(JETHRO) TULL ‘REASONS FOR WAITING’ / ‘MY GOD!’ + ‘FLUTE CAKE’

 

A copy of TMOQ’s MY GOD! – first released in May of 1970 with square Athapascan labels and 20 1/2 matrix markings. Later known as 71005.

The seller wrote about the album shown below: “Writing on the back cover leads me to believe this lp was purchased on 9/25/1970”. So this one came from one of the first pressing runs. Vinyl looks black but was described as purple. This was only the second ever Dub Taylor/TMOQ release to be issued on colored vinyl (after Donovan’s Reedy River).

 

Ken: “While I was away Dub had mastered My God, by Jethro Tull which was mostly B sides added to a couple live songs he record in Long Beach with his shotgun mic. ”

JETHRO TULL
April 19, 1970
Long Beach, CA. Long Beach Arena

1  TALK/TUNING
2  NOTHING IS EASY
3  MY GOD
4  TO CRY YOU A SONG
5  WITH YOU THERE TO HELP ME
6  SOSSITY YOU’RE A WOMAN > REASONS FOR WAITING > SOSSITY YOU’RE A WOMAN
7  DHARMA FOR ONE
8  WE USED TO KNOW > GUITAR SOLO > FOR A THOUSAND MOTHERS

A half-pirate release. Dub selected only two segments from his audience recording and filled  side two with UK singles and B-sides that had not been released in the U.S.:

Love Story / A Christmas Song    November 1968  WIP 6048  (reached # 29 in UK)  – 2nd ever Jethro Tull 45

Sweet Dream / 17    October 1969  WIP 6070  (# 9 in UK)    – 4th JT 45

The Witch’s Promise / The Teacher  January 1970    WIP 6077  (# 4 in UK)   – 5th JT 45

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For the famous FLUTE CAKE title, we are looking at four options, with the first two assuming that TMOQ’s 71044 release from July 1972 was the original and Dittolino copied it:

1. Dub bought a ticket to Tull’s next swing through So. Cal. at the Anaheim Convention Center on 19 October 1970 and recorded the show himself but did not ready it for a release it until 21 months later.

2. Someone else had recorded the performance and Dub received the tape only in 1972.

3. Dittolini were the first to release this album.

4. Another bootlegger was first, which would explain the time gap and the unusual matrix numbers of KW – 215344 A / B (also found on the Freebooter label).

Or perhaps, this was just a disguise used by Dub … or that sticker never belonged there:

 

recordsguild.com’s TMOQ wiki says the first version had this label type.

 

Jethro Tull
Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California
19 October 1970

01.  Nothing is Easy 7:40
02.  My God 11:41
03.  We Used to Know 3:20
04.  With You There to Help Me / By Kind Permission Of 13:06
05.  Song for Jeffrey 5:13
06.  Sossity, You’re a Woman 5:33

Total time: 46:37

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JIMI HENDRIX ‘LIVE EXPERIENCE(S)’ / ‘GOODBYE, JIMI’: WCF

I just noticed that the stamped cover has the plural ‘s’ title, while the insert version does not.

 

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Dittolini’s version of UK’s ‘White Cover Folks’ best selling and widely copied release GOODBYE, JIMI

Grateful Dead ‘LIVE DEAD’ / ‘FILLMORE WEST’ : TMOQ 72014

The Dead played two sets at the ‘Closing of the Fillmore West’ five day concert series. Their performance took place on July 2nd, lasting into the early hours of the 3rd.Same source as Dittolino’s Creedence Clearwater Revival release featured on this blog recently.

“This was an FM broadcast. I heard it live on KMET FM in Los Angeles. I was a lifeguard in Newport Beach at the time. My friends and I were all pumped up to hear this show since KMET was building it up all week long. We gathered around the stereo and listened, and I remember the NRPS show too. It was also broadcast. I remember wishing I had a recorder, but it was 1971, I was a poor just graduated high school kid and, oh well, hey, I just found the show again when I was 53. Not bad! This show was also available a few months later on a bootleg vinyl that I bought and wore out on the old phonograph device.”
“This is from the KSFX-FM broadcast the night of the show.KSAN in SF and KMET in LA also aired the live broadcast.”

