Bootradr's Blind Boot Blog

This is the place for free live concerts and rare audio/video recordings. All posts are NOT officially released material. Nothing is for sale and everything is for free downloading & sharing only. My favorites are Led Zeppelin, Journey, and Feist. But you will find so much more too as this blog progresses because I love music! This site will primarily be a FLAC audio and DVD sharing site with a few rare exceptions. Thank you, and enjoy the show... Bootradr

Monday, June 30, 2014

Led Zeppelin: 1970-03-27 Los Angeles, CA (FLAC_AUD Source 2 & 1 Mix_2 CD)

This is a source 2 and source 1 mix of the show I've uploaded source 1 & 2 of independently. I start off in the title with "Source 2" due to the fact it is the primary source for this mix. Source 1 is used to fill in the missing songs not on source 2. I have a sneaky suspicion that the missing tracks from source 2 likely exist but have never been publicly shared (they're being hoarded). Of course, I have no proof of this and it's just something I think. But who goes to a Led Zeppelin show and doesn't record "Bring It On Home", "Since I've Been Loving You", or any songs they have the tape to record?

I'm going with the EVSD mix here for a few reasons. Even though it looks like they've clipped some audio in their amplification of the show, it does have a better sound and the channels seem to be balanced. I was comparing the EVSD version to the non-clipped audio on the Cyanine label's The Four Survivors and the Cyanine version just isn't as good sounding to me. Cyanine uses the source 2 recording as the main audio with the patched audio being source 1. From what I understood on the EVSD Everybody Feel Alright release being uploaded here, it was suppose to be using source 1 as the main audio with source 2 being the patched audio. But it doesn't seem to be the case. Source 2 seems to be the primary audio on both releases with source 1 still being used as the patched audio.

LINEAGE:
EVSD silver CD's > EAC (ripped to WAV) > TLH (encoded as FLAC 8) > me > TLH (to decode as WAV and test for lossiness) > Audacity (to embed metadata/song titles and info into files and re-encode) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to reconfirm project is error free and to create and verify new md5 & ffp files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: March 27th, 1970
Location: Inglewood, California
Venue: The Forum
Source: AUD (Source 2 Main & Source 1 Patch)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (full scans in download)
Label: EVSD
Title: Everybody Feel Alright?
Size: 848 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. introduction
102. We're Gonna Groove
103. Dazed And Confused
104. Heartbreaker
105. Bring It On Home
106. White Summer/Black Mountain Side
107. Since I've Been Loving You
108. John Paul Jones (organ solo intro)
109. Thank You

CD 2:
201. What Is And What Should Never Be
202. Moby Dick
203. How Many More Times
204. Whole Lotta Love
205. Communication Breakdown

LINKS:
(1) 1970-03-27 Inglewood, CA (EVSD Source 2 & 1 Mix)
(2) 1970-03-27 Inglewood, CA (EVSD Source 2 & 1 Mix)

Dime Torrent - Download Here
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.

I should have at least two other recordings of this show not available right now (until I can get 6 TB of data restored and find them). I also have an old trade day's 1990's CD-R copy too that is likely source 1. But the effort and time it'll take to look for the CD-R copy is not what I'm willing to spend right now and I doubt it'd be any better than what I'm uploading too.

I hope you enjoy the concert...

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 TOO.

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

Led Zeppelin: 1970-03-27 Los Angeles, CA (FLAC_AUD Source 2, 2nd Gen Reel_2 CD)

I uploaded the source 1 recording of this same show yesterday. It is a longer length recording but doesn't sound as good (a general consensus) as this source 2 recording. Source 2 is not a superb sounding source itself. But it does have a more full range sound in it and it has more lower frequencies present adding to a more natural (bass) sound.

As far as I have read and know, there are just two sources for this show that have surfaced over the years. I'd thought there were a few more. But it turn out all of the other recordings are really just compilations and mixes of these two sources.

I personally like both sources. I like to hear the music of Led Zeppelin even if it doesn't sound like it was created in a studio. I enjoy the raw, recorded atmosphere of the band and their live shows. Some may think source 1 sounds better than source 2 and vice versa. You have to be your own judge of which you like better. And that's one reason I'm putting up source 2 right now...so you can compare.

