Robbie Basho – Reed College, Portland, OR (1967-04-08)

Robbie Basho soundboard recording from April 8th, 1967 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Co-billed show with John Fahey, Robbie played his set second. Credit for audio to Steve Halpern, zuma11, and grner1. Additional details are quoted below.

"In late 2019, fellow Neil Young fan and Reed College alumnus, Jim B contacted me. He said that Reed College alum Steve Halpern had a group of late 60's/early 70's Reed College recordings of Reverend Gary Davis, John Lee Hooker, John Fahey & Robbie Basho that needed transferring.

In 1985, Steve found the recordings among a cache of reels in a Reed College library backroom while researching poet Lew Welch. It appeared that most of the reels were of official college business - board meetings etc, but others were student run campus events including lectures and music. He borrowed a few of the music related reels and transferred them using a reel to reel player from the library's AV dept, to a radio shack "y" cable plugged the reel to reel's RCA jacks into one of those ubiquitous, small, portable Panasonic cassette player/recorders. He doesn't know if the originals were mono or stereo.

The library was remodeled in 2008. As Steve was later told, most of the miscellaneous contents of the library was stored in bins in another building while the remodeling occurred. Steve thinks the reels, many of which had no labels, may have been discarded afterwords."

Uploaded for the love.

0:01 Medicine Raga
16:13 Lost Lagoon Suite
30:05 Track 3
44:26 Track 4 (cut)

Link to John Fahey’s 1967-04-08 set:
   • John Fahey – Reed College, Portland, ...  

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