Read more: http://www.deadlistening.com/2009/04/1971-july-02-fillmore-west.html#ixzz382BoxzSC

Set 1:

1 Bill Graham Introduction 00:53
    2 Bertha 06:01
    3 Me And Bobby McGee 08:01
4 Next Time You See Me 05:13
    5 China Cat Sunflower 07:25
    6 I Know You Rider 06:01
7 Playing In The Band 09:00
    8 Loser 10:12
    9 Ain’t It Crazy (The Rub) 05:36
    10 Me and My Uncle 04:16
    11 Big Railroad Blues 03:49
    12 Hard To Handle 08:03
    13 Deal 07:20
    14 Promised Land 03:20
    15 Good Lovin’ 18:25

Set 2:

1 Sugar Magnolia 07:12
    2 Sing Me Back Home 10:42
    3 Mama Tried 04:01
    4 Dedication to Owsley 00:54
    5 Cryptical Envelopment 02:06
    6 Drums 05:16
    7 The Other One 16:18
    8 Big Boss Man 06:14
    9 Casey Jones 06:39
    10 Not Fade Away 04:11
    11 Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad 08:39
    12 Not Fade Away 09:26
    13 Johnny B. Goode 03:57

It seems that many of these performances made it onto the double set but I am not enough of an expert to confirm what is missing.

 

This auction from February of 2013 called the album mystery of the dead but this was most likely a made up title but this is obviously a copy of LIVE DEAD, visually enhanced by a former owner with the added photos.

“this is a mysterious looking album […] on dittolino label, the cover has a picture of garcia on the front and the band on the back, i hav’nt seen the garcia picture before the back one looks like it may have come off historic dead? i do not know,  the songlist side 1. 1. bertha 2. bobby mcgee 3. lied, cheated 4. china cat 5. i know you rider side 2. 1. playing in the band 2. loser 3. aint it crazy 4. me and my uncle 5. railroad blues 6. sunshine daydream side 3. 1. sing me back home 2. mama tried . casey jones 5. johnny b. goode side 4. 1. sugar magnolia 2.uncles john’s band 3 the other one, dedicated to owsley “in jail”, this is an album i have not seen before, i believe it to be very rare, this is a soundboard recording, live from somewhere, bill graham does an intro,”

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This was a popular bootleg due to its excellent sound quality and was issued by many bootleggers. Who was first? I actually do not know in this case.

Available in blue and pink. The front covers are identical but the back covers are not.

Referred to as a Dittolino release at auction, this version looks like an early Berkely release to me, presented by “Record Revolution”. Hopefully, nobody happened upon this cover art while under the influence of a bad LSD trip – I’d hate to have this crowd come to life and jump off the cover.

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Matrix: HH Dead Fillmore

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Strange labels on these colored releases with the smoking pig logo.

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TMOQ 71014 – one of Ken’s releases and mentioned in the recordcollectorsguild.org TMOQ – 2 wiki but without a release date.          I would pinpoint the year to 1973 as ‘smoking pig’ 72012 – Alice Cooper – You’re All Crazier Than I Am  [to be distinguished from Dub’s # 71012: The Beatles Vancouver 1964 ] was released in that year. 

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The TMOQ / mammary presentations MM 4 release recorded LIVE in concert – matrix: MEL (later editions with the printed Kama Sutra cover had DEAD-2/1), seems to derive from a radio broadcast from the Winterland in 1970 (October 4th?) and not from the last night at the Fillmore West as listed in HOTWACKS.

 

Two tracks – “Casey Jones” and “Johnny B. Goode” were officially released in 1972 on the 3 LP set Fillmore – The Last Days

Elton John ‘LIVE’ [E Jay] / KNOCKIN’ EM DEAD ALIVE : Kustom Records 006 + a Kustom Records Discography

HOTWACKS states: Made from the same plates as ‘Live E.Jay’ (Dittolino Discs).

WABC-FM New York radio broadcast – 17 November ’70, officially released on 9 April 1971, possibly after several bootleg titles had already been spotted. This created a unique situation, where for the first time in the history a commercial release had to compete with bootlegs containing identical material, available in sufficient quantities to cause concern.

However, as I have written here before, I am somewhat doubtful of the claim found on wikipedia, taken from Heylin’s book, stating ” It has been said that the release by an eastern bootlegger of the whole 60-minute aircast rather than the 40 minutes selected by Dick James Music significantly cut into the US sales of the live album.”

