Audience 9.7 - Brilliant, clear, deep, good atmosphere, and even though it is pushing the meters it still has some headroom so crank this one up and hear for yourself why I always say a great audience tape beats a soundboard.

Don Henley Pacific Amphitheatre Costa Mesa, CA October 1, 1989 Disc 1 01 Drivin' With Your Eyes Closed 02 Dirty Laundry 03 The End Of The Innocence 04 Building The Perfect Beast 05 If Dirt Were Dollars 06 The Last Worthless Evening 07 Sunset Grill 08 New York Minute Disc 2 09 Shangri - La 10 Hotel California 11 Life In The Fast Lane 12 The Boys Of Summer 13 All She Wants To Do Is Dance 14 I Will Not Go Quietly 15 Band Introduction 16 Desperado

Audience 9.1 - A fascinating document! Well, for one thing, it has that visceral, thump to your chest power and immediacy while you are immersed in the pit with your bros…but the crowd only makes this better. Such amazing atmosphere! The other thing is that this is NOT your mid 70’s blues guitar pub rock – it is much more along the punk/grunge aesthetic in how Rory is playing and his tone. Sure, he plays a lot of blues, but it does not come across the same as it did in ’74…it comes across as music that can breathe new life into what could be considered a dated musical form.

Rory Gallagher Inselwiese Dinkelsbühl, Germany 05. Juli 1986 Disc 1 01. -Ansage - Moonchild        8:03 02. -Shinkicker            6:39 03. -I wonder who        12:22 04. -Nadine            9:34 05. -Bad Penny            9:08 06. -Seven Days - I'm Ready    12:03 07. -Tattoo'd Lady        8:46 08. -A Million Miles Away    8:42 Disc 2 09. -Follow Me            7:01 10. -Out On The Western Plain    6:39 11. -Walkin Blues        7:06 12. -Rollin & Tumblin        5:43 13. -Big Guns            7:48 14. -I'm A Man            2:58 15. -Messin With The Kid      8:39 16. -Bullfrog Blues        6:37 17. -Seven Days - I'm Ready    10:22 18. -Follow Me            5:32

Gainesville 1978 Soundboard 9.5 - A professional straight board feed recording that is as clean and balanced as you’d ever want – but very occasionally there may be a slight tape drop out (rarely), and the sound is almost too good…meaning it could use some ambience and atmosphere but if you only want to hear this as a musical performance rather than event, this is damn near perfect.

Cincinnati 1989 Audience 9.7 - A soaring, elegant recording that captures this event in spectacular quality. Guitars seem to float over your head and wrap around your ears as they seem to pan across the room, drums filling the spaces and adding immediacy. When the audience claps and responds it’s as if it is a part of the show how it blends in and seems so respectful. Overall man this is a frighteningly good recording and performance and is pretty much in the “must have” range IMHO.

Pat Metheny Group 79/89 Disc 1 Spring Jazz Festival Lake Alice Field, University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 1979-03-30 01-Phase Dance (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 7:35 02-Circus Music (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 6:10 03-PM speaks 1:01 04-Unity Village (Pat Metheny) > The Windup (Keith Jarrett) 13:08 05-The Epic (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 14:35 06-Jaco (Pat Metheny) 4:21 07-PM speaks and tuning 0:54 08-San Lorenzo (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 11:08 09-Re-tuning and PM speaks again 1:39 10-Wrong Is Right (Larry Coryell) 7:53 11-American Garage (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 4:43 Pat Metheny, guitars Lyle Mays, piano, synthesizer, electric organ, autoharp Mark Egan, bass guitar Danny Gottlieb, drums Disc 2 Taft Theatre Cincinnati, Ohio September 22, 1989 1. –Phase Dance 2. -Have You Heard? 3. -Every Summer Night 4. -Hermitage 5. -Better Days Ahead 6. -Farmer’s Trust 7. -Spring Ain’t Here 8. -Straight On Red 9. -Are You Going With Me? Disc 3 10. -The Fields, The Sky 11. -Are We There Yet? 12. -Vidala 13. -Slip Away 14. -Letter From Home 15. -Beat 70 16. -Band Introductions 17.  -Minuano (six-eight) Pat Metheny - Guitars Lyle Mays - Keyboards Steve Rodby - Bass Paul Wertico - Drums Pedro Aznar - Voice, Guitar, percussion Armando Marcal - Percussion

Studio 9.5 - A really detailed, complete set which contains just about everything you ever wanted to hear regarding the pre-Kiss band Wicked Lester. Is it necessary?  I mean, there’s a lot of repetition here, but I have to say it is kind of necessary when you call something complete, you should provide that to the collector and this set does. Quality is great.

