Gene Clark - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 2-19-1975

Here's a FM broadcast concert by Gene Clark, formerly of the Byrds. This is one of very few excellent sounding live recordings of Clark from his 1970s heyday.

This concert has been officially released as "Silverado '75." I had that album for years, and I thought that was all these was. But it turns out that is a single album, and what I'm posting here is enough for a double album. So that's why I'm posting this, because there's more to offer than the what's on the official album.

At first, I thought Ebbets Field was some kind of sports field venue. But it actually was a small club fitting about 200 people that was named after an old baseball stadium in New York City. It was in operation from 1973 to 1977, and during that time, most or all of the concerts there were broadcast live on a local radio station. (In the future, I may make an effort to post more of these Ebbets Field concerts, because there are a lot of good ones, but I have too much on my plate right now.) So that's why we have the full performance, with just as high quality sound as the official album.

Clark actually performed an early show and a late show. I've combined all the unique songs from both, while making sure to include all the banter that he spoke. (He didn't speak much.) In case you're curious, these are the songs that got played twice:

Kansas City Southern
Set You Free This Time
She Darked the Sun
In the Pines
Silver Raven

"Train Leaves Here This Morning" is the first song of the second set, and it's all the second set after that. Although Clark performed with a small band, I felt the differences between the versions was so small that I didn't need both versions of the ones that were played twice. If you feel otherwise, you can easily find bootlegs with all the songs. 

Clark had a long, slow decline, due to hard living and drugs, ending by dying too young at the age of 46, in 1991. But in the mid-1970s, he still sounded great, and was writing excellent songs. Here's a good account of this portion of his career:

Gene Clark – The Byrd And The Best (Part 5 of 6) - PopDiggers 

From that, I learned the song "Daylight Line" was never done in the studio, so the best version of it is from this concert. A couple other songs, like "Long Black Veil" and "In the Pines," were cover versions.

This album is an hour and 22 minutes long.

01 talk (Gene Clark)
02 Long Black Veil (Gene Clark)
03 talk (Gene Clark)
04 Kansas City Southern (Gene Clark)
05 Spanish Guitar (Gene Clark)
06 Home Run King (Gene Clark)
07 Here without You (Gene Clark)
08 No Other (Gene Clark)
09 Daylight Line (Gene Clark)
10 talk (Gene Clark)
11 She Darked the Sun (Gene Clark)
12 Train Leaves Here This Morning (Gene Clark)
13 Life's Greatest Fool (Gene Clark)
14 Silver Raven (Gene Clark)
15 talk (Gene Clark)
16 In the Pines (Gene Clark)
17 The Radio Song (Gene Clark)
18 What Is Meant to Be (Gene Clark)
19 The Virgin (Gene Clark)
20 The True One (Gene Clark)
21 talk (Gene Clark)
22 Set You Free This Time (Gene Clark) 

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alternate: 

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The cover image of Clark is from a concert at the Hammersmith Odeon, in London, at some point in 1975. All the photos I've seen of him from 1975 or thereabouts have him with a beard. The original was in black and white. But I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.