Source 2 is missing a few songs in it that Source 1 has. "Bring It On Home", "White Summer", "Black Mountain Side", and "Since I've Been Loving You" are not on this source 2 recording. And that brings me to my next point. I'll likely upload the source 2 (primary audio) and source 1 (filler/missing audio) mix next. It makes for a much more complete show. I have at least two renditions of the two sources mix, and after comparing them closely, I'll upload what I think is the better of the two probably.

LINEAGE:
Source 2 master reel > reel-to-reel > Sound Forge (for channel balancing and track splitting) > Flac Frontend (for encoding as FLAC 6) > sector boundaries aligned and verified > me > TLH (to decode as WAV and test for lossiness) > Audacity (to embed metadata/song titles and info into files) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to reconfirm project is error free and to create and verify new md5 & ffp files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: March 27th, 1970
Location: Inglewood, California
Venue: The Forum
Source: AUD (Source 2, 2nd Generation)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No
Label: Bill B. (Doinker Remaster)
Title: Live At The LA Forum
Size: 509 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
102. MC intro
102. We're Gonna Groove
102. Dazed And Confused
103. tuneups and talk
104. Heartbreaker
105. talking ("as the sun sets")
106. John Paul Jones (organ solo intro)
108. Thank You
109. talking ("you dropped your camera")
110. What Is And What Should Never Be
111. Moby Dick (middle portion cut)

CD 2:
201. talk and band introductions
202. How Many More Times*
203. Whole Lotta Love*
204. Communication Breakdown

* see "Doinker's" notes below

LINKS:
(1) 1970-03-27 Inglewood, CA (2nd Gen Source 2)
(2) 1970-03-27 Inglewood, CA (2nd Gen Source 2)

Dime Torrent - Download Here
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.

There are some interesting notes from "Doinker" on the songs "How Many More Times" and "Whole Lotta Love" that merit reading. Rather than reword what has already been written (sort of like plagiarism, right?), I'll copy and paste the exact text for you to read.

Doinker's Notes:"What sets this show apart is the fact that the great blues medley has been stripped from "Whole Lotta Love" and is now part of "How Many More Times". Also, there's that organ playing throughout the concert. "WLL" actually includes an organ solo (imagine that one!) During "HMMT", Robert Plant stops the concert dead to lead the audience in a rendition of "I Got You In The Sights Of My Loving Gun". The version of "WLL" is the closest to the album version I've ever heard (but it's not really that close because of the organ)."

To be honest with everyone, I haven't even checked out "Doinker's" statement myself yet. But after I get this show/source uploading, you can bet I will be listening to both "How Many More Times" and "Whole Lotta Love" from source 2 again :-)

And I have one last note to make myself in an effort to keep people happy here. I may use the term "remaster" a little more loosely than some others do? In fact, at times I have a hard time determining what others consider to be a remastering or just a reworking. "Doinker" obviously didn't alter the sound of the audio by EQ'ing it or it would be in the lineage. But he did balance the audio making it even in each channel (left and right channels...your left and right speakers). I do the same thing when it is needed. I consider this to be remastering since it alters the original audio. It is an improvement over the original recording's unbalanced audio and makes for a balanced listening experience. Is this truly a "remaster"? I don't know, but I think it is. So if you disagree, keep this in mind and please don't get offended by our difference in opinion (no matter what the truth is) and complain about it.

The bottom line is that the audio was not equalized (EQ'ed) or altered to sound different than it originally did when it was recorded. But the recording was balanced so each channel is equal in output and it doesn't sound like the left or right side speakers/channel is louder or quieter than the other. It'll help you not fall over to the left or right as you listen too :-)

I hope you enjoy the source 2 recording of the concert...

Bootradr

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Led Zeppelin: 1970-03-27 Los Angeles, CA (FLAC_AUD Source 1, 1st Gen _2 CD)

Here's the great source 1 audience recording of Led Zeppelin's gig on 1970-03-27 in Inglewood, California. I saw that a friend of Zeppelin music was looking for it, I had it fortunately, so I'm uploading it.

