Identifier9392208
Created AtTue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Media TypeFLAC
Media Count1
Sound RatingA
NoteTransfer: DAT>Tascam DA-20mkII > coax > Delta Dio 2496 > Wavelab 4.0a (@ 24/48)
Mastering: Wavelab 4.0a > X-Noise (23.1 dB threshold & 85% reduction) + Waves L1-Ultramaximzer (-1 dB left channel + 4 dB threshold increase) > conversion to 16/44.1 > WAV > FLAC

Track 1 begins muddy and indistinct, but improves quickly.

Source Notes:

Broadcast on KSAN. This recording came to me dated "??-??-73." It contains songs that appear on the 1975 album Home Plate and the band here also played on 1977's Sweet Forgiveness, so 1973 is almost certainly wrong.

There are several hints about the correct date. Bonnie Raitt says that Taj Mahal is played at the Boarding House (also in San Francisco) that night and that Chris Smither played at the same venue, which is "my favorite club," about one year ago in February. Unfortunately, neither of those hints has helped me to find a definative date. Bonnie Raitt also says that "We just got off the road, we've been on the road since March 15, and, uh, went to England, had a [great?] time . . . and then spent the last 10 days w/ Little Feat, down through the Southeast . . . ." Finally, at the end of track 9, Bonnie Raitt mentions that there are other fans waiting outside to get into the venue, which suggests that this is an early show and that there was a second performance that night.

According to the liner notes on a Bonnie Raitt bootleg called "Collections" owned by a collector in Europe, this was recorded on 05.24.76 at the Great American Music Hall and broadcast on 05.26.76, (That bootleg contains two songs that are missing from this source: Women Be Wise and You Got To Know How.) So, that's how I've dated this performance. If anyone knows for sure, please let the world know, too.

Mastering Notes:

The original DAT was quite noisy, though not really hissy like an analog tape. There are, here and there, tiny pops and ticks that sound very much like an LP playback, including a few rough boundaries where the recording tape started and stopped. There is also some distortion in the right channel at certain frequencies (check out the piano at the begining of My First Night Without You). None of this is very serious compared to the overall quality of the recording.

I believe that this is an LP > DAT or something similar, and the background noise is a line noise added by the stereo equipment. Whatever it was, I removed it using the X-noise plugin, which required relatively a lot of reduction (23.1 dB threshold, 85% reduction). As for pops and ticks, none of them are loud and you won't notice them unless you're listening to the spaces between songs.

The left channel was on average 3 dB louder than the right. I used the Waves L1-Ultramaximzer to balance the channels and increase headroom by 4 dB.


Source InfoFM Broadcast >LP >DAT
Traded FromBob
Trades Allowed
Performance
Bonnie Raitt 1976-05-24 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
Set 1Sweet Home Kokomo
Love Me Like A Man
Run Like A Thief
Thank You
Give It Up Or Let Me Go*
Sugar Mama
Good Enough
Walk Out The Front Door
My First Night Alone Without You
What Do You Want The Boy To Do?
Encore
Under the Falling Sky

Also played: Women Be Wise, You Got To Know How
Set 2
Set 3
Comment* w/ Freebo on Tuba
This performance was broadcast on KSAN. The broadcast date seems to have been 5/26/76, and this show may also have been played that night.
Jef Labes - Piano
Will McFarlane - Guitar
Dennis Whitted - Drums
Freebo - Bass & Tuba
Beginning track 7:
Peter Bonnetta
Roosevelt Sykes