Stephen Stills and Manassas - BBC in Concert, London, Britain, 9-16-1972

I'm continuing to post some of the early 1970s BBC "In Concert" bootlegs I have. Here's a particularly good one, featuring Stephen Stills with his short-lived group Manassas.

I've posted another Manassas concert already, dating from March 1972. That one is much longer: two hours and 17 minutes, compared to 47 minutes for this one. But the sound quality of this one is probably even better, if only by a little, and there actually are a few songs here not on that other one. Although it was only six months later, the band was already turning their attention to the songs that would go on their 1973 album, and played a few here.

With BBC production standards high, as usual, there wasn't much for me to do. But I did make adjustments to three songs at the end of the concert (the ones with "[Edit]" in their names). There was a slight glitch in the middle of "Find the Cost of Freedom," probably from the way this was recorded, but I was able to fix it by patching in a different section of the song. And the lead vocals on the songs "Anyway" and "Daylight Again" were low, in my opinion, so I boosted them using the X-Minus audio editing program. 

"Daylight Again" was considered for the next Manassas album, but it wouldn't actually be released until the 1972 Crosby, Stills and Nash album, also called "Daylight Again." By then, the lyrics would change drastically, with only the first verse the same. My guess is that Stills wasn't happy with most of the words when he played this concert, because the first verse came through strongly but he sang the rest much quieter. Thanks to my edit, you can hear all of this interesting early version clearly.

01 Fallen Eagle (Stephen Stills & Manassas)
02 You're Still on My Mind (Stephen Stills & Manassas)
03 Sugar Babe (Stephen Stills & Manassas)
04 talk (Stephen Stills & Manassas)
05 Pensamiento (Stephen Stills & Manassas)
06 Change Partners (Stephen Stills & Manassas)
07 talk (Stephen Stills & Manassas)
08 Know You Got to Run (Stephen Stills & Manassas)
09 Word Game (Stephen Stills & Manassas)
10 Both of Us [Bound to Lose] (Stephen Stills & Manassas)
11 Love the One You're With (Stephen Stills & Manassas)
12 Right Now (Stephen Stills & Manassas)
13 Anyway [Edit] (Stephen Stills & Manassas)
14 Daylight Again [Edit] (Stephen Stills & Manassas)
15 Find the Cost of Freedom [Edit] (Stephen Stills & Manassas)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15285268/StephenS_1972c_ManassBBInConcertLondnBritain__9-16-1972_atse.zip.html

I wasn't able to find the video of this concert on YouTube. But I got lucky and found a nice color photo of this exact concert anyway, and used it here.