There a re a number of sources for this show. This isn't the best sounding source either. But it is the source 1 audio recording of this historic Led Zeppelin concert and I like it too! There are a few Source 1/Source 2 and similar mixes out there. But from my understanding, this is strictly the Source 1 audio and nothing else added or taken away.

LINEAGE:
Source 1 Master > 1st Gen tape > DAT > CD-R > me > TLH (to decode as WAV and test for lossiness) > Audacity (to embed metadata/song titles and info into files) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to reconfirm project is error free and to create and verify new md5 & ffp files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: March 27th, 1970
Location: Inglewood, California
Venue: The Forum
Source: AUD (Source 1, 1st Generation)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Label: None
Title: Enjoy Zep
Size: 650 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. We're Gonna Groove
102. Dazed And Confused
103. Heartbreaker
104. Bring It On Home
105. White Summer/Black Mountain Side
106. Since I've Been Loving You
107. John Paul Jones (organ solo intro)
108. Thank You
109. What Is And What Should Never Be

CD 2:
201. Moby Dick
202. How Many More Times
203. Whole Lotta Love
204. Communication Breakdown
205. crowd

LINKS:
(1) 1970-03-27 Inglewood, CA (1st Gen Source 1)
(2) 1970-03-27 Inglewood, CA (1st Gen Source 1)

Dime Torrent - Download Here
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.

As I mentioned already, this isn't the best sounding source for this date. But it is very enjoyable and a different perspective on being in the audience on this night in 1970. I'll likely add another 1970-03-27 multiple source mix recording that sounds much better and is from different sources of this same show too when I get a chance. I need to compare them again and find what I like best overall :-)

I've created a folder for the original EAC rip log files and put them in there. I don't really have much to add right now, and I'll update if I do. I'll likely listen to this show again for the first time in years as I clean my house today (Sunday). I have to have something give me some 'get up and go" as I clean... :-)

I hope you enjoy the concert...

Bootradr

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Bad English: 1989-10-30 San Diego, CA (FLAC_AUD Master_2 CD)

This is an excellent capture of the Bad English show in San Diego, California in 1989. Thanks goes to Brian Emery for capturing and releasing this show!

For those who aren't familiar with Bad English, they were a band fronted by many Journey members in a time when Journey had disappears (1987) and nobody knew when the next Journey LP was going to happen. Turned out being the next Journey album (or CD) was released in 1996 as the band members reunited to make Trial By Fire.

Bad English had present Journey members Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain in the band as well as future Journey drummer (and current too) Deen Castronovo.

LINEAGE:
AIWA CM-30A > WM-D3 (ANALOG) > TC-WE475 > RCD-W500C W/SBM (Super Bit Mapping) > me > TLH (to decode as WAV and test for lossiness, test original md5 file, and then to check for SBE's) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Bad English
Date: October 30th, 1989
Location: San Diego, California
Venue: Bacchannal
Source: AUD (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Label: Brian Emery Master
Title: None
Size: 485 MB

SETLIST:
01. intro
02. Best Of What I Got
03. Tough Times Don't Last
04. Ghost In Your Heart
05. Heaven Is A 4 Letter Word
06. Price Of Love
07. Rockin' Horse
08. Lay Down
09. Spinning Wheel Of Love
10. Jonathan Cain (keyboard solo)
11. When I See You Smile
12. Forget Me Not
13. Head First
14. Jumping Jack Flash

BAND MEMBERS:
John Waite - Vocals
Neal Schon - Guitars
Ricky Phillips - Bass Guitar
Jonathan Cain - Keyboards
Deen Castronovo - Drums

LINK:
(1) 1989-10-30 San Diego, CA

An earlier transfer had been made by Brian in 1989 as he traded with other traders with it. But this is a fresh transfer (2010) from the master cassette.

I never listened much to Bad English. I knew the songs from the radio, but since the songs didn't sound like Journey songs, I just wasn't too interested in the music. And even today, it really isn't my 'cup of tea' too much. But I do enjoy it a lot more, and with such excellent sound and work by the taper, I'll definitely become more familiar with this recording as I crank it up later this weekend.

