YT: Linda Live from the Record Plant 11-18-73

[sliderocker]

Someone has posted quite a few "videos" on youtube of Linda performing live from the Record Plant in Sausalito from November 18, 1973. (That date may be the date the performance was broadcast by KSAN-FM.) There's no actual filmed footage of Linda and the actual "videos" consist of the front and back album cover artwork - which has to be a bootleg. The song list is a mix of songs Linda had done in the past (I Fall to Pieces, Break My Mind, Crazy Arms, Long Long Time), recent (Love Has No Pride), soon to be officially released (You're No Good, It Doesn't Matter Any More, I Can't Help It) and never to be released (Nightingale, Steel Guitar Rag - which may only be the band; I listened to about a minute of the song and if Linda is on it, aside from a comment heard at the beginning, she may only be as a musician).

The artwork touts the presence of Jeff Baxter from Steely Dan, although Jim Hodder from that group is also on board apparently. The rest of the musicians aren't identified but I'm guessing they would've included Andrew Gold and Kenny Edwards. The set list is more country than any other genre although Linda is in rock mode on You're No Good. The arrangement heard is different than the funk-rock version she did on the Midnight Special, and it seems like Linda was trying to find an arrangement which would work so that it could be released on album, which she obviously did find a short time later.

[Cornish Pirate]

It is broadcast live so the date is correct for recording and broadcast. On the intro Linda is unaware they have started broadcasting it live and is caught out. ;D

Here's the list of the musicians.

Bob Warford, Guitar
Andrew Gold, Guitar
Doug Hayward, Bass Guitar
John Boylan, Piano, Guitar
Jimmy Hodder, Drums
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Steel Guitar

They're mentioned on the introduction before Nightingale which I posted on the old forum but here it is again if you missed it.

KSAN Intro and Nightingale (mp3, 8MB)

Here's the bootleg art and song listing. Break My Mind isn't actually that song. The session finished early so Linda was asked if she could sing another song and Break My Mind was suggested but she didn't, and the musicians just filled in instead.





01. Rehearsal > KSAN Intro
02. Nightengale
03. I Fall To Pieces
04. Silver Threads And Golden Needles
05. Love Has No Pride
06. Rock Me On The Water (Jackson Browne cover)
07. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
08. It Doesn't Matter Anymore
09. Dark End Of The Street
10. I Believe In You (Neil Young cover)
11. Crazy Arms
12. Long, Long Time
13. You're No Good
14. Steel Guitar Rag (instrumental)
15. Break My Mind (instrumental)
16. KSAN Outro

Hope that helps slide'

Alan

[sliderocker]

Much appreciated, Alan, and it does help, thank you! I hadn't listened to all of the songs from this show that are on youtube as I had to leave for work, and got only to play a few songs. On one of the songs I listened to, I heard one of the musicians suggest "Break My Mind" to Linda but I guess she just wasn't interested. I noticed that just before starting one song (think it was "Long Long Time"), she talked about a guitar being out of tune. I wondered if the guitar in question was hers and she was intending to accompany herself? The concert sounded very informal, going by what I listened to - maybe more like a rehearsal. Overall, not a bad setlist and I think I actually preferred Linda's versions of "I Fall to Pieces" and "Crazy Arms" to the versions on the 1972 album.