1969-01-10 Jimi Hendrix - Copenhagen 1st and 2nd Show [FD Cleanup]

First Show - Cleanup/Merge

01 - Intro
02 - Fire
03 - Foxy Lady
04 - Tax Free
05 - Spanish Castle Magic
06 - Red House
07 - Sunshine of Your Love
08 - I Don't Live Today
09 - Purple Haze

Lineage: Merge Near and Far Source (ATM 027) FLAC > Adobe Audition 3 > FLAC

Second Show - Cleanup

01 - Fire
02 - Voodoo Child
03 - Foxy Lady
04 - Spanish Castle Magic
05 - Hear My Train A Comin (Fragment ATM 46/47 Bonus)

Lineage: Jimi In Denmark CD & ATM 046/047 FLAC > Adobe Audition 3 > FLAC

Have updated the source for the second show. 

Link - Updated Version (2nd Show)

1969-01-17 Jimi Hendrix - Frankfurt [FD Cleanup]

01 - Intro (merged a tiny bit of other tape missing off boot)
02 - Come On (Part One) * - zip file has wrong version make sure to substitute. Sorry!
03 - Fire
04 - Red House
05 - I Don't Live Today
06 - Little Wing
07 - Foxy Lady
08 - Sunshine Of Your Love
09 - Hey Joe
10 - Purple Haze
11 - Voodoo Child


Bonus:

12 - Come On Part 1 [2 Source Merge]
13 - Red House [2 Source Merge]
14 - I Don't Live Today [2 Source Merge]
15 - Little Wing [2 Source Merge]

Lineage (1st Source only) Burning in Frankfurt CD > FLAC> Adobe Audition (NR, EQ, Comp) >FLAC

Merges (1st source? Don't know but FLAC) (2nd Source - MP3 sourced FLAC distributed) > Adobe Audition (NR, EQ, Comp, Edit, Merge) > FLAC

Notes:

The second source of this show only runs to Foxy Lady - is a mic dub, and is only available as a compressed file. Given Frankfurt sounded a bit flat I thought I'd merge what was available - but had some issues - one, the version of the 1st Source I was using was not the same as the Burning in Frankfurt one, and I didn't know where I got it from? It was also fake stereo - so I went back to the old bootleg and cleaned that up and just added some of the merge experiments as a bonus. Voodoo Child came from this mystery tape...as it is not on the boot.

The merges didn't sound quite like I wanted them to anyway. Unlike panning direct L/R which leaves some room to move, mixing the tracks together - to fill the numerous dropouts - means that they have to be dead on, or it sounds pretty crap. Because the 2nd source mic dub had extraneous noise throughout I chopped all of the creaks and cracks and bangs out and then remixed...wasn't perhaps as accurate as I would have liked, so I didn't bother any further...

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Link - Direct substitute file for 02 - Come On Pt 1 - Please replace with this one...I accidentally put the wrong uncleaned version in zip file!  

1968-11-16 Jimi Hendrix Boston [FD Cleanup]

1 Fire
2 Spanish Castle Magic
3 Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
4 Red House
5 Foxy Lady
6 Purple Haze

Lineage ATM 139 FLAC > Adobe Audition (NR, EQ, Comp) > FLAC

All of the tracks have the start cut, I have removed the audience noise loops which were added to the end of each track... 

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1969-01-23 Jimi Hendrix Berlin [FD Cleanup]

1. Intro
2. Fire
3. Hey Joe
4. Spanish Castle Magic
5. Foxy Lady
6. Red House
7. Come On (Pt 1) - end patched with ATM 150
8. Sunshine Of Your Love
9. Purple Haze

Lineage (Torrent Tony Brown Tape) FLAC > Adobe Audition 3 (NR, EQ, Comp, Speed Correction) > FLAC


Link to Updated Version

1968-03-26 Jimi Hendrix Cleveland (2nd show) [FD Cleanup]

1 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

2 Fire
3 I Don't Live Today
4 Red House
5 Foxy Lady
6 Spanish Castle Magic
7 Manic Depression
8 Purple Haze
9 Wild Thing

Lineage: ATM 074 FLAC> Adobe Audition (NR, EQ, Comp) > FLAC

The vocals are a little buried at times, and there wasn't too much to be done about that.

