Betty Davis
Riviera '76 Festival Jazz-Rock
Circuit Paul Ricard
Le Castellet, France
July 25, 1976 (Approximately 11:00pm)
Very Good Audience Recording (Sivad Recording)
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No Cover Art
Lineage (Sivad): Audience Recording (Sivad) > 2 UHER dynamic mics > Nakamichi 550 Portable Cassette Recorder > TDK Tape > TASCAM > Cassette Deck > Vaio Soundcard :( > Audacity > HD
Additional Lineage To The Above (RatedX): CD Wave > TLH Flac Level 8
01 French MC Intro From The Stage :27
02 Instrumental ? 3:18
03 Nasty Gal 4:31
04 Dedicated To The Press 3:40
05 The Lone Ranger 9:46
06 He Was A Big Freak 5:49
07 Talkin Trash 9:23
08 Steppin In Her I. Miller Shoes 5:21
09 Instrumental ? 2:09
10 Shut Off The Light (w/Applause) 5:15
Total Playing Time: 49mn 39sc
Betty Davis - Vocals
Larry Johnson - Bass, Vocals
Fred Mills - Keyboards, Vocals
Carlos Morales - Lead Guitar, Vocals
Semmie “Nickey” Neal, jr. - Drums
According to the MC Introductions: Betty Davis dedicated this show to Miles Davis.
Betty Davis, the second wife of Miles Davis, never obtained the heights she should have when she was releasing records and touring the world. Like many ground breaking artists, she flew a little low on the radar for most of the music listening masses. Putting her sexuality right up front for all to see, she blazed a trail for artists like Madonna to dress and act as sensual and sexual as they wanted. Why not male artists were wearing tight pants and a lot stuffed them to look um bigger.
Let's talk about the music a bit. It was a mixture of Raw Funk and Jazz (yes please!). Betty and her backing band functioned as a real band. All the songs they wrote were written together in band Jam sessions. Improvisation was a huge part of their live performances. Betty was very influential to her husband Miles in the fact she introduced him to both Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone. The influence of Bety Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone is written all over the Bitches Brew album.
The recording is a really good audience recording with very little audience noise interfering with the listening experience. There is some wind noise at times. The taper admits in his notes that he didn't have wind screens for his mcs.
Miles Davis was scheduled to play this festival but decided to take a break from music, which lasted 5 years. He personally had Betty Davis booked to replace him. There is a great documentary about Betty Davis called Betty: They Say I'm Different which you should seek out if you want to learn more about Betty. I watched it on a online streaming service called TUBI at of course https:tubi.com not sure if the documentary still available or not. It is a free service you can sign up for (they don't bomb your email either). A lot of cable providers have it for free in their app sections so check it out they have a lot of music documentaries that I had never heard of...Enjoy The Betty Davis My Friends!!
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