George Harrison / Chicago 1974 Afternoon Show Speed Corrected / 2CDR

George Harrison / Chicago 1974 Afternoon Show Speed Corrected / 2CDR / Non Label
Live at Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois, USA 30th November 1974 Afternoon Show

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The Beatles neighborhood exciting because Paul is coming to Japan, this week Georg 1974 North American tour rare sound source will also appear in gifts. George, who toured the United States before Wings and then called a topic at the time, recorded live at the Chicago stadium. At the same venue twice a day performances were held, but this time the gift will be asked by the stage in the day section. This was an analog boot in real time and it was that boot that showed that Sugiyama Kiyoshi interviewed in the special number at the time of the arrival of Clapton & George in Japan in the United States found it in the United States ….
However, boot is LP of one piece, incompleteness is content too much. In that respect, another audience recording was known to maniacs as a recording in which the entire show can be seen as a bird’s eye view, but this time it is a version recorded from the master tape of the same sound source. It was KRW_CO familiar to sound source mania that released it on the net. Since it was made public with his hand, I thought that it was high-quality sound, but the wholesalers do not wholesale (laugh). On the contrary, Moro is an analog boot tick sound quality, and it is exactly old texture. Besides, I heard that I dropped the microphone at the end of the opening “Hari’s on Tour (Express)” from there, until the beginning of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” the sound gets distant. Fortunately, after the taper has picked up, the sound image is getting close and it makes it easy to listen to the old sound quality.
It was even more serious that the pitch had risen considerably throughout. Despite it being the sound source KRW_CO released for that reason. There was hardly any topic. Although it has been released as a CD-R item in the past, this problem remained unresolved. So this time it is in the form of a gift, but still adjusts the pitch as much as possible. It is felt that it is much easier to hear when the pitch is corrected just as it is originally rough sound quality.
What makes this show interesting is whether or not resignation has been given to the religious psychic who bought the great praise (lol) George wrongly sings the song “original My Guitar Gently Weeps” or “Something” with the lyrics of the original song It will be singing. On the other hand, the recordings included recordings of Ravi Shankar and Billy Preston, recording of this tour such as “Give Me Love” and George’s voice being extremely rattled There. Also, as for “Sue Me Sue You Blues”, there are also happening such as to start playing again. It is a gift of maniac delight that made it possible to hear such a scene more accurately as the pitch became accurate.

ポールの来日公演中ということで盛り上がるビートルズ界隈、今週はジョージ1974年の北米ツアーのレア音源もギフトで登場します。ウイングス以前にアメリカをツアーして当時話題を呼んだジョージ、シカゴ・スタジアムでのライブを収録しています。同会場では一日二回の公演が行われましたが、今回のギフトで聞かれるのは昼の部のステージ。こちらはリアルタイムでアナログブートがリリースされていて、1991年クラプトン＆ジョージ来日時の特番でインタビューされた杉山清貴がアメリカで見つけて感動した…と見せていたのがそのブートでした。
しかしブートは一枚モノのLPであり、不完全も甚だしい内容。その点、もう一つのオーディエンス録音はショー全体が鳥瞰出来る録音としてマニアには知られていましたが、今回は同音源のマスターテープから収録されたバージョンなのです。それをネットに公開してくれたのは音源マニアにはおなじみのKRW_CO。彼の手で公開されたのだから、さぞかし高音質かと思いきや、そうは問屋が卸さない（笑）。それどころかモロにアナログブート・チックな音質であり、正に古めかしい質感。おまけにオープニング「Hari’s on Tour (Express)」の終盤でマイクを落としてしまったのか、そこから「While My Guitar Gently Weeps」の序盤までは音が遠くなってしまう。幸いにもテーパーが持ち直した後は音像が近くなって古めかしい音質なりに聞きやすくなってくれるのですが。
それ以上に深刻だったのは全体を通してピッチが相当に上がってしまっていたということ。そのせいでKRW_COが公開してくれた音源だったにもかかわらず。ほとんど話題に上ることがなかったのです。過去にCD-Rアイテムとしてリリースされたこともありますが、この問題は解決されないままでした。そこで今回はギフトという形態ではありますが、それでもピッチを可能な限りアジャスト。元々がざらついた音質なだけに、ピッチが正されると格段に聞きやすく感じられます。
このショーが面白いのは、大ひんしゅくを買った宗教的な替え歌に諦めがついてきたのか（笑）「While My Guitar Gently Weeps」や「Something」と言った曲をジョージが素直に原曲の歌詞で歌っていることでしょう。その反面、録音者がラヴィ・シャンカールやビリー・プレストンの曲で録音を止めていたり、あるいは「Give Me Love」でジョージの声が極度にガラガラだったりといったこのツアーらしい光景も随所に盛り込まれている。おまけに「Sue Me Sue You Blues」では演奏をやり直すといったハプニングも。ピッチが正確になったことで、そうした場面をより聞き込めるようになったマニア歓喜のギフトです。

Disc 1(50:23)
1. Hari’s On Tour (Express) 2. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 3. Something
4. Will It Go Round In Circles (Billy Preston) 5. Sue Me Sue You Blues
6. Zoom, Zoom, Zoom (Shankar Family & Friends) 7. Jai Sri Kalij (Shankar Family & Friends)
8. Na Na Dahni (Shankar Family & Friends) 9. Cheparte (Shankar Family & Friends) 10. For You Blue

Disc 2(49:18)
1. Band Introductions/Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) 2. In My Life
3. Tom Cat (Tom Scott & The L.A. Express) 4. Maya Love 5. Dark Horse
6. Nothing From Nothing/Outta Space (Billy Preston) 7. What Is Life 8. My Sweet Lord

George Harrison – Guitar, Vocals Robben Ford – Guitar Willie Weeks – Bass
Andy Newmark – Drums Billy Preston – Keyboards Emil Richards – Percussion
Tom Scott Horns Chuck Findley – Trumpet Jim Horn – Saxophone Jim Keltner – Drums