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Audience 7.4 - Lo-fi but all instruments clearly heard, not that bad, you can get into this one. -
Soundboard 9.5 -
Audience 8.2 - There’s a more intimate, immediate sound to this, a little flat but very clear. -
Audience 7.8 - Concert Hall sound capturing his last show of the tour. I can enjoy this, but I do have to season it to taste, mainly in adjusting just a little bit to give it more bass response. It’s not bad, it’s not great, it’s good and there’s something here to work with in my opinion. -
Soundboard 9.5 -
Audience 6.9 - Bowie clearly audible above the din. Not great separation of instruments, with some minor analog tape saturation at full volume. -
Audience 9.0 - A great sounding tape! Very clear and good mix too. I get a good feel for the venue and the crowd, my kind of audience tape here. -
Soundboard 9.7 - Super clean with at least a little bit of audience leaking into the stage mics to give a touch of ambience which otherwise leaves more of a one-dimensional sound. So, I like this! -
Soundboard 9.7 -
FM Radio 9.4 (The Year of the Spiders) -
Soundboard 8.7 -
Audience 7.8 - Excitement is the order of the day, you can literally feel it. The recording can be praised for effectively capturing a really on performance at a famous venue at the best time of Bowie’s career (some would say). -
Audience 7.3 - Pretty clear with a bit of hall space that gives it some atmosphere. Enjoyable! -
Soundboard 9.2 -
Soundboard 9.2 -
Audience 7.8 - Clear, strong, present with just a hint of mic overload but overall very very good recording of a historic show revealing the pre-stardom Bowie testing some Ziggy tunes. -
Audience 7.9 - I keep coming back to this show, mainly because I love the vibe in the hall, the crowd progressively getting more and more into it and excitement keeps building. Great stuff! -
Soundboard 9.7 -
Audience 7.3 - Suffers from being in a bad spot on the floor but the perspective is interesting nonetheless. It lacks depth and clarity for sure, but hearing this show gives one a real sense of being right there with the tapers. -
Audience 6.8 - For the hardcore collector of the Ziggy days. A rare tape though, wish it was better. -
Soundboard 9.0 - Sounds kind of thin and compressed to me but it is perfectly clear being a modern sdbrd. Features songs with Nine Inch Nails, and a lot of good bonus material. All in all a very good CD! -
Audience 7.7 - Kind of thin but really pretty clear and that is why they consider this one of the better audience tapes of the British leg of the Spiders tour in 1972. -
Audience 9.6 - Marvelous recording captures every nuance in pristine, clear, full quality. -
CD 1 - Heidelberg 1970 - Audience 6.5 / CD 2 - Amsterdam 1970 - Audience 7.3 -
Soundboard 9.3 - Excellent, dynamic, solid. -
Audience 7.7 - The rating does nothing to express the magnitude of intensity that this show has. It gives you a very real sense of how completely bombastic and insanely loud Deep Purple were at this time. Incredible on many levels, so use this to show your kids how we rocked back in the day. Amazing! -
Audience 8.4 - Keyboards shine, all other instruments a little behind keys but clearly heard. -
Audience 7.9 - It’s hard give this a below 8 rating because of technical limitations of the recorder (a touch of high end distortion) because it is a very exciting and highly amped show captured quite well for the primitive hear that must have been used. I can hear everything and guitar is loud and up front. The distortion present is not a killer, it’s there but it is as unobtrusive as distortion can be. A fun recording, puts you right there. -
Audience 6.8 - Very thin, but a low gen tape used here so it is pretty clear and guitar is the most present along with Ian and a pretty prominent kick drum too. The show is marvelous wish it sounded better. -
Oldenburg, Germany 1971 - Audience 8.3 - The star of this 2CD (guitar smoking hot!) / Rome, Italy 1971 - Audience 6.7 - Very noisy and brassy. -
Audience 5.7 - Muffled and bass heavy but blistering show wish it was better sound. Vocals kind of clear, can hear guitar and he’s shredding like hell. -
Audience 9.3 - You could not ask for a better break than having this marathon ass kicking show recorded so well.