Sly & the Family Stone
Thee Encyclopedia of Ecstacy
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Sly and the Family Stone
Fillmore East
October 5, 1968
bootleg CD > EAC > WAV > FLAC
Disc 1: (Early Set)
1) Life
2) Color Me True
3) It Won't Be Long
4) Are You Ready?
5) Dance to the Music
6) M'Lady
Disc 2: (Late Set)
1) M'Lady
2) Color Me True
3) Are You Ready?
4) It Won't Be Long
5) Color Me True
6) Dance to the Music
7) Love City
8) Turn Me Loose
9) Outro
Title:
Thee Encyclopedia of Ecstacy
"This CD is Part 2 Of A Series Thee Thesaurus Of Funkasaurus Being Part 1."
Decent soundboard with a bit of distortion. Great show!
*************************************************************************** What distortion! Very Little. Turn it up as loud as you can stand and dance to the music.
I got this from Dime right after I join about a year ago.
I wish I remember the person that uploaded it. I don't know if it was dav or doc.
I played this in my car for 3 months.
Enjoy and thank you original seeder.
Lapp20
Sorry No Art. It is worthy of Art
Comments from this torrent on Dime:
#1654184 by durian1 at 2007-02-25 18:17:19 GMT
Dime Moderators!
Inevitably you are going to have some uninformed clown report this torrent claiming that the AMG guide lists this as being released.
It NEVER was actually released. I did the Big 'Fro cd. One of our label's biggest fans was somebody EXTREMELY high up at Sony (wrong - think higher than that!). Sony WAS planning to release this using our cd as their master and very likely our artwork as well because our cd not only sounded better than what they had in their vaults and they did not have any photos from the show). They actually got as far as announcing a release date but then they cancelled the release because they did not think it would sell enough to justify it (?!?!?!? All WE were asking for was a box of 50 or 100 free discs of the release and that they would put "Thanks to Big 'Fro for the tapes and mastering" or something like that on the cover and that they would have to negotiate seperately with the guy who took the photos as we could not speak for him)
In any case regardless of what anybody tries to tell you based on false information that the AMG site for some reason won't remove*: THIS WAS NEVER RELEASED OFFICIALLY by Sony or anybody else. Planned? Yes. Released? No. It came THIS close to actually happening but then Sony backed out.............
So don't be banning this, Yo!
*I have emailed them numerous times to either remove that info or prove to me that it exists. They never do either.........
#1654709 by Butterking at 2007-02-25 23:14:11 GMT
In comment #1654184 durian1 wrote something like this:
I did the Big 'Fro cd. One of our label's biggest fans was somebody EXTREMELY high up at Sony (wrong - think higher than that!). Sony WAS planning to release this using our cd as their master and very likely our artwork as well because our cd not only sounded better than what they had in their vaults and they did not have any photos from the show). They actually got as far as announcing a release date but then they cancelled the release because they did not think it would sell enough to justify it (?!?!?!? All WE were asking for was a box of 50 or 100 free discs of the release and that they would put "Thanks to Big 'Fro for the tapes and mastering" or something like that on the cover and that they would have to negotiate seperately with the guy who took the photos as we could not speak for him)
Intresting anecdote though I've heard a different story about this tape's history. It surfaced 2-3 years ago, well before the Big Fro (all due respect, by the way; I love the label and it deserves all the credit in the world for being the soul label of record in the bootleg world) disc, and circulated on a limited basis among collectors. I got it from someone in San Fran (perhaps tied to The Well?) which lead me to believe this was yet another example of a tape that had leaked from the Bill Graham archives, as this person and the Well list had circulated a lot of BGP material in the past.
As copies of the tape got around, I heard that someone had mentioned its existence in passing to a person who was directly involved in Sony Legacy's Sly reissue program. His impassioned response was that he himself had mixed this recording from multi-tracks for possible release and he was pretty freaked out it had circulated at all. A few months after hearing this story, the Big Fro disc appeared, which was the same sources as the CD-Rs we'd had for awhile.
So the part about Sony considering this for release seems to be true, but they had the tape to start. In fact, it is their mix. Perhaps someone else at the label had no idea what the reissue folks had been working on.
#1654816 by durian1 at 2007-02-26 00:10:36 GMT
In comment #1654709 Butterking wrote something like this:
In comment #1654184 durian1 wrote something like this:Interesting anecdote though I've heard a different story about this tape's history. It surfaced 2-3 years ago, well before the Big Fro (all due respect, by the way; I love the label and it deserves all the credit in the world for being the soul label of record in the bootleg world) disc......
.......So the part about Sony considering this for release seems to be true, but they had the tape to start. In fact, it is their mix. Perhaps someone else at the label had no idea what the reissue folks had been working on.
The Big 'Fro master was received by me in July of 2002 and sent to Japan in October of 2002 - I was waiting for the photos - and released as part of the people who pressed them up's first batch of 2003 releases (hence the "2003" date on the disc, but they received back from the pressing plant in mid December). So the actual release date was 4+ years ago. The person who I got it from had it for at least a few months before I got it (so now we are talking early 2002). Now we're talking basically 5 years ago.
As far as I know this was not a BG Archives tape but that either the band or their label paid for this to be recorded professionally for possible release back in the day (and it certainly sounds miles better than any BG Archives tapes I have heard from 1968/1969). I knew (one of the?) BGA leaker(s?). This tape was not part of his collection.
Trust me on one thing: the person at Sony I am talking about would know better than anybody else at Sony exactly what would be going on at that label in the way of reissues. And he was a/b-ing the BF cd and Sony's 2 track mixdown master on the phone with me for a few hours one evening.