Audience 8.9 - A pleasant surprise to hear how good this one is. I was not expecting it, for some reason. Nice and clear, with healthy atmosphere (ie. polite audience), and dynamics that, while not approaching anything symphonic, are well intact and discernable. Genesis Stadthalle Offenbach, Germany January 31st, 1974 Disc 1 01. Watcher Of The Skies 02. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight 03. The Cinema Show 04. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) 05. Firth Of Fifth Disc 2 06. Harold The Barrel 07. The Musical Box 08. More Fool Me 09. Supper's Ready

Audience 8.7 - A recording that won't set the night on fire but will provide enough warmth and light to keep you in front of it. I only noticed some issues with how the cymbals sounded, to me it almost sounded like tape hiss - I had to really concentrate to tell what it was at first, but, it does seem to be Keith banging away incessantly as he is known to do. Towards the end of the tape, the cymbal anomaly seems to get worse. It is still a decent old tape. The Who "We Don't Know What To Play" 11th March 1976 Madison Square Garden New York Disc 1 01 - Introduction 02 - I Can't Explain 03 - Substitute 04 - My Wife 05 - Baba O'Riley 06 - Squeeze Box 07 - Behind Blue Eyes 08 - Slip Kid 09 - Dreaming From The Waist 10 - Magic Bus Disc 2 11 - Tommy Medley 12 - Summertime Blues 13 - My Generation 14 - Won't Get Fooled Again 15 - Encore 16 - Road Runner 17 - Let's See Action 18 - Naked Eye

Boston 1973 - Soundboard 9.7 - Professionally recorded for broadcast, as you can expect with a jazz rock combo the sound has to be extraordinary due to the nature of the musicianship and sound they each produce - in other words it is easier to manage the sound when it isn't over distorted and ear-splittingly loud. This is, as a result, a lovely sounding tape (during the quiet sections there is some minor tape noise in the background but it disappears as soon as the music starts). New York 1974 - Audience 9.0 - I had a hard time figuring out whether this was an aud or a soundboard because of the proximity of the vocals. I determined it had to be a semi-professional audience recording because of the crowd responses being pretty well picked up in the tape after songs...if it was a board tape that would not be as audible (if at all). But it could still easily pass as a board tape if you didn't take that into account - so is it a board tape? It is very good for this venue, Carnegie Hall acoustics did not lend themselves well to loud rock music, if this is indeed an audience tape they did a fantastic job! Return To Forever Jazz Workshop Boston, MA, USA May 15th, 1973 Disc 1 01. Announcer intro 0:28 02. Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy 3:39 03. Chick introduces the band 1:23 04. Spain 13:49 05. CC intro 0:50 06. Sometime Ago 31:08 Chick Corea - Fender Rhodes Stanley Clarke - bass Bill Connors - guitar Steve Gadd - drums Mingo Lewis - congas and percussion Disc 2 Carnegie Hall, New York, NY July 3, 1974 1. Applause - Ambiance 1:40 2. Beyond the Seventh Galaxy 3:18 3. Song Intro by Chick Corea 2:08 4. Song to the Pharoah Kings 15:42 5. Song Intro by Chick Corea 0:51 6. The Shadow of Lo 9:48 7. Song Intro by Stanley Cl… 0:52 8. Where Have I Known You B… 6:09 9. Stanley Clarke bass solo 5:12 10. Song Intro 0:43 11. The Vulcan Empire 10:05 12. Closing Announcements 1:47 Chick Corea - keyboards Stanley Clarke - bass Al DiMeola - guitar Lenny White - drums

Audience 9.2 - One thing you get from a great audience tape that a soundboard can't reproduce is how the vocals actually sound. What I mean is that when a signal goes directly from mic to board, it's going to be nothing like what the vocalist will sound like to the audience. The PA system translates vocals to the ears the way the band wants it to sound like, and therefore a truer representation of the live sound that you go to a show to get. This tape delivers that and more - atmosphere, and great individual instruments (especially drums), this is really good stuff. Heart St. Paul Civic Center St. Paul, MN 12-05-1987 Disc 1 1. Bad Animals (6:09) 2. The Wolf (5:26) 3. Barracuda (4:14) 4. Nothin' At All (5:08) 5. What About Love (4:53) 6. Dreamboat Annie (4:08) 7. These Dreams (4:41) 8. Straight On (3:57) 9. Even It Up (4:59) 10. I Want You So Bad (5:14) Disc 2 1. Wait For An Answer (5:06) 2. Who Will You Run To (4:45) 3. Never (4:06) 4. How Can I Refuse (4:51) 5. Crazy On You (5:15) 6. If Looks Could Kill (5:29) 7. Bebe Le Strange (3:19) 8. Magic Man (3:08) 9. Alone (4:11) 10. Rock And Roll (6:21)

