Little Feat
Back At The Keswick (bootleg title)
Prestage (PRE009)
Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA 11/18/1998

Disc 1

1. One Clear Moment
2. Honest Man
3. Callin' The Children Home
4. Fallin' Through The Worlds
5. Loco Motives
6. Cold Cold Cold
7. Shake Me Up
8. Lafayette Railroad
9. Dixie Chicken > Gringo > Dixie Chicken

Disc 2

1. Voices On The Wind
2. High Roller
3. Under The Radar
4. Home Ground
5. The Blues Don't Tell It All
6. Let It Roll
7. Old Folks Boogie
8. Fat Man In The Bathtub

[from the booklet]

The original tapes used for this gig were secured in January 1999, along
with many other tapes of Little Feat and similar bands, from a tape
collector who was returning States side after being on overseas secondment
for the company he worked for. He apparently had transferred his entire
collection to minidisc / CDR prior to relocating back himself and no longer
had any need of the tapes and had effectively swapped the entire collection
for some local artwork at a weekend market. Luckily for us (and you), we
heard of this transaction and eventually obtained access to the tapes.

The Keswick Theatre tapes were recorded from the sound board and we
estimate that the recordings you are listening to are probably no more than
one or two DAT generations down from the master. (A word to the wise, for
any DAT traders out there, just because you are trading / copying DATs does
not mean that you are not introducing "noise" into the recordings each time
you make a copy. The two DATs which we obtained this gig on had definite
evidence of two, possibly even three, distinct "noise levels", due to poor
connecting cables used in the copying, as well as a huge D.C. (varying)
offset, which was, to put it bluntly, damn hard to clean up. In short,
please take care of your equipment and take pride in the copies you make
for others.)

After the tapes were cleaned of the majority of the "noise" (microphone
noise was left on the tape, as this is part of the "live experience"), they
needed to be equalised. The extent of the equalisation required to get to
the stage that you now hear, showed that the sound board which the tapes
had emanated from had either some extremely weird presets or the sound
recordist had one too many joints prior to the gig. One can understand the
vocals being high up in the mix, but having the tom-toms and snare drum
15-20 dB higher than everything else seems somewhat excessive to us.

The original tapes were sourced (at bargain basement prices) by Lorraine,
who also was responsible for the cleaning, equalising & (where applicable)
the repair of the tapes. Lorraine was suitably assisted by her team at Big
L Productions.

Stay cool

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