This release
presents Mick Taylor live
containing a recording from an acoustic set Mick
Taylor did in the afternoon in a record store (Discovery Gallery Of Music); this
recording is different from the one that already circulates. Two tracks then coming
from the evening show in the Marine Room Tavern where Mick Taylor was backed by
the local band The Missiles Of October. Note that the date for these shows in
Laguna Beach is not confirmed
.
The
original recording is now de-clicked and amplified and the transition between
both tracks from the electric set has been reworked.
The
acoustic set already circulated, coming from another source that was published
as The Blues Alone – Vol 02 (Dirty Pig – DP 002), here Taylor is alone playing
acoustic guitar. On both
recordings the tracks were edited but not in the same place: the Dirty Pig
(=DP) version was used to complete the recording and to have the most complete
result. The DP
version had to be accelerated by +1,8% to be in synch with the original
recording.
As for the
electric set the line-up consisted of Mick Taylor on guitar & vocals &
The Missiles Of October who usually were Poul Finn Pedersen on guitar, Frank
Cotinola on drums, Jimmy Perez on bass and Richard Bredice on guitar.
Doing
matrixes to find the differences between both recordings, the result was ok and
it was thought other people might like it too, so it was decided to present it
here as a bonus.
The merge
version on the second disc has the blues instrumental reworked from FP 125
(that came from a YouTube video). The sound is great for an acoustic set and we
can here listen to Mick Taylor in an uncommon environment.