None of the single LP releases, like radiocord or Keylo’s VERY ALIVE [really a TMOQ release] contained the complete broadcast. The double album shown here would be the only one that fits that description but it is quite hard to find, which is not what you’d expect from a significant seller, even 40+ years after the fact. I don’t doubt that all of these bootlegs combined put a modest dent into sales of the official album (I would be surprised if it was more than 25,000 although whether this was before or after the official release date would have to be looked at in detail), especially VERY ALIVE in its imitation brown leather cover is still easy to locate these days but that is the risk you take as a record company when you release a performance that was already broadcast to potentially hundreds of thousands of listeners several months earlier.

The original broadcast had consisted of:

I Need You To Turn To
Your Song
Country Comfort
Border Song
Indian Sunset
Amoreena
Bad Side Of The Moon
Take Me To The Pilot
Sixty Years On
Honky Tonk Women
Can I Put You On
Burn Down The Mission (including My Baby Left Me & Get Back)
My Father’s Gun (encore)

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KNOCKIN‘ EM DEAD – ALIVE / LIVE (E JAY) is the only bootleg that contains the whole show (but not in the original running order):

Side 1: I Need You To Turn To / Your Song / Bad Side Of The Moon / Country Comfort
Side 2: Can I Put You On / Border Song / Sixty Years On
Side 3: Indian Sunset / Honky Tonk Women / Amoreena / Take Me To The Pilot
Side 4: Burn Down The Mission (including My Baby Left Me & Get Back) / My Father’s Gun

 

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A similar situation to Deep Purple’s H Bomb, which was available with the same type of stamped cover, either with Dittolino or ‘title’ Kustom labels:

This points to a rather close working relationship between Kustom and Dittolino Records. Both were mainly copy labels, with Kustom focusing on European releases, and both operated at the same time, from 1971 onwards, when this Elton John title taken from his radio broadcast was released. I do not think however, that Kustom was a side label run by the same people who did Dittolino Records.

 

Kustom Records Discography [Deep Purple, Beatles & Elton John titles also produced by Dittolino]:

 

– DEEP PURPLE H-Bomb   ASC-001, Matrix numbers on vinyl: side1: 2001-A; side 2: 2001-B

Live in Aachen, Germany – 11 July 1970. Probably a copy of this 1970 Italian bootleg – possibly the first to be produced in Italy:

– THE BEATLES – Live At Shea / The Only Live Recording  ASC-002,  Matrix: SHEA – 1/2 

– THE BEATLES – Judy  ASC-003, Matrix : A/1 2002 – A / B/2 2002 – B [all pirated officially released tracks, with every song title changed by the bootleggers.]

– ASC-004 ?

 

– JIMI HENDRIX – Goodbye Jimi   Kustom 005

A quality degenerated copy of the UK White Cover Folks bootleg # 723:

“[WCF’s] most successful title was a superb Hendrix collection, Goodbye Jimi, drawn from BBC Top Gear radio sessions, which apparently sold some 9,000 copies.” [Heylin, p. 148]

 Dittolino also issued this title as LIVE EXPERIENCE(S)

as did TMOQ did under this title in June of 1971 as JH-107 / 1841 / 71019:

– ELTON JOHN – Goodbye Knockin’ Em Dead – Alive  006

Dylan on Dittolino Discs: ‘Talkin’ Bear Picnic’, ‘Looking Back’ and ‘Blind Boy Grunt’ + ‘Kindest Cut’: BBG Records

1. Talkin’ Bear Picnic

A very rare item. It is not in HOTWACKS, nor in the 1980 book The Great White Answers

 

And has not been added to the variations on bobsboots.com.

The title has been changed from Talkin’ Bear Mountain Massacre Picnic Blues (perhaps to allow Dittolino to use a smaller and cheaper stamp for the front cover?) –  the “great quality” 1971 TMOQ release containing Freewheelin’ session outtakes and one Witmark demo:

 

“Early inserts included the text ” Cover Design Made For “Trade Mark of Quality” by PoPo Productions”

and were mainly exclusive to Dylan issues. PoPo Productions started as a small time bootlegger and in short order became aligned with TMQ. Dub probably recruited Mr. PoPo to design Dylan inserts much like he later recruited William Stout for TMQ’s cover art designs. Unlike Stout though Mr. PoPo was also involved in the bootlegging vinyl side of the business. His contribution to the TMQ Dylan catalogue included two titles “Let Me Die In My Footsteps” and “Blind Boy Grunt”. PoPo Productions is often referred to as TMQ’s sister label.“

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2. Looking Back

# 0008 

Issued in 1971 by Dittolino, when they would still number their releases in their early days. Copied from the 1970 Zerocks double LP of the same name, that premiered the “Royal Albert Hall 1966” (in reality, Manchester Free Trade Hall) material in the U.S. This material would subsequently be issued in different formats/compilations and by several different bootleg labels as it remained very popular.

