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Saturday Night In San Francisco 180gr LP

Al Di Meola, John Mc Laughlin, Paco de Lucia - guitars

Title

Side A
1. Bill Graham Introduction
2. Splendido Sundance
3. One Word
4. Trilogy Suite
5. Monasterio de Sal

Side B
1. El Panuelo
2. Meeting Of The Spirits

lebel: IMPEX

There is probably no one who is passionate about
guitar music who does not know the legendary and
widely re-released album 'Friday Night in San
Francisoco'. Three guitar virtuosos play live and
with stunning acoustic qualities. What hardly
anyone knows: There were two more concerts with
the same line-up on the following Saturday, which
were also recorded, but where an almost completely
different set was played. Still in 1980 a master
was created from the two concerts with countless
cuts, but it was never released.

It was Al Di Meola's management that later
remembered that this tape still existed. But
already after the first research, disappointment
set in. The master had not been stored well and
was actually unfit for use. But Abey Fonn, the
producer of Impex Records from the USA, was not
discouraged by this. What could be heard on the
tapes was simply too good despite all obstacles.
One thing was immediately clear: 'Saturday Night'
was even better than the legendary Friday.

Instead of using the poorly stored master, Fonn
went back to the analog 16-track recordings of the
actual concerts for the release. These weren't in
great shape either, but could be reprocessed at
Skywalker Sound in Marine County, California. Then
the task was to create a mix from the two
concerts again. For this, Katsu Naito & Roy
Hendrickson were hired. The former had already
done the cuts for 'Friday Night in San Francisco'
and still knew quite well what he had paid
attention to more than 40 years ago. Artistically,
the assessment of Al di Meola was decisive. The
perfectionist simply doesn't like mistakes, while
John McLaughlin sees them more as part of the live
atmosphere.

The new mix was sent to Bernie Grundman, who made
two different lacquer cuts. Once with transistor
technology and once with tube technology. Since
for the Impex production up to this point they had
already decided to go the purely analog route, it
is little surprise that the tube version sounded
'more right'.

The LP cover absolutely had to be purple at Al di
Meola's request. The manual with liner notes by
Charles L. Grenade contains previously unpublished
photos.

The pressing of the 180 gram LP with 33.1/3 rpm
was done by RTI in Los Angeles.

A side note: Only the Impex version of this
release was made in pure analog and came to
mastering without any intermediate digitizing.
They insisted on absolute quality and therefore
cut with a lot of dynamics. The second side of the
LP therefore contains only two tracks.
We recommend the use of 'L'Art du Son' LP cleaner
to wet wash your vinyl. Even new records of high
quality production will benefit from this.

Kat.č.: IMP 6045 LP  (LP - audiofilský vinyl), Speakers Corner , cena: 1699.00 Kč, EAN: 856276002466 skladem: 0ks, expedujeme do 2-40 dnů