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1968-02-28 Milwaukee 1st and 2nd Show [FD Cleanup]

1st Show

1 Intro
2 Tax Free
3 Fire
4 Red House
5 Foxy Lady
6 The Wind Cries Mary
7 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
8 Purple Haze


2nd Show

1 Intro
2 Bold as Love
3 Sgt Pepper
4 Spanish Castle Magic
5 Stone Free
6 I Don't Live Today
7 Burning of the Midnight Lamp
8 Foxy Lady
9 Manic Depression
10 Hoochie Coochie Man (end cut)


Lineage: ATM 004 FLAC > Adobe Audition (NR, EQ, Comp, Speed adjustment) > FLAC


The Scene club tapes are 1 1/2 steps below standard tuning and like everyone else I have gotten used to the sound of the tape, but it surely can't be running at the correct speed - Jimi often played a whole step down, but not 1 1/2...it seems a bit too much to me and the tape seems to be running slow. I have adjusted the speed/pitch up a semitone to make it a step below standard (rather than 1/2 step as usual of the time...because retuning/speed adjustment of the tape up a whole tone makes it seem to run a bit too fast - so I suspect the shows were at least a step down)...

I have seen the quality of these tapes rated as "good" - but I believe that to be quite generous and I'd say it falls within fair to reasonable range at best.

Still lot of problems with these tapes - including inherent distortion throughout which I have tried to minimise...

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1968-02-25 Jimi Hendrix - Civic Opera House, Chicago [FD Cleanup]

Set List:
01. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
02. Fire
03. The Wind Cries Mary
04. Foxy Lady
05. I Don't Live Today
06. Hey Joe
07. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
08. Manic Depression
09. Like A Rolling Stone (in fragments)
10. Purple Haze (ending cut)

(possibly 1st show?)

Lineage: FLAC> Adobe Audition (NR, EQ, Comp)> FLAC

This tape is rated as "reasonable...

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1968-09-07 - Jimi Hendrix - Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver [FD Cleanup]

Tracks:

01. Intro
02. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
03. Hey Joe
04. Are You Experienced
05. Come On (Part 1)
06. Little Wing
07. Foxy Lady
08. Red House
09. Fire
10. Spanish Castle Magic
11. Purple Haze (cut)

Lineage: Goody Pitch-Corrected Remaster (FLAC) > Adobe Audition (NR,EQ, Comp) > FLAC

The tape was in pretty good shape as it was...but here is a contribution...

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1968-01-08 - Jimi Hendrix - Stockholm, Sweden [1st show] [FD Cleanup]

01 - Intro
02 - Sgt. Pepper
03 - EXP
04 - Up From The Skies
05 - Spanish Castle Magic
06 - Foxy Lady
07 - Little Wing
08 - Fire
09 - Catfish Blues
10 - The Wind cries Mary
11 - Purple Haze (end cut)


Lineage: ATM 166 > Adobe Audition (EQ, Comp - LOTS of minor edits!) > FLAC

This is a highly problematic tape due to the amount of mic noise, bursts of signal distortion, attenuation and other problems with this historic show.

I have tried cleaning/editing EXP/Up From The Skies before - this is a new attempt. I tried to remove as many mic rumbles and issues as possible without affecting the music.
Despite that - it can still be an annoying listen - Spanish Castle Magic for example is all over the shop. I have included previous notes about this tape below just in case anyone is unaware of its problems.

Now - having tried to tweak the tape to bring out its best, it is a little hissy because of levels on the tape - I applied a little bit of noise reduction but not very much because it sounded more authentic without it. That said the levels on the tape go up and down - just listen to SCM for example. But to EQ the signal of EXP/Up From the Skies meant bringing up the latent hiss in the tape...

