At the time of this concert, the band had only released one album, "Children of the Future," in 1967. Later in 1968, they would have a minor hit with "Livin' in the U.S.A.," a song from their second album. This concert contains a version of that song. Also, Boz Scaggs was still part of the band. He would leave in September 1968, just prior to the release of the second album. He would go on to have a long, successful solo career.
The band played at the Carousel Ballroom a lot around May 1968. I didn't realize this until recently, but in July 1968, the management of the venue was taken over by promoter Bill Graham, and it was renamed the Fillmore West. (I had thought the Fillmore West was just the Fillmore renamed due to there being a Fillmore East started in New York City around that time. But the original Fillmore was about a mile away, and also changed ownership and names.) Anyway, for some reason, there are a bunch of soundboard bootleg recordings of Steve Miller Band concerts at the Carousel Ballroom around this time, for instance on April 26, 27, 28, and May 10, 11, and 12. A lot of the other ones are incomplete or have other problems. Now that the vocals problem has been solved, I think this is the best one.
Actually, I did a lot of work on this recording, in addition to the vocals problem mentioned above. Another issue was that the recording captured very little of the audience noise, so it seemed like there was an odd lack of audience reaction at the ends of songs. To fix this, I ran many songs through the MVSEP program again, separating the crowd noise out, and then greatly boosting the volume. I also copied and pasted some crowd noise from one song to another where there wasn't enough crowd noise to use the other method. I made some other fixes too. There was a lot of annoying buzzing coming from one of the instruments on some songs. I made more edits to get rid of that. I didn't get rid of that entirely. But now there's only a little bit of it on a few songs. I did still more edits. As one example, the harmonica on "Just a Little Bit" was buried in the mix, but I fixed that by using MVSEP yet again.
In short, this is way better than the previous version. But the original version had a lot going for it. One nice thing is that the lead guitar work is very prominent and clear.
This actually combines two sets. The song "Living in the U.S.A." was played in both sets. However, the second version was cut off before it finished. So I chose not to include that one. That was a lucky break, that the one song that got cut off was the only one that was played twice. Also, this began with the song "Can't You Hear My Daddy's Heartbeat." But I didn't include that, because it was only the last two minutes out of an eight minute long song. It was played the night before, and since there's a soundboard recording of that, I tried to combine them, but the two versions were too different for that to work well.
The recording I found ended with two unnamed jams featuring Steve Miller Band playing with Jorma Kaukonen and Elvin Bishop on lead guitars and Jack Casady on bass. I'm pretty sure this was some sort of backstage, after hours kind of thing, because there was no audience noise whatsoever. And there was several minutes of tuning and doodling between the jams that also had no hint of any audience. So I've included those as bonus tracks, since they weren't part of the concert.
This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.
01 Goin' to Mexico (Steve Miller Band)
02 Living in the U.S.A. (Steve Miller Band)
03 talk (Steve Miller Band)
04 Steppin' Stone (Steve Miller Band)
05 Blues with a Feeling (Steve Miller Band)
06 talk (Steve Miller Band)
07 Roll with It (Steve Miller Band)
08 Mercury Blues (Steve Miller Band)
09 talk (Steve Miller Band)
10 Sitting in Circles (Steve Miller Band)
11 talk (Steve Miller Band)
12 Junior Saw It Happen (Steve Miller Band)
13 talk (Steve Miller Band)
14 Me and My Woman (Steve Miller Band)
15 Feel So Good (Steve Miller Band)
16 Instrumental (Steve Miller Band)
17 I've Got My Eyes on You (Steve Miller Band)
18 Just a Little Bit (Steve Miller Band)
19 talk (Steve Miller Band)
20 Your Old Lady (Steve Miller Band)
Long Jam [Instrumental] (Steve Miller Band with Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady & Elvin Bishop)
Short Jam [Instrumental] (Steve Miller Band with Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady & Elvin Bishop)
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The cover is the concert poster for this exact concert. However, I made some changes. One is that I had to do some reshaping to get things to fit into a square shape. I kept the image in the middle unstretched, but there are parts that got cropped. Also, I removed the names of the supporting bands, which were right below where "The Steve Miller Band" is mentioned in the striped area. The other bands were Kaleidoscope and the Youngbloods.
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