Jimi Hendrix, BB King and Paul Butterfield Blues Band
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April 15th, 1968 - Generation Club NYC
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Source: Lossless Legs tracker - thanks to seeder 'mtownsend'
http://www.shnflac.net/details.php?id=1edb915a676725ecd4096cf865db97153711e755#peers

Lineage: SBD > ? > flac download (sounds an earlier tape generation than Dime id# 103760)

Editing:
1. Cross-mix channels (80:20 ratio) - instruments are now clearer and separate in the mix
2. Fixed different levels pre- and post- flips
3. Fixed the tape flip / Glitches (details below in set list)
4. Gentle 2db Nero noise reduction (just to take the edge off the noise, not affect the music)
5. Eliminated 8 min of drunken BB King forgetting band members names (now fits on a CD-R90)
6. Edited / Cross-faded most tracks for smooth track-to-track transitions (sounds like a real show)

Transfer: Nero > CD-RW > EAC > Flac Frontend (level 6)
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When I was recommended (by member 'dsgtrane') the recent Dime post as an upgrade, I grabbed it and compared it to a previous download I got from Lossless Legs (now dead). To my surprise, the LL version's quality was significantly better than the Dime one, it sounded like a couple of tape generations earlier and did not have the tape flutter that made the Dime version's instruments sound 'flat'.

It also has 2 extra tracks at the beginning, 2 continuous tracks (with tape glich / flip) that are split into 2 parts (San-Ho-Zay and Slow Blues) on the Dime version and longer versions of Fast Blues (inc. second part after tape flip / glitch) and It's my Own Fault. Also the L/R tracks are reversed ed in the 2 versions - except for (Dime) Slow Blues (part 2) which is the same as after the tape flip on the LL version, which logically makes it the earlier level.

Listening very carefully to both versions, it is clearly the same identical concert and the first tracks (without Jimi) have identical instruments in the same place in the sound mix and the talk continues into the Dime tracks, so they are definitely part of this set - and not other dates identified in db.etree. The sound mix itself was typically strange with mainly rythym on LH and solo on RH channels, so I decided to do some remix / remastering in the same way as my previous Jefferson Starship and Henry Cow posts...

The end result is fantastic and a credit to the quality of the underlying master recording, although it is rather mis-named as BB King seems only to sing and play a few bad guitar notes on the last track, Jimi appears officially on the last 5 tracks, although it is sometimes difficult to tell if he or Elvin Bishop (sounding like he has learnt the licks from the recently departed Mike Bloomfield - a realcompliment !) is playing, whilst the core of the music is a great performance by the transitional Paul Butterfield Blues Band, with Al Kooper filling in beautifully for (absent) Mark Naftalin and a new bass / drums team.

To balance my 'heresy' for editing out BB's ramblings, original Dime uploader, member 'audiophile63' encouraged me to post this upgrade and provided some extra information which is included as an extra 'Historic Info' file - as this is a great upgrade of a truly historic high quality recording not to be missed...

...Enjoy !!

Band:
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Jimi Hendrix - guitar & vocals
B.B. King - guitar & vocals (@)
Elvin Bishop - guitar & vocals
Buzzy Feiten - bass
Paul Butterfield - harmonica
Al Kooper - organ
Philip Wilson - drums
(+ inaudible)
Stuart ? - piano
Don Martin - guitar


Set List (82.11)
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06.48 "Ad-Libbed Impromptu Blues (in E#903)" *
07.22 Kooper's Shuffle *
07.40 Like A Rolling Stone
25.47 San-Ho-Zay - Instrumental Blues Jam (tape flip / glitch at 19.24 mostly fixed)
18.25 Slow Blues (tape flip / glitch at 4.29 mostly fixed, patched mono for a few seconds)
06.40 Fast Blues (+) (tape flip / glitch at 3.40 completely fixed)
09.23 It's My Own Fault (@) (glitches at 2.06 & 3.19 fixed)

Note: Performance is continuous so it will fit on 1 CD for those with CD-R90 capability

* = Extra tracks (no Jimi Hendrix)
+ = Additional 3 min not on Dime version (after tape glitch)
@ = True 1 min longer than Dime version (which misses the first verse around the first glitch)

Notes:
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1. Many thanks again to 'mtownsend' for his great post on Lossless Legs
2. No entry on db.etree
3. Great artworks included from member 'dsgtrane' - many thanks!