There is also some phasing going on as well - apparent in intro and quieter sections of the tape...

My own personal theory with this tape is that the taper was using a dodgy mic to record it - and perhaps the taper was accidently hitting the volume (?) as it recorded hence the massive spikes in gain that occur. Then the sound goes down to nothing. I am not sure whether this was done at the venue or whether this was a mic dub of the original?
For example at one stage the taper is blowing into the mic perhaps to check if it was recording? It didn't affect things so I cut it out.


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1968-02-17 Jimi Hendrix - Fort Worth TX [FD Cleanup]

 












01 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
02 - Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
03 - The Wind Cries Mary
04 - Fire
05 - Catfish Blues
06 - Foxy Lady (Speed Issues)
07 - Hey Joe
08 - Purple Haze
09 - Wild Thing 

Lineage: ATM 108 > Adobe Audition 3 (NR, EQ, Comp) > FLAC

For a 1968 AUD tape this is pretty good, so I didn't mess with it too much. Removed some of the distortion and extraneous noise...tried not to change the character of the tape. There are some speed problems in Foxy Lady (which also has end cut). While the rest of the tape is not as bad there are some problems with inconsistent tape speed in the last few tracks. Besides the other tweaks, I did have a go at adjusting the speed of Foxy Lady - but it didn't do a lot for it, so in the end I left it.

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1969-04-19 Jimi Hendrix - Sam Houston Coliseum [FD Cleanup]

 








01 - Introduction
02 - Sunshine of Your Love
03 - Voodoo Child


FLAC > Adobe Audition (NR, EQ, Comp, Click Removal) > FLAC

As usual another rough tape of only two songs.
Lots of extraneous noise clicks and pops etc, some drop outs here and there. Cleaned what was possible.
There is a little bass distortion at end of intro and beginning of Sunshine...before taper has reduced volume...overall tape is bass heavy and some distortion here and there.

In terms of lineage there is definitely a transfer from reel to reel to another analogue source as there is a cut at 1:42 in Raw Source of Sunshine of Your Love which matches up with repeat section...so there must have been at least one copy where tape was stopped and section was copied again. 

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1969-04-04 - "Pop Expo 69" Jimi Hendrix Interview and Delaney and Bonnie Jam

Interview with Jimi by Jay Harvey for KAAI backstage at "Pop-Expo '69" at Hollywood Palladium before jam with Delaney and Bonnie...Hendrix plays Room Full of Mirrors and Shame, Shame, Shame medley.
The original tape has had some minor work done - most prominently erasing the tape stops and starts that make this so annoying to listen to...unfortunately the stops and starts also impede the jam - but I have tried to edit for a more continuous listen. Little bit of cleanup work too.

Here is the FLAC 

Here is the link to YouTube clip (rebuilding my YouTube presence after...yeah you guessed it...)

1969-05-16 Jimi Hendrix Civic Centre, Baltimore [FD Cleanup]

01 Lover Man

02 Hear My Train
03 Fire
04 Red House (end cut)
05 I Don't Live Today (start cut)
06 Foxy lady
07 Purple haze
08 Spanish castle magic
09 Voodoo child (slight return) (drop-out at 4.49, end cut)
10 Fire (RAW for comparison)

Lineage: ATM 125 FLAC > Adobe Audition 3 (NR, EQ, Comp, Click Editing) > FLAC

OK before we begin this tape is considered to be POOR. Was a real challenge to "clean up" - it is still pretty crappy - despite the time spent trying to resurrect it. Listen to the RAW source [included] and you will see what I was up against. Once the noise was cleaned other limitations became apparent - like fluctuating volume levels and strange clicks - so once they were edited I had to compress to even it out as much as possible. I had spent hours manually cutting out clicks, and then decided I wanted to do it again...I cut out the worst ones...a few remain...
Anyway, it is with the very poorest tapes that you learn the most...
Not the best listen in the world, but I try to clean the very worst...and this is another tape that was never going to sound great...