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3. Blind Boy Grunt

“This LP was repackaged with various combinations of blank white, 1&2 , Dittolino Discs, and full printed labels.” [bobsboots.com]

Released by Dittolino ca. 1972/3, either copied from the BBG original or the TMOQ – PoPo title shown below. 

More info on the contents found here: http://www.punkhart.com/dylan/tapes/61-dec22.html

‘Linealogy’ for this release:

1971:  BBG LP Kindest Cut , matrix: RI 3145 / FIWN

Most of the time when this LP is described or pictured, there is only a title sticker on the front and a track list sticker for the back:

However, I have since come across this image and it seems that the LP may have been subtitled Blind Boy Grunt from the start but either: a. this insert was only available for a limited time, b. most people lost it over time or c. this is a fake (however, as BBG is an abbreviation for the title in question we can probably rule that out):

Dylan recorded under the pseudonym “Blind Boy Grunt” in sessions for Broadside magazine in 1962/3.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/blind-boy-grunt-mn0002296622

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September 1972: TMOQ + PoPo Productions issued this as Blind Boy Grunt – copied from the BBG release; Matrix: Blind Boy g    A / B [the lowercase ‘g’ easily mistaken for a ‘9’]

Dittolini’s copy was just one of many, including this one by WCF/pre-Berkeley label, ca. 1971/2:

Above: Printed label of the WCF LP

 

DEEP PURPLE ‘H BOMB’ / Stamped Dittolino’s

This rare version of the much copied Aachen 1970 soundboard tape was previously featured in this blog in this post* and likely taken from the Kustom Records title with the same name:

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Other stamped Dittolino covers I found are:

 

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Talkin’ Bear Picnic – more about this rare Bob Dylan title in the next post.

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Jimi Hendrix – Live Experiences

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It’s Jethro Tull

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I am pretty sure these were never meant to come with an insert. The majority of these can also be found with insert (and then without a stamp). Were they early runs for each title? Were they made to copy TMOQ or late ones after the inserts had run out? It’s hard to say.

CREEDENCE [CLEARWATER REVIVAL] – REVIVED: Dittolino # 0005 * July 4th, 1971 – Closing Night of the Fillmore West*

I did not expect a fully printed label for a Dittolini release. Hotwacks, however, states that these tracks were on side 2. They do make more sense on side 1 as these were performed in the first part of the performance.

The other side contains: Commotion / Lodi / Bad Moon Rising / Proud Mary / Up Around The Bend / Hey Tonight / Sweet Hitchhiker

As if I had planned it, Dittolino # 0005 was recorded on a July 4th at the closing night of the Fillmore West in San Francisco, as broadcast by KSAN-FM.

The master is now owned by wolfgangsvault:

1 Tuning 01:47
2 Born On The Bayou 05:22
3 Green River 03:55
4 It Came Out Of The Sky 03:31
5 Door To Door 03:25
6 Travelin’ Band 03:30
7 Fortunate Son 02:21
8 Commotion 04:13
9 Lodi 04:02
10 Bad Moon Rising 02:15
11 Proud Mary 04:08
12 Up Around The Bend 03:32
13 Hey Tonight 03:04
14 Sweet Hitchhiker 02:48
15 John Fogerty Speech 01:08
16 Keep On Chooglin’ 08:07
17.Bill Graham Outro / Introduction of Allen Ginsberg 02:32

 

The artwork on the blank white cardboard sleeve no doubt added by of one of the previous owners, note the amended spelling to “Dittowino”.

According to HOTWACKS, this was also released as Live In Concert on 5D Records by I have not found any trace or image of this item. Not many CCR bootlegs were made and those that were are not that easy to find. What I did find is the following LP, which likely contained the exact same songs as the Dittolini LP, according to this CCR bootleg page: http://riverising.tripod.com/members-robert/ccrfogertyboots.html

Based on what information we have, the Dittolino release was likely a copy of one of these two:

Matrix: HH CC 1/2

A late, and somewhat harder to find, addition to the family of HH releases.

