MICK TAYLOR BAND
Late 1989 North American Tour

Late October - mid-November: US East Coast and Canada gigs.

Line-up: MT (gtr, voc)/Blondie Chaplin (gtr, voc on 'Semolina')/Joel Diamond (keyb)/Wilbur Bascomb (bass)/Eric Parker (dr)

In this series we will present the shows that Mick Taylor and his band played in the United States and Canada on tour in late 1989. The December New York shows are not included because Mick Taylor was then based in New York and played locally there.
Thanks to the people who recorded and shared these shows and also to my accomplices nzb and BlueTurns2Grey who gave me the benefit of their advice and support.
BlueTurns2Grey will be posting his reworked videos simultaneously.
Reviews of live Mick Taylor shows are being posted at GimmeMT.com

Vol 01
CAMBRIDGE
27th October 1989
(soundcheck)


27th October 1989: Mick Taylor Band: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nightstage. Soundcheck.

Of course, a soundcheck is not a show but it usually contains at least some short jams, improvisations, broken-off songs and some nice moments of full versions played with interesting variations.
Two sources circulate:
Source #1 comes from a video.
Source #2 comes from an audio
A big thanks to Smokeydusky for his help to compensate for some video troubles.

I decided to present 2 versions:
1. one with the more complete recording, mixing both recordings
2. the other using the common parts merged. This version will be used by BT2G for the reworked video which he will present simultaneously.
Both versions will be presented in this volume as an appropriate introduction for this series.


Part I: completed version (2 sources combined) 18’11
Because the video (source #1) has the best sound, I used it as the base and completed it with the audience version (source #2).

01 – noodling (source #2)
the first minute was damaged by speed variations and the right channel was saturated. So I chose to present for this segment solely the left channel duplicated
02 – YOU GOTTA MOVE (source #2, then source #1)
the beginning comes from the audio until 2’41 where the video recording takes over.
03 – LAUNDROMAT BLUES (source #1)
this segment was missing in the audio recording
04 – noodling (source #1)
05 – BLIND WILLIE McTELL (source #1)
06 – GOING TO MEXICO (source #1)
07 – BLUES IN THE MORNING (source #1, then source #2)
the last 7 seconds come solely from the audio source
Note that in the audio source this track was artificially extended by someone looping it twice!


Part II: Soundtrack for the video (merged version) duration: 12’17
Here I merged the common parts. The video is used as the speed reference and it is placed as the left channel. The audience recording is the right channel. On the video, the start and the end of the recording are raw: I chose to extend them with short audience segments to make an intro and outro for the video.

08 – YOU GOTTA MOVE (partial, merged)
to provide the intro, the first 43 seconds come from the audio source
09 – LAUNDROMAT BLUES (comes solely from the video)
10 – noodling (merged)
11 – BLIND WILLIE McTELL (merged)
12 – GOING TO MEXICO (merged)
13 – BLUES IN THE MORNING (merged)
to do the outro, the last 7 seconds come from the audio source

As usual all the infos are taken from The Mick Taylor Complete Works Database by Nico Zentgraf: [www.nzentgraf.de]





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Norbert
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2025-11-30 17:27 by StonyRoad.

Thanks for your work, this a great upgrade.

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Thank you for this new series

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N

Thank you very much

Thanks so much for launching this series and all your great work!

Thanks a lot Norbert!

Thank you Norbert!

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