Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Journey: 2006-07-29 Dallas, TX (FLAC_Bootradr Master AUD_2 CD)

Here's another show I recorded over 7 years ago and it has been in very low circulation.  This is one I'd sort of lost in the sea of hard drives.  And there are many other uncirculated shows and recordings I've recorded too of Journey and other bands that were "when I can see better" or "when I have time" projects that never got completed.  These are all gems to me because I was there recording them.  But they're also pains in the butt when trying to locate and determine, confirm, research, and whatever else is entailed in getting shows ready and making sure they're not already out there too.

This is a unique show because it was Journey with their new "temporary" singer.  Every time I think of this show I think of the lyrics to Journey's "Edge of the Blade" song that say "I've heard rumors all around, contracts and lawyers, champagne downtown, tell me me what you think you want me to do...".  Well, I've heard stories and rumors from people that supposedly know and from people who were actually a part of the transitioning stage of Journey's singers spanning from Steve Augeri, to Jeff Scott Soto (this concert's singer), to the current singer Arenel Pineda.  And no matter what story I've heard or what the truth is, Journey wasn't being nice it sounds like to their singers as they were trying to keep, find, replace, or whatever them.  But, since this is not something I care to get into or can say with 100% certainty is the truth, I'm not going to spread any rumors myself.

Anyhow, in this show that was more or less halfway through the tour, Journey's singer Steve Augeri was gone and Jeff Scott Soto, a name I'd never heard, was in.  I was not expecting much as we arrived at the show, but man, I was pleasantly surprised.  Jeff Scott Soto did an awesome job.  And then he was gone as soon as the tour ended.  There are other fan recorded shows with Jeff Scott Soto singing with Journey, but there aren't too many.

LINEAGE:
(1. 2006) Sony MD70 recorder @ 44.1 kHz, 16 bit WAV audio with a Sony ECM-917 external microphone > transferred to PC via an analog (stereo) cable (no digital output on recorder) > tracked with fade in/outs and named using Easy Media Creator 5 > burned to my master CD-R's & stored on external PC hard drive in WAV format >
(2. 2013-12-31) Master WAV files stored on hard drive > Trader's Little Helper (for md5 and ffp file creation, testing for MPEG and SBE's...neither found, for encoding to FLAC 6, and for torrent files creation and verification > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: July 29th, 2006
Location: Dallas, Texas
Venue: Smirnoff Music Centre
Source: AUD Master
Format: FLAC
CDs: 2
Artwork: No (Just my ticket scan...feel free to make some high resolution art and share it here)
Label: Bootradr Master
Title: A Journey Without A Steve
Size: 516 MB
Length: 79.57.72

SETLIST:
01. Star Spangled Banner
02.
Stone In Love
03. Ask The Lonely
04. Wheel In The Sky
05. Keep On Runnin'
06. Edge Of The Blade
07. Who's Crying Now
08. Chain Reaction
09. Lights
10.
Jonathan Cain piano intro into Open Arms
11. Open Arms
12.
Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
13. Escape
14. Dead Or Alive
15. Faithfully
16. Don't Stop Believin'

17. Anyway You Want It
18.
Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)

LINK:
(1) 2006-07-29 Dallas, TX (Bootradr Master AUD)

Dime Torrent - http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=477170
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.  Go to http://www.dimeadozen.org for their home page.  And remember to keep your sharing ratio at 0.25% or higher so as to not get banned.  It's a much faster download almost always!  Now, back to the original blog post.


This was the Def Leppard and Journey tour and I did record both shows of course. My buddy, Digital Journey, some other friends, and I went to this show and it is the first show I've seen Journey being the opening band in. They've always been the headlining act, but in this case, Def Leppard was.

