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ELECTRIC FLAG
Featuring Erma Franklin
San Francisco 1968 [TomP Remaster, 1CD]
Live at the Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, CA; April 21, 1968. Very good to excellent stereo soundboard.
This is one of those seminal recordings.
Erma Franklin is sister to the well-known Aretha. Erma’s career for Shout! Records resulted in several single releases in 1967 including Big Boss Man and her take of Piece Of My Heart, which Janis Joplin defined as her stomping ground. This recording was made when Erma took the stage at the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco for three nights in April from 19 to 21, 1968. Backing her was Mike Bloomfield’s Electric Flag, a blues rock group.
In 2008, we shared a version of this show (click here). Click here for the write-up.
In June 2015, Rockbeat Records put out a fresh bootleg of the show.
Thanks to TomP (tom_phillips) who remastered the new disc and shared the tracks at Dime.
TomP noted:
Having downloaded four or five versions of very varying sound quality, I was delighted when this great sounding bootleg appeared on Amazon. It is a legacy recording that had variations typical of those made in this era at the Carousel/Matrix/Fillmore, which were just time consuming rather than difficult, so I hope folks appreciate this great music.
Edit Details (Nero 8 unless indicated):
Secure rip (dbPoweramp)
Corrected 1000+ significant balance variations
Corrected volume variations throughout
Cross-mixed channels 98:2 ratio (tracks 01-09, 12)
Cross-mixed channels 99:1 ratio (track 13)
Phase offset correction +1 sample (tracks 10, 11)
Fixed discontinuity during track 03
Flac taggging (Tag & Rename)
Encode to flac 6 + SBE / decode check (TLH)
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Track 01. Uptight (Everything’s Alright) 3:49 (6.4MB)
Track 02. Day Tripper 3:13 (5.4MB)
Track 03. Driving Wheel 7:45 (13.0MB)
Track 04. The Theme 16:12 (27.2MB)
Track 05. Goin’ Down Slow 2:24 (4.0MB)
Track 06. Instrumental Jam 8:36 (14.5MB)
(Erma is introduced)
Track 07. Big Boss Man 3:07 (5.2MB)
Track 08. Dr Feelgood (Love is a Serious Business) 5:34 (9.3MB)
Track 09. Medley 4:04 (6.8MB)
Track 10. Piece of My Heart 3:28 (5.8MB)
Track 11. Hold On, I’m Comin 7:35 (12.7MB)
Track 12. Everyday I Have The Blues 7:09 (12.0MB)
Track 13. Killing Floor (cuts out) 5:39 (9.5MB)
79 mins
Lineup:
Erma Franklin - vocals (tracks 07-11)
Mike Bloomfield - lead guitar (tracks 01-06)
Terry Clements - tenor sax
Virgil Gonsalves - baritone sax & flute
Stemsy Hunter - alto sax
Marcus Doubleday - trumpet
Herbie Rich - organ
Harvey Brooks - bass
Nick Gravenites - guitar & vocals (track 04)
Buddy Miles - drums & lead vocals (tracks 01-03, 12 & 13)
The Electric Flag’s best known album is 1968’s A Long Time Comin’, a fusion of blues, rock with a horn section. Click here to order the album.
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