26th October – 21st December 1981: ALVIN LEE BAND - European & US Tour.
Volume 12:
20th December: Chicago, Illinois, International Amphitheater

This is the part twelve of a series of rare recordings of Mick Taylor with the Alvin Lee Band in 1981. With thanks to nzb who provided two shows (Salisbury, Chicago), to Jaap (Stonesmuziekfan) who sent me all of his tapes from this era and gave critic and advise regarding my work and to my friend Riccardo (MrNo) who participated to a big part of my collection.

Line-up: MT (gtr; some p)/Alvin Lee (voc, gtr)/Fuzzy Samuels (bass)/Tom Compton (dr)
Note: The Alvin Lee Band toured as support for Black Sabbath!

Tracklist:
01- Sweet Little Sixteen
02 - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
03 - Slow Blues In C
04 - Honey Pie (aka Pecan Pie)
05 - Can’t Stop
06 - Slow Down
07 - Just Another Boogie (aka Boogie On)
08 - I’m Going Home
09 - Choo Choo Mama

(infos taken from The Rolling Stones Complete Works Database by Nico Zentgraf
www.nzentgraf.de/books/mt/taylor1.htm).
This recording came from nzb’s collection. It’s quite rare and like often in this case not in great quality. In fact it’s the worst for the series, for the sound, but it’s an historical testimony that can be counseled only to collectors and completist (I’m a part of them).
I only amplified the sound (+3,5db) and improved the beginning/end of the cdr by a fade in/out. I delete a gap in the intro at 6s. I improved some sound defaults like in the MT solo on “Slow Blues In C” (at 5’30, the sound was very low for some seconds). Between “Can’t Stop” and “Slow Down” a fragment of around 10s was repeated, now the transition is restored.
I’m not sure that the tape runs at the good speed, I tried different variations but the result was never convincing so finally I let it untouched.




Posted in IORR by StonyRoad in May 2017


link valid until 17/05/17
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next one will be the last one for this series: Chicago 21/12/81 on friday!

Thank you!

Thanks Norbert!

Thank you!

Chris from Belgium

Thanks a lot
CrazyMama