Hi vinyl lovers -
I noticed the review above, and I wanted to add a comment. There is only one thing I wanted to clarify - the album was actually recorded live. The difference in live recordings way back in March 1968 was that the audience was well dressed and quiet - they actually listened and applauded after the song ended. It's not how I (or anyone) would act at a Green Day or 311 concert today it was a different world back then. If you listen very closely to the end of "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" and "I Started A Joke" you will hear the very first hands clapping (it's brief, so you have to listen closely). The tracks that were recorded at the Casbah were recorded early - before the place got packed, and we asked the crowd to please be as quite as possible because of the recording. I do have one suggestion to those who own the album, and it will make a major difference in listening TURN THE TREBLE AND MID UP AND THE BASS DOWN ON YOUR SYSTEM. It will bring out the guitars and vocals much better.
Stay cool music lovers,
David Detillo - David & Anthony, The Pharaohs, The Knights, and Brotherhood
ReviewFascinating local pressing out of Pittsburgh PA, USA. These fellas were a pair of acoustic guitarists very smitten with Simon & Garfunkel (seven tracks covered) and, to a lesser degree, Peter, Paul and Mary (they must have loved the ALBUM 1700 track "Weep for Jamie," but why not the equally downbeat "The House Song" from the same album?) And curiously, although the back cover claims that this was recorded live at two locations, as I remember, there were no audience sounds at all; in fact, if memory serves, this album (which sounds good if not great, and is in true stereo) could have been used as a demo sent to indie or major labels as an audition. But as this was most likely issued regionally in early or Spring 1969 (the most recent track, the Bee Gees' "I Started a Joke," which charted in late '68, suggests this), two guys and guitars (and nothing else) probably wouldn't have impressed execs and A&R guys at the time. Well worth hearing, however!