Identifier | 8522311 |
Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
Media Count | 1 |
Note | Geetarz Comments:
This is a legendary Dominos show, and a personal favorite. Some older reference guides inexplicably refer to this as a soundboard, but it's clearly a marginal to average recording. Luckily a fantastic performance makes for any drawbacks of the source material. "Ramblin" features some of EC's best ever slide playing. EC can at times play slide a little too precisely - but in this performance, he exhibits loopy, "out of the box" playing that clearly shows Duane Allman's influence as he dances around all the notes. I don't recall EC performing "Ramblin'" in this arrangement again, which alone makes it unique. This performance is also notable for an incredible, mind bending, tour-de-force performance of "Why does Love...", which is in my Not-So-Humble opinion, not only the finest performance of this song of all time, but has to be one of EC's top performances of any song, ever. If I were making a list of the "Top 25 songs EC ever played" or something like that, this song would be on that list. And it's not just EC here. If you listen to some of the very early gigs, the band were a little loose, but here they play as a single organism, rising and falling, playing off each other for all they are worth. "Why Does..." has always had a demanding and unusual bass line, and Gordon holds it down, driving the song in the same way that Entwhistle would actually drive the rhythm of The Who as Moon, or in this case Jim Gordon, lays out some 15+ minutes of drum madness, and Bobby Whitlock holding it all together with a shimmering B3 and his incredible vocals. This performance of this song is indeed "epic", and unforgettable. This show also features the first-ever live performance of "Motherless Children", albeit in raw form, which in a way adds to its charm. Up until 2000, the best extant version was the one best identified by its length, 73:08. In mid-2000, a new version was discovered, which was labeled "1st Generation Audience Source". One way to identify this source, is that it clocks in at 72:54, whereas the inferior source clocks in at 73:08, with the additonal time on the inferior source being extra space on the tape where it was copied along the way. Sonically, this is a vast improvement over the 73:08 version, I'd say at least 2, perhaps as many as 4 generations' improvement. It goes without saying that this is also a real improvement over the commercial RoIO "Electric Factory" CD (Deep-6, Deep6-5). In the years since 2000, this low gen recording has been traded a bit, first among a circle of the pretty serious collectors and then likely used as the source for some of the tweaked and remastered versions later released on various ROIO labels. |
Source Info | "1st Gen Aud Source" > CD-R > LiteOn iHAP 322 > EAC v. 0.99 Prebeta 5 (Secure Mode, Offset Correct +6, 0, 24 bytes) > FLAC |
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Performance
Derek & The Dominos 1970-10-16 Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA | |
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Set 1 | Ramblin' On My Mind Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad Blues Power > Have You Ever Loved A Woman Mean Old World Motherless Children Let It Rain |
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