Dog and Butterfly Effect

Phase Two of Ladies' Weekend commences with a post from the Heart. Or just a post from Heart. Or perhaps both.

My friend Maceo adores these gals, and he's been feeling somewhat not-so-good, so this post is for him.

This show is one of those archtypical, tremendously vintage 1970s radio concerts, where they'd cut live to whatever venue in whatever city on whatever Saturday night, and 19 stations would all simulcast it in its entirety.

It's celebrating its 40th anniversary today, so I spent the week messing with it in the headphones to make it really explode forth from everyone's speakers.

Overall its one of those classic-to-the-power-of-classic broadcasts, and until the pre-FM surfaces we have these master off-air FM reels, which are tremendous. 

There's two versions of this, but I chose to work on the 3.75 ips version that has the complete thing -- rather than the 7.5 ips reels that have the tape flip in Mistral Wind -- and not just because it was one-stop shopping for the whole show. 

After a meticulous review of each, I honestly felt the 7.5 ips sounded brittle and harsh in the high end, while the 3.75 one was more spread out and warmer, if a bit flat up top. 

I did very little to it, brightening it subtly using the Sound Forge 11 Graphic EQ and Graphic Dynamics tools. Other than that, I just moved a single track marker to begin closer to the music. 

Someday this'll crop up in a pre-broadcast version that'll obviate this iteration of it, but until then and for its 40th anniversary here I thought I'd give it a bit of work. My heart was in the right place, anyway, so enjoy!

Heart

Boston Music Hall

Boston, MA

1.27.1979

late show

01 WBCN intro

02 Cook with Fire 

03 High Time 

04 Heartless 

05 Devil Delight 

06 Straight On 

07 Magic Man 

08 Love Alive 

09 Magazine 

10 Mistral Wind

11 Dog and Butterfly 

12 Crazy On You 

13 Kick It Out 

14 Barracuda

15 Mark Parenteau commentary

16 White Lightning and Wine 

17 Rock and Roll

18 Mark Parenteau commentary

19 band introductions

20 Without You 

21 WBCN outro

Total time: 1:35:25

disc break goes after Track 09

Ann Wilson -  vocals & flute

Nancy Wilson - guitar, vocals, harmonica & keyboards 

Roger Fisher - guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin

Howard Leese - guitar, mandolin, keyboards & vocals

Steve Fossen - bass & vocals 

Michael Derosier - drums

master 3 3/4 ips off-air FM reel of the complete WBCN-FM live broadcast

remastered by EN, Jan. 2019

660 MB FLAC/January 2019 archive link

I have one more blast of January boognish coming this week, and then it's on to the February mayhem.

But today, I hope you get next to this gargantuan performance by one of the most beloved Rock bands ever. It's definitely got its Heart on its sleeve fasho 💘--J.