Baez and Dylan - LK Compilation (remastered)
TRACKLIST:
DISC ONE
Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Aug 17, 1963
01 Streets of Laredo
02 Railroad Bill
03 My Good Old Man
04 Little Darlin'
05 In the Pines [aka Black Girl]
06 A City Called Heaven [aka Poor Pilgim of Sorrow]
07 Where Have All The Flowers Gone
08 Five Hundred Miles [fragment]
09 Rambler, Gambler
10 Come All Ye Fair And Tender Maidens
11 Twelve Gates To The City
12 The Lord's Prayer
13 Amazing Grace
14 Silver Dagger
15 Troubled And I Don't Know Why (w Dylan)
16 Blowin' In The Wind (w Dylan) - cut at 2:13.
Notes from LK --
The tape I've used is a very high quality stereo PA tape. I've included the rest of the Baez set (14 songs)
as it sets the scene nicely and this full show is probably quite rare.
DISC TWO
Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Aug 8, 1964
01 Mama, You Been On My Mind
02 It Ain't Me, Babe
03 With God On Our Side
Notes from LK --
Tracks 1-3 are from the fairly poor audience tape, but here presented in 'as good as it gets' quality. I've carefully
removed the hiss, but there is is no disguising the over-recording on the original tape and the fairly turgid
performances.
Philharmonic Hall, NYC, Oct 31, 1964:
04 Mama, You Been On My Mind
05 Silver Dagger
06 With God On Our Side
07 It Ain't Me, Babe
Notes from LK --
Tracks 4-7 are from a very rare audience tape. The reason I've opted for a poor quality audience tape instead of the PA
tape is simply 'Silver Dagger'. This the only place you can hear Dylan's two harmonica spots during Silver Dagger.
There is a fragment of Silver Dagger on the full PA tape, but it cuts before Dylan plays the harmonica. On this
audience tape Silver Dagger is complete. The quality is slightly below the quality of the audience tape for 8 Aug 64
and is presented here 'as good as it gets'.
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** REMASTERING NOTES FROM DAN Mc
DISC ONE --
A. Concatenated, then ran a speed change at -6% (linear)
B. Used a multi-filter with 5 filters:
1) de-clipper because of the over-saturation - set for 'operational amp de-clipper'- threshold 30; slope .15; strength 3.
2) Spectral filter to eliminate the in-line hum and harmonics, set at 60, 120, 180, 240 and 300 Hz
3) Channel blender set to blend to mono below 125 Hz
4) Spectral exciter, set at 1021 Hz, with attack at 25 ms & release at 100; High Freq gain set at 8dB
5) Expander set at attack 50 ms, release 58; output -16.5,ratio of 6.2
C. Re-cut the file on sector boundaries; I found the beginning of track 7 repeats audience applause
(well, it's from a different song or applause about something that was said - it's not an exact repeat,
but extra material). I deleted that portion on the sector boundary so that the result is applause at the
end of track 6, but nothing extraneous before the song of track 7. I'm not certain where it was on the original,
but it should be either at the end of track 6 or beginning of track 7.
D. Re-normalized everything.
DISC TWO --
Both of the audience files were treated in essentially the same manner:
Concatenated the files, then used the following in a multi-filter:
De-Clipper – for analog clipping
Channel Blender- blend to mono below 125 Hz
Paragraphic Equalizer – to roll off the bass and add more highs
Low Pass – below 3692Hz, with a 12 dB/octave slope
Averaging – 5 samples rolling average
Expander – to emphasize the low mids and hi mids
Paragraphic Equalizer – to round out the overall
frequency distribution
Exciter to add some of the missing highs as harmonics
Re-cut on sector boundaries.
Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Aug 8, 1964: Tracks 1-3 are from the fairly poor audience tape, but here presented in 'as good as it gets' quality.
Philharmonic Hall, NYC, Oct 31, 1964: Tracks 4-7 are from a very rare audience tape. The quality is slightly below the quality of the audience tape for 8 Aug 64 and is presented here 'as good as it gets'.