Some nice live tracks from 1973 on disc4. Here's what Jody Stephens said about those performances:
"Not exactly our crowd," Stephens says. "After our performances you can hear one person clap. Not a lot of energy coming back from the audience. The good thing about that particular recording is that there were mics set up in the room. It wasn't a board feed, where those can be kind of dry."
"Not exactly our crowd," Stephens says. "After our performances you can hear one person clap. Not a lot of energy coming back from the audience. The good thing about that particular recording is that there were mics set up in the room. It wasn't a board feed, where those can be kind of dry."
), but I dunno…maybe it's just that I'm an unreconstructed geezer, but I think the original LPs sound a bit more dynamic. Andy Hummel's bass seems so much more present in the mix. I usually keep my receiver's tone controls turned off, but with the box I found myself adding/adjusting the bass. I have the UK two-fer pressing with the gatefold cover; I'd forgotten that it was a reissue by the Memphis soul label Stax, not Ardent. It made me think about this passage in the box set's booklet:
