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The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Gulf Stream Race Track (Miami Pop Festival), Miami, FL, May 18, 1968
Setlist
1. Foxy Lady
2. Fire
3. Hear My Train A Comin
4. Purple Haze
Length: 21mins (incomplete)
Gen: SBD > ??? > CDR > wav (EAC) > shn (mkw)
Quality: Excellent Soundboard (9.5), some slight tape hiss.
Notes:
This is a great soundboard fragment featuring the JHEXP at their best. Unfortunately it is incomplete (this is all that has surfaced) but it is still worth checking out for the excellent sound (and there is not that much excellent sounding Jimi material from early 1968 out there) and great performance.
Check out the Axis for a detailed review: http://www.digitalhighway.co.uk/axis/reviews/1059.asp
DO NOT CONVERT TO MP3
M. Jake
Filler:
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
"Uncle Meat" remix of "Mr. Green Genes."
An experiment, this, re. seeing if there's any interest in alternate vinyl
mixes, etc. on SharingtheGroove.
Read up on this at
http://w1.858.telia.com/~u85821131/vinylvscds/uncle_meat.html , but in
brief...for whatever reason, Zappa reworked Uncle Meat in several strange
ways when preparing it for cd. He added the three disc-two "penalty tracks,"
he layered the album with reverb, and he remixed one track, "Mr. Green
Genes." While the entire album sounds quite different on record, I'm not
going to torrent it for obvious reasons. That said, Green Genes is an
entirely alternate mix which has never been available on compact disc (and,
indeed, might *never* be available on compact disc). The entire presentation
is different. It's far more dynamic, Ray's vocal is largely single tracked,
and I've always been suspicious of the drum sound on the remix (I think some
overdubbage might've occured, but this might've just been due to
processing). Whatever the case, many Zappa fans who have no access to vinyl
have never heard the original version of the song. And for those who *have*,
the quality of circulating rips is fairly poor; most are fairly muffled, and
almost all have an MP3 generation. Consequently, I think it's a good idea to
get a non-MP3ed version out there. This isn't the best vinyl rip on earth,
but it's certainly adequate. Use it in your compilations!
A suggested recipe: make your own CDR of Uncle Meat, losing the crappy
penalty tracks on disc 2, and inserting this in its proper place. Even with
the remix of Green Genes as a bonus track, you *still* come in under the 80
minute mark. Isn't that amazing?
Generation:
Vinyl--->CDR---->hard disk--->some CEP cleanup--->SHN.
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