I had forgotten all about Deen Castronovo singing "Who's Crying Now" and "Faithfully" in this show. These are two songs I don't think he ever sang live, before or after this half tour with Jeff Scott Soto on lead vocals, in any of the many other Journey shows I've seen. Since 2004 I believe, Deen, Journey's drummer by the way, has performed the lead vocals on just a few of the higher note songs from the earlier Steve Perry era that Journey rarely ever plays.  Deen was singing the 1981 Escape song "Still They Ride" in 2009 and and the 1980 Departure song "Precious Time" in 2004 I know.  But I'd never heard him sing the 1981 Escape album's "Who's Crying Now" or the 1983 Frontiers album's "Faithfully".  These more well known hits have always (at least in the past and through 2012) been performed by the band's lead singer.  Deen may sing more songs in this show?  I just caught these two songs as I was preparing this upload and it has been too many years since I've listened to this show (I plan to today once again) all the way through.


I hope you enjoy this more rare era of Journey, a short-lived era with Jeff Scott Soto on vocals, and there will be more to follow as I get time to put them up.  Happy New Year...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL & MERCHANDISE TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!

Sunday, December 29, 2013

Journey: 2001-08-10 Mountain View, CA (FLAC_AUD DAT Master_2 CD)

This is an excellent sounding master audience recording from Journey's 2001 tour.  I don't think this is the first time it has been shared (but I don't know for sure), but it is definitely the first time I have heard or seen it anywhere.  I wanted to bring the highs up just a tiny bit and make it sound a little sharper, but I decided to leave it alone and just upload it at is.  Since a few traders get upset about someone doing something like that anyhow, and since the person sharing it didn't have any way to private message or reach them available like most do, I decided against messing with it.  Besides, it really doesn't need any work.  It already sounds like an excellent recording as it is.

LINEAGE:
Neumann KM140s > EAA PSP/2 > Sony SBM-1 > DAT lineage: DAT master > computer > r8brain PRO > CD Wav > TLH >FLAC 16

Artist: Journey
Location: Mountain View, California

Venue: Shoreline Amphitheatre
Date: August 10th, 2001
Label: None
Title: None
CD's: 2
Source: AUD

Artwork: No (I did find some artwork from a totally different source and for a mini disc recording of the show after uploading the files...it doesn't match the tracking exactly for this source but is better than nothing...see image at the bottom of this post and it can be saved to a PC)
Size: 573 MB

SETLIST:

01. Anyway You Want It
02. Only The Young

03. Stone In Love
04. I Got A Reason
05. Send Her My Love

06. Lights
07. When You Love A Woman
08. Feeling That Way
09. Anytime
10. Higher Place
11. Chain Reaction
12. Don't Stop Believin'
13. Faithfully
14. Livin' To Do
15. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
16. Escape
17. Wheel In The Sky
18. Be Good To Yourself
19. All Over Now
20. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'

LINKS:
(1) 2001-08-10 Mountain Biew, CA (AUD Master)
(2) 2001-08-10 Mountain Biew, CA (AUD Master)

I've listened to a number of the tracks as I was doing things around the house tonight, and from what I heard, there is hardly any crowd noise.  You do not hear conversations to the left or right, some drunk yelling something vocally unintelligible, and things like that.  Now I'm not saying there is definitely not any of that in there because I haven't listened to the complete show yet.  But from the 40 - 50 minutes out of the approximately 1 hour, 42 minute recording; I didn't hear anything like that.  That's half of what makes this recording so clean.

I'm not adding or taking anything from this file set in order to save some time.  It was a torrent shared on Dime by "shnxfer4" and I left the files intact as they were.  Well, OK now.  I don't want to lie.  There was a second md5 checksum (probably from the first time I think it was shared) file in the download.  And after checking all files with Trader's Little Helper (TLH), it was not a used file and I removed it.  But that hardly counts!  I just zipped it up and started uploading it after checking the files in order to speed up the process of making this upload tonight.

If you like Journey, you should like this show...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL & MERCHANDISE TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Journey: 1978-06-10 Passaic, NJ (Pro Shot DVD)

After 15+ years of waiting, this show has finally surfaced!  This was the first Journey live recording I ever got on audio and it was incomplete and not very good (audio-wise) sounding.  A few years back, I got a single, lossy video clip of one song from this show.  And after that, I knew it was only a matter of time before the show would hopefully surface.  It's been in Wolfgang's Vault (a.k.a. Bill Graham's vault) for who knows how many years and now it is free!

