02.07.1998 USA, New York, Bottom Line Royal, Vol. 35 vg Audience 01. Introduction [0:20] 02. Sexuality [3:03] 03. Milkman of Human Kindness [9:58] 04. Ingrid Bergman [3:54] 05. Another Man's Done Gone [3:41] 06. A Lover Sings [6:17] 07. Must I Paint You a Picture? [5:55] 08. Tank Park Salute [5:37] 09. Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key [6:16] 10. Walt Whitman's Niece [8:03] 11. She Came Along to Me [7:19] 12. The Unwelcome Guest [7:12] 13. Christ for President [5:54] 14. I Guess I Planted [14:43] 15. My Flying Saucer [4:04] 16. Waiting for the Great Leap Forward [4:24] Total Tunning Time [1:36:46] FLAC master, 18 October 2020, by elegymart: Analog audience recording (stereo) {possibly recording by Ken F}: unknown mics/recorder > 1998-99 US Maxell XLII-S (Type II CrO2) 100-minute analog audio cassette master {from the Stonecutter Archives} > Sony TC-WE435 (azimuth adjustment) > Roland R05 (24/96) > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 (audio cleanup, convert to 16/44) > SHNtool (fixed SBE) > CD Wave (track splits) > TLH (WAV > FLAC8). Created this text file. Band line-up: Billy Bragg - guitar, vocals -- The Bump Band -- Ian McLagan - Hammond B3 organ Bobby Egan - pedal steel, slide guitar Sarah Brown - bass Don Harvey - drums Notes: THE RIDE OF YOUR AMAZING LIFE VOL. 35 Now we're coming to the point where there's unfinished busy-ness on top of inflows and outflows of a wealth of material, while we run into NAB and other questionable forks in the road, and the blurring of TGPC and the Stonecutter Archives along with one's own. We're getting close to Vol. 200 of TGPC, so it's time to rummage through the old storage and get some unshared older and newer transfers out there in a parallel race to the finish line, so we can accelerate this and move on to the elegymart archives before that turns to dust. The previous shares of the Stonecutter Archives weren't named or numbered, because there was no foresight that the bot would one day disappear into thin air. Thankfully we now have that database salvaged, but since the numbered series functioned so well to keep track of TGPC, we're applying the same approach here. Here's the next major drop courtesy of the Stonecutter Archives. There was a thought about calling it Ticket to Ride, but that seemed to connote some exchange of currency, while Free Ride would mistakenly lead others to believe this series focuses on Foghat or Edgar Winter uploads (apologies to those of you who just had your hopes squashed there). For the rest of you, buckle yourself in, because you want to do this safely -- let's see if you can all handle having TGPC and the R.O.Y.A.L. series running neck-in-neck. That's if we don't crash over here first. For now we won't divulge who has the inner or outer track, but brace yourself for the ride. We head over to the Bottom Line this time for a late show set from Billy Bragg. This transfer had been prepped for several months but never got around to being shared. There never seemed to be a point in prioritizing this one with a pristine DAT soundboard of it circulating via Jerry Moore and Rob Berger. Details are vague after all these years, but the cassette for this listed Billy's name, and the venue, date and late show note. The j-card was blank, which is not usually the case for tapes in the Stonecutter Archive (but very common in TGPC). From what Stonecutter could surmise after all these years, he likely loaned his gear (may have been a D6 with ECM mic, he confirmed he wouldn't have passed along his DAT rig back then) likely to Ken F. He then was probably loaned the master cassette when the equipment was returned to utilize for running off 1st gens for trades which never got around to being returned, but beyond the first cassette, who knows what happened to a second cassette if extant which is where the encores probably reside. While it's only a strong guess that the cassette for this transfer was the master, there was no tape flip overlap to conclude otherwise. Since Billy tends to banter especially in a small club setting, those stretches will reveal a little more analog hiss than during the music. Any set with Billy that has Ian McLagan playing, whether it was with the Bump Band or the Blokes, is always worthy of a listen. Majority of the set is comprised of "Mermaid Avenue" tunes, so it gives Billy enough berth to discuss Woody Guthrie as an everyman in the modern city, with some jabs at Peter Frampton. "My Flying Saucer" has a particularly verbose talk-up but all very entertaining and all the topic of rides integrates well thematically with this series. Enjoy, elegymart Dimeadozen.org: Torrent 691464 (by elegymart)