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1969-01-19 - Jimi Hendrix - Stuttgart 1st Show [FD Cleanup]

Beethoven-Saal, Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany
Sunday 19 January 1969 first show
[FD Cleanup and Speed Correction]

The Jimi Hendrix Experience
1 Intro
2 Come on (part 1)
3 Fire
4 I don't live today
5 Hey Joe
6 Foxy lady
7 Stone Free
8 Sunshine of Your Love
9 Star spangled banner
10 Purple haze
11 Voodoo child (slight return)

CTT FLAC (lineage: master cassette (lost) > 1st gen reel > wav > flac taper: Harald Rapp) > Adobe Audition, Speed/Pitch correction - Some NR, EQ, Compression applied > FLAC

Wasn't sure if this cleanup offered much as an upgrade, (the source "reasonable" at best) but anyway here it is...

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1968-09-06 - Jimi Hendrix Where Its At Interview

Terry David Mulligan interviews the Jimi Hendrix Experience for Canadian TV show, "Where It's At".

This is the full audio of the "Where It's At" interview - which has come from original footage on YouTube. The interview that is generally broadcast is what appears to be the second take - I added the original announcement from the show as an artefact - the second half was broadcast as pretty much a continual piece.

The date given typically given as 7th September 1968 coinciding with the Vancouver Show.
The clapper board [see screenshot] says the 6th September 1968 when Hendrix was in Seattle.

As the original YouTube audio track was only one channel - I fixed the first section and used another better source for the second broadcast section. There were gaps between reels, they have been edited out. So sometimes there is a small jump in the audio.

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1968-05-26 - Jimi Hendrix - Bologna 1st Show [FD Patch and Four Source Merge]

01 - Intro - 4th Source Prominent
02 - Fire - 4th Source Prominent
03 - Hey Joe - 4th Source Prominent
04 - Stone free - 4th Source Prominent
05 - Red house - 4th Source Prominent
06 - Tax free - Three Source (1,2,3)
07 - Purple haze - Two Source Only
08 - Foxy lady - Two Source Only

Lineage: 1,2,3 Source ATMs/FLAC except 4th Source* 

FLAC (but from compressed source) > Adobe Audition - Merging, Editing, Speed Correction, EQ and other > FLAC




*The Fourth Source listed as "A semi-soundboard recording, only circulates as a YouTube video" - don't know why but can only so far get hold of same compressed source as everyone else - would have helped for this project - but once this source is merged with others, there is no telling the difference really. Has come out well I think.

Basically the show is close to complete here. End of Intro pieced together from several sources.

Notes - I am just featuring random shows that I have worked on over the years. This one took some work and unlike some of the rougher tapes featured on this site, is in very nice quality.

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1969-11-16 - Rolling Stones - Chicago Universal Ampitheater Under My Thumb [FD Merge]

In this post I have uploaded a merge of two different sources for 16 November 1969 show at the Chicago Universal Ampitheater. I like to find the more poorly recorded shows to see if they can be cleaned up. Most of the time it is probably not worth it (which is why I probably won't finish this show...at the moment anyway)

The two sources are both pretty poor, so this upload is a demonstration of how two poor sources can be cleaned up and merged for a decent sounding result. Still rough but listenable.
The link includes the two raw sources, and my final product.

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1967-04-11 Rolling Stones - Paris [funkydrummer cleanup]

April 11th, 1967 (From either 1st or 2nd Show)

Cleanup of the Musicorama Mixdown compilation (which used best sources available for individual tracks).

01 - Paint It Black

02 - 19th Nervous Breakdown
03 - Lady Jane
04 - Get Off Of My Cloud/Yesterday’s Papers
05 - Under My Thumb
06 - Ruby Tuesday
07 - Let’s Spend The Night Together
08 - Goin’ Home
09 - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
10 - Bonus - Yesterday's Papers [Extended Edit]
11 - Bonus - Warsaw (1967-04-13) Newsreel Audio w/ Satisfaction, Paint it
Black

Notes:

Lady Jane and Goin' Home are not soundboard.
Not much done to SBD tracks.
The French voiceovers are edited out.
Bonus tracks - I love the live 1967 version of Yesterday's Papers - so I created an edit
Also added available audio from Warsaw show.
At times there is piercing feedback from the amps (i.e. second half of Satisfaction) - not much I could do about that...

