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Audience 9.0 - A sweet, warm, and spacious (mostly) recording that came out of nowhere. First of all, it’s already a rarity to find a tape of Rush from the UK, second, it’s a great vintage. The show? Awesome! This is, quite simply, a must have. Rush - Freewill And A Broken String Time: 68:00, 49:09 Date: November 2, 1981 Location: Brighton Conference Center, Brighton, England DISC 1: 01 - 2112 6:44 02 - Freewill 5:56 03 - Limelight 4:50 04 - Hemispheres: Prelude 4:24 05 - Beneath, Between, Behind 2:38 06 - Subdivisions 4:56 07 - The Camera Eye 10:58 08 - YYZ / Drum Solo 8:39 09 - Broon's Bane 1:37 10 - The Trees 4:37 11 - Xanadu 12:42 DISC 2: 01 - The Spirit of Radio 5:54 02 - Red Barchetta 6:44 03 - Closer To The Heart 3:42 04 - Tom Sawyer 4:59 05 - Vital Signs 5:09 06 - Working Man 1:30 07 - Hemispheres Armageddon 0:53 08 - Bytor And The Snowdog 4:06 09 - In The End 1:44 10 - In The Mood 1:36 11 - 2112 Finale 2:45 12 - La Villa Strangiato 10:07 -
Audience 8.7 - A very good tape, with brightness and decent clarity, although maybe slightly crunchy at the very top of the high end (cymbals) but not too much. It does lack just a bit of mid band warmth and punch, but once you get about 10 minutes in, you will adjust and realize it’s pretty good, especially for those with EQ’s in their system because then you can round it off a little. Rush - On European Holiday Time: 66:30, 47:49 Date: October 31, 1981 Location: Deeside Leisure Centre, Deeside, Wales DISC 1: 01 - 2112 6:44 02 - Freewill 5:53 03 - Limelight 4:44 04 - Hemispheres Prelude 4:17 05 - Beneath, Between, Behind 2:34 06 - Subdivisions 4:51 07 - The Camera Eye 10:28 08 - YYZ - Drum Solo 8:10 09 - Broon's Bane 1:37 10 - The Trees 4:37 11 - Xanadu 12:12 DISC 2: 01 - The Spirit of Radio 5:24 02 - Red Barchetta 6:46 03 - Closer To The Heart 3:42 04 - Tom Sawyer 4:49 05 - Vital Signs 5:02 06 - Working Man Reggae 1:30 07 - Hemispheres Armageddon 0:51 08 - By-tor And The Snowdog 4:02 09 - In The End 1:42 10 - In The Mood 1:34 11 - 2112 Finale 2:37 12 - La Villa Strangiato 9:42 -
Audience 9.2 - All three shows are recorded with high end gear, with a respectful audience – and the results are decidedly excellent. It’s a joy to listen to these shows, back to back, and just marvel at the grandiosity on display. These were different times, so painfully obvious when you listen, and quite sad to realize it ain’t ever happening again. Yes 1973-03-08 Tokyo, Japan Artist: Yes Date: 1973-03-08 Venue: Koseinenkin Kaikan Location: Tokyo, Japan Disc 1 1.01 Firebird Suite (2.23) 1.02 Siberian Khatru (9.20) 1.03 I've Seen All Good People (7.39) 1.04 Heart Of The Sunrise (11.03) 1.05 Mood For A Day (3.23) 1.06 The Clap (5.00) 1.07 And You And I (10.41) 1.08 Close To The Edge (18.23) Disc 2 2.01 Rick Wakeman Solo (8.33) 2.02 Roundabout (10.52) 2.03 Yours Is No Disgrace (13.05) 2.04 Starship Trooper (10.55) -
Audience 9.2 - All three shows are recorded with high end gear, with a respectful audience – and the results are decidedly excellent. It’s a joy to listen to these shows, back to back, and just marvel at the grandiosity on display. These were different times, so painfully obvious when you listen, and quite sad to realize it ain’t ever happening again. Yes 1973-03-09 Tokyo, Japan- Close To The East (LIGHTHOUSE) part2 Artist: Yes Date: 1973-03-09 Venue: Shibuya Kokaido Location: Tokyo, Japan Disc 1 3.01 Firebird Suite (1.21) 3.02 Siberian Khatru (9.59) 3.03 I've Seen All Good People (7.34) 3.04 Heart Of The Sunrise (11.40) 3.05 Mood For A Day (3.21) 3.06 The Clap (3.43) 3.07 Colours Of The Rainbow (1.12) 3.08 And You And I (9.37) Disc 2 4.01 MC (1.16) 4.02 Close To The Edge (19.06) 4.03 Rick Wakeman Solo (9.27) 4.04 Roundabout (7.58) 4.05 Yours Is No Disgrace (13.42) 4.06 Starship Trooper (11.09) -
