Spanish Johnny and Puerto Rican Jane - Kivak Master Series


Date: 1974-10-12
Location: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ


Label: Fanatic Records
Catalog #:

Taper: Joe Kivak
Source: Audience (master)
Transferred By: ?
Transfer & Generation info: Cassette ->CD ->Wav ->CD WAV Editor/Magix/Roxio -> Flac


Disc 1 (71:49)

01 Intro (1:32)
02 Incident On 57th Street (10:06)
03 Spirit In The Night (8:07)
04 Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street (4:37)
05 E Street Shuffle (12:58)
06 Saint In The City (4:33)
07 Lost In The Flood (9:01)
08 She's The One (8:45)
09 Jungleland (12:10)

Disc 2 (53:06)

01 Kitty's Back (6:08)
02 New York City Serenade (18:43)
03 Rosalita (12:07)
04 4th July Asbury Park (6:49)
05 A Love So Fine (9:19)

Total Time: 2 hours 4 minutes 55 seconds 

Notes:
 
This is 1974 Volume 6. It took great effort to get this recording into shape. It ran slow on disc one and I corrected it to 
sound closer to normal. At least to my ears. Disc two had another set of problems, where sound was primarily coming out of 
one channel. I also corrected that. Tape warp was a culprit on the last two songs. You can begin to hear it in spots during 
“Sandy” and then it worsens during “A Love So Fine.” I was able to remove many of the spots where the sound drops out on 
“A Love So Fine”, but there was nothing I could do to correct the warp sound. Kitty’s Back is not complete clocking at 6:08 
and there may be edits in other songs that escape me at the moment. The overall sound was on the muddy side, so I EQed it 
which made some improvement. None of these shows will ever be sonic masterpieces, especially with the recorders available 
in 1974. The intention for the master series was to replace the previous circulating recordings that had been dubbed from 
cassettes and losing quality with each subsequent trade. Cassettes were the primary format for trading in the 70s. You can 
imagine how many generations a cassette recording had to go through before reaching the 100th person during a trade. 

With that said, there’s much in this recording to enjoy. There’s a very unusual moment when the band starts SPIRIT and then 
stops and starts over again. LOST IN THE FLOOD is a nice rare treat, along with the beautiful violin playing by Suki Lahav 
on INCIDENT and JUNGLELAND! Overall you can hear the intensity and energy of a young Bruce Springsteen and his almighty, 
legendary E Street Band!

Mr Anonymous and Fanatic Records proudly present another installment of the Kivak Master Series!

Enjoy!!!!
Rob