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Audience 9.1 - This recording is very very clean, and there is a ton of headroom where literally you can turn the volume all the way up and still get a very clean sound. There almost needs to be more mid punch, and at times, probably in sections that have been patched with a different source, there is a noticeable increase in volume/mid band. This could also be something with the taper, I do not know. Either way this recording is pretty damn good. Frank Zappa 1988-04-29 Helsinki, Finland Jäähalli Set 1: 01. tuning 00:50 02. The Black Page #2 > 07:05 03. band introductions 01:08 04. More Trouble Every Day > 04:57 05. Penguin In Bondage > 05:05 06. Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel > 07:03 07. What's New In Baltimore? > 04:20 08. Sinister Footwear > 07:00 09. Packard Goose 07:31 10. Big Swifty > 09:58 11. Who Needs The Peace Corps? > 03:11 12. Orange County Lumber Truck Medley > 11:10 13. Find Her Finer > 02:49 14. Mr. Green Genes > 03:52 15. Florentine Pogen > 07:14 16. Andy > 05:42 17. Inca Roads > 09:48 18. Sofa 04:27 19. Dancin' Fool > 03:49 20. Whipping Post > 05:33 21. I Am The Walrus > 03:43 22. The Illinois Enema Bandit 09:38 23. Bolero 07:10 24. Stairway To Heaven 09:23 ________ 02:22:26 Bonus Disc 1. Interview 2. Press Conference -
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 -
Audience + FM Interview 8.9 - The big question then is “if I already have the show, do I need this”? Quick answer is “yes, kind of”. If you collect live shows because you want to experience that moment in time, then you want this. Firstly, it’s direct from original masters, as is the rare FM interview, it’s in the proper running sequence, and it edges the well circulated “Santa Monica” title by a smidgeon in terms of quality. It also presents a day in the life of the band, then still two years shy of releasing their world famous masterpiece and becoming obscenely wealthy and…different, or I should say “indifferent”. Pink Floyd The Show - Disc One and Two - Civic Auditorium - Santa Monica, CA, USA The Interview - Disc Three - KPPC FM, Pasadena, CA, USA Both October 16th 1971 Disc One 73:56 01. CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE, EUGENE 12:27 02. Tune Up 01:05 03. FAT OLD SUN 15:55 04. SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN 13:31 05. Tune Up 01:46 06. ATOM HEART MOTHER 16:26 07. THE EMBRYO 12:44 Disc Two 68:37 01. Tune Up 02:17 02. CYMBALINE 11:47 03. Tune Up 03:24 04. BLUES 05:33 05. ECHOES 27:45 06. Tune Up 00:51 07. A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS 16:59 Disc Three 37:04 01. Introduction, Commercial (Vagabond Theatre and Civic Aud.) 02:31 02. American Tour, Technicals, Playing in Big Halls 03:58 03. Solo Works, Ummagumma, Fearless (Summer '68..snip) 02:40 04. Meddle songs, Interstellar Overdrive, PF shows 05:36 05. Equipments, Other bands (Fat Old Sun ..snip) 05:21 06. Commercial (200 Motels - Mothers of Invention) 05:09 07. Evening show, Next works, Touring Europe 04:35 08. Rapping about Rock Radio 03:26 09. Zabriskie Point, The Christmas Song, movies (Saint Tropez ..snip) 03:48 -
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Disc 1 & 2 - Audience 8.6 Disc 3 - Audience 8.9 Great sound mix here and frequency range ... you can crank this one! -
CD 1 - Audience 9.6 CD 2 - Audience 8.8 CD 3 - Audience 8.9 Hot crisp and sweet recording. -
CD 1 – Pro radio 9.1 / CD 2 - Pro 9.3 / CD 3 - Audience 8.5 ~ All Excellent! -
Disc 1,2 - Audience 8.6 - Nagoya (live) ~ Disc 3 - Studio Quality 9.2 - Forbidden Demos 1995 (Killer!) -
Pro Made non factory pressed compact discs housed in 2 pocket gate fold jacket with full laser printed graphics front, back, inside, discs, and spine. -
VOL 3 ... Soundboard 9.0 - Excellent! -
CD 1,2 - Hammersmith, UK - Audience 7.3 - Big and loud stadium sound but you can hear all instruments and there’s reasonable clarity if not a touch of boominess. CD 3 - Milan, Italy - Audience 8.8 - Excellent capture! -
Soundboard 9.3 - Guitars literally leap out of the speakers in this mix. Not 100% if it is actually a board tape because there’s some atmosphere, at least with vocals and drums. -
Audience 9.3 - Strong recording! -
Audience 8.5 - Average for a newer recording, although at times it gets clearer possibly because taper moves into a better spot. Sometimes a very annoying wooer makes his stupid presence known and worse he has to attempt to sing along often out of key and not getting the words right. Why? Why must you? Next time stay home and listen to the records by yourself. -
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Pro 8.8 - At times this recording gets even better but there are tape problems, what sounds like tracking issues (if this came from a video source), but overall it is very good and was taped professionally for broadcast. The DVD is pro shot, but suffers from age deterioration, tracking issues, color bleed, etc. but in fairness it is a very old video format and those old ¾” umatic tapes either held up or they failed, that these still played is amazing.