Audience 9.2 - All three shows are recorded with high end gear, with a respectful audience – and the results are decidedly excellent. It’s a joy to listen to these shows, back to back, and just marvel at the grandiosity on display. These were different times, so painfully obvious when you listen, and quite sad to realize it ain’t ever happening again. Yes 1973-03-10 Tokyo, Japan Artist: Yes Date: 1973-03-10 Venue: Kanda Kyoritsu Kodo Location: Tokyo, Japan Disc 5 5.01 Firebird Suite (1.57) 5.02 Siberian Khatru (9.51) 5.03 I've Seen All Good People (7.19) 5.04 Sakura Sakura (1.23) 5.05 Mood For A Day (3.25) 5.06 MC (0.26) 5.07 The Clap (4.13) 5.08 Heart Of The Sunrise (12.30) 5.09 And You And I (9.51) Disc 6 6.01 Close To The Edge (20.12) 6.02 Rick Wakeman Solo (8.59) 6.03 Roundabout (11.23) 6.04 Yours Is No Disgrace (17.21) 6.05 Starship Trooper (8.58) -
Audience 8.7 - A very well recorded show by all accounts. The sound is round, and has nice timbre. I hear everything clearly, bass sounds warm, guitars are raw and jangly…basically this sounds like the Stones in a club and it’s anything but a club! That is saying a lot, to get a stadium recording to sound closer to you. Well done taper! The Rolling Stones October 24, 1981 Citrus Bowl Orlando, FL CD 1: ----- 1. Under My Thumb [03:51] 2. When The Whip Comes Down [05:36] 3. Let's Spend the Night Together [04:30] 4. Shattered [04:20] 5. Neighbours [04:35] 6. Black Limousine [03:46] 7. Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) [08:38] 8. Twenty Flight Rock [02:29] 9. Let Me Go [04:12] 10. Time Is on My Side [03:36] 11. Beast of Burden [06:58] 12. Waiting On A Friend [04:47] 13. Happy Birthday [01:00] 14. Let It Bleed [06:55] 15. You Can't Always Get What You Want [07:24] CD 2: ------ 1. intro [00:32] 2. Little T&A [04:07] 3. Tumbling Dice [05:07] 4. She's So Cold [04:34] 5. All Down The Line [03:58] 6. Band intro [00:56] 7. Hang Fire [03:16] 8. Star Star [04:23] 9. Miss You [05:43] 10. Start Me Up [04:52] 11. Honky Tonk Women [03:42] 12. Brown Sugar [03:46] 13. Jumping Jack Flash [08:26] 14. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction [06:35] -
Audience 8.7 - This show features the return to the Spectrum, a venue they had recently played and for some reason decided that they needed to schedule another show there (perhaps they felt the last show there was below par?). Anyway, by all accounts it’s a better gig, and the audio quality is also better with clearer sound and better separation of instruments. The recording levels are a touch low, so you will have to turn up the volume (trust me it won’t distort or break up, it will get even better). Aerosmith The Spectrum Philadelphia PA December 19, 1977 -Back In The Saddle -S.O.S. (Too Bad) -Big Ten Inch Record -I Wanna Know Why -Lord Of The Thighs -Lick And A Promise -Get It Up -Walk This Way -Sweet Emotion -Dream On -Walkin' The Dog -Mama Kin -Draw The Line -Same Old Song And Dance -Train Kept A Rollin' -Milk Cow Blues -Toys In the Attic Back at the Spectrum about 10 weeks after the previous gig. Sounds like someone handed Joe Perry the wrong guitar heading onto stage because he is way out of tune! He tries to tune on the fly, but sounds like he is given another guitar and things improve. A weird start to a show! The band cranks through its classics at this point, an entertaining show to these ears. Good quality for a 1977 gig, straight from the taper. Enjoy! -
