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 the second series we publish the “Maidenlane Tapes Alts” which will feature recordings that are either in better sound quality, more complete or sound differently from previous releases.
In this last series we present the result of mixes and merges which will be similar to the Frankenstein productions (of my FP-series): by “mixing” I mean that I simultaneously record the 2 sources and by “merging” I mean that I record each source on a different channel (one for the left channel and the other for the right).
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 FRANKENSTEIN’S VERSIONS
Volume 09
25. March 1989
NEW YORK CITY
Lone Star Cafe
(1st show)
(mixes and merges)

25th March 1989: New York City, Lone Star Cafe (1st show)
Line-up: MT (gtr, voc)/Max Middleton (keyb)/Shane Fontayne (gtr)/Wilbur Bascomb (bass)/Eric Parker (dr)

CD1: the mixed versions
01 - intro & tuning
02 - I Wonder Why
03 - Leather Jacket
04 - Giddy Up
05 - Red House
06 - banter (from the Maidenlane recording)
07 - Goin’ South
08 - band introduction
09 - Blues In The Morning
10 - Can’t You Hear Me Knocking

CD2: the merged versions
01 - I Wonder Why
02 - Red House
03 - Blues In The Morning
04 - Can’t You Hear Me Knocking

For this show two recordings were already circulating one is high-pitched (hissy) and compressed but with a very good quality of Mick Taylor’s voice. The other is lossless but muddy and a little saturated.
I tested different possibilities to upgrade the sound. The better result came from combining both previous sources. The merging of both is my favorite but it doesn’t work for all because of the saturation on the bass guitar in the middle of the recording so I only kept 4 tracks.
The mixes are very interesting and here, to complete them, I used a short banter from the Maidenlane recording. For this reason, this compilation appears in the ‘Maidenlane Frankenstein’s Versions’ series even if the bulk come from already circulating sources.

All tracks are reworked (declicking, channels equalization…)

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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