The Maidenlane Recordings:
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.
In our first series we first published the concerts that had never been circulated in any form. By listening to the others we discovered that many of his alternative recordings were interesting too.
In this second series we publish the “The Maidenlane ALTS” which will feature recordings that are either in better sound quality, more complete or sound differently from previous releases.
In the last series we will present the result of mixes and merges which will be similar to the Frankenstein productions (of my FP-series).
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 Maidenlane Alts
Volume 05
12. December 1987
NYC
Lone Star Café
(2nd show)

12th December 1987: New York City, Lone Star Cafe (2nd show)
Line-up: MT (gtr, voc)/Max Middleton (keyb)/Wayne Hammond (bass)/Mike Cullen (dr)/Shane Fontayne (gtr)/Larry (congas)

01 - slow blues instrumental (faded in)
02 - Blind Willie McTell
03 - Blue Note Shuffle
04 - Giddy Up
05 - I Wonder Why
06 - Can't You Hear Me Knocking
07 - Blues In The Morning
08 - Leather Jacket
09 - Red House
10 - outro
This recording by Maidenlane is more interesting than the version circulating before because the sound is better, warmer and there are no fluctuations in the sound that spoiled the start of 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking'. But the end of 'I Wonder Why' is brutal (tape flip) and above all it lacks a large part of the instrumental blues which begins the show.
We have decided to publish 2 versions:
- the first in the 'ALTS' series featuring only this new reworked recording.
- the second in the 'Maidenlane Frankenstein’s Version' series which will combine the 2 sources to have the most complete recording with the best sources.

Here you will find the ‘ALTS version’ in which the recording has been declicked, the titles edited, the channels balanced (+10 to +15% for the left channel) and the speed corrected (decelerated by around -3,5%).

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





Posted in 2023 by StonyRoad on IORR: [iorr.org]

link valid until 31/07/23
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MDL/FP version Vol 05 on Tuesday

Norbert
email: stonyroad58@gmail.com

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