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Audience 8.0 – 8.5 This is one of those “right in the thick of it” tapes. Immersed into the crowd, you become part of the experience of the concert along with the tapers themselves. Is that good or bad? In this case it starts off a little shaky and gets better, and better, as the show progresses until at the end you realize you had a great time. Rich Stadium Buffalo, NY 1978-07-04 Disc One 1. Let It Rock 2. All Down The Line 3. Honky Tonk Women 4. Starfucker 5. When The Whip Comes Down 6. Lies 7. Miss You 8. Beast Of Burden Disc Two 1. Shattered 2. Just My Imagination 3. Respectable 4. Far Away Eyes 5. Love In Vain 6. Tumbling Dice 7. Happy 8. Sweet Little Sixteen 9. Brown Sugar 10. Jumpin' Jack Flash -
Audience 9.3 - Such a good , clear and powerful audience tape of the fledgling CTA that would later become one of the biggest selling bands of all time. I can recommend this one to just about anyone with even the faintest interest in the band, and/or rock music in general. It’s THAT good. CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY Cue Club, Gothenburg, Sweden - December 15, 1969 Setlist Disc 1 1. -Intro - Warm Up 2. -Introduction 3. -Listen 4. -Beginnings 5. -South California Purples 6. -Poem For The People 7. -25 Or 6 To 4 Disc 2 8. -Questions 67 & 68 9. -I’m A Man Encore 10. -Liberation 11. -Poem 58 12. -It Better End Soon The Band: Terry Kath Danny Seraphine Robert Lamm Peter Cetera Lee Loughnane James Pankow Walt Parazaider -
FM Radio Broadcast 9.2 - Very enjoyable, and tape runs stable and clean so you can blast this at your next gathering of friends (which is soon, hopefully). The bonus material (Kansas City 78) is very good also, an audience recording with nice atmosphere. All of the material in this set is prime era Styx, for me anyway. Styx Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL December 18, 1978 Band line up Dennis DeYoung - vocals, keyboards Tommy Shaw - guitar, vocals James Young - lead guitar, vocals John Panozzo - drums, vocals (passed away July 16, 1996, aged 47) Chuck Panozzo - bass, vocals Disc 1 01 -Intro - Great White Hope 02 -I'm O.K. 03 -The Grand Illusion 04 -Fooling Yourself 05 -Queen of Spades 06 -Acoustic Instrumental 07 -Crystal Ball 08 -Intro - Suite Madame Blue 09 -Renegade (incl. drum solo) 10 -Lady 11 -Blue Collar Man Disc 2 12 -Come Sail Away 13 -Intro - Midnight Ride (incl. guitar solo) 14 -Miss America Kemper Arena, Kansas City, MO November 21, 1978 15 Lady 16 Fooling Yourself 17 Suite Madame Blue 18 Come Sail Away 19 Midnight Ride 20 Miss America -
CD 1&2 SDBRD/AUD Matrix 9.3 CD 2&3 Soundboard 9.5 - A great overview of John’s music contained herein. I admit I wasn’t too knowledgeable of his stuff, I knew his name (he is from Houston, he was just one of our locals) and had numerous chances to see him live…but sadly never did. I should have. This music is pretty basic, but will remind you a bit of Bob Dylan, and will entertain you endlessly with the lyrical wit and story-telling nature of the songs. A bright star, really, a shame that we lost him recently. John Prine 2/22/79 Rainbow Theatre Denver, CO Disc I:- -Spanish Pipedream
- -Often Is A Word I Seldom Use
- -Fish And Whistle
- -Angel From Montgomery
- -Crooked Piece Of Time
- -Blue Umbrella
- -Illegal Smile
- -Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone
- -The Bottomless Lake
- -Dear Abby
- -Sam Stone
- -That's The Way The World Goes Round
- -There She Goes
- -I Had A Dream
- -Living In The Future
- -Iron Ore Betty
- -Hello In There
- -Paradise
- -Please Don't Bury Me
