1987-12-12 (1st show), NYC, Lone Star Cafe

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1987-12-12 (1st show), NYC, Lone Star Cafe
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Leather Jacket

By night two it's clear that Leather Jacket will be a showcase for the second guitarist, and he plays a central lead in the middle and throughout the ending, showing a gift for melody that must please the master of melody himself.

Save the Last Dance for Me

Another curiosity, MT playing bland chords but singing the self-effacing sentiment with natural ease.

Giddy Up

The second guitar makes the ending sound more like the album version, but restricts MT's freedom to make it a wholly unpredictable personal exploration.

Red House
Goin' South
Blind Willie McTell

A clear precursor to some of the amazing Blind Willies yet to come from this configuration of the MTB, Mick Taylor tosses off some very tasty way-wah that sounds like a talkbox, along with some sly Hendrix figures.

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https://iorr.org/talk/read.php?2,2996409

A show recording produced by StonyRoad with covers. Click "Details" below for the textfile.

Mick TAYLOR: Maidenlane FRANKENSTEIN's Versions Vol 05 - 1987.12.12 - NYC (Lone Star Cafe) - 1st show
Posted by: StonyRoad, July 25, 2023 09:56

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).

……………………………………….
The Maidenlane FRANKENSTEIN’S VERSIONS
Volume 05

December 1987
NYC
Lone Star Café
(1st show)
(2 sources mixed version)
12th December 1987: New York City, Lone Star Cafe (1st show)
Line-up: MT (gtr, voc)/Max Middleton (keyb)/Wayne Hammond (bass)/Mike Cullen (dr)/Shane Fontayne (gtr)

01 - intro
02 - Leather Jacket
03 - Save The Last Dance For Me
04 - Giddy Up
05 - Red House
06 - Goin' South
07 - Blind Willie McTell

Only the first 30 seconds in the intro are coming from Maidenlane, all the rest is a mix from both sources: the Maidenlane source and the previous circulating source (decelerated by -3,7% to be in sync).
All the recordings are declicked and amplified. In Maidenlane’s recording the tracks are edited and in the circulating version the transitions are reworked.
Note on both recordings there’s a gap after “Goin’ South”, certainly due to the tape flip,

As usual all the infos are taken from The Mick Taylor Complete Works Database by Nico Zentgraf

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Shane Fontayne Catalog posted the following live version of Leather Jacket. It's great to see someone representing Shane online. I gently submit a slight correction -- this performance is from December 12, 1987, 1st show, Lone Star Cafe, New York City, not from sometime in 1988.

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