I said quite a lot in my write-up for the first album I posted from this festival, the Youngbloods set. I recommend you read that, because most of that applies to this set too. Most importantly, note that this is sourced from an audience bootleg, so the sound quality isn't up to my usual standards. I had to do a lot of work to fix all sorts of flaws. The final results sounds pretty decent for a 1968 concert, in my opinion, but you need to be tolerant about the flaws that still remain.
In the write-up I did for the Youngbloods set, I extensively quoted a concert review that appeared in the San Francisco Examiner. That review also had this to say: "The Steve Miller Band was astonishing on Saturday, playing the most involved guitar and bass lines I have ever heard outside a multitrack recording."
All the sound quality problems I mentioned in the write-up for the Youngbloods applies here too. In fact, this set probably sounds a bit worse than the other ones from the festival. As I mentioned there, I used the MVSEP program to split the vocals from the instruments and then boost the vocals relative to the instruments. But for some of the songs that sounded the worst, like many in this set, the recording was too muddled for the program to be able to make that split. So in some cases I couldn't do all the fixes I wanted.
Two songs here had extra problems, meriting putting "[Edit]" in their titles. For "Steppin' Stone," there was a short section in the middle that was missing. I used a piece from another bootleg from this era to fill in about ten seconds. But there were some differences with that recording, so the edit is probably fairly obvious. Still, I felt that was better than having a gap there instead. A similar problem occurred with the song "Junior Saw It Happen." The last minute or so was missing. So I also filled that in from another bootleg. Once again, the edit wasn't ideal due to differences between the two versions, but again I'd rather have that than the song cutting out.
The bootleg version of this claimed it took place on the second day of the festival, not the first. But you can see in the newspaper review quote above that they played on the first day ("The Steve Miller Band was astonishing on Saturday"). That also jibes with the schedule posted before the festival started. According to that, the band was due to play after the Youngbloods and before the Grateful Dead.
This album is 49 minutes long.
01 talk (Steve Miller Band)
02 Living in the U.S.A. (Steve Miller Band)
03 Steppin' Stone [Edit] (Steve Miller Band)
04 I Just Want a Little Bit (Steve Miller Band)
05 Fanny Mae (Steve Miller Band)
06 Junior Saw It Happen [Edit] (Steve Miller Band)
07 Blues with a Feeling (Steve Miller Band)
08 Your Old Lady (Steve Miller Band)
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The cover photo is from this exact concert. It's from a time when Boz Scaggs was still in the band. That's Miller on the left in the yellow shirt, and Scaggs is on the right. Note the original version of this photo was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.
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