- -Onomatopoeia
- -Sailin' Around
- -Mexican Home
- -Sweet Revenge
- -Souvenirs
- -Saigon
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Audience 8.8 - I like these kinds of audience recordings where the taper is kind of close to the speakers yet the sound does not distort. It makes for a very realistic and intense sound, closer to what it would have been like in person, rather than the soundboard feed which is not representative of the sound that came out of the PA system. Also, I like the Jean-Luc Ponty period, the jazzy workouts were sometimes incredibly intense and not necessarily traditionally jazzy, but progressively jazzy. This is one such gig. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention Palasport Bologna, Italy 1973 08 30 Line-up: FZ, George Duke, Jean-Luc Ponty, Ian Underwood, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler, Ruth Underwood, Ralph Humphrey Set list: 01 opening 02 Dupree's Paradise 03 band intros 04 Cosmik Debris 05 preamble 06 Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue 07 Kung Fu 08 Penguin In Bondage 09 Dog Meat 10 RDNZL 11 Farther Oblivion 12 encore preamble 13 Brown Shoes Don't Make It -
Audience 8.7 - Every audience tape has a certain unique “timbre” to it, a quality hard to define – it encompasses distance from source, surrounding ambience, equalization, harmonics, and more. So, this recording is what I would call “very good” but different than other 88 Euro Zappa tapes in timbre. I find this one leaning too far in upper mid band and treble, not irritatingly, but wanted more bottom end. My ears were telling me that is what it wanted…yours may not it is all very subjective. It’s a good recording though. Frank Zappa 19880425 Copenhagen, Denmark Falkoner Theater Set 1: 01. Heavy Duty Judy 03:49 02. band introductions 02:04 03. Packard Goose > 07:41 04. Alien Orifice > 04:19 05. When The Lie's So Big > 03:42 06. Planet Of The Baritone Women > 02:45 07. Any Kind Of Pain > 06:13 08. Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk > 07:30 09. Texas Motel Medley > 09:10 10. Sofa 02:57 01. Torture Never Stops Medley > 19:49 Set 2: 02. Find Her Finer > 02:44 03. Big Swifty > 16:23 04. Bamboozled By Love 06:23 05. Bolero 05:28 06. Peaches En Regalia > 02:58 07. Stairway To Heaven 09:07 Encore: 08. Mr. Green Genes > 03:58 09. Florentine Pogen > 06:40 10. Andy 05:38 11. Inca Roads 09:32 ________ 02:18:49 -
1977 Soundboard 9.0 (various sources) - The goal was to assemble the best and most complete version of this legendary gig. They have done that with this. It’s way better than you remember it being (aside from the tracks pulled from Love You Live). 4th & 5th March: Toronto, Canada, El Mocambo Tavern Note: Soundboard recording was made by Eddie Kramer. 01. Route 66 02. Hand Of Fate 03. Crazy Mama CUT. 04. Mannish Boy 05. Crackin`Up 06. Dance Little Sister 07. Around And Around 08. Worried About You 09. Let`s Spend Night Together_completed 10. Band Intro 11. Little Red Rooster -
Audience 8.8 - Back in the cassette tape trading days, many tapes would be passed around containing the Mick Taylor period and those were the ones I most gravitated towards. A lot of those shows I have never listened to again since the cassette days for fear they would still sound so weak…but this one has blown me away, literally. It is not the old multi-gen, hissy and muddy clusterphuck like so many of those audience recordings were, this one is really pretty friggin’ good. Not perfect, but VERY damn good. THE ROLLING STONES Boston Garden Boston, MA July 18th 1972 THE BAND Mick Jagger vocals harmonica tambourine Keith Richards electric guitar vocals Bill Wyman bass Charlie Watts drums Mick Taylor lead guitar Nicky Hopkins Keyboards Bobby Keys saxophone Jim Price trumpet SETLIST 1 Announcement 2 Band Intro 3 Brown Sugar 4 Bitch 5 Rocks Off 6 Gimme Shelter 7 Happy 8 Tumbling Dice 9 Love In Vain 10 Sweet Virginia 11 You Can't Alway's Get What You Want 12 All Down The Line 13 Midnight Rambler 14 Band Introduction 15 Bye Bye Johnny 16 Rip This Joint 17 Jumpin' Jack Flash 18 Street Fighting Man 19 Honky Tonk Woman 20 Closing Announcement -