Soundboard 8.7 - A show that factors in to what would become a stellar career over many decades. Pretty much on her own now (no longer paired with Gram Parsons R.I.P.) she started playing in the clubs in the DC area when a producer came to record this show for future reference as he crafted her breakout solo album. Did she know he was at the gig? Who knows, but she obviously made an impact. Emmylou Harris and the Angel Band 1974-05-08 Red Fox Inn Bethesda, Maryland Disc 1 01 -Hot Burrito #1 02 -Hickory Wind 03 -Shop Around 04 -Honky Tonk Blues 05 -Louise 06 -California Cottonfields 07 -High On The Hilltop 08 -Reconstructed 09 -When Will I Be Loved 10 -God Knows I Love You 11 -Before Believing 12 -Queen Of The Silver Dollar 13 -Someone I Used to Know 14 -Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down 15 -A Song for You 16 -High On The Hilltop 17 -Born Again 18 -Drifting Too Far From Shore Disc 2 01 -Country Baptizin' 02 -That's All It Took 03 -Together Again 04 -Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad 05 -Our Father 06 -Maybe Mexico 07 -Sold it All Away 08 -Instrumental (Jeff Wisor & J.B. Morrison) 09 -Satan's Jewel Crown 10 -Born Again 11 -Country Baptizin' Angel Band : Bruce Archer - Guitar Mark Cuff - Drums Tom Guidera - Bass Danny Pendleton - Steel Guitar w/ John & Fayssoux Starling, J.B. Morrison & Jeff Wisor on tracks 7-11 (disc 2) {After Gram Parsons's death} Emmy moved back to D.C., where Tom Guidera had also become a country music convert. With pedal steel player Danny Pendleton and two other musicians, they put together the Angel Band and started gigging around the clubs, playing some of the songs she’d performed with Gram. Eddie Tickner made Harris his number one priority and he convinced Mary Martin, an A&R representative from Warner/Reprise Records (the label that had released Parsons’ solo work) to investigate an Angel Band show in a Washington nightclub. Emmylou Harris became a Reprise Records recording artist in 1974; with her daughter Hallie in tow, the Angel Band relocated to Los Angeles to begin work on Harris’s first true solo album. To produce, Martin paired Harris up with Nova Scotia native Brian Ahern, the mastermind behind Anne Murray’s spate of hits in the early 70’s. She brought the quiet Canadian to hear the Angel Band, and he recorded the performance on a hand-held cassette machine to study at home. This sounds better than a hand-held cassette machine recording, purportedly a sound board, but it's not by any means what we think of as soundboard quality by today's standards. -
Soundboard 9.4 - A very cool, immediate and high impact sound and vibe…and the band, My God! Not all of their shows had that insane intensity and sharpness…sometimes they wandered and lost focus but not here…no way. This…is…amazing! Play this for your kids’ friends when they try to impress you with some new flavor of the month band they are into. Ha! Mahavishnu Orchestra Adelbert Gymnasium Case Western University Cleveland, OH February 17, 1973 Disc 1 Birds Of Fire > Open Country Joy Hope > Awakening Miles Beyond Disc 2 One Word Sanctuary > The Dance Of Maya Vital Transformation John McLaughlin - Electric Doubleneck Guitar Rick Laird - Electric Bass Jerry Goodman - Electric Violin Jan Hammer - Keyboards Billy Cobham - Drums -
