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Audience 8.8 - This is a very decent tape, with a few minor cuts that do not ruin it at all, but the atmosphere and crispness of the tape is refreshing and makes for a most enjoyable listen. It’s wide open to where you can feel yourself in the seat as the music washes over you. Great job taper! Boston Garden Boston, Mass. December 6, 1982 disc 1 54:40 1: spirit of radio 2: Tom Sawyer 3: free will 4: digital man 5: subdivisions 6: vital signs 7: the camera eye 8: closer to the heart 9: chemistry 5:09 10: the analog kid disc 2 60:32 12: (guitar solo) Broon's Bane > the trees 13: red barchetta 14: the weapon 15: new world man 16: limelight 17: countdown 18: 2112: Overture > the temples of Syrinx > Xanadu > La Villa Strangiato medley 19: in the mood 20: YYZ with drum solo -
Soundboard 9.8 - Expertly recorded and mixed, and a pretty damn good performance too! Every bit of both concerts is here, simply glorious. Eric Clapton’s Rainbow Concert Date: January 13th 1973 Location: Rainbow Theatre,London,England Disc 1 01-Introduction 02-Layla 03-Badge 04-Blues Power 05-Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out 06-Roll It Over 07-Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad 08-Little Wing Disc 2 01-Bottle Of Red Wine 02-After Midnight 03-Bell Bottom Blues 04-Presence Of The Lord 05-Tell The Truth 06-Pearly Queen 07-Let It Rain 08-Crossroads Disc 3 01-Introduction 02-Layla 03-Badge 04-Blues Power 05-Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out 06-Roll It Over 07-Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad 08-Little Wing Disc 4 01-Bottle Of Red Wine 02-Presence Of The Lord 03-Tell The Truth 04-Pearly Queen 05-Key To The Highway 06-Let it Rain 07-Crossroads 08-Layla Band:Eric Clapton And Palpitations Eric Clapton Pete Townshend Ron Wood Steve Winwood Rick Grech Jim Capaldi Jimmy Karstein -
Soundboard 8.7 - A tape that shows some age with a little bit of a lack of high end that would provide more clarity as far as the sound mix. It’s a workable board tape nonetheless and it does feature the antics of Pete Townshend and Keith Moon so there is that. In this mix, it is guitar, bass, drums (and vocals are fine) but don’t expect much more. Eric Clapton 'Eric Clapton and Keith Moon' The Coliseum Greensboro, North Carolina, USA Friday August 2, 1974 Disc 1: 01. -Legs Larry Smith Introduction 02. -Smile 03. -Easy Now 04. -I Can't Hold Out 05. -Tell The Truth 06. -Blues Power 07. -Have You Ever Loved A Woman 08. -Keith Moon And The Meat Guitar 09. -Willie And The Hand Jive - Get Ready [with Pete Townshend] Disc 2: 01. -I Shot The Sheriff 02. -Let It Rain 03. -Introductions 04. -Layla 05. -Badge [with Pete Townshend & Keith Moon] 06. -Little Queenie [with Pete Townshend & Keith Moon] Bonus Tracks: (Unknown Date) 07. -Blues Power 08. -Have You Ever Loved A Woman 09. -Let It Rain Eric Clapton - George Terry - Dick Sims - Carl Radle - Jamie Oldaker - Yvonne Elliman. Guests: Pete Townshend & Keith Moon. -
FM Broadcast 9.7- As good as it gets. Amy Winehouse Glastonbury Festival Worthy Farm, Pilton, England Friday August 29th, 2008 Track List: 01. Addicted 02. Just Friends 03. Tears Dry On Their Own 04. Cupid [Sam Cooke cover] 05. Back To Black 06. Wake Up Alone 07. Some Unholy War 08. Love Is A Losing Game 09. Hey Little Rich Girl [The Specials cover] 10. A Message to You, Rudy [Dandy Livingstone cover] 11. You're Wondering Now [The Skatalites cover] 12. You Know I'm No Good 13. Me & Mr. Jones 14. Rehab -
Audience 8.7 - Believe it or not, few excellent recordings exist of Motley Crue from these early days. This one is actually very decent, with a lot of festival atmosphere, and even though the recording is “distant” it is clear and you get a good round bass, clear and loud guitar, and vocals very clear. Virtually no muck in this tape, you can turn it up loud too because there’s good headroom. Motley Crue - 1984-08-18 Castle Donington Park, England 01 Intro - Bastard 02 Knock `Em dead 03 Shout At The devil 04 Ten Seconds To love 05 Piece Of Your Action 06 Red Hot 07 Looks That Kill 08 Live Wire 09 Helster Skelter Running Time: 44 mn. 4 s. note: The Crüe makes their first trip to the U.K. and plays the huge Monsters of Rock Festival in Donington at noon in front of about sixty thousand metalheads. After kicking off the show, Mötley is followed on stage by Y&T, Accept, Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen and AC/DC. At the end of their set, Nikki throws his bass into the crowd and it lands on a fan named Stu Taylor, smashing his glasses and cutting his head open. A number of people take the guitar to the side of the stage to smash it up and share out the pieces. -