LINEAGE:
Unknown/no information given > TLH (for creating and testing files uploaded) > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: June 10th, 1978
Location: Passaic, New Jersey
Venue: Capitol Theatre
Title: Journey Passaic 1978

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: Yes (low resolution CD style art)
DVD Length: 1 hour, 14 minutes, 16 seconds
DVD Size: 4.30 GB

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: PAL
Type: B&W
Resolution: 720 x 576
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 25 fps
Bitrate: 9640 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2
Letterbox: no

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 192 kbps
Codec: AC3
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

SETLIST:
01. Wolfgang's Vault intro
02. WNEW FM introduction (setting up for live FM broadcast)
03. La Do Da
04. Feeling That Way/Anytime
05. band talking
06. On A Saturday Night
07. Winds Of March
08. Wheel In The Sky
09. You're On Your Own
10. WNEW FM comments
11. She Makes Me (Feel Alright)
12. band leaves stage/WNEW FM comments/band back on stage
13. Patiently/Opened The Door/WNEW FM comments
14. WNEW comments/Lights
15. WNEW FM closing comments

FileFactory Links:
Part 1 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/11f3uewponip/
Part 2 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/596rwbvmz5un/
Part 3 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/49unmr04tzz3/
Part 4 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/6qpugwyuso1t/
Part 5 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/3hzq8dcegg1p/
Part 6 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/66kht1eihzi5/
Part 7 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/5u3mqqq7dm51/
Part 8 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/2outzph20a6l/
Part 9 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/240xmqb3imbj/

Whoever put this DVD together didn't know Journey's songs very well.  The titles are incorrect (like "Feelin' That Way Too" instead of "Feeling That Way" which is correct) on a few songs and the chapter marks are horrible.  There are a few songs that did not get tracked individually as they should have so it leaves you with two songs and other things like WNEW comments on a few chapters.  Still, I'm not complaining.  I'm just stating the facts.  I may rebuild this DVD in the future and do it correctly?

Why this is a PAL formatted DVD is beyond me too?  Since this was an American concert and filmed in the NTSC (29.97 fps) format is should have not been converted to PAL.  This means the source, the NTSC formatted video, is still out there.  The only big difference this will make to viewers in America, Japan, and other countries using the NTSC video format is that viewers in non PAL regions will need a region free DVD player (I bought one a good while back) or they'll have to play the DVD via their Play Station or whatever gaming machines also play the PAL formatted discs.  I think they all play them, but not being a gamer, I cannot tell you for sure which might not.  Any computer CD/DVD drive should play it normally too.  Again, if I decide to rebuild this DVD, I'll be converting it back to the NTSC format as it originally was filmed in.

One last note I want to mention is this is a black and white video.  It is NOT in color.  But this was very common at Passaic's Capitol Theatre through the 1970's just like it was at Bill Graham's Fillmore West in the earlier 1970's.  In fact, I almost wonder if Bill Graham's crew filmed this show because there is one camera that has a tiny spot on it that video doesn't pass through.  It was probably burned into the camera just the same way plasma HDTV's, old DOS days PC screens, etc did if an image was left on the screen too long and no screen saver was used.  I've heard of pixels in cameras going bad and that might be the case too?  This also may just be a common problem with older black and white cameras too?  Every black and white Fillmore West show video (one of Bill Graham's venues) has this smae spot/burned out pixels area in it.  Either way, it's not a big deal and you might not even have noticed it had I not mentioned it.

So kick back, turn up the sound, and take a Journey back in time...and enjoy it too...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL & MERCHANDISE TOO.KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!