Usual Stuff:
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Please ask before posting on another site
Don't transfer to MP3
For trading only
Don't sell or do anything else you shouldn't do with this stuff!

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I can understand why you want to edit out B.B.'s drunken rumbling.
However amidst his blah blah there are a couple of bits of information of interest that I think
should be preserved for historical value, or at the very least added to the notes.

I followed your link to the LL post and saw the story posted by woodenalligator:
"Said he knew both Phillip (drummer) and Buzzy (bass) and jammed with them in NYC many times.
Seemed they were in demand session players at the time. They both told him of this show which was
REALLY IMPROMPTU and how wild it was to be there..."

I believe it was actually a series of shows rather than one impromptu show. Perhaps the backing
musicians varied on different nites? Any popular act-like B.B. King-playing New York City, then
or today, rarely plays one show. There are too many fans in NYC to fit into any venue on one nite,
especially a small club. At any rate, B.B. was playing more than one show there at that time.

A big Jimi fan emailed me a while ago that he had heard a partial recording of a similar show from
another of the nites "they" played the Generation Club in April, 1968. He seemed to know what he
was talking about but I never did get a copy of it.

Specifically in Track One, at 5:35 or so into it, B.B. says "Since we started here April 2nd..."
(a Tuesday). This backs-up that there were more than just this one show performed there around then.

The 'Jimi Hendrix Tape List' at http://www.rockmine.com/JimiTape.html lists a taped performance at the Generation Club on (Sunday) April 7, 1968 of 10 minutes in length.

This could be the partial show I was told about? I see the LL description lists the date as both "04/15/68" and "Exact date uncertain." My source notes (Monday) April 15, 1968.

Take a look at the db.etree database at http://db.etree.org/bs_d.php?year=1968&artist_key=21
Here we find listed recording dates of April 7 AND April 15. Note this still does not fully account for B.B. saying "Since we started here April 2nd..."

The University of Minnesota listing of Hendrix shows http://www.me.umn.edu/~kgeisler/1968.html lists April 7 and 15(?), elaborates on the title "Kooper's Shuffle" as "Kooper's Shuffle In 'G'", and lists the Generation Club address: "52 West 8th Street, (Greenwich Village) New York, NY"

Hendrix and King are listed at the Generation Club April 9, 1968 at:
http://djmonstermo.blogspot.c..hendrix-and-bb-king-live.html

Now get this. According to http://www.answers.com/topic/jimi-hendrix Jimi and his manager Michael Jeffery INVESTED THEIR MONEY TO JOINTLY PURCHASE THE GENERATION CLUB in 1968!! Of course Jimi would have sat in with B.B. King at his own club and at every chance he could get I would imagine!! Jimi had an apartment in NYC at the time and would have been able to arrange various backing players on different nites. Perhaps that explains woodenalligator's comment, perhaps not.

On another db.tree database listing
http://db.etree.org/bs_d.php?artist_key=8720
there are FOUR RECORDED SHOWS listed for Hendrix and King at he Generation Club in 1968!!! The listed dates are Tuesday April 9, Monday April 15, April ??, and Wednesday JUNE 12, 1968!!! Of course I will keep adding in at least April 2nd as well as per B.B.'s comment on the recording. I would tend to believe that Jimi would really want to sit in with B.B. on his first nite playing in his own new club. So I venture to say that there were AT LEAST FIVE Hendrix/King shows at the Generation Club in 1968!!! (If April ?? = April 7 and not April 2.) I would not be surprised if there were even more!

Another interesting information tidbit is at around the same part of the recording (Track One 5:35) B.B. says "I'm on the radio". Based on that it could have been broadcast on the radio, and perhaps that is the source for both versions you're working with?

Perhaps that 5 or 10 seconds (around Track One 5:35) where those points are made should be included in your edited version to maintain historical intergity yet still not bore the listener to death...