Audience 8.7 - An historic concert recording well known among collectors, receiving a “refresh” bringing out even more of the music. This particular reissue features a bonus disc with a couple of minutes of seldom seen video footage of the show. Los Angeles, California, Inglewood Forum Nov. 8, 1969 (2nd show) Includes rare video footage 01. intro 02. Jumping Jack Flash 03. Carol 04. Sympathy For The Devil 05. Stray Cat Blues 06. Prodigal Son 07. You Gotta Move 08. Love In Vain 09. I'm Free 10. Under My Thumb 11. Midnight Rambler 12. Live With Me 13. Little Queenie 14. Satisfaction 15. Honky Tonk Women 16. Street Fighting Man -
Soundboard 9.2 - Still sounds as fresh and exciting today as it did then. Maybe just a tiny amount of “hot” mic but it only adds to the energy of this recording. Jefferson Airplane 3/4/67 Cafe A Go Go New York City 01.-It's No Secret 02 -Let's Get Together 03.-White Rabbit 04.-Your Bringing Me Down 05.-My Best Friend 06. -Jorma's Blues 07. -This Is My Life 08. -She Has Funny Cars 09. -Somebody To Love 10. -Tobacco Road 11. -Around The World 12. -Instrumental - Blues 13. -Today 14. -High Flying Bird -
Audience 8.4 - A very rare treat, to hear a complete “Preservation” era show. There’s really not a lot of 1973 recording around. This one sounds just fine, while not venturing too far in either direction dynamically, and some lack of clarity down low in the spectrum…but the upper mids and highs seem fine. It’s a good recording that could use your own EQ flavoring to round it into shape. I am happy to have this as I have not heard many, if any, ’73 tapes as good as this. THE KINKS Boston Music Hall Boston, MA April 1st 1973 THE BAND Ray Davies vocal guitar Dave Davies lead guitar vocal Mick Avory drums John Dalton bass John Gosling keyboards Laurie Brown trumpet John Beecham trombone tuba Alan Holmes saxophone clarine SETLIST 1 -Intro 2 -Victoria 3 -Acute Schizophernia Paranoid Blues 4 -Until The End Of The Day 5 -Medley (The Last Time I Saw You/Little Queenie/Shakin All Over/Whole Lotta Shakin Going On, Etc) 6 -Maybe Because I'm A Londoner 7 -Lola 8 -Dedicated Follower Of Fashion 9 -Celluloid Heroes 10 -Here Comes Yet Another Day 11 -Picture Book 12 -People Take Pictures Of Each Other 13 -Alcohol 14 -Skin and Bones - Dry Bones 15 -Good Golly Miss Molly 16 -You Really Got Me 17 -All The Day And All Of The Night 18 -Thank You - Announcements -
Soundboard 9.2 - There are precious few mid 70’s Steely Dan tapes out there, thankfully most of them are very good quality because the band is a very special collection of highly skilled players who write creative, provocative, challenging music that NEVER gets old. This is just a must have, it’s that simple. Steely Dan Rainbow Theatre Finsbury Park, London, England 20th May 1974 Disc 1 01 -intro - Bodhisattva 02 -The Boston Rag 03 -Do It Again 04 -Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) 05 -King Of The World 06 -Rikki Don't Lose That Number 07 -Pretzel Logic 08 -band introductions Disc 2 01 -My Old School 02 -Dirty Work 03 -Instrumental (Your Gold Teeth II) 04 -Reelin' In The Years 05 -crowd and tuning encores 06 -Show Biz Kids 07 -crowd and tuning 08 -This All Too Mobile Home The band: Donald Fagen - piano, vocals Walter Becker - bass Jeff Baxter - guitar Denny Dias - guitar Jim Hodder - drums Jeff Porcaro - drums Royce Jones - percussion, vocals Michael McDonald - electric piano, vocals -
Audience 8.4 - This tape has been recently surfaced and is not bad at all, however it did receive a “refresh” in the form of a re-mastering which boosted the levels a bit after notching out some noisy mids. It sounds pretty decent, maybe midway back in the venue but hearing pretty much everything especially Mick and Keith which is fine by me. County Stadium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin June 8th 1975 DISC 1: 01. Honky Tonk Women 02. All Down The Line 03. If You Can't Rock Me / Get Off Of My Cloud 04. Star Star 05. Gimme Shelter 06. Mick Jagger speaks 07. Ain't Too Proud To Beg 08. You Gotta Move 09. You Can't Always Get What You Want 10. Sure The One You Need 11. Tumbling Dice 12. Luxury DISC 2: 01. Band Introductions 02. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) 03. Angie 04. Wild Horses 05. That's Life (Billy Preston) 06. Outa Space (Billy Preston) 07. Midnight Rambler 08. Brown Sugar 09. Rip This Joint 10. Street Fighting Man 11. Jumpin' Jack Flash 12. 1975 Tour announcement 13. 1975 News report -
