the interview is worthless; it’s Jagger and some others screwing around, with questions like, “So this second track — it came after the first, did it?”<\/p>\n
Still, there’s a moderate amount of good music in there, and some of the interview is actually funny.<\/p>\n
I didn’t try salvaging the opening. I missed “Gimme Shelter,” and have catalogued the rest as starting with Track 2, rather than 1.<\/p>\n
And a 2400-ft. tape at normal speed is over two hours long per side, so what’s on the rest?<\/p>\n
Well, a few minutes of WYDD, with “Mr. Bojangles” by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and another song or three I don’t remember right now.<\/p>\n
After that I turned off WYDD, and from that point on there’s nothing I want to keep. First comes “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” and “Within You Without You” played at 7.5 IPS, and then it’s back to 3.75 IPS for the very end of the tape and all of Side 2, where we find the rest of Side 2 of Sgt. Pepper, followed by the Vanilla Fudge album “The Beat Goes On,” then “The Mason Williams Listening Matter,” and finally “Early Steppenwolf.”<\/p>\n
All of which are already in my collection, and in much better quality.<\/p>\n
So I just needed to clean up and edit to MP3 the Stones stuff and maybe a couple of those songs off WYDD, and I’m done.<\/p>\n
There were four songs from WYDD. “Mr. Bojangles” was first, and it’s not the hit single, it’s a live version. Definitely worth saving.<\/p>\n
After that, though, we have an Eric Clapton song, Seals & Crofts, and Loggins & Messina, none of them very good. I don’t know why the DJ thought that would be a good set to play after the Stones, but I’ve saved them all anyway, as a “various artists” album entitled WYDD, because the crossfades made it hard to split them up cleanly.<\/p>\n
All done now.<\/p>\n
Thirty-four left. Next up: The Blank Box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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