1987-10-10 (2nd show), NYC, Lone Star Cafe

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1987-10-10 (2nd show), NYC, Lone Star Cafe
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Hideaway

The band starts into a mid-tempo Blues that largely, but not entirely, becomes Hideaway, and MT jokes that it's a new tune they just made up.

Giddy Up

A contemplative Giddy Up, without revelations.

Goin' South
Red House

A little less steam on these, than in the early show. It more commonly works the other way around.

Blue Note Shuffle

The tempered energy is exactly right for a sublime Blues Note Shuffle. How Max and Mick didn't squeeze a George Benson-type career for themselves out of this one alone is beyond me.

Blind Willie McTell

BWMcT is such guitar extravaganza, with soloing after each set of vocals, that it's easy to miss that Mick Taylor used this tour to launch his lead vocals just back on July 3, 1987, or so, and did so without a second guitar behind him, handling both duties.

He never sounds more confident as a singer than on this Dylan tune, developed while MT was working with him on BD's "comeback" Infidels album in 1983.

Can't You Hear Me Knocking

The coda embodies hard rock as easy listening -- this version fades out before the very final moment on the only extant recording as the tape ran out, but it is fully in the spirit of the original Stones jam.

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Mick TAYLOR: The Uncirculating Maidenlane Tapes Vol 04: 10 October 1987 NYC (Lone Star Cafe) 2nd show
Posted by: StonyRoad, May 11, 2023 11:22

The Maidenlane TAPES:
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. Most if not all of Maidenlane’s recordings were never previously circulated among collectors, including a significant number of shows that have never circulated from any source. This will fortunately change now.
Maidenlane said he chose specifically to send these recordings to us to present these gems in the best possible way. Maidenlane will also provide some on-the-scene information and anecdotes from the shows that we will add to these publications. He asked only that we request music lovers to check their closets for recordings, so they can be preserved for study and enjoyment by future generations.

With Maidenlane and nzb we decided to form a team to present these nuggets. At first we propose to publish the shows that had never circulated (later we will study the other recordings).

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 UNCIRCULATING Maidenlane Tapes
Volume 04

Mick Taylor
10th October 1987
NEW YORK CITY
Lone Star Cafe (2nd show)

10th October 1987: New York City, Lone Star Cafe (2nd show)
Line-up.: MT (gtr, voc)/Max Middleton (keyb)/Wayne Hammond (bass)/Mike Cullen (dr)

01 - blues improvisation /Hideaway
02 - Giddy Up
03 - Goin' South
04 - Red House
05 - Blue Note Shuffle
06 - Blind Willie McTell
07 - Can't You Hear Me Knocking

I declicked the recording, I edited the songs and I equilibrated the channels (+30% to the left channel) and I decelerated it by -1,4%. Also I deleted a gap after ‘Red House’ at 7’29.
Note a gap after ‘Goin’ South’, probably due to the needed tape flip (no music has been lost), but more annoyingly the end of ‘Can’t You Hear Me Knocking’ is missing.

This is a very good recording but from the mid of ‘Giddy Up’ until the middle of ‘Going South’ there is a dull sound, like a remnant of a previous recording that can be heard leaking through during quiet passages on the left channel. Because this issue is only on one channel I kept the right channel and duplicated it. Still in 'Goin' South', from 9'30 onwards, appears (on the right channel) some clicking, but it is almost from this moment on that the background noise of the left channel disappears! So here's what I did for Goin' South: the first part is the right channel duplicated for about 10 minutes, then it's the left channel duplicated - all the defects disappeared even if the sound lost a slight ‘depth’.

As usual I used a lot the infos taken from The Mick Taylor Complete Works Database by Nico Zentgraf

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