Comments on: Mad River “Mad River”

By: Chris TIll

Chris TIll — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:11:44 +0000

Cool stuff, Mike. 1.00481927711! By the way, I talked to Greg Dewey, Mad River drummer, the other week, and he told me that there will be a new CD of unreleased Mad River material. It’s early stuff, I think from between the EP and the first album. Greg also recently came into possession of some long-lost video of Mad River performing.

By: Mike Lake

Mike Lake — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:33:12 +0000

Hi guys. I managed to fall for Mad River way back in 1968 when I was living in a tiny town in the North of England. Loved the LP then; still do. Recently I’ve been digitising all my old vinyl, and just for fun worked out the “change of speed multiple” to try and correct the LP mastering mistake…take the length of the original LP tracks and compare it with the run-time on the CD release. If you digitise the LP using Audacity, or whatever, you can speed up or slow down the recording at will.

FYI I slowed down the digitised LP tracks by a factor of 1.00481927711 !!!!!

I’m so proud of myself! And actually, I have to say, it does sound even better.

By: pat

pat — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 02:52:09 +0000

also looking for blue cheer live matrix 68 shrine auditorium 68 and a 1968 fm broadcast bootleg these are hard to find.thanks

By: pat

pat — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 02:50:08 +0000

i know it includes 3 demos from 67 not sure what else looks interesting if you like blue cheer thanks

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:08:25 +0000

Hi Pat,

I do not own the Nights of the Roundtable Demos. I haven’t even searched the internet for these recordings but I’ve heard a little about them. Were they a radio broadcast? Possibly rawer and louder recordings of what ended up on their first album?

By: pat

pat — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:08:26 +0000

thanks for mad river very cool can anyone find blue cheer – nights of the roundtable demos thanks

By: Charlie dba reservatory

Charlie dba reservatory — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:49:55 +0000

Thanks all for the reading material tips. Here are links for the Mad River live/demos torrent I was searching for back in December, which finally turned up on Dime, along with the live ’68 Alameda track. The sound quality is not the absolute greatest, but there’s plenty of great stuff here amid the underwater murk and wobble – including a ’66 cover of Paul Butterfield’s Lovin’ Cup that almost outpunks The Stooges. I kept the files as flacs, divided into two folders to get around Mediafire limitations. If any of you have trouble with flacs, I can upload mp3s…

http://www.mediafire.com/?vv2lkbdw8vphy3q
http://www.mediafire.com/?3rcpohoc7h99y40

Enjoy these Dead Sea scrolls….

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:22:35 +0000

There was also a shorter article on MR in the British fanzine Shindig titled “High all the Time” which featured some interesting quotes from Jerry Corbitt of the Youngbloods regarding the making of Paradise B+G.It would be nice to hear from some of their other peers and from those lucky enough to have attended their shows.

By: Chris Till

Chris Till — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:21:29 +0000

I love Biasotti’s piece, titled “Just Like a Poem.” Unfortunately, apparently nobody ever bothered to take a photo of Brautigan with Mad River, even during the “Love’s Not the Way to Treat a Friend” recording session.

(Another individual mentioned in Biasotti’s Brautigan/ Mad River article is the Digger/ Hells Angel, William Fritsch. I’ve been trying to research Fritsch as I suspect that he’s the Hells Angel who commandeered Marty Balin’s microphone during Jefferson Airplane’s set at Altamont, as documented in the “Gimme Shelter” film.)

I tried searching the Rolling Stone website and came up with nothing. I joined the site too and it didn’t help.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:59:07 +0000

Chris,

Thanks very much for the info.If you go to Rolling Stones website you may be able to find the review in their archives.Ed Ward appears on the NPR program “Fresh Air” occasionally doing on air record reviews. The best,most informative article on Mad River is on the Richard Brautigan website.Authored by David Biasotta(unsure of spelling) the article concerns the relationship between Brautigan and the band and is absolutely fascinating.

Also, check out Rick Bockner on U-tube- a couple of acoustic solo numbers from an appearance in Amsterdam.

Richard