Audio: 1974-05-16 - Seattle, WA (Both Sets)

[johnfowles]

Further to my comments about sugarmegs I wasted much time pouring over the website then googling in vain to find an uploading facility (a fairly basic requirement I would have thought for a file sharing website) All I could find was a well hidden suggestion that one could email a request to upload a file which to my way of thinking is just plain dumb.
anyway it looks like somebody heeded your request Loverman regarding the super Charlottetown broadcast because I found a new rapidshare link:-
http://rapidshare.com/files/382449426/GLCF69.zip
This proved to be a 73.2 MB zipfile
that unzipped to 16 mp3s totalling 74.8MB
This a wonderful and rare recording of a 1969 radio broadcast.
and whoever made the zipfile included the necessary CD jewel case artwork files
something usually omitted and these include a rare "liner notes" image


Just in case any of you find the text hard to read I have transcribed it for you:-
Although the sound quality of this recording is not that high it is, in the absence of any indication of the existance of better one in the CBC archives,
an important fragment from the 60's.As the announcer says in his introduction this records Gordon's appearance at the Summer 1969 Charlottetown Festival as broadcast on the new CBC FM radio service the following October.
The lack of quality was due as the person who recorded it recounts to the combined use of a portable monaural FM transistor radio connected to portable reel to reel tape recorder, both items being small
basic models and battery powered.In particular the tape machine had a very high wow and flutter value.Nevertheless the result is a very enjoyable recording featuring a number of rare live versions of early
Lightfoot songs. One problem was that at the time the recorder had insufficient blank tape which is why two tracks are incomplete (when the tape simply ran out!!)
Of particular historic interest are two of Gordon's song introductions:-
Track 4
Introducing a new song "Me And Bobby Magee" he spoke at length about the then unknown Kris Kristofferson and disparagingly about the first recording by Roger Miller and his intention to record it himself
"the way it should be done" which he of course did in the following months as a track for his first Warner Brothers album (originally called "Sit Down Young Stranger") and presumably before Kristofferson's
friend Janis Joplin, about whom legend has it he wrote the song, recorded her (posthumous) hit version.
Track 15
Introducing the song "Bitter Green" (penned the previous year in London England) he shed some light on a possible story behind this song, when he said:-
"this song is about the heroine of Pigs Eye Minnesota".
It is fact that a French Canadian fur trapper called "Pigs Eye" Parrant had established a settlement known as Pigs Eye Landing, which when adopted as the location for the capital of the
new state was rechristened with the more dignified and suitable name of one of its prominent churches, St Pauls.
However despite extensive internet research quite who the heroine Gord had in mind remains a mystery.

[johnfowles]

Whilst trying to find another image I stumbled upon a blog with rudimentary but useable artwork to decorate your CD jewel case if you have burnt CDs for these two concerts. Plus I thought it worth resurrecting his thread anyway with its references to sugarmegs etc
the front insert



and the rear



An unfortunate choice of photograph IMHO
Note that the full sized jpg files that you can save are NOT the correct size as meaured in pixels to print for direct use as jewel case inserts
One day I'll prepare a learned treatise a.k.a. famous Uncle John Tutorial to cover this matter
meanwhile some hints
measure a typical set of existing inserts
convert to pixels at the rate of 96 pixels per inch
use Mr Google to find a free image editor program that will resize these two jpgs
Possibly GIMP??
download and install it
make some test prints and check if they are the correct size
recalculate the inch to pixel conversion rate if neccessary and reprint
96 Pixels per inch works for me!!
PS for Charlene
If "pixel" is in too foreign a language for you go and consult Monsewer Google

[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by johnfowles

One day I'll prepare a learned treatise a.k.a. famous Uncle John Tutorial to cover this matter

OK I have returned to add a bit more info
CD front inserts are almost but not quite square at
4.72" high by 4.75" wide which at 96 pixels per inch means you will need to resize the image above or create new artwork at/to 454 by 456 pixels
hence a fold in half brochure would be tada tada
9.5" by 4.72"
(912 by 456 pixels)
the rear insert should be made up of a center panel of 5.41" wide by 4.63" high (519.36 by 444.8 pixels use 519x445)
plus two splines of 0.25" by 4.63" (24x445)
so overall the image must be 5.91" by 4.63"((567.36x 444.8 use 567x445)
I have and regularly use MGI Photosuite3 which has an easy to use resizing facility
I mentioned GIMP which is the GNU Image Manipulation Program
and there ia handy tutorial on using GIMP to resize at
http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/08/13...sing-the-gimp/
even handier would be a right click menu context option
see
http://www.winxptutor.com/imgresizer.htm　
or
http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/0...-context-menu/

or
http://www.rw-designer.com/picture-resize
I will be investigating these for my own use because MGI Photosuite is sometimes reluctant to open and there is nothing easier than getting the resize facility from a simple and quick right click
So I'll probably settle for the recommendation of Gizmo on my favourite freeware listing website http://techsupportalert.com
http://www.techsupportalert.com/cont...izing-ever.htm

Originally Posted by johnfowles

PS for Charlene
If "pixel" is in too foreign a language for you go and consult Monsewer Google

You could do worse than take a look at
http://www.digicamguides.com/print/ppi-print-size.html
some of which I believe but basically confuses the hxxx out of me!
Until somebody convinces me otherwise or my printing fails I'll stick to my reliable 96 pixels per inch or use amnother option
precut paper and matching templates
but that's another story ............