Audience 7.9/Soundboard 8.8 - A rough and tumble recording for a rough and tumble show. Quite frankly, it’s a perfect match, but obviously when the soundboard portions kick in it is a relief to the ears. The audience tape is one of the better sounding ones of the tour – we’ve all heard the dismal sounding ones and this is by far better. The video footage gives you more appreciation for the tapers efforts, because it just looks like it would have been a miracle to have produced anything remarkable in that venue. My hats off to the tapers! The Rolling Stones Let it Bleed Tour Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI, USA November 24th, 1969 Track List 01 Jumpin' Jack Flash 02 Carol 03 Sympathy For The Devil 04 Stray Cat Blues 05 Love In Vain 06 Prodigal Son 07 You Gotta Move 08 Under My Thumb 09 Midnight Rambler 10 Live With Me 11 Little Queenie 12 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 13 Honky Tonk Women 14 Street Fighting Man Includes Rare Video Footage! -
Soundboard 9.8 - A beautiful sounding show, and some interesting arrangements. Dire Straits - 1981-07-05 Werchter,Belgium Artist Dire Straits Venue Werchter Festival, Werchter, Belgium Date 5th July 1981 Source Soundboard Tracks 01. Once Upon A Time In The West [08:34] 02. Expresso Love [06:54] 03. Down To The Waterline [05:03] 04. Skateaway [07:35] 05. Romeo And Juliet [09:29] 06. News [03:37] 07. Private Investigations [03:01] 08. Sultans Of Swing [11:01] 09. Angel Of Mercy [06:34] 10. Tunnel Of Love [12:26] Runtime: 01:14:15 -
Audience 8.8 Bright and defined, a little light on the bottom end but nevertheless there’s a lot to like about this tape. Def Leppard - Warnors Theatre in Fresno Ca 05 21 1980 Disc 1 1. Intro 2. When the Walls Came Tumbling Down 3. It Could Be You 4. Hello America 5. Satellite 6. Lady Strange 7. Rock Brigade 8. Answer to the Master 9. It Don't Matter 10. Rocks Off 11. Wasted 12. Encore Break 13. Ride Into the Sun 14. Outro -
Audience 9.5 - This recording is special, each instrument occupies its own space and has great depth and tone, especially bass which is woody and precise. This recording showcases one really intrinsically valuable characteristic lacking in soundboards – and that is the sense of time and place, distance and depth. In order to get a good feel of a live concert, you sometimes need to have those elements and this tape has them all. PINK FLOYD DEFINITIVE LANDOVER 1975 Capitol Center, Landover, Maryland, USA 9th & 10th June 1975 DISC 1 Raving And Drooling You Gotta Be Crazy Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 1-5 Have A Cigar Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 6-9 DISC 2 The Dark Side of The Moon Speak To Me Breathe On The Run Time Breathe (reprise) The Great Gig In The Sky Money Us And Them Any Colour You Like Brain Damage Eclipse DISC 3 Audience Echoes DISC 4 (Live at Capitol Center, Landover, Maryland, USA 10th June 1975) Raving And Drooling You Gotta Be Crazy Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 1-5 Have A Cigar Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 6-9 -
Soundboard 9.3 - Fantastic! Now I was not familiar with this band, but I must say, it’s pretty good musically with emphasis on their white-hot lead guitarist. The songs aren’t anything super duper, and their singer isn’t sensational either, but in combination all this works together to become a little more than the individual parts. I like this guitar! I already made that point but it’s worth repeating. Coney Hatch Agora Ballroom Cleveland, Ohio, USA September 8th, 1982 FM Broadcast Recording Track List: 01 - We Got The Night 02 - Stand Up 03 - You Ain't Got Me 04 - Your Kinda Love 05 - Victim Of Rock 06 - Too Far Gone 07 - Devil's Deck 08 - I Saw The Light 09 - I'll Do The Talkin' 10 - Marcais 11 - Dreamland 12 - Monkey Bars 13 - Love Poison 14 - Hey Operator 15 - No Sleep Tonight -
Audience 9.3 - Yes, it is that good – and there is, I believe, a soundboard which is the source for the pro shot video but the audience tape is used here because, quite frankly, it is better. You need the atmosphere, you need the sense of space, distance, and vibe that a well-done audience tape can produce. The dynamics are good, the sound is round and warm, lush if you will. My only complaint would be the lack of the crisp highs, but there are highs present just a little rounded off maybe. I am nitpicking!