Tut Taylor Archive Reel #28
"Aereo-Plain Rehersle, Tut/Model 27" (sic) side a Tut Taylor on Dobro; circa early-1970s 
side b Aereo-Plain Band Session-John Hartford, Norman Blake, Vassar Clements, & Tut Taylor; 
Electric Lady Studio, New York, NY
May 5, 1971 (?)

Tut Taylor circa early-1970s (mono):
1. (Tuning)
2. (Mandolin noodling)(x)
3. Solo Dobro (various themes)...Instrumental (?)
4. Solo Dobro (noodling)
5. Making Believe (?) (Solo Dobro)
6. Instrumental (?) (Same as #3)

Aereo-Plain Band Session; 5/5/71? (stereo):
7. (Tuning)
8. When You are Lonely (x)
9. Bad Music (Is Better Than No Music at All) (1)
10. (Talking)
11. Bad Music (Is Better Than No Music at All) (2)

The box for Tut Taylor Archive Reel #28 is labeled "Aero-Plain Rehersle,
Tut/Model 27" (sic), and features two sessions:  1) Tut noodling around on
Dobro, and 2) what appears to be part of a John Hartford Aereo-Plain session
that may have been recorded on May 5, 1971 at Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady
Studio in New York; John Hartford, Norman Blake, Vassar Clements, Tut
Taylor, and bassist Randy Scruggs are heard.  Tracks #9 and #11 are two
versions of Tut's composition "Bad Music (Is Better Than No Music At All)"
that sound like outtakes of the outtake found on Hartford's "Steam Powered
Aereo-Takes".  Sure wish there was a complete version of "When You are
Lonely", a cover of the Flatt & Scruggs classic.

--Mitchell Wittenberg

The tape is a 7.5 inch per second mono recording on side A with side B being stereo. The 
reel was played on a modified Revox A77 reel-to-reel machine with a Reutelhuber custom 
designed and built tape head preamplifier incorporating 2003 era technology and components 
including all metal film resistors, polypropelene coupling capacitors, and low ESR 
electrolytic supply bypass capacitors.  The resulting analog signal was digitized by a 
Mytek Digital 8X96 analog to digital converter using Steinberg Nuendo as the recording 
software and saved as a 24 bit 48 kHz wave file.

Post processing and was done with Nuendo using the following Waves  Plugins: X-Hum, Q10, 
LinEQ Lowband, C1 comp-gate, S1 Shuffler and L3.  The file was dithered down to a 
16 bit/44.1kHz wave file. The reel is labeled '7.5 ips mono 1/2 tk bidirectional'.