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Poco Live Crazy Love amp Pickin Up The Pieces
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Poco was about to end its Spring 1971 tour when Antioch College student Andy Plesser persuaded them to play one last concert in Richie Furay's home town, Yellow Springs, Ohio. The town was also home to the college, where I was likewise a student at the time. The venue was in an open field. Before the local opening acts began, I asked the mixing engineer if I could plug the college radio station's tape recorder into his stereo outputs. He said sure. He wasn't capturing it on tape, just me. • His mixing console was positioned in the middle of the field. He told me that he could crank up the volume because it was outdoors and he didn't have to worry about indoor feedback. • He had mixed Poco in an odd way: He placed most of the instruments on one side and the vocals and one guitar on the other. Nothing in the middle. And I was sometimes too eager to adjust the volume on the vocal side as I was recording. Also, there was a lot of distortion on Rusty Young's amp when he turbo-charged his pedal steel. • I've included here two medleys from the concert, the first electric, the second acoustic: • 1. Yes Indeed/Grand Junction/Consequently, So Long • 2. Hard Luck/A Child's Claim to Fame*/Pickin' Up the Pieces • *One of Richie's Buffalo Springfield songs from 1968. • The concert ran for three 7 tape reels, and the first two would run out of tape during the performances of two songs, the first of which was Pickin' Up the Pieces. So you'll probably hear an edit towards the end of that song as I was switching reels. I spiced the tape switch so that there's no break in the rhythm, but there is a break in the song. • The photos were taken by fellow student Dan Marshall, so thank him for probably being the only person on campus who had the foresight to capture the day in pictures. • Poco at this time consisted of: • Richie Furay, guitar vocals • Rusty Young, pedal steel, dobro, vocals • Paul Cotton, guitar vocals -- he had recently joined the band, replacing Jim Messina • Timothy B. Schmit, bass vocals • George Grantham, drums vocals • After 48 years, I finally digitized the show. • Note: After the concert I approached Richie behind the make-shift stage and asked him about the mythical 10-minute version of Buffalo Springfield's Bluebird. I wrote about that encounter and its result in my blog here: • https://donzblog.home.blog/2019/01/23...
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