I can only hope we hear this on SBD/uninterrupted one day!

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1966-03-29 Rolling Stones - Paris 1st and 2nd Shows [funkydrummer cleanup]

A cleanup of the Musicorama Mixdown compilation (which used best sources available for individual tracks). Still the sound quality is variable throughout.

FLAC> Adobe Audition NR, EQ, Comp, (Speed Correction where necessary)>FLAC

29th March 1966 - 1st Show

01 - The Last Time (End Only)
02 - Mercy Mercy
03 - She Said Yeah
04 - Play With Fire (2nd Half Only)
05 - Not Fade Away
06 - That’s How Strong My Love Is
07 - I’m Moving On
08 - The Spider And The Fly
09 - Time Is On My Side (End Only)
10 - 19th Nervous Breakdown
11 - Around And Around
12 - Get Off Of My Cloud
13 - I’m Alright
14 - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

29th March 1966 - 2nd Show

15 - The Last Time
16 - Mercy Mercy
17 - She Said Yeah
18 - Play With Fire
19 - Not Fade Away
20 - The Spider And The Fly
21 - Time Is On My Side
22 - 19th Nervous Breakdown
23 - Get Off Of My Cloud 

24 - I’m Alright
25 - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction 

We can only hope that one day that the owners of the tapes of this radio program release as much as they still have...

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1969-01-13 - Jimi Hendrix - Cologne [FD Patch and Cleanup]

Here is one that I kept back, mainly because EH put out the official version (from same source tape) and I thought it redundant. That said, I still don't have the official one to compare it to, but I remember I did some work to it, speed correction among the edits, some patching from first source also. Anyway, as the official one was a hard to get hold of 2LP set, here is perhaps a "poor man's version"

01 - Intro

02 - Come On (Part One)
03 - Foxy Lady
04 - Red House
05 - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
06 - Fire
07 - Spanish Castle Magic
08 - Hey Joe
09 - Sunshine Of Your Love
10 - Star Spangled Banner
11 - Purple Haze

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1970-05-30 Berkeley Soundcheck [The Alternate First Rays Live] FD Cleanup and Edits

Lineage> Bob Terry Tape #13 FLAC> Adobe Audition Editing > FLAC

Sorry for the sketchy info - but this has been sitting on the hard drive for a while, and I can't remember precisely what I did - but I suspect there is some EQ et al - can't remember the source either, although I think I used the Bob Terry tape (as FLAC).

01 - Earth Blues [1970-05-30 Berkeley Soundcheck - Edit].flac
02 - Message to Love [1970-05-30 Berkeley Soundcheck - Edit].flac
03 - Hey Baby [1970-05-30 Berkeley Soundcheck - Edit].flac
04 - Freedom [1970-05-30 Berkeley Soundcheck - Edit].flac
05 - Villanova Junction / Keep On Groovin [1970-05-30 Berkeley Soundcheck - Edit].flac
06 - Power of Soul [1970-05-30 Berkeley Soundcheck - Edit].flac
07 - Machine Gun [1970-05-30 Berkeley Soundcheck - Edit].flac
08 - Room Full of Mirrors[1970-05-30 Berkeley Soundcheck - Edit].flac

There ain't nothing here you ain't heard before - although what I did was edit the soundcheck tracks to make the longest and most coherent versions possible [actually, listening back after the fact, I did trim a couple too - like intro off RFOM, and a bit off intro MTL, which I did to keep the whole thing tight and provide edit points for the future live comp]...the premise was to create an "Alternate First Rays Live" - so I wasn't going to release this way - but as a live compilation embellished with other tracks to make a live First Rays comp of best 1970 performances...as I have been busy lately, and things have been quiet around here, I thought I'd upload it for your discernment...
I rearranged the order of the tracks...to create my own running order, which listening back now ain't bad - but you can please yourself on that score...

