Time Will Show The Wiser: The Fairport Convention covers Emitt Rhodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTHgr19CaRk

love judy's look here

http://www.themarqueeclub.net/images/I-judy-dyble-1.jpg

Never even heard that first album, got fooled by US switcheroo renaming of What We Did On Our Holidays.

richard thompson actually played this when i saw him last year, which was a nice surprise.

Cool. He sounds great on the youtube clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCbHp3eLik4
not the greatest quality, but you get the idea. unsurprisingly he slays on the guitar solo. this opened the second set -- he had played his whole new album in the first. got the feeling this was RT's way of saying "ok here's the old shit."

Probably my favourite Fairport song--didn't realize it was written by someone else. Is that Richard Thompson singing in the first clip? Love the McGuinn/Jack Casady look.

It's Iain Matthews, no?

First album's got some great moments but this is my fave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-1hH0rqeRA

except that's a BBC Sesh verzh but you get the idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErDLB8kd2p4

Holy shit! Brilliant! Thanks for posting that!

Great cover of Mimi & Richard Farina at the end there too. Never heard it by the pre-Denny lineup before.

Audio of those takes of the Buckley and the Farinas tracks were bonuses on the expanded edition of the first album. Nice to put visuals w/them, including the shots of Mathews & Dryble sitting down during the jammage.

Can you get a decent copy of that Bouton Rouge material in a better quality than youtube? I saw the Richard Thompson bio doc from 2003 that was shown on BBC4 on Friday night had a really nice transfer of that.

I noticed that the Ian Matthews/Sandy Denny live sets from '68 were still up on Dime

Whittlesey Barn Barbecue
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=289905

and Amsterdam Cncertgebouw
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=265452

as well as the debut live performance of Liege & Lief in just about listenable remaster
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=176440
after the source tape was turned down by one record company - (Fledg'ling?)as unusable

That Liege & lief debut had me wondering at the time i got it what the limits of professional remastering could achieve. I'd assumed that if you were attempting in a professional studio you would be getting better results than whatever amateur computer based remastering a fan could do at home in a short period of time but I'm still not really aware of limitations. Must depend on source material and also the fact of source material actually being source material rather than generations of tape copy.
Also intrigued after having coming across a distant sounding copy of Eno & the Winkies live in Derby in '74 if there were any ways of improving the sound at all. Short of trying to pull an Alan Douglas or something.

Sounds like that Liege & lief debut was apretty great perfomrance but the recording leaves a lot to be desired.
Is there a list anywhere of existing early Fairports live recordings?
I think there was a link to a website that had some stuff up on one of those Dime FC links I gave earlier. Odd since I thought that was against policy there, but the website is now vacant anyway.

Reading the Guv'nor the Ashley Hutchings bio some time back, I thought it talked about a recording from the Scandinavian show that Sandy Denny quit the band on the flight home from.

can anyone hook a dude up with that debut liege & lief show? (don't have DIME) And is the Concertgebouw decent quality?

Liege & lief is a little quiet, even after the remastering.

Concertgebouw sounds decent enough. I think Whittlesey sounds the best out of the 3.

How do I get John Einarson to write a book on the early Fairports? Would any FC bio these days automatically have to cover the later 35-40 years?
Just want there to be a decent one place bio.
There is some information in Patrick Humphries book on Richard Thompson despite other dubious qualities about that book. Also in The Guv'nor about Ashley Hutchings and probably some interesting stuff in the Clinton Heylin book on Sandy Denny which I haven't read but was apparently hated by the fans.

There's some information in Rob Young's excellent book Electric Eden as well.

RIP, Emitt.

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Didn't now about this of Montreal version. Pretty nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub0a_09pTpU