In early 2008 I wrote a blog article on
the various recordings of Chuck Berry concerts in San Francisco in 1967. Three of these shows had been only available for listening online at Wolfgang's Vault, now Concert Vault, a commercial site which runs on the archives of promoter Bill Graham and concert recordings from many other sources.
These recordings have now been made available as a 2-CD set called
Check Me Out! (Crying Steel CSR02). It includes all three concerts available at the Concert Vault:
- March 18, 1967 - Winterland, San Francisco
This confused me a bit at first, because in 2008 Wolfgang's Vault had this concert dated March 19, which would place it to the Fillmore Auditorium and not to the Winterland where Berry and the Grateful Dead played on March 17 and 18. For some reason, the date of this recording has changed, though the recording itself didn't. - December 26, 1967 - Winterland, San Francisco
This concert was not available when I first wrote about these recordings. I added some comments in a 2009 blog post. - December 29, 1967 - Winterland, San Francisco
a quite interesting concert with some very looong versions.
For some reasons the creators of the CD added one more concert recording, which has nothing to do with the Winterland or with San Francisco. The only thing common with the Winterland concerts is that this recording also stems from Concert Vault. The four tracks are the audio segment of a video originally recorded on November 2, 1972 and broadcast as part or Don Kirshner's "In Concert" series for ABC TV.
At the Concert Vault you can listen to it and concurrently view Berry perform. This is post-Ding-A-Ling and therefore does not fit to the Miller Band recordings here at all.
Anyway the 2-CD set is a nice professionally made item. And it even contains a recommendation for this site in its liner notes. Thanks!