This mix is a 38-minute, instrumental edit of jammy material Dick Latvala didn’t include on Volume 7 of “Dick’s Picks” - Alexandra Palace, September 9-11, 1974.
The Save Your Face mixtape marathon began as a 1974 listening project, and it’s been a long time since I added anything to the pile delicious, unreleased music from that year.
This mix is all-instrumental due to SBD tape flaws (“Scarlet”) and DJ preferences (“Eyes” and “Wharf Rat”). There’s nothing wrong with the singing of those songs, though nothing special about it either.
The long, Keith-centric opening of “Eyes” made it an appealing choice to turn into a vocal-free, escalating jam. I also removed one, small, momentum-breaking passage from the jam itself.
I liked the way the jam led up to “Wharf Rat” and how the WR started, so I made the whole song into an instrumental edit, which provides a nice “Dew”/“Dark Star”-energy end to the short ride.
38-minute mp3 mix zipped up here
- Scarlet Begonias (intro & jam edit)
- Eyes of the World (instrumental edit) >
- Space >
- Jam >
- Wharf Rat (instrumental edit)