Soundboard 9.7 - Crisp and elegant, this describes both the music and the audio fidelity here. The band is in really fine form, actually a good time period. Pat Metheny Group 1981-03-27 University Of Houston, Cullen Auditorium, Ezekiel W. Cullen Building, Houston, Texas, USA, 1981-03-27 Disc 1 01 Phase Dance (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 02 Better Days Ahead (Pat Metheny) 03 The Windup (Keith Jarrett) 04 James (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 05 Offramp (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 06 'It's For You' (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 07 The Bat Part II (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 08 Ozark (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 09 Turnaround (Ornette Coleman) Disc 2 10 Goin' Ahead (Pat Metheny)/As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 11 Jaco (Pat Metheny) 12 Untitled / Au Lait (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 13 San Lorenzo (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 14 (Cross The) Heartland (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 15 American Garage (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) Line-Up: Pat Metheny, guitars, guitar synthesizer Lyle Mays, piano, synthesizers, organ, autoharp Steve Rodby, acoustic bass, electric bass Dan Gottlieb, drums, autoharp Naná Vasconcelos, vocals, percussion, berimbau -
Soundboard 9.4 - Minor hiss present in quiet passages but does not impact any music. This is a great show, impressive in every regard especially the incendiary guitar work by unheralded master Daryl Stuermer. Many people were first introduced to Ponty through this album, Imaginary Voyage, and it’s on full display here in a live setting. EXCELLENT!! Artist: Jean-Luc Ponty Date: 23rd October 1976 - Early Show Venue: La Paloma Theatre, Encinitas, CA 01 - Imaginary Voyage 25:56 02 - Passenger Of The Dark 9:07 03 - Renaissance 9:11 04 - Question With No Answer 6:19 05 - Lost Forest 9:35 06 - Wandering On The Milky Way 4:02 07 - Aurora 13:46 Encore: 08 - New Country 4:11 09 - Tarantula 3:12 Total time 1:25:19 Jean-Luc Ponty - Electric Violin Daryl Stuermer - Guitar Alan Zavod - Keyboards Tom Fowler - Bass Mark Craney - Drums -
Audience 8.8 - I can’t fault this too much even though it is not a tape without a certain sonic limitation – but it’s not enough of a fault to be critical of what is a fantastic performance paired with a warm, energy filled tape. It’s a great capture that barely holds the intensity before it begins to break-up, albeit only slightly, as the volume overwhelms the microphone. Is that bad? Normally it spells disaster if the recording equipment is, say, a realistic or some no-name generic piece of crap but this taper is obviously using high end stuff. The point at which volume and intensity causes normal gear to fail only slightly bother this set-up. So, I recommend it as one of the better 1976 tapes out there. It’s simply great and you’ll love it. YES 1976-07-22 PNE Coliseum Vancouver, British Columbia Canada DISC 1 1.01 Siberian Khatru (9.45) 1.02 Sound Chaser (10.32) 1.03 I've Seen All Good People (6.50) 1.04 The Gates Of Delirium (21.11) 1.05 Long Distance Runaround (2.41) 1.06 Keyboard Solo (5.16) DISC 2 2.01 The Clap (4.55) 2.02 Harp Solo (4.01) 2.03 Heart Of The Sunrise (10.29) 2.04 Ritual (27.18) 2.05 Roundabout (8.49) -
