Blues Traveler

Blues Band
"Blues In My Soul" demo
1985

Analog to digital conversion:
Demo cassette>Onkyo TA-6711>D8
by Dave Mallick [greenone@bluestraveler.net]

SHNs were made:
Egosys Waveterminal U2A>SoundEdit 16 [boost levels, remove hiss]>WAV>SHN

Disc one:

1. And So It Goe
2. Severe Infatuation
3. When It Hits You
4. Glory, Glory
5. Blues In My Soul

Blues Band is:
John Popper - harmonica & vocals
Dave Stern - guitar
Brendan Hill - drums
Sebastian Hill - bass

Blues Band"Blues In My Soul" demo, early 1985Princeton, NJConversion:Original cassette>Onkyo TA-6711>DA-20 (analog/digital conversion)>Egosys U2A>Sound Studio 2.1.1b3>xACT 1.55by Dave Mallick; original cassette provided by Hisham ElShakhs(minutes:seconds.frames) [25:25.55]01. And So It Goes       [07:58.07]02. Severe Infatuation   [03:04.31]03. When It Hits You     [02:37.18]04. Glory, Glory         [04:34.34]05. Blues In My Soul     [07:11.40]Blues Band is:John Popper - harmonica & vocalsDave Stern - guitarBrendan Hill - drumsSebastian Hill - bassHistory:This is the earliest known demo tape featuring members of who wouldeventually become Blues Traveler. John and Brendan had met in school in late 1983 and began to jam together at Brendan's house. After recruiting Brendan's brother Sebastian as a bassist and a few gigs together as "The Establishment", the original guitarist left. Enterguitarist Dave Stern, and a name change to "Blues Band".This demo was likely recorded sometime in early 1985, prior to Sebastian's graduation from Princeton High School later that year. Itfeatures the only known recordings of "When It Hits You" and the titletrack, "Blues In My Soul", studio or otherwise. Blues Band would go onto record one more demo - entitled simply "Jamdemo" - before changingbassists and guitarists one more time and becoming "Blues Traveler".Notes:In 2001, an auction popped up on eBay with an old classmate selling this demo and the 1988 "Let's Travel" demo; after bidding against each other for a few days, another fan and I decided to declare a truce and split the goods but make copies for each other. We won, he chose the "Let's Travel" demo, and I got this one, which I promptly did a prettypoor transfer of. This re-transfer used my DA-20 as an A/D converter aswell as newly-cleaned heads on the Onkyo cassette deck, so it shouldsound a bit better, though the original cassette is over 20 years oldand pretty hissy on any deck.Thanks to Hisham for being willing to part with a high-school memory,and to Ken for helping me blow an embarrassing sum of money on twodecrepit cassettes whose combined age exceeds my own...

SHNID	Date	Venue	City	State
3520	1985-??-??	Unknown	Princeton	NJ
Original cassette>DAT>WAV>SHN
33668	1985-??-??	Unknown	Princeton	NJ
Conversion: Original cassette>Onkyo TA-6711>DA-20 (analog/digital conversion)> Egosys U2A>Sound Studio 2.1.1b3>xACT 1.55 by Dave Mallick; original cassette provided by Hisham ElShakhs

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