I had a look on dimeadozen and found this show listed; among the comments are the following, which I re-post as of potential interest to mudcatters and others. Thanks **so much** to the original taper for taking the trouble to make this recording and passing it down to posterity!! Regards - Tony
------------ These are reported as the original taper's notes:
"This was a spur of the moment recording. I was on vacation in Manchester visiting relatives who I had not seen since we emigrated to the USA in 1960. I saw an advertisment for a series of folk orientated concerts taking place throughout the summer at the Well Hall Open Theatre in Well Hall London. Fortunately I would be in England for the one in the series that I most wanted to see, the Sandy Denny concert. Even better was that Richard Thompson was in the band. I decided to record the concert with the only recorder I had available, a Radio Shack $20 mono cassette recorder that we had brought from the USA as a birthday present for my cousin. This is the kind with the built in condensor mike. Well Hall Open Theatre was an open air band-shell kind of a set up. A small stage with fold up chairs set up for the audience. The opening act Cobb never showed up for some reason so Sandy played early, which was fortunate because it started raining just after she had finished. The P.A. was atypical 70's setup, not too clear with a bad resonance around 120Hz or so. This caused the vocal and piano in particular to be very muddy. Anyway, Sandy did a great set and Linda Peters joined in on one tune and it was a great evening. I remember taking some pictures with a Kodak instamatic. I have looked for them many times and so far no luck. I presume they dissapeared in one of my moves. Hopefully they will turn up one day.
Around 1975 or so I transfered the recording from the cassette (a Boots Chemist cheapo) to Reel-to-Reel using a Crown IC-150A pre-amp. I patched directly onto the head and re-equed the pre-amp to match the head output. At that time a Crown CX824 R2R was state of the art. When DAT came along I transfered the R2R to DAT. Then when CDR's came along I transfered it to CDR. Such is the state of the recording today. While not up to today's audio standards I find it very listenable and is a great part of Sandy history. I believe this is the only recording to turn up with 'The Rigs of Time' ?" -------------------