1969-May-25

The Who			1st Gen Cassette

Merriweather Post Pavilion	Columbia, MD


Disc 1  -  76.37
1	Heaven And Hell			 3.13
2	I Can't Explain			 2.13
3	Fortune Teller			 2.23
4	Tattoo				 2.48
5	It's A Boy			  .32
6	1921				 2.21
7	Amazing Journey			 3.14
8	Sparks				 5.16
9	Eyesight To The Blind		 1.51
10	Christmas			 3.17
11	The Acid Queen			 3.28
12	Pinball Wizard			 2.46
13	Do You Think It's Alright?	  .22
14	Fiddle About			 1.13
15	There's A Doctor		  .22
16	Go To The Mirror		 3.31
17	Smash The Mirror		 1.08
18	I'm Free			 2.29
19	Tommy's Holiday Camp		  .56
20	We're Not Gonna Take It		 7.44
21	Shakin' All Over		 3.45
22	Summertime Blues		 5.41
23	Magic Bus			15.54



Notes that came with this recording:


Recording info:
Unknown mic > unknown recorder
Masters were 2 x 60 minute tapes
Pauses/stops present between some tracks

Lineage:
Maxell XL-II gen 1 Cassette obtained in ~ 1991

Transfer:
Nakamichi RX505 > kindkables RCA/XLR > 
Apogee Mini Me @ 24bit/48kHz > kindkables coax > 
MT24/96 > wav

Processing:
Wav > Adobe Audition (fades, normalize) > 
CD Wave (tracking) > TLH > flac @24bit/48kHz

Additional processing:
Flacs > wav > Adobe Audition 3.0.1 
(appending, speed correcting (+1.6%) and downsampling) >
wav > CD Wave (tracking) > wav > Flac Frontend > 
flac 8 (tagged and verified)




Original notes by ellaguru:

A tape trading friend had access to the masters 
in the early 1990's and ran both himself & me a 
Gen 1 cassette off the masters. Not a perfect 
master by any means, being littered with assorted 
tape pauses, microphone bumps, off balance imaging 
and the bands themselves 'coloring out of the lines' 
a bit at times. The tape pauses were left intact, 
which leaves the occasional tape speed change at the 
pause point.  I'm far from the person who has the 
ability to correct those speed changes, although 
they are less than 1 second long each. For the life 
of me I can't find my specific notes, which included 
if it was a cassette or reel-to-reel master tape.  
My hunch (and lack of memory) leads me to think they 
were cassettes. Note the tapers' "no no!!!" right at 
the end of 'Magic Bus' when the tape runs out.  No idea
why only 'Whole Lotta Love' was recorded from the 
Zeppelin set.  Perhaps (and obviously) they just didn't 
bring enough tape to record both bands and chose to 
just capture a taste of the opener, which is one of 
the earliest known live versions of 'Whole Lotta Love'. 
On a positive note, the atmosphere is captured nicely 
and there isn't too much clapping or other audience 
distractions during the tape. The Who's set tracked 
out to the best of my ability.

enjoy!
pernod

Transfer & processing by 'ellaguru' (08-Mar-30)
Additional processing by 'pernod'   (10-Feb-27)

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