Audience 9.5 - Easily one of the best, if not the best, audience recording of the US leg of the 1988 Tour. If you have to pick one, I would always point to this one for that reason but also because it is a great show and features a special guest or two (Adam West and son Dweezil), but I don’t want to spoil the surprise. Frank Zappa 25-Mar 1988, Nassau Colisseum, Uniondale, NY Frank Zappa's Band: Paul Carman - alto saxophone Walt Fowler - trumpet Bruce Fowler - trombone Mike Keneally - guitar, keyboards, vocals Ed Mann - percussion Robert Martin (Bobby) - keyboards, vocals Kurt McGettrick - baritone saxophone Scott Thunes - bass Chad Wackerman - drums Ike Willis - guitar, vocals Albert Wing - tenor saxophone Frank Zappa - guitar, vocals Eric Buxton - monologue, Guest Brother A. West (Brother A. West) - monologue, Guest Dweezil Zappa - guitar, Guest w/ Dweezil Setlist: disc 1 01 -Black Page #2 02 -Ain't Got No Heart 03 -Love Of My Life 04 -Inca Roads 05 -Sharleena 06 -Who Needs The Peace Corps 07 -Dickie's Such An Asshole 08 -When The Lie's So Big 09 -Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk 10 -Sofa 11 -Packard Goose Medley 12 -The Torture Never Stops Medley I Disc 2 13 -Theme From Bonanza - Lonesome Cowboy Burt 14 -The Torture Never Stops Medley II 15 -City Of Tiny Lights 16 -A Pound For A Brown 17 -Brother A. West 18 -Texas Motel Medley 19 -Peaches En Regalia 20 -Stairway To Heaven (w/Dweezil) 21 -I Am The Walrus 22 -Whipping Post 23 -Bolero 24 -America The Beautiful Notes: First Time played: Brother A West Last Time played: Brother A West America The Beautiful (Samuel A. Ward, Katherine Lee Bates) -
CD1 FM Broadcast 8.8 A little hiss present, and a little “compression” but a good tight sound nonetheless. The Miami 78 is Audience 8.3 With some big hall boom in the kick drum. CD 2 Audience 8.5 Thin in some places, but opens wider as it goes along. Taper possibly moves closer, and sound improves. CD 3 Audience 8.6 A loud, boisterous, beer soaked rock and roll affair with sound quality that I would describe as clear but missing some mid-band punch. It’s nice to have a chronological history sometimes, you get to hear a band just gain more and more confidence (not as if this band ever lacked any). This band’s sound and style really was custom made for these years but after that it dropped off the map. Too bad really, it’s a good time rock and roll music and transcends time. Rockpile Anthology 77-80 Disc 1 Amsterdam, Holland February 14, 1977 01. -Intro 02. -I Hear You Knocking 03. -Down, Down, Down 04. -Back to School Days 05. -Let's Talk About Us 06. -Ju Ju Man 07. -The Promised Land 08. -Annie Is Back/I Need Love 09. -I Knew The Bride (When She Used to Rock and Roll) 10. -Heart Of The City 11. -DJ Outro Jai-Alai Fronton Miami, FL May 14, 1978 12. So It Goes 13. Fool Too Long 14. I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock and Roll) 15. I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass 16. Down, Down, Down 17. They Call It Rock 18. Ju Ju Man Disc 2 San Diego State University San Diego, CA. August 