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This disc came to me purporting to be the early show from 6-24-70 with the genealogy of MAR>R/2>D>CD. It has long been in circulation mislabeled "Capitol Theater, Port Chester 6/24/70 Late Show" or sometimes "Early Show" and also sometimes "Capitol Theater, Port Chester 6/25/70 Late Show." Often copies have Around & Around from 11/8/70 and Oh Boy from 4/6/71 following Cosmic Charlie for filler on one side, and an unknown venue electric Big RR Blues from late 1970 for filler on the other side following Good Lovin.
The evidence now leads us to believe that this show is actually from 7/10/70.
See below, taken from the text file:
COMMENTS This tape has circulated for many years labeled "Capitol Theater, Port Chester 6/25/70 Late Show" but it appears certain that there was no
such show. The only Capitol Theater show advertised in June is the 24th and
several people who attended the show on the 24th are quite certain that they would have known if there were another show the next night, and they say there wasn't. Next, for several years the consensus was that this must be from the 6/24/70 Early Show, but this is rendered impossible by our identification of the old supposed "3/20/70 Early Show" tape as actually being the 6/24/70 Early Show (see Comments on both these shows for more).
Meanwhile closer scrutiny of the tape itself shows that it is at least in part a composite of several shows, leaving the issue of the identify of the rest of the tape still more vexed. The contents of the tape in circulation are as follows: Side A begins with the 3 tunes listed in SET 1 above; these tracks have been crosschecked against the other two instances of this sequence known from the period (12/12/69 & 8/19/70) and they are neither. Following this after a splice, Side A continues with the Minglewood from the 7/11/70 AUD (probably the same master but an inferior copy). Next on Side A
after another splice comes the segment listed in SET 2 above; there is no other instance of this sequence from the period (and it is not a splice-job
fake).
After a third splice the side concludes with an electric Big RR Blues [4:05]; this has been crosschecked against the other available electric
versions from the period (10/30/70, 12/26/70, 12/28/70) and is none of them;
DeadBase IX lists another electric Big RR on 12/12/70 but no tape is
currently available. Probably the Big RR is filler from a different show; it requires a different speed correction and it sounds like a different mic
placement, venue & crowd; clearly it dates from fall 70 or conceivably
winter 71, probably an east coast venue -- best guess Capitol Theater, Port Chester November 11/7/70 Early Show.
Side B begins with the sequence listed in SET 3 above -- this list also has
no similar in the period -- and concludes with two pieces of fill, the
11/8/70 Around And Around and an AUD version of the 4/6/71 Oh Boy(otherwise
only circulating in SBD).
This tape appears to be a compilation from the NYC area in mid-to-late 70
and early 71; all seven pieces composing it sound like 1970 AUD from
smallish venues with an east coast crowd. Obviously the whole affair
suspicious, but the Big RR Blues aside, the fidelity, ambience and vibe of
the three longer segments all sound like the same taper and venue, and the
ambience, vibe and novel setlists all suggest the Capitol Theater, Port
Chester, in June or November. A second possibility might be the Fillmore
East shows on July 9 or 10, for which no tapes are known to exist, but the
crowd sounds far too mellow to be the Fillmore East.
*But as stated above, the evidence now leads us to believe that this show is actually from 7/10/70 Fillmore East, and that it is not a compilation, taken from perhaps the Capitol Theater.*
The fact that each of these segments requires a different speed correction could imply that they do not come from the same show -- but perhaps not. If
we assume the three listed segments belong to the same show then the order
listed here seems most likely (the sequence of the tape), perhaps in one set or perhaps in two, with the segment listed under SET 3 being in the second set; plainly one way or the other there are a number of songs missing. DeadBase IX arranges them in the order of SET 1 + Minglewood(actually 7/11/70) + SET 3 + SET 2 + Viola Lee Blues. There is no sign of a Viola Lee in circulation and no apparent warrant for DeadBase's sequence.
This tape remains a largely unsolved puzzle.
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