Kiss - Complete Wicked Lester Sessions 1971/1972 Disc 1 Electric Lady Studios 18th November 1971 01. Too Many Mondays    [0:03:40.20] 02. Love Her All I Can    [0:02:35.44] 03. Sweet Ophelia    [0:03:06.03] 04. Molly    [0:02:32.12] 05. Keep Me Waiting    [0:03:22.04] 06. She    [0:03:06.41] 07. What Happened In The Darkness    [0:03:10.26] 08. We Want To Shout It Out Loud    [0:02:46.01] 09. When The Bell Rings    [0:03:24.04] 10. Simple Type    [0:02:40.24] 11. She (Take 2)    [0:03:05.20] 12. Molly (Take 2)    [0:02:33.30] 13. We Want To Shout It Out Loud (Take 2)    [0:02:43.42] 14. Too Many Mondays (Take 2)    [0:03:41.08] Electric Lady Studios August 1972 Sessions 1 15. Keep Me Waiting    [0:03:28.12] 16. Love Her All I Can    [0:02:40.72] 17. Molly    [0:02:28.52] 18. She    [0:03:07.43] 19. Simple Type    [0:02:37.73] 20. Sweet Ophelia    [0:03:09.74] 21. Too Many Mondays    [0:04:04.34] 22. When The Bell Rings    [0:03:10.62] 23. Molly (Take 2)    [0:02:25.12] 24. Too Many Mondays (Take 2)    [0:03:59.13] Disc 2 Electric Lady Studios August 1972 Sessions 2 01. We Want To Shout It Out Loud    [0:02:43.14] 02. Keep Me Waiting    [0:03:10.30] 03. Love Her All I Can    [0:02:35.30] 04. Molly    [0:02:29.52] 05. She    [0:03:03.47] 06. Simple Type    [0:02:42.23] 07. Sweet Ophelia    [0:03:01.64] 08. Too Many Mondays    [0:03:38.14] 09. What Happens In The Darkness    [0:03:07.52] Final Album Reel 1972 10. When The Bell Rings    [0:03:17.70] 11. Keep Me Waiting    [0:03:23.47] 12. Molly    [0:02:33.26] 13. Sweet Ophelia    [0:03:06.24] 14. Simple Type    [0:02:43.25] 15. Too Many Mondays    [0:03:44.10] 16. Love Her All I Can    [0:02:35.54] 17. When The Bell Rings    [0:03:25.10] 18. She    [0:03:07.56] 19. What Happens In The Darkness    [0:03:10.60] 20. We Want To Shout It Out Loud    [0:02:49.33] 21. Long, Long Road    [0:04:18.67] Disc 3 Electric Lady Studios Spring 1972 Sessions 01. Keep Me Waiting    [0:03:25.42] 02. Long, Long Road    [0:04:20.25] 03. Love Her All I Can    [0:02:54.69] 04. She    [0:03:09.45] 05. Simple Type    [0:02:48.22] 06. Sweet Ophelia    [0:03:16.64] 07. We Want To Shout It Out Loud    [0:03:10.00] 08. What Happened In The Darkness    [0:03:14.67] 09. When The Bell Rings    [0:03:11.09] 10. Simple Type (Take 2)    [0:02:49.44]

Audience 8.6 – 8.8  - All of the recordings here are good to very good audience recordings made on obviously portable tape recorders with limited capacity to hold the bandwidth needed for a loud, intense rock group. That being said, the tapes have gone through processing that allows more music information to come through, less tape hiss and background gunk, so you get to actually hear and decipher well what can only be described as groundbreaking experimental rock/jazz/prog by the band that wrote the book on it. Amazing power and finesse on display, and to reiterate my point on sound quality – this collection of live KC is still fundamentally indispensable to any self-proclaimed prog rock aficionado. King Crimson UK 1971 Disc 1 Civic Hall Wolverhampton, UK. 1971 Sept. 10 1. Good Evening - Mellotron Tuning 2. Pictures Of a City 3. Cirkus 4. Formentera Lady - The Sailor's Tale 5. The Letters 6. Cadence And Cascade 7. Ladies of the Road 8. Groon Disc 2 Civic Hall Wolverhampton, UK. 1971 Sept. 10 3. 21st Century Schizoid Man 4. Mars Weeley Festival Clacton, UK. 1971 AUG. 28 5. Pictures Of A City 6. The Letters 7. The Devil's Triangle Preston Public Hall 1971 Oct. 9 8. Pictures Of A City Disc 3 Preston Public Hall 1971 Oct. 9 1. Cirkus 2. Formentera Lady - The Sailor's Tale 3. The Letters 4. Cadence And Cascade 5. Ladies of the Road 6. Groon 7. 21st Century Schizoid Man 8. The Devil's Triangle Disc 4 Town Hall Watford, UK. 15 July 1971 01 -RF Announcement 02 -Pictures of a City 03 -Formentera Lady 04 -The Sailor's Tale 05 -Tune Up & Announcement 06 -Cirkus 07 -The Letters 08 -Cadence and Cascade Disc 5 09 -Improv A Peacemaking Stint Unrolls 10 -RF Announcement 11 -Lady of the Dancing Water 12 -RF Announcement 13 -Ladies of the Road 14 -RF Announcement 15 -21st Century Schizoid Man 16 -The Devil's Triangle BONUS 17. -LARKS TONGUE IN ASPIC II Robert Fripp - Guitar Boz Burrell - Bass, Vocals Ian Wallace - Drums, Backing Vocals Mel Collins - Saxes, Flute Peter Sinfield - Word, Illumintaions

