Audience 9.4 - If the house itself sounds great, and your taping with high quality equipment (most likely a small digital unit with a good, dynamic mic and level control), then your result will be something like this. A lot of detail comes through, as does, from time to time, a rowdy audience – that adds to the atmosphere and thankfully never wrecks the audio recording. Prince Kaufleuten '93 Revisited Act II Tour Aftershow Kaufleuten, Zurich 30th August 1993 1. The Sacrifice Of Victor (intro) 2. Deuce And A Quarter 3. Black MF In The House 4. Race 5. The Undertaker 6. Six 7. Intermission 8. Delirious 9. Blue Light 10. Come 11. Endorphinmachine 12. Peach 13. What Is Hip? 14. House In Order  

Grand Funk Railroad Hawaii 1971 - Soundboard 9.1 A scarcity of prime era  recordings mandate that anyone remotely interested in this band pursue any and all recordings that are A. Soundboard and/or B. decent audience for the simple reason that this band kicked ass. This is a true rarity – a soundboard and, yes, it kicks major ass. Grand Funk Railroad Boston 1971 Audience 8.7 - A very good tape surfaces and you can actually hear everything pretty clearly. This band played very loud (as did any self-respecting heavy rock band of the early 70’s) and consequently unless you smuggled in superior quality machinery you weren’t likely to be able to capture this sound with any clarity. This taper had better than average gear it seems, and even though it’s still somewhat distant from the stage, it is a tape that allows the listener to experience an entire show without struggling too hard to make out what is going on. Grand Funk Railroad Live 1971 Disc 1 Hawaii University Honolulu, Hawaii July 13th, 1971 1. -Are You Ready 2. -Paranoid 3. -In Need 4. -Mean Mistreated 5. -I'm Your Captain 6. -Into The Sun 7. -Inside Looking Out 8. -Are You Ready (Reprise) Disc 2 Boston Garden Boston, MA. october-3-1971 1 -Intro - Footstompin' Music 2 -Upsetter 3 -People Let's Stop The War 4 -Mean Mistreater 5 -Feeling Alright 6 -I'm Your Captain 7 -Heartbreaker Disc 3 Boston cont'd 8 -T.N.U.C 9 -Gimme Shelter 10 -Inside Looking Out the band Mark Farner – guitars lead vocals keyboard Don Brewer – drums lead vocals Mel Schacher – bass guitar  

Soundboard 9.1 - I rate this as a soundboard because even though I am not 100% sure, the giveaway is the drums. There’s no way this is from the audience as the drums are in stereo, obviously professionally mixed and panned in a stereo sound field. The Smiths Queen Margaret Hall Glasgow, Scotland March 2, 1984 1. -Hand In Glove 2. -Heaven Knows 3. -Girl Afraid 4. -This Charming Man 5. -Pretty Girls Make Graves 6. -Still Ill 7. -This Night Has Opened My Eyes 8. -Barbarism Begins At Home 9. -Back To The Old House 10. -What Difference Does It Make 11. -Reel Around The Fountain 12. -You've Got Everything Now 13. -Handsome Devil  

Soundboard 8.8 - A dated sounding board tape, yes it is good but I can see how there are limitations with board tapes just as there are with audience tapes. If I was a fan I would still love this show, I mean, it’s clear and clean and it’s finely performed so there’s no real downside here. The Smiths Versailles, Paris 12-01-1984 01 - Intro 02 - William, It Was Really Nothing 03 - What She Said 04 - Nowhere Fast 05 - Reel Around The Fountain 06 - Heaven Knows Im Miserable Now 07 - How Soon Is Now? 08 - Still Ill 09 - Rusholme Ruffians 10 - This Charming Man 11 - Barbarism Begins At Home 12 - I Want The One I Can't Have 13 - Hand In Glove 14 - What Difference Does It Make? 15 - Handsome Devil 16 - Miserable Lie