1970 - Audience 9.1 - Excellent! Very clear, pretty close, respectful audience, good acoustics, great instrument separation...it's all here for your ears to feast upon. 1972 - Pro SDBRD 9.7 - Amazing of course, it's a professional recording that was released on video but I think this is not taken from a video source as it is totally uncompressed. 1973 - Audience 9.0 - A choice recording as it has a really driving energy. This is not one of those Traffic shows that gets bogged down, it's high energy, loud, and thankfully captured very nicely.

Traffic The Santa Monica Tapes 1970-1973 Disc 1 Civic Center Santa Monica, California July 5, 1970 (late show) 01. Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring 02. Every Mother's Son 03. Medicated Goo 04. John Barleycorn Must Die 05. Pearly Queen 06. Stranger To himself 07. Empty Pages 08. 40,000 Headmen 09. Glad - Freedom Rider 10. Feeling Good Steve Winwood - Guitar, Piano, Vocals Chris Wood - Flute, Saxophone Jim Capaldi - Percussion, Drums, Keyboards, Vocals Disc 2 Santa Monica Civic Center Santa Monica, CA February 21, 1972 01. Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys 02. Light Up Or Leave Me Alone 03. John Barlycorn 04. Rainmaker 05. Percussion Solo 06. Glad 07. Freedom Rider 08. Forty Thousand Headmen 09. Dear Mr. Fantasy Steve Winwood – vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass (1967–1974, 1994) Jim Capaldi – drums, percussion, vocals (1967–1974, 1994) Chris Wood – flute, saxophone, keyboards (1967–1974) Rebop Kwaku Baah – percussion (1971–1974) Roger Hawkins – drums (1972–1973) David Hood – bass (1972–1973) Disc 3 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium Santa Monica, CA. 1973 1. Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys 2. Light Up or Leave Me Alone 3. John Barleycorn 4. Rainmaker 5. Glad - Freedom Rider 6. 40,000 Headmen 7. Dear Mr. Fantasy Midsummer Rock Festival Cincinnati, OH. June 17, 1970 8. Pearly Queen 9. Stranger To Himself Stevie Winwood - keyboard, guitar, vocals; Jim Capaldi - drums, vocals; Chris Wood - sax; David Hood - bass; Roger Hawkins - keyboards; Reebop Kwaku Baah - percussion

Studio Quality 9.6 - Fantastic set! The entire thing has been delicately re-mastered to best anything and everything already out there. David Bowie - Plastic Soul (Young Americans Sessions) Disc 1 01 Young Americans (stripped down mix) 02 Somebody Up There Likes Me (unfinished mix) 03 Can You Hear Me (demo) 04 Can You Hear Me (stripped down mix) 05 Young Americans (Alternate Ending Version) 06 Across The Universe (stripped down mix) 07 Fame (stripped down mix) 08 Fame (vocal only track) 09 Young Americans (Take One) 10 Young Americans (Take Two) 11 Young Americans (Take Three) 12 Shilling The Rubes (Take One) 13 Lazer (The Gouster) 14 After Today (Take One) 15 Sweet Thing (Sigma Acetate) 16 It's Gonna Be Me (With Strings, 1975) Disc 2 01 Right (Sessions) 02 Somebody Up There Likes Me (Sessions) 03 I Am A Laser (Ava Cherry Rough Mix - Stereo) 04 Fame (Cher Show, 09-18-75, Mono) 05 Can You Hear Me (Cher TV Show, 11-23-75) 06 Young Americans + Medley (Cher TV Show, 11-23-75) 07 Win (alternate ryko mix) 08 Fame (Right A-Side, Original Single Edit) 09 Fascination (alternate ryko mix) 10 Right (alternate ryko mix) 11 Who Can I Be Now (Bonus) 12 It's Gonna Be Me (Bonus) 13 After Today (Outtake) 14 It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City (Outtake) 15 Young Americans (Single Edit) 16 John I'm Dancing Again (Edit) 17 Fame (alternate flute version)

Newcastle Audience 8.7 - A fairly bombastic recording that insists you pay attention to it. Thundering, massive, and thankfully listenable. It's not winning any awards for clarity, but it makes up for a lot of that with a representative recording of what you probably heard from the front row at this show. That leads me to say that while you would think there should be distortion, you can't really tell, but yes there just a bit of saturation deep in the bowels somewhere but I don't find it disturbing because it's low enough that you don't focus too much there. London Audience 8.6 - Dropping down one notch here, but there actually might be more mid-upper mid clarity with this recording. I think overall, this recording is a little less forceful, and there is no distortion at all on this. My ears rate this slightly below the Newcastle not because it is inferior quality, but because it is not quite as ballsy, and the trade-off is you have to give up a but of the balls in order to achieve more clarity, but sometimes ballsy is not a bad thing if it isn't too muddy. Black Sabbath Newcastle City Hall Newcastle, UK 1982-01-06 Disc 1 101 Introduction - E5150 102 Neon Knights 103 N.I.B. 104 Children Of The Sea 105 Country Girl 106 Black Sabbath 107 War Pigs 108 Slipping Away 109 Vinnie Appice Drum Solo 110 Iron Man Disc 2 201 The Mob Rules 202 Heaven And Hell 203 Paranoid - Heaven And Hell (Reprise) 204 Children Of The Grave Hammersmith Odeon London, UK 1982-01-03 205 Introduction - E5150 206 Neon Knights 207 Country Girl 208 Slipping Away 209 The Mob Rules

Audience 9.3 - I love this recording, probably a lot more than a soundboard. This is the one your ears have been waiting for. Good separation between bass and guitar so that each is distinct, plenty of bottom end but it isn't at the expense of anything else in the mix - it's perfect. I love the bass definition too, and Ian sounds good. Sometimes I think this may be pro, but for the drums which, while excellent, have the slightest touch of sizzle on the cymbals (and by extension you get a touch of it every now and then on vocals) but it's minor and it probably would not be present on a pro recording. This is really just quibbling, trying to find flaws, the recording is BADASS! Black Sabbath Quebec City Coliseum Quebec, Canada 1983-10-20 Disc 1 101. Supertzar 102. Children Of The Grave 103. Hot Line 104. War Pigs 105. Supernaut 106. Drums Solo 107. Rock 'n' Roll Doctor 108. Disturbing The Priest 109. Iron Man Disc 2 101. The Dark 202. Zero The Hero 203. Heaven And Hell 204. Guitar Solo 205. Digital Bitch 206. Black Sabbath 207. Smoke On The Water 208. Paranoid - Heaven And Hell (Reprise)

Soundboard 9.7 - The board tapes you usually get from Rory Gallagher are just so clear and punchy because that is his tone, and if you have great sound going in, you will get that coming out as well. Here is another pristine sdbrd from the blues rock master. Rory Gallagher Budapest Sportcsarnok Budapest, Hungary 1985-01-22 Disc 1 01. Double Vision 02. Mississippi Sheiks 03. Bad Penny 04. I Wonder Who 05. Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut 06. Nadine 07. Bought And Sold 08. Off The Handle Disc 2 01. Tattoo'd Lady 02. Out On The Western Plain 03. Walkin' Blues 04. Bankar's Blues 05. Bourbon 06. Secret Agent 07. All Around Man 08. Bullfrog Blues 09. Dizzy Miss Lizzy 10. Messin' With The Kid 11. If You Ever Change Your Mind - Bring It On Home Rory Gallagher - guitar, vocals Gerry McAvoy - bass Brendan O'Neill - drums Mark Feltham - harmonica