Recently, when I made a poll about possible future albums sourced from the "Midnight Special" TV show, I was surprised by some passionate responses asking for Golden Earring. I'm not ready to post anything they did from that show just yet. But here's something else to tide fans over for a while. Actually, this is probably better because the band had a lot more time to jam - and there's a lot of jamming here.
Golden Earring was one of a small number of bands for a non-English speaking country to "make it" in the U.S. and other English speaking countries. This was due to their 1973 hit "Radar Love" and the album it was included on, "Moontan." This concert took place while the band touring the U.S. to promote their 1975 follow-up album, "Switch." Most of the songs are from that album.
Tracks 1 through 11 are from the "Record Plant" show in the title. But I was taken aback that they didn't include "Radar Love." So I decided to include a version of that too. Luckily, I got about as close I could get to finding a version from this show without it actually being from the show. The version here was performed the night before, at the Winterland in San Francisco. It was from a concert broadcast on the WLIR radio station, which also was the station that broadcast the Record Plant show. There were a number of other songs performed at that concert. I didn't want to include a bunch, since I only wanted to supplement the Record Plant show a bit. But I couldn't resist adding "She Flies on Strange Wings" as well. That was a hit for the band back in the Netherlands in 1971.
The sound quality is generally excellent. There was no audience applause at all, so that helped keep the sound pristine. However, the banter between songs was rather quiet, plus there was a lot of echo on their voices. (Probably, their microphones were set up for lots of reverb, and they didn't turn that off between songs.) So I ran all the talking tracks through Adobe's voice enhancer program. That helped a lot.
For the two extra songs at the end, there wasn't much crowd noise, but there was some. So I used MVSEP to get rid of that.
This album is an hour and ten minutes long. Without the two extra songs from the Winterland at the end, it's 44 minutes long.
01 talk (Golden Earring)
02 The Switch (Golden Earring)
03 talk (Golden Earring)
04 Lucky Number (Golden Earring)
05 Kill Me [Ce Soir] (Golden Earring)
06 talk (Golden Earring)
07 Big Tree, Blue Sea (Golden Earring)
08 talk (Golden Earring)
09 Daddy's Gonna Save My Soul (Golden Earring)
10 Love Is a Rodeo (Golden Earring)
11 Intro- Plus Minus Absurdio [Instrumental] (Golden Earring)
12 talk (Golden Earring)
13 She Flies on Strange Wings (Golden Earring)
14 Radar Love (Golden Earring)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/qcULhT8Q
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/8OyNlnUtCn4TAhm/file
The cover shows the band on a 1974 TV show in Hilversum, Netherlands. From left to right: Rinus Gerritsen, Barry Hay, George Kooymans, and Cesar Zuiderwijk
Switch is one of my favourite GE albums. Thanks very much for this.
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