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Audience 7.3 -
Soundboard 9.5 -
Audience 8.5 - A little lack of depth and overall dynamics but pretty clear, well mixed capture here. Stevie sounds good! -
Audience 7.5 - This is direct from the open reel master tape. There is some limitation to the capture (slight oversaturation) but I would say this is a pretty fascinating document. -
Ultrasonic Studios - Hempstead, NY - FM Radio 8.6 -
Audience 8.8 - A surprisingly great tape! Very wide spectrum and a solid, in the pocket mix. Great show too! -
Soudboard 9.7 - Beautiful fullness of sound! Saweet! -
Soundboard 9.6 - Great live mix, like it was recorded for a release. Drums are tight, guitar is slamming, vocals perfect. -
Audience 7.8 -
Soundboard 9.2 -
Audience 8.8 -
Pro FM Broadcast 9.6 - I really like the guitar tone here, a bit more grit, sounds less like a mega-hit stadium band and more like a very talented jam band. -
Soundboard 8.8 - A little hiss, some compression (not too much), and a rather dry sound (a pure board feed, no crowd noise present). -
Audience 8.7 - A very low generation tape (very clean) used here, and it is very decent sounding, You will get some big hall atmosphere but it’s manageable. -
Pro Video Source 8.5 - These sound like they were taken from video tape sources and have the telltale compression characteristics. These are actually several different broadcasts during the year 1976, with the final four tracks coming from UC Santa Barbara, which is also the best sounding of the batch. -
Audience 8.8 - A very atmospheric recording that gives you an amazing sense of space and proximity to the action. The music has room to move around, so it’s a natural sounding recording and the listening experience benefits greatly. Sometimes at full volume when the band is really cooking, the music gets a little bunched up but the tapers were good with levels so it does not offend and I appreciate that. This is a real gem! -
CD 1 - Boston 1974 = Audience 8.7 ~ CD 2 - Seattle 1975 = Audience 8.8 ~ CD 3 - Nashville 1976 = Audience 7.5 ~ CD 4 - Cleveland 1984 = Soundboard 9.4 ..... One heck of a collection here! -
FM Radio 8.9 -
FM Radio 9.5 -
Audience 8.2 - Very live, with that telltale large hall reverb but smoking hot show and audio is real good and very electric. -
Foghat 7.4 ~ Robin Trower 7.5 ... Interesting concept, including the opening act and headliner in a 2 disc set - but it makes sense to me and it works spectacularly here. The quality is decent, I rate conservatively, you can really sink your ears (and teeth) into both sets but I give the slight edge to Trower's set as he was headlining and therefore probably got better service from sound guy. -
Audience 8.7 - A little on the upper midrange/high side but VERY clean and crisp with very pronounced and clear vocals especially. Really great! -
Audience 8.5 - Solid all the way. -
Budokan 1978 - Audience 7.6 - Too much high end, sounds like all the bass was filtered out. Add bass! Mantra Studios 1977 – FM Radio Broadcast 9.0 -
Soundboard 8.8 - Probably radio broadcast, very strong and dynamic if just a tad dated sounding. -
Soundboard 8.8 -
Soundboard 9.4 -
Pro Radio 9.7 -
FM Radio Broadcast 8.7 - Pretty rocking debut, and even though the audio quality is not perfect (although it is great) I really like the rawness and band interplay of their early gigs. -
Bracknell - Audience 8.8 - A touch of tape saturation but it’s so clear and loud and energetic you won’t hardly notice. Excellent! ~ Coatham - Audience 8.7 ~ Tampa - Soundboard 8.9 -
BBC Sessions...As expected, excellent pro sound! -
Audience 8.4 - This is a great remaster here, this is a full point and a half better than you’ve heard before.