I tried this evening to compare more carefully the San Bernadino disc and side 2 of "Merely a Portmanteau". Very interesting!
"Station Man" is almost certainly the same performance. I'm pretty sure that "Tell Me All the Things You Do" is as well, but it's harder to tell since I believe the version on the disc has been edited (aside from fading out before the end). The later parts of TMATTYD have some differences, and I was getting tired of comparing them - maybe I'll try some more tomorrow. As I say, I'm pretty sure some editing has taken place. Comparing Christine announcing the song and the beginning of the actual playing - there's more between the announcement and the band actually starting to play on "Portmanteau", but it sounds like that part's been edited out on the disc version.
The sound on "Portmanteau" is considerably better than the disc. Must have been too many poorly dubbed tapes before the show made it onto cd-r.
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