Back in 2018, I posted an album of Traffic in concert from 1970, which I called "BBC Sessions, Volume 3." I included the four songs from this concert that weren't performed at that concert. But recently, I decided to post this concert in full. So here it is.
I suggest you download the latest version of that other 1970 concert I just mentioned. I updated it today. I didn't just remove the four songs at the end. I also added all the banter tracks between songs, which had been missing. Here's the link:
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/04/traffic-paris-theatre-london-britain-4.html
Anyway, getting back to this concert, it's the one other great Traffic concert from 1970, in terms of sound quality. They are the only two soundboard recordings from that year, I believe. But there were some problems with this one, which is a reason why I didn't post it previously. However, I now have fixed those problems.
The main problem was that while the music was all there (with one exception, which I'll get to), the banter between songs was missing, and often even the cheering at the ends of songs were missing. However, it turns out the band performed at the Fillmore East the next day as well, and six songs from that were included on the 2011 deluxe edition of the "John Barleycorn Must Die" album. So I used those songs to get the banter and applause whenever possible. For instance, I used the November 18th version of "Medicated Goo," but pasted in the applause from the November 19th version at the end. For some songs that otherwise didn't have applause (since only a few of the November 19th versions have been released), I just recycled and patched in what applause there was in ways that you hopefully won't notice.
So that was one problem licked. Another problem is that a big chunk of the song "Glad" was missing - about six minutes. Luckily, the November 19th version was one of the released bonus tracks, so I used that version to patch it in. Frankly, you can hear this November 18th version has better sound quality than the patched in November 19th section in the middle, so I wonder why they didn't release November 18th tracks instead. But I digress.
There was yet another problem. While the recording quality was excellent, to be sure, worthy of an official live album, the vocals were low in the mix. I used the UVR5 audio editing program to bring those up.
The end result is that this sounds better than ever before, perhaps making it the best live Traffic concert recording out there. Many of the same songs were played as on the BBC concert from earlier in the year, but this has four more songs. Plus, that concert took place over six months earlier. In the meantime, Traffic went from a trio to a quartet, thanks to the addition of Ric Grech on bass. That allowed the others to be freer with their soloing, when they didn't have to do the work of the bass player as well.
The songs here are generally unreleased. But note there are bits and pieces that come from the November 19th versions, as mentioned above. The sound quality is truly excellent now.
This album is an hour and 11 minutes long.
01 talk by Bill Graham (Traffic)
02 Medicated Goo (Traffic)
03 Pearly Queen (Traffic)
04 talk (Traffic)
05 Empty Pages (Traffic)
06 Heaven Is in Your Mind (Traffic)
07 talk (Traffic)
08 [Roamin' thro' the Gloamin' With] 40,000 Headmen (Traffic)
09 John Barleycorn [Edit] (Traffic)
10 Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring (Traffic)
11 talk (Traffic)
12 Every Mother's Son (Traffic)
13 Glad - Freedom Rider [Edit] (Traffic)
14 Means to an End (Traffic)
15 Dear Mr. Fantasy (Traffic)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/MVr3WG5P
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/UcfuG3VuBpSWbsu/file
The cover photo shows Steve Winwood at a concert at the Bristol University Students Union, in Bristol, Britain, on April 25, 1970. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program.
Thanks very much for the Traffic.
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