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The Rolling Stones - Satanic Majesties "Reimagined"

Having previously remixed some of the Satanic Sessions tracks, I had always wanted to create a "better" TSMR. I have performed various forms of trickery to make this a good continuous listen that also brought back in many of the very interesting instrumentals that were never used...
OK - inclusion of Child of the Moon is contentious - but as they worked on this around the time of TSMR and is on Satanic Sessions, I took the liberty of including - tried to make an acoustic version using vox from studio version - but didn't sound great...so anyway...

Of course I haven't got We Love You here - did have, but I can't remember my logic at the time and I decided to leave it off. I included We Love You (Vocal Extract) in Experiments and Reconstructions...you can really hear the Fabs great backing vox esp on "you will love we too"...anyway, you can insert that in somewhere or replace Child of the Moon.

The playlist was devised as if it was (roughly) two twenty minute sides - Hence Side Two intro.
Here is the (imaginary LP) track list:

Side 1
01 Sing This All Together [Edit]
02 2000 Light Years From Home
03 In Another Land [Remix]
04 5 Part Jam [Part 1] Interlude
05 Dandelion- 5 Part Jam [Part 2]
06 Child of the Moon
07 5 Part Jam [Part 5] Interlude – Gomper [Edit]
08 Sing This All Together [Reprise]

Side 2

09 “Side 2” Intro [Untitled Instrumental]
10 On With The Show
11 5 Part Jam [Part 3] Interlude
12 2000 Man
13 Gold Painted Nails [Interlude]
14 She's A Rainbow
15 Citadel
16 Gold Painted Nails [Edit]
17 The Lantern [Remix]
18 Majesties Honky Tonk [Edit-Outro]

They had all of this at their disposal! And more!

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The Rolling Stones - Experiments and Reconstructions by funkydrummer

Track List

01 - Satisfaction [Acoustic Mix].flac
02 - Get Off of My Cloud [Rhythm Mix].flac
03 - Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing in the Shadow [Studio Excavated].flac
04 - Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing in the Shadow ['Stereo' Remix].flac
05 - Connection [Remix].flac
06 - We Love You (Vocal Mix).flac
07 - Sing This All Together [Instrumental Edit].flac
08 - In Another Land [Remix].flac
09 - The Lantern [Remix].flac
10 - Jumpin' Jack Flash [Video Version Speed Corrected].flac
11 - Sympathy for the Devil [Organ Version Edit] .flac
12 - Gimme Shelter [Breakdown Instrumental].flac
13 - Gimme Shelter [Piano Mix].flac
14 - Sympathy for the Devil [David Frost Show Alt Backing].flac
15 - No Expectations [19690705 Hyde Park].flac
16 - Stray Cat Blues [19690705 Hyde Park].flac
17 - Honky Tonk Women [David Frost 1969].flac

Rather than serve up the same old outtakes, I have tried to compile some Frankenstein creations, new mixes, and clean as possible sounding rarities.

Some of these have been on the hard drive for years - so I collect them together for your discernment...

Most of the tracks are self-explanatory, a couple I have already put out when I put together previous comps - Got Live Remix, and Satanic Majesties Reimagined...Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing in the Shadow [Studio Excavated] is the version from Got Live LP but I have tried to remove as much fake applause as possible, to uncover what is surely a complete studio re-recording of the track. It sounds nothing like the Newcastle and Colston Hall tracks on that album.

