Gene Clark - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, USA 2-19-1975 | Albums That Should Exist

 Gene Clark - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 2-19-1975

Paul says: Here's a FM broadcast concert by Gene Clark, formerly of the Byrds. This is one of very few excellent sounding live recordings of Clark from his 1970s heyday.

This concert has been officially released as "Silverado '75." I had that album for years, and I thought that was all these was. But it turns out that is a single album, and what I'm posting here is enough for a double album. So that's why I'm posting this, because there's more to offer than the what's on the official album.

*At first, I thought Ebbets Field was some kind of sports field venue. But it actually was a small club fitting about 200 people that was named after an old baseball stadium in New York City. It was in operation from 1973 to 1977, and during that time, most or all of the concerts there were broadcast live on a local radio station. (In the future, I may make an effort to post more of these Ebbets Field concerts, because there are a lot of good ones, but I have too much on my plate right now.) So that's why we have the full performance, with just as high quality sound as the official album.

Clark actually performed an early show and a late show. I've combined all the unique songs from both, while making sure to include all the banter that he spoke. (He didn't speak much.) In case you're curious, these are the songs that got played twice:

Kansas City Southern
Set You Free This Time
She Darked the Sun
In the Pines

Silver Raven

"Train Leaves Here This Morning" is the first song of the second set, and it's all the second set after that. Although Clark performed with a small band, I felt the differences between the versions was so small that I didn't need both versions of the ones that were played twice. If you feel otherwise, you can easily find bootlegs with all the songs. 

Clark had a long, slow decline, due to hard living and drugs, ending by dying too young at the age of 46, in 1991. But in the mid-1970s, he still sounded great, and was writing excellent songs. Here's a good account of this portion of his career:

Gene Clark – The Byrd And The Best (Part 5 of 6) - PopDiggers 

From that, I learned the song "Daylight Line" was never done in the studio, so the best version of it is from this concert. A couple other songs, like "Long Black Veil" and "In the Pines," were cover versions.

This album is an hour and 22 minutes long.

01 talk 
02 Long Black Veil (trad arr)
03 talk 
04 Kansas City Southern
05 Spanish Guitar 
06 Home Run King
07 Here without You 
08 No Other 
09 Daylight Line
10 talk
11 She Darked the Sun
12 Train Leaves Here This Morning 
13 Life's Greatest Fool 
14 Silver Raven 
15 talk
16 In the Pines (trad arr)
17 The Radio Song 
18 What Is Meant to Be
19 The Virgin
20 The True One 
21 talk 
22 Set You Free This Time 

(all songs Gene Clark except where marked) 

Paul notes: The cover image of Clark is from a concert at the Hammersmith Odeon, in London, at some point in 1975. All the photos I've seen of him from 1975 or thereabouts have him with a beard. The original was in black and white. But I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

* me too! I always wondered about Ebbet’s Field and thought it some baseball stadium . . . . it was a NY club after all!

Gene Clark (with The Silverados) - What is Meant To Be 1975 Live [nb unrecorded]

My Marie - Gene Clark w/Carla Olson 

live in concert at the Mountain Stage 1988 [nb unrecorded]