14, 1979 1 -Down Down Down 2 -So It Goes 3 -Switchbox Susan 4 -Crawling from the Wreckage 5 -Trouble Boys 6 -Girls Talk 7 -Let It Rock 8 -Cruel to Be Kind 9 -Singin' The Blues 10 -Sweet Little Lisa 11 -So Fine 12 -They Call It Rock 13 -Ju Ju Man 14 -Goodnight Disc 3 Unknown Venue Varberg, Sweden February 22, 1980 01. Sweet Little Lisa 02. So It Goes 03. I Knew the Bride 04. Queen of Hearts 05. You'll Never Get Me Up In One Of Those 06. Switchboard Susan 07. Three Time Loser 08. Trouble Boys 09. Cruel to Be Kind 10. Girls Talk 11. Crawling From the Wreckage 12. Singing the Blues 13. Cracking Up 14. Promised Land 15. I Hear You Knocking 16. They Called It Rock 17. Ju Ju Man 18. Let's Talk About Us -
Soundboard 9.2 - There are precious few mid 70’s Steely Dan tapes out there, thankfully most of them are very good quality because the band is a very special collection of highly skilled players who write creative, provocative, challenging music that NEVER gets old. This is just a must have, it’s that simple. Steely Dan Rainbow Theatre Finsbury Park, London, England 20th May 1974 Disc 1 01 -intro - Bodhisattva 02 -The Boston Rag 03 -Do It Again 04 -Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) 05 -King Of The World 06 -Rikki Don't Lose That Number 07 -Pretzel Logic 08 -band introductions Disc 2 01 -My Old School 02 -Dirty Work 03 -Instrumental (Your Gold Teeth II) 04 -Reelin' In The Years 05 -crowd and tuning encores 06 -Show Biz Kids 07 -crowd and tuning 08 -This All Too Mobile Home The band: Donald Fagen - piano, vocals Walter Becker - bass Jeff Baxter - guitar Denny Dias - guitar Jim Hodder - drums Jeff Porcaro - drums Royce Jones - percussion, vocals Michael McDonald - electric piano, vocals -
Soundboard 9.7 - This is what keeps me excited about collecting…this right here. I was not very knowledgeable of their live catalog (whatever is out there, IDK) and so I did not know what to expect with this. Man, just man, it literally BLEW me away! Just amazing in every way – and the playing, along with pristine sound quality, it’s just a no-brainer. I did not know how accomplished these guys were, the musicianship is off the charts good. Very tight, very professional, and great songs for the style they play in – they even cover Lynyrd Skynyrd as a nod to their counterparts. Good, I mean, GREAT stuff! Molly Hatchet Stars, Philadelphia, PA 1978-11-10 Disc 1 : 01 -Let The Good Times Roll 02 -Bounty Hunter 03 -Gator Country 04 -Big Apple 05 -Dreams 06 -Cheatin' Woman 07 -Trust Your Old Friend 08 -Jam inc. Have Some Fun Tonight Chorus & Band Introduction Encore : 09 -Crossroads 10 -Gimme Three Steps -
Audience 8.6 - A kind of bumpy ride at times, being immersed in the middle of a rowdy audience, but the music comes through surprisingly well for such a massive cataclysm it must have been! It’s kind of fun, it’s a time capsule, and as long as I can hear the music in a clear way, even if it is not “hi-fi”, it’s fine by me. This is a low gen tape and clear enough for its purpose, but yeah, you are in the middle of the action quite literally. ROLLING STONES Cobo Arena Detroit MI. July 27th, 1975 THE BAND Mick Jagger lead vocals harmonica Keith Richards guitar lead and backing vocals Charlie Watts drums Ronnie Wood guitar backing vocals Bill Wyman bass guitar Billy Preston keyboards backing vocals Ollie E. Brown percussion backing vocals Disc 1 1 -Honky Tonk Women 2 -All Down The Line 3 -If You Can't Rock Me 4 -Get Off Of My Cloud 5 -Star Star 6 -Gimme Shelter 7 -Ain't Too Proud To Beg 8 -You Gotta Move 9 -You Can't Always Get What You Want 10 -Happy 11 -Tumbling Dice 12 -It's Only Rock'n'roll Disc 2 13 -Fingerprint File 14 -Wild Horses 15 -That's Life 16 -Outta Space 17 -Brown Sugar 18 -Midnight Rambler 19 -Rip This Joint 20 -Street Fighting Man 21 -Jumping Jack Flash 22 -Thank you, Goodnight -
