Bear's Sonic Journals Presents 
BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY (featuring Janis Joplin)

LIVE AT THE CAROUSEL BALLROOM 1968

Released 2012 by Columbia/Legacy

Soundboard recording by Bear (Oswley August Stanley III)

tracklisting

1. Combination Of The Two
2. I Need A Man To Love
3. Flower In The Sun
4. Light Is Faster Than Sound
5. Summertime
6. Catch Me Daddy
7. It's A Deal
8. Call On Me
9. Jam - I'm Mad
10. Piece Of My Heart
11. Coo Coo
12. Ball & Chain
13. Down On Me

Bonus Track:

14. Call On Me (Saturday Show - June 22, 1968)

CD ripped to FLAC using Exact Audio Copy - one FLAC file with cue file

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Notes by John Meyer, Meyer Sound Laboratories Inc., Berkeley, California:

HOW TO LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM

To hear this album the way Bear wanted you to hear it will require a bit of effort to rearrange your speaker setup, but trust us, it will be worth it.  As there is very little overlap between the "right" and "left" channels, listening to the album with your speakers in their usual configuration will sound strange, with the vocals and drums coming from the left speaker and everything else from the right.

The easiest way to listen to this album the way Bear wanted is to push your "left" and "right" front stereo speakers as close together as you can.  Yes, you might have to move your TV out of the way.  This is a sonic experience, not a visual one.  When you do this, the speakers will become a single point source sound system, and the two channels combine to let you hear how it sounded to be in the crowd at the show.

For more conventionally mixed recordings, this configuration eliminates the small "sweet spot" between the speakers.  Like the Carousel Ballroom in 1968, your whole living room is now a sweet spot.

Play it loud.  And play it the way Bear wanted you to hear it