Journey: 2008-07-27 Dallas, TX (FLAC_AUD Bootradr Master_2 CD)

Here's another Journey show from 4 years ago in two days (change things up a little...I cannot find my 2008-07-25 Journey and Heart San Antonio masters at this time).

This is a great sounding show and the first tour with Journey's newest singer Arnel Pineda.  This was one of the best live shows my Journey bootleg friend and I had seen as far as the sound and performance in some time.  We had gone to this show thinking we really weren't too sure about this new singer.  But man, he pulled of his role excellently and it was and incredible performance and night.

Cheap Trick was the opening band, with Heart (wow, they were excellent) following, and then Journey was the main act.  We were running behind because my friend had to get off work and we knew we were cutting it close.  And as fate would have it, and no thanks to traffic getting to the venue, we were hearing Cheap Trick's set from the parking lot and made it to our seats as they were finishing the last song of their set.  Oh well, there really wasn't anything we could've done about that.

Cheap Trick sounded really good walking into the show.  And then when Ann and Nancy Wilson, otherwise known as Heart, hit the stage, they completely blew my mind.  These girls sounded like they were playing and singing at the same skill levels they had when they began.  They were awesome.  And the band knew how to play the music right.  I did get their show recorded too.  This was my second time seeing Heart, the first being two days earlier (or 4 years ago today) in San Antonio.  They were excellent in San Antonio, but the Dallas show was an even better show.

And then came Journey.  As I mentioned, we had doubts about Arnel.  But he and the rest of the band put those doubts to rest that night and they played a high energy, super show.

So, lets get this show on the road (or web) :-)

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: July 27th, 2008
Location: Dallas, Texas
Venue: Superpages.com Amphitheatre
Source: AUD Master
Format: FLAC
CD: 2
Artwork: Yes (thanks Steve7711 for creating such great artwork!  I added my tickets scans too)
Label: Bootradr Master
Title: A New Journey
Size: 689 MB
Quality: A

LINEAGE:
(1. 2008) Master Zoom H2 digital recorder @ 44.1 kHz, 16 bit WAV audio > transferred to PC via 2 GB SD card > tracked with fade in/outs and named using Roxio Creator Pro 9 > burned to master CD-Rs >
(2. 2012) Master CD-Rs > Roxio Creator Pro 2010 for converting to FLAC > Trader's Little Helper > you

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Majestic
102. Change For The Better
103. Only The Young
104. Neal Schon (guitar solo)
105. Stone In Love
106. Ask The Lonely
107. After All These Years
108. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
109. Change For The Better
110. Lights
111. Jonathan Cain (solo/intro into Open Arms)
112. Open Arms

CD 2:
201. Faithfully
202. Rubicon
203. Wildest Dream
204. Don't Stop Believin'
205. Jonathan Cain & Neal Schon (solo)
206. Wheel In The Sky
207. Anyway You Want It
208. crowd (encore)
209. Escape
210. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'

Hotfile Links:
Part 1 - https://hotfile.com/dl/200149458/cc74077/
Part 2 - https://hotfile.com/dl/200157360/d667e80/

FileFactory Mirror Links:
Part 1 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/4jhqk21p4oez/
Part 2 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/5w355l6cqqy1/

Dime torrent -  http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=414287&edited=1
NOTE: I created a torrent and posted it on Dime.  If your a Dime member, you'll know what to do.  If not, sign up for a free account and READ THE RULES.  Keep your sharing ratio at 0.25% or higher so as to not get banned.  It's a much faster download almost always!  Here's the link...and back to the original blog post now.

We learned our lesson, but were still learning the Zoom H2 workings at the San Antonio show, and we had the record level set correctly this time.  Nowadays, I use the Zoom H2 as a backup, secondary recorder and the Zoom H4n as the primary recorder.  And I do not record at the 44.1 kHz, 16 bit audio rate anymore.  In this show it wasn't a problem.  But I learned, from other show recordings with slightly distorted audio due to the Zoom H2's preset "Hi, Med, Lo" record level settings, to always record at the highest audio rate (on this unit it is 96 Khz, 24 bit I think) to help avoid this problem.  And then I convert the audio to the CD standard 44.1 kHz, 16 bit audio.  The Zoom H4n has from 0% to 100%+ recording gain, but playing with it can be tricky too.  My next digital recorder (after winning the lottery) will be the Roland R-26.

Anyways, I hope anyone downloading the show enjoys it (almost) as much as we did being there live...

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