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1967-04-08 - Rolling Stones - Milan [2nd Show - funkydrummer cleanup]

Palalido Palazzo Dello Sport (2nd show), Milan, Italy.
[funkydrummer cleanup]

FLAC [Scandinavian Shakedown VGP365] > Adobe Audition (NR, EQ, Comp) > FLAC

01 - The Last Time
02 - Paint It Black
03 - 19th Nervous Breakdown
04 - Lady Jane
05 - Get Off Of My Cloud
06 - Yesterday's Papers
07 - Ruby Tuesday
08 - Let's Spend the Night Together


With the exception of some of the Paris show radio broadcasts, all of the European 67 tour shows are unfortunately rough. Milan is possibly the best audience source, but is recording is missing Goin Home/Satisfaction.
As with the others, I ask you to compare and contrast with the raw sources - and most of the 67 shows are probably for afficionados only.

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1969-05-07 - Rolling Stones - Hyde Park, London July 5, 1969 [cleanup, tune-up, stereo merge[s] and restoration by funkydrummer]

The Rolling Stones, Hyde Park, London
July 5, 1969

[cleanup, tune-up, merge and restoration by funkydrummer]
Sources: SODD 015, VGP 296, Living Legend Records [LLRCD 032], DVD Video


01. Intro/Adonais - Removed the Sam Cutler "they're incredible bit" because it is an edit from the end.
02. I'm Yours And I'm Hers
03. Jumping Jack Flash
04. Mercy Mercy
05. Stray Cat Blues [Merge]
06. No Expectations - after 1min, new dvd soundtrack used.
07. I'm Free - Stereo Merge
08. Down Home Girl - as usual, audience tape.
09. Love In Vain
10. Loving Cup
11. Honky Tonk Women
12. Midnight Rambler
13. Satisfaction [Merge Intro]
14. Street Fighting Man
15. Sympathy For The Devil
16. Bonus - No Expectations [w/ Intro merge]


While this is hardly the first time that the still unofficially released Hyde Park show has attempted to be reconstructed from TV, radio and audience tapes, I hope that my attempt provides a different perspective, and an upgraded listening experience.I have tried to give the impression of a complete SBD - and have attempted to provide a uniformity which meant a combination of editing, merging, speed correction, I can't quite remember all of the work I did...So this is a combination of cleanup, restoration, and "tune up" - that is to say, that I have attempted to use some pitch correction at times to a show that is more often than not annoyingly out of tune. A liberty on my part, but nothing major, there is no software that can truly save Keith's guitar.

Still, part of the attempt to restore the show in the best sound quality possible.
This version is still not quite complete, missing section of "I'm Yours And I'm Hers" for example. I had forgotten that I returned to "I'm Yours And I'm Hers" and I made a complete merge version - so I will post that also below.

As we will unfortunately never see this officially released, due in part to the looseness and tuning, I did my best for posterity.

16 - The "bonus" track, No Expectations [w/ Intro merge] was my original shot, but I thought that the merge sounded slightly out so I replaced the first verse with the SBD - the rest is DVD version.
Track 16 can be used interchangably with 06.

It just fits on a single CD too (choosing only one version No Expectations)

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 "I'm Yours And I'm Hers"  [FD Stereo Merge Complete]

1966-02-24 - Rolling Stones - Melbourne - Palais Theatre, St. Kilda [2nd Show - FD Cleanup]

01 - The Last Time
02 - Mercy Mercy
03 - She Said Yeah
04 - Play With Fire
05 - Not Fade Away
06 - That's How Strong My Love Is
07 - Get Off Of My Cloud
08 – Satisfaction

Cleanup of 3UZ radio broadcast by FD

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1969-05-25 Jimi Hendrix - San Jose Pop Festival [FD Cleanup]

"Northern California Folk-Rock Festival" (AKA San Jose Pop Festival)

Family Park, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, California, USA
Sunday 25 May 1969 [FD Cleanup Version]

Complete Show Aud; 2nd Gen - Digitally Restored

Lineage ATM 146 > Adobe Audition (EQ, Comp, NR, Re-edit) > FLAC

01. Intro
02. Hear My Train A Comin'
03. Fire
04. Spanish Castle Magic
05. Red House
06. I Don't Live Today
07. Foxy Lady
08. Purple Haze
09. Medley - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) > Improvisation > Voodoo Child (slight return)
Room Full Of Mirrors > Message To Love > Room Full Of Mirrors > Sunshine Of Your Love > Voodoo Child Reprise

Notes: Vocals are comparatively low in the mix and as someone in the audience screams "turn the mic on" - I suspect that the mic may not have been working all that well during the actual show?

