Rod Stewart and Ron Wood
1969-07-xx
B Harris living room, North Woodmere, L.I, New York
My additional Lineage: FLAC > TLH (fixed SBEs) > FLAC
From fortilix, the uploader:
Hi Gang
Here is the first offering of a batch of tapes offered by my friend Glimmerman to transfer and upload for your pleasure.
All the thanx go to him.
For digging deep in his vaults.
For sending me the tapes.
AND FOR TAPING THESE SHOWS!
This tape is a low gen. generation tape of a recording that took place in July 69 in a recording studio owned by B. HARRIS and recorded by the man.
So this is a UNRELEASED STUDIO TAPE! (It was not recorded by Glimmerman).
Well, I guess it was ? unreleasable!!!
The boys are having fun, bashing on some acoustic guitars and "singing" some "tunes"!
It's a piece of history and quite collectible.
There are two guitars sometimes, so who's the second guitarist? Rod?
You will find in the folder photos of the tape with the "tracklisting" handwritten on the box.
It was named "NOT NOT INSANE"
Well it's all in the title...
It was quite difficult to discern a song from another and to recognize them as they were quite in a jamming mood.
I tracked 14 tracks but I might have mastered it differently.
It's a raw transfer from the tape. No EQ, no Noise Reduction. No speed correction needed.
This version is CD friendly. 16/44100.
Anyway, enjoy this rarity and have fun.
Stay tuned, always more to come!
Info from Nico at
http://www.nzentgraf.de/books/rw/rw1969.htm:
Jam-session. Incl.
- Sweet Georgia Brown (Maceo Pinkard/Ben Bernie/Kenneth Casey)
- unidentified folksong 1
- unidentified blues (jam?)
- Down By The Riverside (Trad.)
- The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde (Mitch Murray/Peter Callandar)
- jam
- unidentified folksong 2
- blues jam
- jam ("I Love My Pretty Baby")
Line-up: RW (gtr)/Rod Stewart (voc)/& others (gtr, voc)
from Bonnieh1048, the taper:
I am the infamous "B Harris". This was recorded in my parents' living room in North Woodmere, L.I, New York in July 1969. We were fooling around with a Sony stereo reel to reel deck. Each channel was mic'ed separately. None of this was ever meant to see the light of day. The guys were indeed very drunk. I think that both Rod and Ronnie were on guitar.
The cassette tape in the photo is NOT first gen, but a copy off of the reel to reel tape. I have no idea when I copied it, but I can guess for whom. The handwriting on the tape is mine. The copy that glimmerman has is god-knows-what-gen, but it sounds pretty good considering.
and then more:
Peter Grant, the Jeff Beck Group's manager, was stingy with their expenses (except for Jeff). My parents were conveniently away in Europe. They had a nice big house with a swimming pool on Long Island, where I put Rod, Ronnie and Tony Newman up for a couple of weeks. My friends and I had been hanging out with the band for about a year, so it was like a party atmosphere the whole time. Did I say that there was a fully stocked bar in the basement? Even stodgy old Jeff would come over sometimes. Incredibly, the cops came by only once.
I had a Sony stereo reel to reel deck and two mics...
I really admire your work, Jerseyboy! Yes, I am a lifelong taper.
