Eno and the Winkies Kings Hall Derby, England, UK February 13, 1974 Improved transfer/Remastered Eno : Vocals, Synthesizer, Electronics Philip Rambow : Guitar, Backing Vocals Guy Humphries : Guitar, Backing Vocals Brian Turrington : Bass Mike Desmarais : Drums All Songs Composed by Eno except where indicated 1. Walk On (0:33) 2. Blank Frank (Eno/Robert Fripp) (3:52) 3. Needles In The Camel’s Eye (3:01) 4. Dead Finks Don’t Talk (3:40) 5. Dignified By The Door (6:23) 6. Love Slips Away (4:24) 7. Here Comes The Warm Jets (3:53) 8. Fever (Otis Blackwood/Ed Cooley) (4:54) 9. I’m A Boy (Pete Townshend) (2:31) 10. What Goes On (Lou Reed) (5:30) (Cassette Tape Flip) 11. The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch (3:38) 12. Baby’s On Fire (6:28) 13. I’ll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoes) (4:53) 14. Seven Deadly Finns (3:07) (Encore) 15. 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FOR ENO COLLECTORS ONLY ! DO NOT EXPECT ANY MIRACLES HERE ! THIS IS STILL A RECORDING OF HORRIBLE QUALITY ! It is now simply less horrible as I will describe below. A re-transfer from the same 1st generation cassette used on the earlier upload to dimeadozen by booomboom Many thanks goes to booomboom for unearthing this gem and for the generous loaning of this extremely rare cassette to me. It was dumped from the master cassette by the taper, some 30+ years ago. The whereabouts of the master cassette/taper have been lost years ago, so this is very likely to be the best we will ever get. The original transfer suffered from some over boosting of the left channel level adding some nasty additional digital distortion onto an already barely listenable recording. This digital distortion is now gone. My finding was that the left channel originally had a lower level (thus higher signal to noise ratio). I had suspected and hoped for the reverse to be true, as that really would have been a major improvement, but no such luck. I've compared this version with a dual right channel mono mix and a dual right channel simulated stereo mix, but it is not quite as good as this left and right balanced mixture direct from the cassette. Judge for yourself if you wish. I would have to say that the taper must have used some horrendously cheap monophonic portable recorder and was situated near the back of a venue that clearly did not have sound quality in mind when it was built. It's so distant that it at times sounds like it was recorded from the venue bathroom or from inside of a coat pocket. Very little highs or lows...not much to work with at all. Removed some of the hiss with Freefilter making sure there was NOTHING there but tape hiss, which was a great improvement. Despite all this however...it is strangely listenable after you get used to it. ---------- Performance notes/details/commentary etc. : ---------- An incredibly interesting complete concert recording of the first of only five complete shows performed by Eno and the Winkies. Brian Eno's only known live headlining solo performances as a "solo artist". The 5 completed shows were as follows : 02/13/74 - Derby - Kings Hall 02/15/74 - Sheffield - City Hall 02/16/74 - Swansea - Brangwyn Hall 02/17/74 - Bristol - Colston Hall 02/18/74 - Dunstable - Queensway Hall Anyone with a better scan of the rare advert in Melody Maker for this tour please upload it for everyone ! It is unclear whether the sixth show was completed, but it is at this point where Eno suffered the infamous tour ending collapsed lung. He subsequently described this as a "blessing in disguise" as he quickly discovered that he hated the conventional idea of performing and touring, finding it exhausting, stressful and artistically stifling. However this first show of the tour is anything but boring ! Track 5 is an unreleased gem, believed to be introduced by Eno as "Dignified by the Door", although due to the poor sound quality of the recording, it is impossible to confirm. He appears to sing "Mystified by the Door" in the song. Track 6 is another unreleased Eno song, clearly introduced as "Love slips Away". It has enough melodic similarities to call it a precursor to "Golden Hours" released the following year on "Another Green World" albeit in a radically different form with alternate lyrics. The version of Fever is as the one popularized by Peggy Lee. The seemingly strange choice of performing The Who's "I'm A Boy", is less odd when taking into account that Pete Townshend had publically praised Eno's work. Eno thanks him for (sometimes inadvertent) encouragement on the liner notes of Another Green World. What Goes On was cited by Eno at the time to be his favourite song of all time. The version of the performance encore "I Go Ape" is as popularized by The Monkees, although also first a hit in the late 50's by composer Neil Sedaka. The remaining tracks are interesting modified versions of material mostly from the Here Come the Warm Jets LP. The only known live performance of many of these tracks. It's really too bad the recording is so bad, as it might have been possible for someone to correctly decipher the lyrics for Here Come the Warm Jets ! Brian appears to be temporarily unable to hear himself in the monitors during this track as he is very uncharacteristically out of tune. He is perfectly fine for the rest of the show. Enjoy !