The real dates of the “September 1, 1974” material

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13 responses to “The real dates of the “September 1, 1974” material”

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   Nick

   May 30, 2016

   The La-La>People Make the World Go Round at the end of the 1st disc (just listed on the cd as La-La) is from 8/24/74.

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   Fate Music

   May 30, 2016

   Of course it was you! Thanks!

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   Fate Music

   May 30, 2016

   I believe "It's Too Late" is from 8/11/74.

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   Fate Music

   May 30, 2016

   And Dixie Down as well – 8/11/74.

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   Nick

   June 4, 2016

   nitpick: Finders Keeper is misattributed on this released to Saunders/Kahn. It's a cover of a Chairmen of the Board song, written by Johnson/Bowen.

   http://deaddisc.com/songs/Finders_Keepers.htm

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   raile

   June 5, 2016

   This subject absolutely fascinates me; if it's such a hodgepodge, then why release it as 9/1/74 at all? Why not just tell us what it is (or admit that they don't know)? Any idea how this all came to be? What sorts of reels were they working with? I just don't understand the need to be so mysterious unless the tapes themselves were mysterious to begin with.

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   Fate Music

   June 6, 2016

   I don't have any idea.

   A time or two on the blog I have urged The Powers That Be to take the jazz approach and pin every scrap of tape in terms of time, space, social context, equipment, etc. etc. I picked the nit that the 3/22/78 release had a picture from 11/26/77 (or 11/23, anyway), without mention. Why do that?

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   Corry342

   April 27, 2020

   I have always wondered about this subject, too, although mainly in the context of Relix Records. So many of their releases had remarkably faulty information on the cover and label that I decided there had to be a reason.

   The only reason I can come up with is money. There is some perceived advantage to stating that a recording has a certain provenance, because some sort of rights can be assigned to it. In some cases (not Relix), it may be that the tape was assembled and "dated," so there must have been an incentive not to check the history to carefully

   Other hypotheses welcome, but I can't think of one. It's too much work to go to if there's no reward.

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   Nick

   April 28, 2020

   Wow. Thank you for sharing this! So great to have this finally cleared up. But, um, *8* of the 19 tracks are from 9/1? Ooookay.

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    Fate Music

    April 28, 2020

    Are there fees that have to be paid to venues? Like, 8/28/74 is the Great American Music Hall, which is still in operation. But, as ever, cui bono? strikes me as the right question.

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    Fate Music

    July 25, 2020

    Can someone remind me on which tracks the trumpeter appears?

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12. 

    runonguinness

    July 25, 2020

    All the 74-8-28 tracks, d1t1 Neighbour and d2t5-d3t5 Emotion->Jam

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    Fate Music

    July 26, 2020

    Thanks RoG!

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