THE J. GEILS BAND
Saturday, 20 February 1982
Madison Square Garden
4 Pennsylvania Plaza
New York, New York 10001
USA
FLAC master, 20 May 2020, by elegymart:
Analog audience recording (stereo) {recorded by Gene Poole and friends}: unknown mics > Sony WM-D6 Walkman cassette recorder > 1980-82 US Maxell UDXLII C90 (Type II CrO2) analog audio cassette master {from the Gene Poole collection} > Sony TC-WE435 (azimuth adjustment) > Roland R05 (24/96) > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 (audio cleanup, convert to 16/44) > SHNtool (fixed SBE) > CD Wave (track splits) > TLH (WAV > FLAC8).
Created this text file.
Total running time [1:23:30]
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01 audience [1:27]
02 Jus' Can't Stop Me [3:45] >
03 Just Can't Wait [3:30] >
04 Come Back [6:14]
05 Till the Walls Come Tumblin' Down [3:37] >
06 Sanctuary [3:52] >
07 Night Time [5:07]
08 Freeze-Frame [4:38]
09 Piss on the Wall [4:48] >
10 Hard Drivin' Man [4:05]
11 River Blindness [6:45]
12 Teresa [4:09]
13 Detroit Breakdown [7:09]
14 Must of Got Lost [11:16] >
15 Love Stinks [3:12] >
16 Looking for a Love [5:05]
17 Whammer Jammer [3:24] >
18 (Ain't Nothin' But a) House Party [1:18]
Band line-up:
Peter Wolf - lead vocals
J. Geils - guitar
Magic Dick - harmonica, saxophone
Seth Justman - keyboards, Hammond organ, backing vocals
Danny Klein - bass
Stephen Bladd - drums
Notes:
THE GENE POOLE COLLECTION VOL. 112
Here's the latest installment of the Gene Poole Collection, a random wellspring of recordings which have recently surfaced. To paraphrase Lou: This is gonna go on for a while, so we should get used to each other, settle back, pull up your cushions, whatever else you have with you that makes life bearable in what has already been the start of trying decade...
Some of Gene's handiwork has probably been heard by your very ears before, for the most part via the Stonecutter Archives, but this is the first major unearthing of tapes direct from the legend himself. As promising as that may seem, it's best to let the surprises hit as they are shared. The trade-off to the prolific taping on Gene's part is that the expectations for a perfect track record would be unrealistic and unfair. There will be instances of incomplete recordings, caused by late arrivals to gigs, recorder and mic malfunctions, and other assorted foibles as would befall any mortal taper. There will be times where a master from another source exists which could be superior. For the most part, Gene recorded with a variety of mics and recorders, and many shows suffered from wire dropouts, so that only one channel was extant in the capture. Due warning about the past imperfect given and out of the way, credit should be given where due as well -- for many shows thought lost forever, it's exciting to discover that many of these even in incomplete form have now cropped up.
The transfers, the audio fixes, and the research all have required some lead time -- many tapes had scant info (sometimes just the name of the artist/band, with no date listed for the performance). Needless to say, gear documentation is virtually nil -- if we wait around for that precise detail to be forthcoming, nothing from the collection would probably see the light of day.
We had some unfinished business at Madison Square Garden from Vol. 25, so we head back there now for the first hour and a half or so of the headlining J. Geils Band set. George Thorogood and the Destroyers opened.
As we know from that opening set, the recording deck identified on tape was the D6 and that clear stereo imaging from the Thorogood set is present here as well, really picking up that sweet thick sound of the Garden perfectly. Carrying forth part of the notes from the opening set, this show was on the occasion of J. Geils' 36th birthday (RIP). "Centerfold" was in its third week on the Billboard charts as the #1 hit single at this time.
As dimer isotope noted a few months back, this set musta got lost, but now it's partially found. As for the remainder, the tape cuts off about a minute into "House Party" so we're missing the final four songs and the chair stunt. Maybe one day we'll find the rest of it. Lookin' here and there, searching everywhere, but for now this is the extent of the house cleaning we can muster.
Enjoy,
elegymart
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