WYMAN, BILL - CD
MESSING WITH THE BLUES IN MONTREUX VOL.1

LABEL:
StonyRoad
SOURCE:
Centre de Congrès 9th Montreux Festival 28 June 1974.
FORMAT:
2 downlioad cdrs
RUNNING TIME:
61.37/46.12
SOUND/SOURCE:
Soundboard mono except for Disc Two, Tracks 7-9: Soundboard stereo
PACKAGING:
Double Slimline Jewel case
 


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SOUND 7.5 / PACKAGING 9 / PERFORMANCE 10

 
TRACK LIST:

Disc One: 1. Instrumental Blues and Band Introduction by Muddy Waters (#2), 2. Medley: Still A Fool/Catfish Blues/She's All Right (#2), 3. Howlin' Wolf (#2), 4. Electric Man (#2), 5. Making Friends, 6. Hoochie Coochie Man (#1), 7. Mannish Boy (#1), 8. Got My Mojo Working, 9. The Same Thing (#1), 10. I’m Ready, 11. Encore Break (#3), 12. Kansas City (#3).

Disc Two: Part I: Rumble Reduction : 1. Instrumental Blues and Band Introduction, 2. Medley: Still A Fool/Catfish Blues/She’s All Right, 3. Howlin' Wolf, 4. Electric Man, 5. Making Friends, 6. I'm Ready.

Part II: Merged Versions: 7. Making Friends, 8. Hoochie Coochie Man, 9. Got My Mojo Working.

 
REVIEW:

This project is coming from audios and videos of this show recently received; the main idea was to clarify the tracklist for the Montreux shows with Bill Wyman guesting with the famous bluesmen Muddy Waters, Junior Wells and Buddy Guy. The line-up consisted of: Bill Wyman on bass, Muddy Waters on vocals and guitar, Buddy Guy on guitar, Junior Wells on harmonica, Terry Taylor on guitar, Pinetop Perkins on piano and vocals and Dallas Taylor on drums. The correct running order is not known or 100% confirmed, but using all these sources it is assumed as shown here.

For this show there were 4 recordings:

Source #1: is a video published in 1991 Messin’ With The Blues (BMG Video 791 051) which contained 4 songs:

- Hoochie Coochie Man

- Mannish Boy

- The Same Thing, on which 23 gaps have been deleted!

- Got My Mojo Working [+reprise] on which two gaps at 0’15 & 1’10 were deleted.
Source #2: 6 tracks appear on the ‘Blues By Year - 1974’-collection, published by ‘letsgo’ on Dime in April 2021.

The concert was broadcasted by a few assorted radio stations incl. France Inter. The sound is average and with a strong rumble. Lots of noises have been deleted and the sound amplified. The tracks that overlap with the official releases showed that this recording has to be decelerated by -0,6%

- an instrumental blues and the band introduction by Muddy Waters

- a medley from Still A Fool/Catfish Blues/She’s All Right on which have been deleted or attenuated lots of flaws but many remained and cannot be deleted without ruining the track.

- Howlin' Wolf on which a 5 second repetition was edited out at 2’03.

- Electric Man (titled here They Call Me Muddy Waters)

- Making Friends

- I'm Ready

Note that these last tracks are incomplete.

Source #3: is a poor-quality video coming from an unknown French TV program. This video comes with lots of cuts but it’s very interesting because it includes the complete second part of the show and helps to determine the order of the played songs.

Source #4: 4 tracks were released in August 2021 on the official cd The Montreux Years (BMG BMGCAT519CD) with Jean Kaehr as sound engineer and the audio restored by Tony Cousins, but Mannish Boy, I'm Ready, The Same Thing and Electric Man is not because officially released.

On Disc One: Making Friends (#2 & #3 for the 22 first seconds), Got My Mojo Working [+ reprise] (#1 & #3 for the 19 first seconds), I’m Ready (#2 & #3 for the 19 last seconds) faded in: the beginning appears in #3 but it deteriorates, Kansas City (#3) (without Junior Wells) patched from 0’18 to 0’19 but 2 flaws remain from 0’27 to 0’29.

On Disc Two, Part One: The Blues By Years source suffered from a strong rumble, so it was decided to use a slight rumble reduction (very slight so it won’t alter the music); Part Two: to control the speed for the 2 videos sources, a merge with Hoochie Coochie Man was tested: both recordings were perfectly in synch, but the result was interesting so it has been decided to add 3 of them as bonus (Mannish Boy, The Same Thing and I’m Ready were too much damaged in #3 to make a merged version interesting!)

07 - Making Friends (with patches at 0’09, 0’31, 1’18, 1’35, 5’52, 6’30, 6’37, 6’52 & 7’33)

08 - Hoochie Coochie Man (with the first 4 seconds coming from #3 and patched at 0’23)

09 - Got My Mojo Working (with the first 19 seconds coming from #3) with patches coming from #2 at 0’08, 0’19, 0’29, 1’14, 1’51 and 1’59. The overall sound is acceptable despite all the issues found, making it possible to listen to this rare recording. Particularly nice are the merged versions on Disc Two, on Hoochie Koochie Man and Got My Mojo Working Bill Wyman's bass really stands out.

 

 


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