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Record Revolution CC 1/2

One might just have been a reissue of the other done from the same pressing plates. The art work was done by the same person as the Morrison / Hendrix / Winter Jam album:

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In 1984, the material was re-released as part of the Box Top series, with the first 50 copies on clear PVC:

Part of the July 4, 1971 broadcast was pressed in the 1980s on a radio station live sampler as part of the Retrorock series together with selections from a recording made at Oakland Coliseum on January 31, 1970. The radio station broadcast or even an original LP was subsequently bootlegged in 1986 as Live in the USA 1971 (BR-13868-5):

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Roots or Root Records? It seems that this 1980’s release could not quite make up its mind.

 

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Circa 1987 saw a final release of the Fillmore West material on side 2 of this release as part of the BBR / (fake) Instant Analysis series as BBR 09. Some sleeves (first editions?) are reported to have John’s last name spelled “Forerty “.

 

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The Fillmore West in 1970.

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Happy 4th of July to all that celebrate it.

[LED] ZEPPELIN – GONE TO CALIFORNIA: Dittolino 0004

Source: L.A. Forum September 4 1970

Side 1: What Is And What Should Never Be/ Moby Dick/ Medley: Communication Breakdown; Good Times Bad Times; For What It’s Worth (26:53)
Side 2: Since I’ve Been Loving You/ Organ Improv/ Thank You/ Out On The Tiles/ Blueberry Hill (27:00)

Matrix markings: ZEP-2/3 (S-2551-2)

Hotwacks just states this derives from sides 2 & 3 of a bootleg called Blueberry Hill, probably referring to TMOQ’s classic release Live On Blueberry Hill, shown below in a second pressing.

The internal Dittolini Records numbering would place this into the middle of 1971, which makes it one of the earlier copies of this title.

The most remarkable detail here is the chosen title. If this was released before November 8, 1971, which I think we can make a good argument for, it would predate the release of Led Zeppelin iV and the album track “Going To California”.

Would you rather have this or the Dittolino ‘half’? Still, the copy single LP shown at the start managed to sell at auction in June of 2014 for $60.

 

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The Titanic Records 9001 2 LP release by the same name mentioned on argenteumastrum.com had a color cover and was issued around 1980. I doubt either one was derived from the other.

 

CSNY at Big Sur, CA 1969: OHIO WOODEN NICKEL: TMOQ 71013 / BLUEBIRD LIVE: Dittolino 0003 / OHIO / WOODEN NICKEL

Following their appearance at Woodstock, a week long residency at the Greek Theater in L.A. and before four nights at the Fillmore East in New York, the band played another festival, the annual Big Sur, CA music festival staged by the Esalen institute the weekend of September 13 & 14, 1969. This year, the proceedings were filmed for a documentary, which had its premiere on April 9th 1971 in New York.

CSNY performed on both days:

September 13:  Suite: Judy Blue Eyes / Blackbird / Helplessly Hoping / Guinnevere / Lady Of The Island / Birds / 4 + 20 / You Don’t Have To Cry / Pre-Road Downs / Long Time Gone / Bluebird Revisited / Sea Of Madness / Wooden Ships / Down By The River

September 14:  Suite: Judy Blue Eyes / Pre-Road Downs / Long Time Gone / Bluebird Revisited / Sea Of Madness / Wooden Ships / Down By The River

The movie soundtrack contained the following CSNY selections:

“Sea of Madness”
“4 + 20” – Stills solo performance
“Down By the River” [incomplete]

 

As the bootlegs have significantly more, and in the case of “Down By The River”, complete performances and the audio quality is pretty good, the source was likely a pre-production soundboard tape for the documentary; although ghostsontheroad.co.uk also mentions a tape “possibly from a radio broadcast”.

Looking at the vinyl bootlegs that appeared ca. 1971, we can find two distinct versions – those that include the officially released version of “Ohio” – TMOQ’s 71013 Ohio Wooden Nickel [which also adds a live version of “Find The Cost Of Freedom” from an unknown source] and Ohio on Snoopy Records [which also added the studio version of “Teach Your Children”]  – and those that do not: Bluebird Live on Dittolino, Wooden Nickel on Canyon Records and the CBM copy. ghostsontheroad.co.uk states that out of these, TMOQ’s Ohio Wooden Nickel was the first release.

 

This is the best image I could find of the insert, which, unless I’m mistaken, came only  with later re-issues. Anyone have a better and complete one?

