Winterland Volume 2


In the beginning of October 1968, the Experience did a 3 day, 6 show stand at Winterland, California. Although the band seemed to be tiring near the end of the 6 shows, the Winterland concerts are very good in my opinion. The early show each night would be more made up of the hits, and the second show more towards just jamming and having fun. Jack Cassidy of the Jefferson Airplane jammed with the band one night for example. Now these concerts have been ROIO'd often. I have probably 3 or 4 CDs with Winterland performances on them. But this series was the first complete set of the entire Winterland performances (minus the second night's early show). Sound quality varies somewhat, but for the most part is pretty clear sounding. If you were a fan of the Live At Winterland CD, then you will probably like this 3 volume set.

A couple notes on this volume: The two CDs are mislabeled. The CD which says Disc One on it is actually Disc Two, and vice versa. And the early show is incomplete. I believe the story is, the tapes for it were damaged beyond use. So in it's place, the producers of this series added in a "bonus concert". After the sound of the previous songs, these new tracks come as quite a shock. Hollow sounding, vocals are low, lots of bass rumbling. Indicating your average audience recording. Kind of a disappointment, but hey, most ROIO makers wouldn't have done anything but add tracks from other concerts and then said they were from the Winterland show.

Catalog #: Whoopy Cat WKP-0027/28