High Noon
1981 Studio Demos
Prairie Sun Recording, Cotati, CA

Source: Alan Bershaw's low generation cassette

Lineage: Studio Recording-> ?-> Cassette Maxell UDXL1 C-60 with Dolby B (playback on Nakamichi Dragon with Dolby B)-> Lexicon Lambda-> Logic-> wav 16/44.1 -> flac

Personnel:
Mike Hinton - electric guitar
Jim McPherson - piano, vocals
Norton Buffalo - harmonica, vocals
Merl Saunders - keyboards
Bobby Vega - electric bass
Mickey Hart - drums
Vicki Randle - congas, percussion, vocals
Steve Miller - lead vocals on "Fire On The Mountain"

1. Fire On The Mountain [4:07]
2. Mad [2:31]

Notes:
Two 1981 studio recordings of Robert Hunter/Mickey Hart compositions. They sound very similar to the original arrangements of these two songs recorded in the 1972/73 era for Mickey Hart's unissued "Area Code 415" project (AKA The Marin County Collective), but with the High Noon band personnel instead. They certainly used those much older arrangements as the blueprint for these rerecordings. "Fire On The Mountain" features Steve Miller guesting on lead vocals. "Mad" features Norton Buffalo on lead vocals.  As far as I know, these two tracks are new to digital circulation as of January 2021. - Alan Bershaw

#MD5 checksums generated by xACT 2.46 on 2021-02-02 07:50:18 -0500

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