For those who may not have heard the raw tape, this is not great sound quality and I tend to pick shows that are on the poor side for "cleanups" - so don't expect SBD - check the raw source for comparison!

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Jimi Hendrix - One Rainy Wish ["Solo" Version]

A remixed "solo" version of One Rainy Wish was featured for less than a minute in the recent Hendrix documentary Hear My Train a Comin'. The following is an edit that takes that snippet and combines with a revised version of the studio take to make a complete "solo" version. Have included the snippet, and two versions with and without intro.

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The Beatles Unreleased Originals Mix

Nearly all of the tracks in the mix had some tweaking and/or editing, was designed to provide a journey through the originals the Beatles either never used, or never used as part of the Beatles.

I did a number of years back so I can't remember what I did to what, but I wanted to make for a flowing listening experience, which sometimes required some editing. 

In the spirit of a "mixtape" here is the mix - my upload speeds are poor so compressed for now.

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1967-04-14 - The Rolling Stones - Zurich [funkydrummer cleanup]

funkydrummer cleanup of "Swiss Made '67'"

1. The Last Time [Edit]
2. Paint It Black
3. 19th Nervous Breakdown
4. Lady Jane
5. Get Off Of My Cloud/Yesterday's Papers
6. Ruby Tuesday
7. Let's Spend The Night Together
8. Goin' Home
9. Satisfaction

OK - like the few tapes that exist of the Stones in Europe 67 - the source was pretty bad and it is impossible to perform miracles, but you can now make out what is being played...

The Swiss Made 67 source had a lot of digital skipping on the intro of The Last Time, so I edited it as best as possible to make for a listenable and consistent track.

Interesting that the Stones stop the Last Time, then start it up again...I wondered if an unruly crowd had anything to do with this? See photo...
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The Beatles - All Things Must Pass [FD Composite Versions]

One of the reasons I am uploading some of my experiments to this blog, is that YouTube is pulling my stuff down left, right and centre even though the tracks you hear have never been released commercially or even in this form. So anyway, here is a track that really took me a while to do, and even though there are a couple of issues, I tried hard with this one. I even cut the vocals from another section to fly in as verse "backing vocals" and to my mind it worked. Anyway here are two versions, first is preferred, second has piano added.

Link 1 - All Things Must Pass [Beatles Version Composite by funkydrummer]

Link 2 - All Things Must Pass [Beatles Version Composite 2 by funkydrummer]

1966-08-19 - The Beatles Memphis [Evening Show FD Cleanup]

1966-08-19 - The Beatles Memphis [Evening Show] [FD Cleanup]

01 - Intro
02 - Rock And Roll Music
03 - She's A Woman
04 - If I Needed Someone
05 - Day Tripper
06 - Baby's In Black
07 - I Feel Fine
08 - Yesterday [tape issues]
09 - I Wanna Be Your Man
10 - Nowhere Man
11 - Paperback Writer
12 - Long Tall Sally

Coming up to 50 years since this was recorded! 
This is the show with the infamous cherry bomb incident during If I Needed Someone.
Cleanup by funkydrummer.
Oh yeah, and don't forget that this tape was a very rough listen, so tried to just boost some areas of the audio...check out the From Beatles to Memphis to compare.
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Some background to the "cleanups"

My original ambition was just to have a shot messing around with the shittiest sounding tapes and that was it – but like all these things it just expands...

I understand that not everyone likes the whole “messing with the tapes” bit, so of course I also advocate that you should hear the shows in raw form and perhaps think of some of the cleanups as complimentary to, rather than as substitute for.

Some efforts are better than others, and it takes time and a number of mistakes to further progress...