Friday, December 13, 2013

Blondie: 1977-09-21 San Francisco, CA (FLAC_SB/Pre-FM_Both Shows_2 CD)

Here's an excellent KSAN FM pre-FM source recording of two Blondie shows from 1977 and on the same day.  This was to be a KSAN FM broadcast over the FM airwaves at some point.  This is both shows from the venue this day in 1977.  It also contains the soundcheck from before the first show.

LINEAGE:
CD-R > dAmp Music Converter > FLAC Frontend > me > TLH (to check for SBE's...none found)

DETAILS:
Artist: Blondie
Date: September 21st, 1977
Location: San Francisco, California
Venue: Old Waldorf
Source: SB/Pre-FM
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No (date on sample image below is wrong)
Title: none
Size: 740 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
Soundcheck Tracks 101 - 108
101. Warm-up
102. In The Sun
103. Cautious Lip (abort)
104. Cautious Lip
105. Kidnapper
106. Kidnapper (take 2)
107. Playing With Fire (abort)
108. Playing With Fire

First Show Starts
109. Warm-up
110. My Obsession
111. Kung Fu Girl
112. In The Sun
113. Little Girl Lies
114. You Look Good In Blue
115. Man Overboard
116. In The Flesh
117. Shark In Jet's Clothing
118. Rifle Range
119. Detroit 442
120. X-Offender
121. Rip Her To Shreds
122. band intros
123. Funtime
124. Kidnapper
125. Exit

Second Show Starts
201. X-Offender
202. Youth Nabbed As Sniper
203. Fan Mail
204. Cautious Lip
205. I'm On E
206. Detroit 442
207. I Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No
208. Bermuda Triangle Blues
209. (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear
210. Contact In Red Square
211. Shark In Jet's Clothing
212. In The Sun
213. Heart Full Of Soul
214. Playing With Fire
215. Moonlight Drive

FileFactory Links:
Part 1 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/6bl3y7yysoop/
Part 2 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/48a39cer8bxr/

I left the original uploader's fileset intact and changed nothing.  This is just how I got it.  There is reportedly a "remastered version" out there, but why this recording needed to be remastered is beyond me.  It is excellent/superb sounding and complete.  I think the remastered version was done on an earlier copy, not as pristine as this one I'm uploading, and that was probably why it was done a while back.  Even though I do not have the remastered copy, I do believe this one will be much better that it was at the time it was shared.

I hope you enjoy the recording...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL & MERCHANDISE TOO.KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!


Wednesday, December 11, 2013

SPECIAL NOTICE: Here We Go Again!!! Hotfile Shut Down By US Governmement

2015-01-14 UPDATE: Hot file had been doing and allowing illegal materials on the website so that is why they were shut down.  I still have a ton of Hotfile links in my older posts, but as I get to them I delete them.  You just never really know what your file sharing site is doing or allowing in reality.  If you have a reason to be suspicious of a site, which I did NOT at the time I signed up for a Premium Account on Hotfile, I recommend not ever getting a paid account with that site.  I'm looking at other mirror sites still and hope to eventually have another site or two for using as mirrors and uploading the shows to also.  But things are tight lately, so I have no idea when this might be or even if it will be.

This is really getting old!  It appears that the United States government has shut down Hotfile for whatever reasons not explained on Hotfile's website.  Wheter Hotfile was doing anything illegal or not, I don't know right now.  But they have been shut down and that means all of my Hotfile links will no longer work.  Keep your fingers crossed they don't shut down all file sharing sites.

I'm going out of town for a while and will look into another backup file sharing site once I get home.  But until then, I no longer have a backup site.  I'm sorry for the inconvenience and I'm ticked by either the federal government's ignorance or by Hotfile letting illegal material (copyrighted I'm guessing) on their site.

I make zero dollars with this site, I block advertising, and I ask for no money ever.  So, not being a person who can just pick a new site every time one gets shut down, it may be a while before I can budget a new backup site in?

But one thing is for sure.  Nothing will ever stop me or the many other legal sharing traders/collectors from continuing on.  We will continue sharing and trading even if we have to go back to doing it by mail in the long run...

Bootradr
2013-12-11