Audience 8.6 - A middle of the road tape that starts off rough as taper situates himself (and a rather rude bump occurs in the middle of Welcome To The Jungle) but do smooth out a few minutes in and gradually sounds somewhat better. A large venue sound complete with that telltale "verb" and slightly boomy, but one thing you get plenty of, and this is key, Slash. At the expense of Axl, you get a heaping dose of Slash and that is fine. Quieter numbers and interludes sound way much better than full tilt volume. I suggest exploring this one if you already collect the band's live shows and do not have this one yet - it's good, it's not great, but to the band's credit I have yet to hear them do a subpar performance and this show is pretty darn good. GUNS N ROSES Target Center Minneapolis, MN January 21st, 1992   Disc 1 1- Welcome To The Jungle 2- Mr. Brownstone 3- Bad Obsession 4- Live And Let Die 5- Attitude 6- It's So Easy 7- Double Talkin' Jive 8- Guitar Solo 9- Civil War 10- Wild Horses 11- Patience 12- You Could Be Mine 13- Piano Solo Disc 2 14- Band Introductions 15- Drum Solo 16- Guitar Solo 17- Godfather Theme 18- Nightrain 19- Don't Cry 20- Move To The City 21- Sail Away Sweet Sister - Bad Time - Sweet Child O' Mine 22- Only Women Bleed 23- Knockin' On Heaven's Door 24- Encore 25- Estranged 26- Mother 27- Paradise City 28- Outro

Audience 8.7 - No other recordings strikes me the same way this one does. The best way to describe it is...it makes you feel like these sounds have travelled through a worm hole to reach us, having been hurtling through the past, space, time, to get to your ears again now. You hear the atmosphere of ancient Rome, the Pantheon, the theatre, the crowds, the GUITAR...echoing, then landing like a punch in the face. But, there's problems sometimes when travelling through time and space, you don't always come out completely intact as this old tape clearly shows. Does that mean it's bad? Quite contrary! I was mesmerized and listened to the whole thing. It's not great, it's not bad, it's not going to win any contests but it is UNIQUE and a blast to hear. I'm in Rome in 1972 at a Who concert and my seats are on Pete's side of the stage and I am getting my wish to be smothered by the delicious sounds of a Gibson SG in the hands of a maniac genius at full volume. How can you not want to know about this? It is well worth having. The Who Roma Palaeur Rome,Italy September 14th, 1972 Disc One 1) I Can't Explain 2) Summertime Blues 3) My Wife 4) Baba O'Riley (Cut, Incomplete Song) 5) Behind Blue Eyes 6) Bargain (Cut, Incomplete Song) 7) Won't Get Fooled Again (Fades Out) Disc Two 1) Magic Bus (Fades In) 2) Relay 3) Pinball Wizard (Cut, Incomplete Song) 4) See Me, Feel Me (Cut, Incomplete Song) 5) My Generation 6) Naked Eye (Cut, Incomplete Song, Fades Out)

Soundboard 9.3 - This is not the complete show, but what we do have is required listening. Some minor technical flaws present on a couple of occasions, these aren't deal-breakers though. The quality is here, in both performance and sound. Pat Metheny Group McCalister Auditorium Tulane University New Orleans, LA, USA March 25, 1981 01. Turnaround (Ornette Coleman) 8:21 02. Goin' Ahead (Metheny) > As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (Metheny/Mays) 18:17 03. Jaco (Metheny) 7:18 04. Untitled > Au Lait (Metheny/Mays) > Untitled (reprise) > Pat's remarks/Band introductions 18:09 05. San Lorenzo (Metheny/Mays) 12:26 06. (Cross The) Heartland (Metheny/Mays) 6:27 07. American Garage (Metheny/Mays) 4:13 Pat Metheny - guitars, guitar synth Lyle Mays - piano, synthesizers, organ, autoharp Steve Rodby - acoustic bass, electric bass Danny Gottlieb - drums Nana Vasconcelos - vocals, percussion, berimbau