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Audience 9.0 - Clear and bright, pristine in the highs with the detail, remarkable. -
Pro Radio Broadcast 9.8 -
Audience 8.6 - A very “live” sounding tape! Excitement, yes indeed (despite modest hiss). -
Audience 8.8 - Someone snuck in some good gear for this capture. You can just tell the mics are quality, there’s a great stereo pan, a good atmospheric capture. -
Audience 8.5 - A rather intimate sounding capture, maybe a touch thin, but clear and lively. -
Soundboard 9.7 -
Audience 8.3 - A little thin and some tape hiss present. Tape starts off, maybe the first 45 minutes or so, is very good but later there is a sound glitch on stage, with the guitar amp, and the band is thrown off. The sound is similar maybe during the second half but the band is not quite the same imho. Still, a good one for collectors – very decent, can enjoy! -
Soundboard 8.8 - A little tape hiss present but a good board with my only issue being a lack of purity in the mix, somewhat muddy for a soundboard but it has a high rating due to the overall enjoyability. -
FM Radio Broadcast 8.8 - Typical radio compression present, and some minor breakup during intense segments due to over-saturation but these issues are only minor ones....this is a good recording! -
Various sources various quality but mostly very good stuff here and overall very good Audio as well. As far as live compilations go, I can highly recommend this one. Probably should be a must own for fans and a good starter for those first discovering them. One of my personal favorites. -
Audience 8.7 -
BBC - Soundboard 9.6 - Paris Theatre, London. Another personal favorite of mine. -
Soundboard 9.3 -
Audience 8.7 - A little rough around the edges but surprisingly good for the vintage. -
Audience 7.5 -
Audience 9.6 - Hard to tell if this is Soundboard or Audience, it is that good. My best guess is that it is a Pro Audience, very good gear - probably open reel to reel. -
Audience 7.7 - Lo-fi but surprisingly clear with a good biting guitar tone, and solid bass. Drums kind of buried. -
Audience 7.2 - Sound not good but artwork is spectacular. For collectors only. -
Audience 8.4 - Very good job here by an astute taper who knew to capture the opening band as well – also featured here! -
Audience 8.8 - Perhaps lacking in sonic depth, it makes up for it in clarity and detail, the kind that allows you to hear the nuance because this band had nuance in spades. -
Audience 8.4 - A rather decent tape that delivers a clear representation of the music happening on stage. I found that maybe the levels were a tad hot, but I prefer that over low levels that you end up having to crank up causing terrible hiss. This one is not suffering at all from that problem! -
Radio Broadcast 8.3 - A few generations down, some hiss, but you will love it anyway. -
Soundboard 9.3 - Of course it’s great but I am not too thrilled with the sound of the drums. -
Soundboard 8.7 - Raw, unfiltered and killer. Sure, it ain’t perfect, it is a little squishy and compressed but it’s all there, and there’s plenty of headroom if you want to add Equalizer or even some reverb would help. -
Ranges 7.7 to 8.7 - Not a lot out there on this band. After listening you will gain an appreciation for them and maybe compare them to ELP and you could be forgiven for that. Sound quality is not spectacular but neither is it dog shit. I think this music should be remastered because it is excellent heavy prog! -
Soundboard 8.7 -
Audience 8.7 - Clear and bright recording. Point of Special Interest: The official double release of "Strangers in the Night" is composed of 3 different shows and not all of the Chicago, Amphitheater show, like many might think, so you will find some of the same titles on this one that are different recordings. This is the rare 1978 Chicago show in its entirety with nothing left out, hence the title "The Real Strangers in the Night". -
Audience/Pro? 8.7 - It sounds like this is recorded from the audience, but to my ears it sounds like it may be a television audience or in some kind of studio. It sounds like microphones were placed strategically, and there’s no ancillary noises that you would expect from a stealth audience recording. -
FM Radio Broadcast 9.7 -
FM Radio Broadcast 9.3 -
Audience 8.4 -
Audience 8.8