Max Webster - 1973.05.00 Piccadilly Tube, Toronto, ON (earliest recording of the band) скачать в хорошем качестве

Max Webster - 1973.05.00 Piccadilly Tube, Toronto, ON (earliest recording of the band)

Track 1 composed by Mitchell/Bruton, tracks 2/3/6 by Mitchell, track 4 by Jagger/Richards, track 5 by Anderson, track 7 by Mitchell/Dubois, track 8 by Anderson/Anderson. Piccadilly Tube - Toronto, ON May 1973 Kim Mitchell - guitar & lead vocals Mike Tilka - bass & vocals Jim Bruton - keyboards & vocals Paul Kersey - drums 1) Dreams Aren't As Real [cut] 0:00 2) The Chomper 9:55 3) Anna Lea [cut] 13:49 4) Jumping Jack Flash, a [cut] 20:00 5) Teacher, b 25:08 6) Lily 30:06 7) I Can Only Tell You [cut] 47:31 8) Aqualung, b [cut] 52:40 a = Rolling Stones cover b = Jethro Tull cover Recorded during a residency at the Piccadilly Tube between May 7 to 12, 1973, this 54 minute document from a reel-to-reel tape is almost certainly the oldest surviving recording of Max Webster. The band had formed a mere few months earlier, and Paul Kersey had been aboard for less than six weeks. Considering the age of this recording, the sound quality is marvellous and in stereo. It's rich and analog in all the ways an early seventies concert tape should be. Although they were largely a cover band at this point, five of the eight numbers captured are originals. "I Can Only Tell You" was the first song ever written by Kim Mitchell and lyricist Pye Dubois, about a year earlier in Greece. Kim later referred to the piece as an "unfinished first valiant effort." Lyrically that may be the case, but its musical arrangement says otherwise, as it sounds complete and rounded. The band heard here is quite different from the one that countless people would soon come to love. Dubois is not yet fully in the picture, and Mitchell is not yet the frontman, as Mike Tilka sings lead on a few of the songs. But musically the band is already very tight, and of particular note is Kersey's nifty snare rolls throughout and Bruton's chops on Wurlitzer and Hammond organ. 20 year old Mitchell's jazz leanings are vividly apparent, particularly in his extended unaccompanied solo part way through "Dreams Aren't As Real." Only one song heard on this tape would end up on a Max Webster album, although in a much different form - the original version of "Lily" is captured in its entirety, running at 17 minutes in length, and with a much faster tempo than the eventual studio version. This early incarnation of the debut album classic was a thing of legend, and so at this point in the initial playback of the tape I nearly died, spending the duration of the piece praying to every deity in the known universe for it not to cut out part way through. The tape gods mercifully came through for us, blessing the faithful with this gem that proves good things in life sometimes do happen. While it may seem obvious in hindsight why many sections of the piece would be axed from the arrangement in the months to come (not to mention Mitchell is still developing as a singer), hearing the idea in its original form as inspired by pieces like "Thick As A Brick" and "Supper's Ready" is an incredible privilege. Photo taken at Earl Haig Secondary School in Toronto on October 26, 1973 (from a high school yearbook unearthed by Raimo Kurppa).