TMOQ track list: Side 1:  Ohio (Studio) / Guinevere (September 13) / Birds (Sept. 13) / 4 & 20 (Sept 13) / You Don’t Have To Cry (Sept. 13) / Suite To Judy Blue Eyes (Sept. 14)     
Side 2:   Find The Cost Of Freedom (?) / Listen Once Again To My Bluebird [Bluebird Revisited] (Sept. 14) /  Sea Of Madness (Sept. 14) / Down By The River… (not studio, Sept .13)

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The album was listed as “0003” in Hot Wacks. While not shown on this insert more numbers following the same format exist (I do have a close up of ‘0004’ for the next release) and I have decided to use it. I just wish I knew the other numbers as well.

Dittolini Discs track list:  Side 1: Guinevere (September 13; 4:33) / Birds (Sept. 13; 2:54) / 4 & 20 (Sept 13; 1:58) / You Don’t Have To Cry (Sept. 13; 3:13) / Suite To Judy Blue Eyes (Sept. 14; 7:44)                                                                                                                         Side 2:   Listen Once Again To My Bluebird [Bluebird Revisited] (Sept. 14; 3:11) /  Sea Of Madness (Sept. 14; 3:28) / Down By The River… (not studio, Sept .13; 13:50)

Rare praise for the Dittolino version comes from this collector comment:

“A PA soundboard tape from the gig became an early classic bootleg under the clever moniker “Wooden Nickel” pressed up by Canyon Records (and a later better re-master by So Cal’s Dittolino Discs). Side 1 was a very nice acoustic set featuring Guinnevere and and Birds. Side 2 featured Sea Of Madness and Down By The River. The problem was, being a PA mix, the mix featured only vocals (and screechy harmonies), drums, bass, and organ; the only guitar sound (amped separately), only bled into the mix via the vocal mics. The album gave them some “street cred”, but was also quite flawed (the opening track Side 2 lurched to a start well into the first verse). For a while the only CSNY live tracks available were either this album, or the few paltry tracks available on albums Woodstock and Woodstock 2 (and Sea Of Madness is allegedly NOT from the Woodstock gig!).

I believe Dallas Taylor and Greg Reeves were let go at the end of touring in 1969 as they “were asking equal billing” or pay(?), and a 1970 CSNY tour was launched with replacements Johnny Barbata and Calvin Samuels. Dates were taped on multi-track specifically for a live album. “Wooden Nickel” was clearly weighing on their minds. On one of the multi-track tapes for “4 Way Street” (Chicago?), Crosby is either prompted or simply starts a rap to the audience about “Wooden Nickel” on “Bogus Records”,…”steal your money”. He clearly tries to downplay the audience cheers for the bootleg, and seems particularly embarrassed by the electric side. Neil also lets the audience know that Bill Halverson is downstairs recording the gig for a live album, and bumps mics and chairs for comic effect.
The impact of the official “4 Way Street” was almost lost by the release by heavy-hitter Rubber-Dubber Records’ “Live At The L.A. Forum” with red, white and blue American flag cover, as several of the tracks were to be included on “4 Way Street”. Rubber Dubber’s tape was a very inferior audience tape, however, so THAT bootleg quickly died on the vine. In later years, some of Bill Halverson’s tapes started circulating, but Atlantic was cluey enough to include some of these “outtakes”, particularly a Neil Young acoustic medley, as bonus tracks on their extended cd re-release of “4 Way Street”. ”  [from http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/bootlegs-that-have-inspired-forced-official-releases.166441/ ]

 

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SNOOPY RECORDS S231718

As noted, “Teach Your Children”, closing side 1 here, was pirated from the official LP.

Side 2:  Guinevere (September 13) / Birds (Sept. 13) / 4 & 20 (Sept 13) / You Don’t Have To Cry (Sept. 13) / Suite To Judy Blue Eyes (Sept. 14)

 

Below, the Canyon Records version.

Track list is identical to Dittolini Discs release. I have previously included this release with a green label.

The version shown above made the papers, as Atlantic Records and the group were not amused:

 

Source: Billboard, July 4 1970 edition

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Contraband copy: I was not able to find an image for this.

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Jamming in their drive way with Greg Reeves, ca. 1969.

Great interview here: http://www.4waysite.com/exclusive-4waysite-2/exclusive-4waysite-4waysite-catches-up-with-greg-reeves-in-2012/

 

I see images like these and I want to get a time machine and transport myself there.

What’s New – July 1, 2014

That was an unintended long break between posts. My job hours mushroomed and zapped all my energy and time from me, unfortunately. However, neither the blog nor I am dead yet – fortunately.

The second part of the ‘Beatles on Dittolino Discs’ also got a complete re-write today, as it had been created when vinylegs was offline.