Audience 8.4 - A very rare treat, to hear a complete “Preservation” era show. There’s really not a lot of 1973 recording around. This one sounds just fine, while not venturing too far in either direction dynamically, and some lack of clarity down low in the spectrum…but the upper mids and highs seem fine. It’s a good recording that could use your own EQ flavoring to round it into shape. I am happy to have this as I have not heard many, if any, ’73 tapes as good as this. THE KINKS Boston Music Hall Boston, MA April 1st 1973 THE BAND Ray Davies vocal guitar Dave Davies lead guitar vocal Mick Avory drums John Dalton bass John Gosling keyboards Laurie Brown trumpet John Beecham trombone tuba Alan Holmes saxophone clarine SETLIST 1 -Intro 2 -Victoria 3 -Acute Schizophernia Paranoid Blues 4 -Until The End Of The Day 5 -Medley (The Last Time I Saw You/Little Queenie/Shakin All Over/Whole Lotta Shakin Going On, Etc) 6 -Maybe Because I'm A Londoner 7 -Lola 8 -Dedicated Follower Of Fashion 9 -Celluloid Heroes 10 -Here Comes Yet Another Day 11 -Picture Book 12 -People Take Pictures Of Each Other 13 -Alcohol 14 -Skin and Bones - Dry Bones 15 -Good Golly Miss Molly 16 -You Really Got Me 17 -All The Day And All Of The Night 18 -Thank You - Announcements -
Soundboard 9.2 - Still sounds as fresh and exciting today as it did then. Maybe just a tiny amount of “hot” mic but it only adds to the energy of this recording. Jefferson Airplane 3/4/67 Cafe A Go Go New York City 01.-It's No Secret 02 -Let's Get Together 03.-White Rabbit 04.-Your Bringing Me Down 05.-My Best Friend 06. -Jorma's Blues 07. -This Is My Life 08. -She Has Funny Cars 09. -Somebody To Love 10. -Tobacco Road 11. -Around The World 12. -Instrumental - Blues 13. -Today 14. -High Flying Bird -
Studio Quality 9.6 - Kind of like having an alternate version of the album, and only slightly less fidelity too. Outstanding. 01 Dancing With Mr. D III - early extended version 02 100 Years Ago II - Nicky Hopkins on piano, Billy Preston on clavinet, Jimmy Miller on percussion; slightly longer differently mixed acetate-version 03 Angie - different mix of album version 04 Silver Train I - Ian Stewart on piano, Jimmy Miller on percussion; early version without harmonica 05 Silver Train II - Ian Stewart on piano, Jimmy Miller on percussion; differently mixed acetate-version 06 Silver Train III - Ian Stewart on piano, Jimmy Miller on percussion; different mix of album version 07 Hide Your Love - Jimmy Miller on bass drum, Bobby Keys on sax, Rebop on congas; differently mixed (more guitar, less piano) acetate-version 08 Winter - Nicky Hopkins on piano, strings arranged by Nicky Harrison; different mix of album version 09 Tops - instrumental 10 Waiting On A Friend I - Nicky Hopkins on piano, Jimmy Miller on percussion; "Waiting On My Friend" version 11 Criss Cross I 12 Criss Cross II - first version with Bobby Keys on sax (in the outro) 13 Criss Cross III - with Bobby Keys on sax from early on 14 Criss Cross IV - edited version II with more (Bobby Keys on) sax and vocal overdubs; used as soundtrack for the Japanese movie Metamorphoses 15 Fast Talking - Nicky Hopkins on piano 16 You Should Have Seen Her Ass -Nicky Hopkins on piano 17 Separately - Nicky Hopkins on piano; Jimmy Miller on percussion; instrumental 18 Wind Call 19 Criss Cross Ia* - basic track, with barely audiable sax