Audience

CDR

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DVD 996; lineage: Audience recording Master Reel > CD-R", (No Label), Master Reel > CD-R > EAC > WAV > FLAC > TLH, Decode > WAV > Remaster > Flac Frontend, Level.8, Align On SBE's > Flac (All Tracks Tested With TLH, No Errors Occured)

Notes:

There really isn't any other word I can use to describe this show except "intense", I had forgotten how great this show is until I started working on it, and I really think it's one of their best.

Opening for the group at this show were Roland Kirk and Isaac Hayes (who's set was probably just as good).

It's just a shame that the show isn't just a bit longer, the show feels sort of "incomplete",(Which is part of the reason why we decided to add some bonus material on to this project).

It would've been great if they did at least one more encore, something that the band would've played during the era (like "Long Tall Sally"), or something that they really could've torn up (i.e: "Great Balls Of Fire" or "Let's Dance").

I personally think that the perfect song to conclude the show (if it had existed at the time, and if they actually liked the song) would be Teenage Head's "Some Kinda Fun".

If you do a youtube or google search for that song, you might see why I think it would've suited them, or you may not, and if you don't agree, that's cool.

I personally think that if they had played that song, they would've done it beautifully, and it woudld've tied in nicely to the whole vibe of the show.

This show is so unbelievably punk rock, there's no pomp, and hardly conversation between Plant and the audience, just music.

There's even an old Tarantura boot of the 1st tape source called "Punk!" to back up this claim.

What we've done to make this project:

This is what we've done to the Winterland tape:

- We've tried to balance the instruments as best we could.

- We've tried to bring out some of the acoustics of the venue to give the listener an experience of being in the audience.

- We've fixed some issues regarding the volume of the show, the 1st disc of material was too loud, and the 2nd disc was a little too low, so we've tried to make the volume of both discs even.

- We've reduced as much tape hiss as possible.

- We've taken out the tape cuts in the recording, and have tried to make the transitions from song to song as smooth as possible.

In regards to the title of the show, the title name just kind of hit me, I found it to be suitable to the feel of the performances, and that's why it stuck.

We had other ideas, the 2nd most popular choice was "Bay City Rollers", we thought it was suitable because San Francisco is called "The Bay City", but it didn't stick as much as our choice.

Hope everyone here will enjoy this.

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