Glass Harp: Hall of Fame Reunion 2008 (VG+ Aud) FLAC

Beachland Ballroom
Cleveland, OH
2008-11-01
Roots of American Music
Benefit for Education
Core Sound Binaural > Zoom H2 > Audacity > CD Wave Editor > Traders Little Helper (Flac 8)

d1
Set 1
01 Children's Fantasy
02 Wait (Beatles)
03 A Sign Came Through A Window
04 She's not there (Zombies)
05 In My Life (Beatles)
06 Village Queen
07 From the Beginning
08 Changes >
09 Changes con't

Set 2
10 banter/gifts from ROAM for Glass Harp
11 ??? *
12 Rejoice *
13 banter/rest of band comes out

d2
Set 2 cont.
01 Whatever Life Demands
02
03
04 Do Lord
05
06
07 Never Is A Long Time
08 John The Revelator
09
10
11 In The Presence of The Lord (Blind Faith)
12 Can You See Me?
13 Chalice

* Acoustic

OU Notes: Show started at 7:30, I got in the Venue at 7:25. I started recording as soon as I got in, so during the first song you can hear me moving around and setting up the rig.In my hurry I plugged the mics in to the external mic input instead of line in. I've had problems with clipping when using my set-up this way before, so I waited until the first song was over to switch it and then fixed the volume levels so they matched later in Audacity.
There was no clipping but you can hear a slight difference.
I don't know all of Glass Harp's and Phil's music so this may be tracked kind of strange and I couldn't put together the entire setlist. I also included several extras in the post. I made scans of the poster/flyer from the show, an article about the benefit from a local paper, and an ad for the show. I also added some pics I took, a small animated gif, and a 1 minute mpeg of one of the jams. These are in a separate folder marked 'extras'.
Big thanks to Joe Ray, this recording would not have been possible without him.
Also thanks to Bob Brandt and the entire Glass Harp family for allowing the fans to tape and to ROAM for putting together a wonderful night of music.

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Glass Harp: United Audio Demo Acetate 1969 (FLAC)

rare? oh yeah!

March 1969
United Audio Demo
1 of about 15 original acetates > ? > CD-R (trade) > EAC (WAV, confirmed losslessness) > Audacity (removed some loud digipops at end of tracks, music unchanged) > FLAC (8)

Phil Keaggy - vocals, guitar
John Sferra - drums
Steve Markulin - bass

1. Where Did My World Come From?*
2. She Told Me*
3. High Flight
4. Save Me
5. Groovin' With Sammy
6. Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles)
7. You Do Something To Me
8. I've Just Begun
9. What You're Doing (The Beatles)

*First two tracks officially released on United Audio 6002 45 single in 1969. The rest of the tracks were never officially released.
OU: This recording is from an audio demo put onto a handful of acetates in early 1969 by, as they were calling themselves at the time "The Glass Harp." I recently received this in trade. The tracks were originally mislabeled, but through some internet sleuthing, I identified what these were: a true treasure! This album, whose songs never ended up being recorded elsewhere by Glass Harp or Phil Keaggy are veritable psychedelic guitar workouts.
Keep in mind as you listen, that Keaggy turned 18 in March 1969, just to get a sense of the magnitude of his raw talent. Below are a few links that helped quite a bit in figuring out the identity of this recording.

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Glass Harp: Akron 1971 (Soundboard) FLAC

pretty rare stuff

Firestone High School,
3/24/71
sbd>?>cdr>eac>flac level 8

Do Lord
>Let's Live Together
>coda
Village Queen
What Ever Life Demands
Instrumental
>One Day At A Time
>Instrumental
>Can You See Me
>instrumental

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Glass Harp: KSAN 1971 (FLAC)

Glass Harp - 1971-XX-XX - Sausalito, CA
In the late '60s and early '70s a power rock trio from Youngstown, Ohio called Glass Harp reached for the stars. They must have made contact, as references to stellar events seem to pervade much of their music. As a reviewer of their debut album observed,"...no fewer than five songs mention the sky, and three of the remaining ones talk about things like stars, rainbows, and the moon."
They were a bare bones group in the tradition of Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience, and fellow Ohio band, The James Gang. But Glass Harp developed a signature sound of their own-a progressive one that allowed the members, collectively and individually, to stretch beyond the confines of standard form; breaks in songs for guitar, bass, flute, and drum solos were de riguere , as extended improvisations that would take the bands performances into the late hours.
The trio's following was particularly amazed by the lighnting style and precise technique of the bands 18 year old guitarist Phil Keaggy, who aside from his youth, had the use of only nine fingers. Neither strike impeded his ability to produce highly lyrical solos. Combined with the tasteful, rhythmic bass lines of Daniel Pecchio and the sharp, assertive drumming of John Sferra, Glass Harp created a wall of sound that would thrill sell-out capacities across the upper Midwest and beyond.
While the band dissolved on the cusp of achieving mainstream rock stardom, they garnered a large and loyal regional following. National notoriety followed as they toured with the likes of Traffic, Yes, The Kinks, Humble Pie, Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, and Grand Funk Railroad. " They were just the warm-up group," recalls a journalist of the day, "But it was the first time I had heard a local group and felt that I had heard the headline concert."
With the release of their first album came more national attention, and even more enthusiasm back home-none of which was lost on the record company advertising execs, who exploited their burgeoning popularity with such ad copy as: "The Glass Harp epidemic began about two weeks ago in Ohio and has been spreading so rapidly it has already affected some 36,000 in Cleveland alone. There is conclusive evidence to suggest that a new rock group Glass Harp is responsible for this epidemic. The release of their LP coincides almost exactly with the outbreak of this phenomenon.Contact your MCA Distributor today and become a carrier of the Glass Harp epidemic."
In all, the band's recorded output consisted of three critically- acclaimed LPs- all released on the Decca(MCA) label-Glass Harp, Synergy, and It Makes Me Glad. In spite of their short lived life, the band managed to imprint an indelible mark on the history of rock 'n' roll. Performing with some of the biggest bands of the day on stages ranging from the Filmore to Carnegie Hall. [Source - John August Schroeter]
Here is an excellent FM in-studio recording of Glass Harp (featuring Phil Keaggy) from way back in 1971. Recorded at Pacific High Records and broadcast on KSAN Sausalito, CA
Glass Harp - Pacific High Recorders September 26, 1971

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Setlist
01. Intro by Tom O'Hare
02. Never Is a Long Time
03. Instrumental Jam
04. Village Queen
05. Song of Hope
06. Changes
07. Look In The Sky
08. Children's Fantasy
09. Can You See Me [over 30 min]

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