1988-01-12 (2nd show), NYC, Lone Star Cafe

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1988-01-12 (2nd show), NYC, Lone Star Cafe
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I Wonder Why

Shane Fontayne plays a solo that reminds me a bit of Keith Richards' Chuck Berry style, albeit with a rockabilly tone. He is starting to work into a more meaningful place in several of the songs in the repertoire.

Leather Jacket

Same with LJ, MT plays the chords and Fontayne gets the solo on MT's very personal song. It strikes me that it's not unlike Mick soloing on Keith's Gimme Shelter.

Red House

A 12 minute Red House shows Mick in patient and deliberate form.

Blue Note Shuffle

This version stimulated a thought -- although MT improvises everything, some solos are more improvised than others. One of the thrills with Mick Taylor is that the more improvisation is required of him, the more we can expect some new figures to come out of nowhere. Necessity is the mother of invention. I could listen to MT solo to a shuffle 24-7. Readers of these reviews will not see many unkind words written about any BNS.

Goin' South

Not too much happens on this one.

Blind Willie McTell
Can't You Hear Me Knocking

This "still finding their footing" show has the second guitar making sporadic appearances here and there, but not yet proving the case for having one in the band (not that anyone asked). What Shane Fontayne adds is more melodic than rhythmic, but his presence does not yet seem to have altered MT's approach at all.

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Mick TAYLOR: Maidenlane FRANKENSTEIN's Versions Vol 07 - 1988.01.12 - NYC (Lone Star Cafe) - 2nd show
Posted by: StonyRoad, August 5, 2023 10:32

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 06

January 1988
NYC
Lone Star Café
(2nd show)
(2 complementary sources)

12th January 1988: New York City, Lone Star Cafe (2nd show)
Line-up: MT (gtr, voc)/Max Middleton (keyb)/Wayne Hammond (bass)/Mike Cullen (dr)/Shane Fontayne (gtr)

01 - intro & tuning
02 - I Wonder Why
03 - Leather Jacket
04 - Red House
05 - Blue Note Shuffle
06 - Goin' South
07 - Blind Willie McTell
08 - Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (extract)

Maidenlane had recorded the 2 shows of January 12 unfortunately there was a big technical problem since the recording came to be superimposed on recordings present on the cassettes used and, it seems, not erased.
All was not lost since in the recording of this show which was already circulating, the encore 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking' was missing, but this one was partially recorded by Maidenlaine and is partially recoverable. However, it lacks the first 7 minutes covered by 'Beast Of Burden' then 'Shattered' 'whose last notes can be heard in the fragment that I have kept) and it also lacks the end of the concert (end of the cassette): it’s therefore a fragment of 6 minutes which is saved and which you can find here following the previous version which I have reworked.
Maidenlane fragment has to be decelerated by -4% and my version by -3,5 %.
For the already circulating source I used mine called ‘Blue Note Shuffle’ because it was not saturated.

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

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