The Maidenlane TAPES:
a Mick Taylor tribute
Long-time Mick Taylor fan Maidenlane taped a number of Mick’s gigs on the East Coast (mainly in New York City) between November 1986 - May 1993 to preserve his own memories. Around the same time Mick Taylor lived in NYC and thus did a lot of concerts there, with his own bands or as a guest artist with other great musicians. Most if not all of Maidenlane’s recordings were never previously circulated among collectors, including a significant number of shows that have never circulated from any source. This will fortunately change now.
Maidenlane said he chose specifically to send these recordings to us to present these gems in the best possible way. Maidenlane will also provide some on-the-scene information and anecdotes from the shows that we will add to these publications. He asked only that we request music lovers to check their closets for recordings, so they can be preserved for study and enjoyment by future generations.

With Maidenlane and nzb we decided to form a team to present these nuggets. At first we propose to publish the shows that had never circulated (later we will study the other recordings).

Of course, we are very grateful to Maidenlane and I also would like to thank nzb for his help (his advice, judgements and expertise have been invaluable to me).

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The UNCIRCULATING Maidenlane Tapes
Volume 02

Mick Taylor and The Hot Water Band
1st February 1987
NEW YORK CITY
Lone Star Cafe (1st show)

Maidenlane on how this show was captured:

“The WM-D3 was unavailable, so my office’s Dictaphone Model 2250 Cassette Voice Recorder was pressed into backup duty. Fortunately, this was the full-size Philips cassette version, not the Microcassette type which only recorded a few minutes at a time at low fidelity. The mono condenser mic had a hard time limiting the volume from being so close to the stage and the energy from MT’s amp. The sound is often overloaded as a result.”

1st February 1987: New York City, Lone Star Cafe (1st show)
Line-up: MT (gtr)/Jon Young (voc, keyb)/Wayne Hammond (bass)/Mike Cullen (dr)

01 - tuning
02 - Tusks
03 - Put It Where You Want It
04 - Will It Go Round In Circles
05 - blues improvisation (with some Rock Me Baby-lyrics)
06 - Giddy Up
07 - Red House

I declicked the recording and phased it, I edited the songs and I added a little bit of bass.
The recording ran too fast, so I decelerated it by -3,5%.
I deleted some defaults (microphone noises) in ‘Tusks’ after 7’17.
About the ‘unidentified faster blues’: it sounds like a jam basing on MT's guitar riff where Jon Young adds some lines from the blues standard ‘Rock Me Baby’ in the second half of it.
Note a break before ‘Red House’ (some seconds have been lost) probably because of a necessary tape flip.

As usual I used a lot the infos taken from The Mick Taylor Complete Works Database by Nico Zentgraf: [www.nzentgraf.de]





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Norbert
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