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Blues Band
85-xx-xx
"Blues In My Soul" demo
Princeton NJ
Conversion:Original cassette>Onkyo
TA-6711>DA-20 (analog/digital conversion)>Egosys U2A>Sound Studio 2.1.1b3>xACT 1.55 by Dave Mallick; original
cassette provided by Hisham ElShakhs
(minutes:seconds.frames) [25:25.55]
01. And So It Goes
[07:58.07]
02. Severe Infatuation [03:04.31]
03. When It Hits You [02:37.18]
04.
Glory, Glory [04:34.34]
05. Blues In My Soul [07:11.40]
Blues
Band is:
John Popper - harmonica & vocals
Dave Stern - guitar
Brendan Hill - drums
Sebastian Hill - bass
History: This is the earliest known demo tape featuring members of who would eventually become Blues Traveler. John and
Brendan had met in school in late 1983 and began to jam together at Brendan's house. After
recruiting Brendan's brother
Sebastian as a bassist and a few gigs together as "The Establishment", the original guitarist left. Enter guitarist Dave Stern,
and a name change to "Blues Band". This demo was likely recorded sometime in early 1985, prior to Sebastian's graduation
from Princeton High School later that year. It features the only known recordings of "When It Hits You" and the title track,
"Blues In My Soul", studio or otherwise. Blues Band would go on to record one more demo - entitled simply "Jamdemo" - before
changing bassists and guitarists one more time and becoming "Blues Traveler".
Notes: In 2001, an auction popped
up on eBay with an old classmate selling this demo and the 1988 "Let's Travel" demo; after bidding against each other for
a few days, another fan and I decided to declare a truce and split the goods but make copies for each other. We won, he chose
the "Let's Travel" demo, and I got this one, which I promptly did a pretty poor transfer of. This re-transfer used my DA-20
as an A/D converter as well as newly-cleaned heads on the Onkyo cassette deck, so it should sound a bit better, though the
original cassette is over 20 years old and pretty hissy on any deck. Thanks to Hisham for being willing to part with
a high-school memory, and to Ken for helping me blow an embarrassing sum of money on two decrepit cassettes whose combined
age exceeds my own...
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