Audience 9.0 - Great document! Live, exciting, forceful and driving. This is a great find! It does have the tell-tale audience tape feel but for how well the bass sounds because if it was done on cassette, it had to be a professional deck, so I am inclined to believe this was done on reel to reel. I LOVE this show!

Audience 9.5 - a legendary recording that has been carefully treated by sensitive ears not wanting to revise history but to bring out every possible nuance, and succeeding. One to have for sure. The second show is also great, ranking a solid 9.2 but also well worth diving into.

Pink Floyd Festhalle Frankfurt, West Germany 16th November 1972 Disc 1 1. Speak To Me 2. Breathe 3. On The Run 4. Time 5. Breathe (Reprise) 6. Great Gig In The Sky 7. Money 8. Us And them 9. Any Colour You Like 10. Brain Damage 11. Eclipse Disc 2 12. Tuning 13. One Of These Days 14. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 15. Echoes 16. Tuning 17. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun Disc 3 Festhalle Frankfurt, West Germany 17th November 1972 1. Speak To Me 2. Breathe 3. On The Run 4. Time 5. Breathe (Reprise) 6. Great Gig In The Sky 7. Money 8. Us And them 9. Any Colour You Like 10. Brain Damage 11. Eclipse Disc 4 12. Tuning 13. One Of These Days 14. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 15. Echoes 16. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

Audience 8.9 - what a show! Yes, you will get knocked around down in the pit with the fans, yes you will hear the sounds of incredibly excited fans, and yes, the will feel absolutely like you are right there. The thing is, when you realize someone went through a bit of trouble to do this it just makes such a difference as you listen and understand this is a live, frenzied atmosphere with a very loud rock and roll band right in front of you. Taper, my hat is tipped toward you my friend. Outstanding job capturing this show - it really sounds great!

Audience 8.8 - A show new to circulation, it presents a severely under represented period of the band. Not too many tapes have surfaced (and no known videos) so whatever we can get, we appreciate. Here, taper did an admiral job even though he's clearly immersed in a boisterous audience. There is plenty of audience present, but thankfully what you get most of is a relatively clear and atmospheric ELO on a great night. There is a touch of overcrowding within the mid-range frequency, but nothing that distorts so there's zero muddiness and maybe less low end that you might prefer. Overall I have to say it fits nicely into my ELO collection right next to the one or two other 1981 shows (like I said, few and far between).

Audience 8.6 - Starts off a bit dodgy but gets better. Vocals are up front in the mix but still "round" and by that I mean not clearly defined to where you can make out the words. Drums are probably the clearest instrument in this recording and they propel the music forward with gusto. Guitars are raucous and as dirty as you want them, and the overall recording is a bit dirty too coming from the crowd where you get a great sense of being there with them. This is a recording that is worth sticking with because by the third or fourth song in you can really start to appreciate it because it does seem as though everything gets just a little bit clearer and more distinct (you can really tell during Over The Top). Motorhead PORT VALE, UK August 1, 1981 Disc 1 1. Ace Of Spades 2. Stay Clean 3. Live To Win 4. Over The Top 5. No Class 6. The Hammer 7. Metropolis 8. Leavin' Here 9. Jailbait 10 Iron Horse 11. Fire Fire 12. Too Late Too Late 13. Fast And Loose Disc 2 14. Dead Men Tell No Tales 15. We Are The Road Crew 16. Capricorn 17. Train Kept A Rollin' 18. Bite The Bullet 19. The Chase Is Better Than The Catch 20. Overkill 21. White Line Fever 22. Bomber 23. Motorhead