Subject:      Re: Baby Stop Crying
From:         rcj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Craig Jamieson)
Date:         1996/04/12
Newsgroups:   rec.music.dylan

Ray Schweighardt (rainman@CYBERNEX.NET) wrote:
: >Baby Stop Crying (Red Sky Records, CD 1019)...
: >What are opinions about this one amongst rec.music.dylan readers?
: >Worth buying? Easy to find where you are?
: >Is the whole thing 7 June 1978?  The tracks fit.
: >The CD says 2 June 1978.

: Just like it's vinyl predecessors, "Tales of Yankee Power" and "Life
: Sentence", this CD is a combination of 6-2-78 and 6-7-78.  They must have
: chopped 20 minutes out to get it on to a CD, so I'd say you're better off
: with the vinyl.  Of course you're actually better off with complete tapes of
: both shows.

Interesting. 

Have those asserting the complete show is 7 June 1978 compared the
CD with tapes? With vinyl? 

Have you, Ray, compared the vinyl with the CD? Do you think the CD is taken
from vinyl? 

If the CD has tracks matching the vinyl then 1-12 are 2 June 1978,
13-16 are 7 June 1978, but what then is 17? Does It's Alright Ma
appear on Life Sentence (2 LPs, Audiphon, USA, 1978)? Was Life
Sentence also released by Ruthless Rhymes? 

While most readers of rec.music.dylan will be familiar with
Life Sentence -- it is the one with the unkempt head photo,
hands being used as pretend eyeglasses -- the vinyl Tales of 
Yankee Power does not spring to my mind, that title in vinyl
is not familiar to me?  Fill us in. 
                                                                    Craig



Subject:      Baby Stop Crying as i tell you Tales of Yankee Power while i
From:         Ray Schweighardt 
Date:         1996/04/13
Newsgroups:   rec.music.dylan

>Date:    Sat, 13 Apr 1996 07:35:02 -0700
>From:    "Mark H. Withrow" 
>Subject: Re: Baby Stop Crying
>
>Craig Jamieson wrote:
>>
>> If the CD has tracks matching the vinyl then 1-12 are 2 June 1978,
>> 13-16 are 7 June 1978, but what then is 17? Does It's Alright Ma
>> appear on Life Sentence (2 LPs, Audiphon, USA, 1978)? Was Life
>> Sentence also released by Ruthless Rhymes?
>>                                 Craig
>My Life Sentence LPs are labled "audifon" on the sleeve, but the disks
>themselves are labled "Ruthless Rhymes, Ltd" (An Original First Pressing
>- Made In Germany).  Missing from the 2 June, 1978, concert are:  IDBY,
>GGG, RDW, OOUMK (SOL), YABGN, MOW, TR, and IAM (IOB).  Added from 7
>June:  STOF and OS.  Hope this helps.

"Audifon" and "Ruthless Rhymes" were two branches of the same tree.  As far
as I know, "Tales of Yankee Power" came first (with just a slip sheet), with
"Life Sentence" being a direct copy but in a "deluxe" sleeve.
I know longer possess "Life Sentence" (sent all my vinyl packing), but I
remember it quite well.  More than 2 tracks are taken from 6-7-78.  I'm
certain that "Forever Young" is (check Bob's comments out this being the
last show the band will play in America for a while).  I actually DID A/B
the whole album to the complete audience tapes, but my findings have since
gone down in the flood.  Certainly everything up to intermission is from 6-2-78.

In response to Craig's other post, I don't own "Baby Stop Crying", so I
can't speak of its quality in comparison to the vinyl.  But I can say that
the 6-2-78 and 6-7-78 complete audience tapes are both of excellent quality.
Either complete show would have fit perfectly on 2 CDs, which I think would
be very preferable to an incomplete jumble, however good it sounds.

Time to head off to Drew U.  The band's probably soundchecking "Brownsville
Girl" right about now.

rainman
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"He did it in Las Vegas,
 and he can do it here."