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Audience 9.3 - Expertly recorded with a keen awareness of level, position, and direction. One of the best of the European Tour! Frank Zappa 1988-04-24 Bremen, Germany Stadthalle Disc 1 01. The Black Page 06:53 02. band introductions 01:27 03. Advance Romance 06:26 04. Any Kind Of Pain 05:59 05. Find Her Finer 02:50 06. Who Needs The Peace Corps? 03:17 07. Stick Together 01:58 08. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama 03:32 09. Willie The Pimp 01:52 10. Montana 04:01 11. City Of Tiny Lites 08:40 ^ Disc 2 12. Pound For A Brown 05:40 13. The Dessicated Number 09:09 14. Cosmik Debris 04:32 15. Cruising For Burgers 08:13 16. Keep It Greasey 04:08 17. Sofa 03:17 18. Bolero 06:09 19. Crew Slut 06:05 20. Joe's Garage 04:08 21. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? 02:52 22. Peaches En Regalia 02:54 23. Stairway To Heaven 08:48 ________ 01:52:50 -
Audience 8.4 - A barn-burner gig and maybe one of the best of the tour (recorded, anyway) with some unbelievable jamming. The audio is decent, some mid band clutter was equalized to allow less noise and more music to permeate your space. I think that made the difference with this tape. It’s worth getting and will impress you even more than you might already have been with these guys. Always gave their best. URIAH HEEP Portland Expo, Portland, ME August 19th 1973 THE BAND David Byron vocals Mick Box guitar Ken Hensley keyboards Gary Thain bass guitar Lee Kerslake drums SETLIST 1 -Tune up - Intro 2 -Easy Living 3 -Sweet Lorraine 4 -Stealing 5 -July Morning 6 -The Dreamer 7 -If I Had The Time 8 -Gypsy 9 -Keyboard solo - Gypsy reprise 10 -Drum Solo 11 -Seven Stars 12 -Sweet Freedom 13 -Look At Yourself 14 -Love Machine 15 -Roll Over Beethoven 16 -Blue Suede Shoes 17 -Hound Dog I8 -I Got A Woman 19 -At The Hop - Let's Go To The Hop 20 -Thank you, Goodnight -
Audience 8.4 - This tape has been recently surfaced and is not bad at all, however it did receive a “refresh” in the form of a re-mastering which boosted the levels a bit after notching out some noisy mids. It sounds pretty decent, maybe midway back in the venue but hearing pretty much everything especially Mick and Keith which is fine by me. County Stadium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin June 8th 1975 DISC 1: 01. Honky Tonk Women 02. All Down The Line 03. If You Can't Rock Me / Get Off Of My Cloud 04. Star Star 05. Gimme Shelter 06. Mick Jagger speaks 07. Ain't Too Proud To Beg 08. You Gotta Move 09. You Can't Always Get What You Want 10. Sure The One You Need 11. Tumbling Dice 12. Luxury DISC 2: 01. Band Introductions 02. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) 03. Angie 04. Wild Horses 05. That's Life (Billy Preston) 06. Outa Space (Billy Preston) 07. Midnight Rambler 08. Brown Sugar 09. Rip This Joint 10. Street Fighting Man 11. Jumpin' Jack Flash 12. 1975 Tour announcement 13. 1975 News report -
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 -
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 -
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) -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Audience 9.0 - This is yet another outstanding sonic treat for those who, like me, are revisiting the last major tour Frank would undertake in his career. Lots of great playing, even though he maybe wore out a little deep into the tour, he really shines on this one. Recommended! Frank Zappa London UK, Wembley Arena 04-19-1988 Line Up: FZ, Ike Willis, Mike Keneally, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Bobby Martin, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Paul Carman, Albert Wing, Kurt McGettrick. tracklist: Disc 1 01 -Stinkfoot 02 -Band introduction 03 -Dickie's Such An Asshole 04 -When The Lie's So Big 05 -Planet Of The Baritone Women 06 -Any Kind Of Pain 07 -Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk 08 -Cruisin' For Burgers 09 -Outside Now 10 -Orange County Lumber Truck Medley 11 -Intermission 12 -Texas Motel Medley Disc 2 13 -The Torture Never Stops Medley 14 -Stick Together 15 -My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama 16 -Willie The Pimp 17 -Montana 18 -Stairway To Heaven 19 -London audience#1 20 -Joe's Garage 21 -Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? 22 -London audience#2 23 -Chunga's Revenge w/ Dweezil 24 -Bolero -
Audience 9.3 - This recording sparkles, a very pro effort made by the tapers who apparently had excellent seats on the first row of the balcony center stage. Frank Zappa Oscar Mayer Theatre Madison, WI, USA 1984 08 11 Frank Zappa's Band, July - December 1984 FZ, Ike Willis, Ray White, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Allan Zavod, Bobby Martin, Napoleon Murphy Brock (July 17 - August 1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Setlist: Disc 1 01 Intro 02 Heavy Duty Judy 03 Tinseltown Rebellion 04 More Trouble Every Day 05 Penguin In Bondage 06 Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel 07 Advance Romance 08 Cocaine Decisions 09 Nig Biz 10 Outside Now 11 Be In My Video 12 Montana 13 Easy Meat Disc 2 14 Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy 15 Carol You Fool 16 Chana In De Bushwop 17 Let's Move To Cleveland 18 Encore Break 1 19 Dinah Moe-Humm 20 Dancin' Fool 21 Sharleena 22 Encore Break 2 23 The Illinois Enema Bandit Total time: 123.23 min -
Soundboard 9.1 - I am not sure if this was recorded for broadcast or not, it sure sounds like it may have been, I mean may have been broadcast as I hear some of the “FM compression” characteristics here…but it is a fine board tape nonetheless. Jackson Browne Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN February 22, 1978 Disc 1 01 Take it Easy 02 The Fuse 03 Fountain of Sorrow 04 Here Comes Those Tears Again 05 Before the Deluge 06 Your Bright Baby Blues 07 Rock Me on the Water 08 Cocaine 09 Rosie 10 For a Dancer Disc 2 11 Doctor My Eyes 12 These Days 13 For Everyman 14 Walking Slow 15 Running On Empty 16 Love Needs a Heart 17 The Pretender 18 The Load Out 19 Stay 20 The Road and the Sky This show is soon after the release of Running on Empty, Jackson Browne's most popular album. Great performance of "Fountain of Sorrow".