Audience 8.3 - Not recorded from the best vantage point on the best gear, but taper made the best of it, and it gets incrementally better from the time where he moves to a better spot (closer). Tape has all the hallmarks of a large stadium, loud rock concert, the regular deal…not going to blow anyone away. Now that I’ve said that, there’s some good news! Yup – Pete is playing great and he is the clearest sounding, followed by Roger, and the bass has a good, deep, rumbling growl that comes through (NOT boomy!). If this tape had been boomy, I would have rated it in the upper 7’s. The Who Sports Arena, San Diego, CA October 7, 1976 Band line-up Roger Daltrey - lead vocals, harmonica Pete Townshend - guitar, vocals John Entwistle - bass, vocals Keith Moon - drums, vocals Total Time = 01:39:56 Disc 1 01 I Can't Explain 02 Substitute 03 My Wife 04 Baba O'Riley 05 Squeeze Box 06 Behind Blue Eyes 07 Dreaming From the Waist 08 Magic Bus 09 Amazing Journey 10 Sparks Disc 2 11 The Acid Queen 12 Fiddle About 13 Pinball Wizard 14 I'm Free 15 Tommy's Holiday Camp 16 We're Not Gonna Take It 17 See Me, Feel Me 18 Summertime Blues 19 My Generation 20 Join Together 21 My Generation Blues 22 Won't Get Fooled Again Show comments: The Who/Mother's Finest For this Who show, the realistic recorder was used. First song, first row behind the stage looking at Keiths Moon’s back. Track two starts and I’m looking for a better recording position. The stage has typical left and right arrays but there was also an extra array on the right side facing the stage. Strangely not one to the left side. I parked myself in front of it which was basically just above me. On minor movement towards the center of the arena on the right side to avoid two chicks with whistles and the remaining show was recorded in that position. -
Audience 8.9 - A very well balanced recording with lovely high end and a smoothness that is nice on your ears. The band is relaxed and having a great show. Band name: Rush Date: February 24, 1994 Venue: The Omni Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Tour name: Counterparts Disc 1 (63:09) Intro/Dreamline The Spirit Of Radio The Analog Kid Cold Fire Time Stands Still Nobody's Hero Roll The Bones Animate Stick It Out Double Agent Limelight Disc 2 (62:12) Mystic Rhythms Closer To The Heart Show Don't Tell Leave That Thing Alone The Rhythm Method The Trees Xanadu Hemispheres: Prelude Tom Sawyer Force Ten YYZ -
Audience 8.6 - A recording that is very clear but dangerously close to being too crisp on the highs…but thankfully it doesn’t sizzle and ruin anything. It’s still very good – might could use more thickness, but you will probably be able to enjoy this show and certainly are welcome to boost the low end which will help. RUSH Date: April 18, 1994 Location: Buffalo Memorial Auditorium Buffalo, New York, USA DISC 1 Intro 1:10 Dreamline 4:58 The Spirit of Radio 4:56 The Analog Kid 5:47 Cold Fire 4:57 Time Stand Still 5:51 Nobody's Hero 5:21 Roll The Bones 6:09 Animate 7:54 Stick It Out 5:13 Double Agent 4:55 DISC 2 Limelight 4:33 Mystic Rhythms 5:57 Closer to the Heart 5:35 Show Don't Tell 5:25 Leave That Thing Alone 5:54 The Rhythm Method 7:12 The Trees 5:21 Xanadu 6:32 Hemispheres: Prelude 4:16 Tom Sawyer 5:29 Force Ten 4:41 YYZ 3:23 -
Soundboard 9.2 - A warm sounding tape, very punchy where it needs to be, maybe if I can complain about anything it would be in the relative sterility of it but that’s a soundboard’s Achilles heel isn’t it ? I’d recommend this to anyone, it is what we like to call “a keeper” for sure! Disc 1 1-1 Subdivisions 1-2 The Body Electric 1-3 The Enemy Within 1-4 The Weapon 1-5 Witch Hunt 1-6 New World Man 1-7 Between The Wheels 1-8 Red Barchetta Disc 2 2-1 Distant Early Warning 2-2 Red Sector A 2-3 Closer To The Heart 2-4 YYZ 2-5 Drum Solo 2-6 YYZ (Cont.) 2-7 Temples Of Syrinx 2-8 Tom Sawyer 2-9 Red Lenses Notes: Live at Neil Blaisdell Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 25th November 1984 [STEREO SOUNBOARD] (noiseless!) The last show of Grace Under Pressure Tour