Soundboard 9.4 - Anytime you can find a soundboard of this band you really ought to grab it. I think it allows the listener to get all the nuance, the sound effects so-to-speak that make Ghost a little bit better than the competition. Plus the songs are interesting, and the voice is perfectly matched to the style.

Ghost "Paradise Lost" Halle Tony Garnier Lyon, France May 22th 2023 Disc 1 01. -Imperium 02. -Kaisarion 03. -Rats 04. -Faith 05. -Spillways 06. -Cirice 07. -Hunter's Moon 08. -Jesus He Knows Me 09. -Ritual 10. -Call Me Little Sunshine 11. -Con Clavi Con Dio 12. -Watcher in the Sky Disc 2 01. -Year Zero 02. -Spoksonat 03. -He Is 04. -Miasma 05. -Mary on a Cross 06. -Mummy Dust 07. -Respite on the Spitalfields 08. -Kiss the Go-Goat 09. -Dance Macabre 10. -Square Hammer 11. -Sorrow in the Wind

Seattle 1977 Audience 9.3 - Captured in a smaller venue you get a great sense of the proximity, and the space surrounding taper as bits of chatter and background noises lend ambience. A great recording!

Upper Darby 1980 FM Broadcast 9.5 - This is from a KBFH reel so yeah, it’s fantastic.

Seattle 2000 Soundboard 9.6 - A board tape that manages to allow some of the room to seep into the mix so it’s a bit livelier and manages to convince the ear it is not Memorex…or is it?

Warren Zevon The Ultimate Live 1977-2000 Disc 1 Pacific Alliance "We Don't Need Nuclear Power" Benefit Concert Paramount Theater Seattle, WA February 5, 1977 01 -Introduction 02 -Frank And Jesse James 03 -Hasten Down The Wind 04 -Backs Turned Looking Down The Path 05 -Carmelita 06 -Mohammed's Radio 07 -Excitable Boy 08 -I'll Sleep When I'm Dead The Tower Theatre Upper Darby, PA April 22nd 1980 09 -Intro 10 -Play It All Night Long 11 -Johnny Strikes Up The Band 12 -Excitable Boy 13 -Gorilla You're A Desperado 14 -Werewolves Of London 15 -Jeannie Needs A Shooter 16 -Wild Age 17 -Certain Girl 18 -Unknown Title 19 -K.B.F.H. Outro Disc 2 Moore Theater Seattle, WA. April 22nd, 2000 1 -Werewolves Of London 2 -Excitable Boy 3 -Seminole Bingo 4 -For My Next Trick I'll Need A Volunteer 5 -Don't Let Us Get Sick 6 -Poor Poor Pitiful Me 7 -My Shit's Fucked Up 8 -Porcelain Monkey 9 -Detox Mansion 10 -Lawyers, Guns & Money

FM Broadcast 9.7 - A stellar sound with this over the air broadcast, no signal degradation, no interference, no compression, just smooth jazz sailing all the way.

Pat Metheny Group Festival International de Jazz De Montréal McGill College Ave. Montréal, Quebec, Canada July 4, 1989 CHOM-FM Broadcast Disc 1 01 Phase Dance  8:06 02 Have You Heard  6:08 03 Every Summer Night  6:57 04 Change Of Heart  7:20 05 Better Days Ahead  5:02 06 Last Train Home  5:11 07 First Circle  8:42 08 Scrap Metal  7:04 09 Slip Away  4:53 10 If I Could  6:19 Disc 2 01 Spring Ain't Here  6:44 02 Straight On Red  8:46 03 Are You Going With Me  8:53 04 The Fields, The Sky  4:17 05 Are We There Yet  9:33 06 (It's Just) Talk  8:15 07 Letter From Home  2:18 08 Beat 70  4:47 09 Minuano (Six-Eight)  9:08 10 Third Wind  9:04 Pat Metheny - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Electric Sitar, Guitar Synth Lyle Mays - Piano, Keyboards Steve Rodby - Acoustic & Electric Basses Paul Wertico - Drums, Percussion Armando Marçal - Percussion Pedro Aznar - Voice, Miscellaneous Instruments