Here's a copy and paste of Brian's notes:
"This recording has been circulating since '89 however this version is a new master cassette transfer from my original analog master tape (Feb. 2010).

Here's one from the short lived Bad English. This show was at a club called the Bacchanal which was a pretty nice club except for this show. They packed so many people in there for this it was just crazy. I don't know if the Bacchanal still exists but i saw tons of shows there in the 80's and 90's,in fact it's only one of two places I've been caught taping a show, I got nailed doing Paul Stanley in '89 about 20 minutes into the show, bummer because I've never seen that show in the boot world."

I've not done anything other than test for lossiness, add my "Bootradr's TLH CDDA Test" text file to show the test results, and I checked for any sector boundary errors (SBE's) and there were none. This is an "as is" recording I'm making a fast upload of for anyone interested in it.

I hope you enjoy the concert...

Bootradr

Led Zeppelin: 1977-06-23 Inglewood, CA (FLAC_AUD 1st Gen 2 Sources_3 CD)

Here's a show recently requested here and it is a superb one too. The Inglewood 1977 (LA Forum) shows are likely some of the most bootlegged and duplicated, remastered, etc Led Zeppelin shows out there. There are a lot of versions for each of the 6 nights Led Zeppelin played the LA Forum in 1977. And not only are there a lot of great recordings of them, there are many renditions of those recordings too.

Personally, I've become a fan of the Winston Remasters version of Led Zeppelin shows. They always come from the best lineage and they just seem to be the best sounding remasters out there. There are times where other remasters do sound better to my ears, but in general, the Winston Remasters sound the best to me. And this show is no exception!

The two sources for this version of the June 23, 1977 (just 5 day over 37 years ago today) show are the primary Mike Millard source used for most of the audio and the filler Eddie Edwards source used to fill in the gaps and the first few songs of the concert Millard didn't get recorded. Both sources are excellent too.

LINEAGE:
*(1) Main - Millard master > HiFi VHS > remaster > **(2) first 4 songs and patching - Eddie Edwards "Trampled Underfoot" 1st Gen cassette of vinyl transfer > FLAC > remaster (sources digitally enhanced with various audio programs) > me > TLH (to decode as WAV and test for lossiness) > Audacity (to embed metadata/song titles and info into files and re-encode) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to reconfirm project is error free and to create and verify md5 & ffp files) > you

* Primary audio source (Millard)
** Secondary/patch audio source (Edwards)

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 23rd, 1977
Location: Inglewood, California
Venue: LA Forum
Source: AUD (two 1st Gen sources)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes
Label: Winston Remasters
Title: Mike The Mike - Tribute Series - LA Forum 6/23/77
Size: 1.17 GB

SETLIST:
CD 1
101. The Song Remains The Same
102. Sick Again
103. Nobody's Fault But Mine
104. Over The Hills And Far Away
105. Since Ive Been Loving You
106. No Quarter

CD 2
201. Ten Years Gone
202. Battle Of Evermore
203. Going To California
204. Black Country Woman
205. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
206. White Summer
207. Black Mountain Side
208. Kashmir
209. Trampled Underfoot

CD 3
301. Over The Top
302. Jimmy Page (guitar/violin bow solo)
303. Achilles Last Stand
304. Stairway To Heaven
305. Whole Lotta Love
306. Rock And Roll

LINKS:
(1) 1977-06-23 Inglewood, CA (Winston)
(2) 1977-06-23 Inglewood, CA (Winston)
(3) 1977-06-23 Inglewood, CA (Winston)

Dime Torrent - Download Here
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.

The one thing I really like about this specific upload is the high end frequencies and clarity in the recording that can heard. On the acoustic set, starting on CD 2, you can really hear the guitar picking and Plant's voice too much more sharply and clearly than on the other 10 or so versions I was comparing it to. There is a noticeably cleaner sound on the high end of the recording.

Over all, this is a superb audience recording too. Both Edwards and Millard did great jobs of recording live shows (known for Zeppelin shows). Their dedication to perfection is the primary reason these shows are so popular and sought after.

There are tons of Led Zeppelin shows out there. There are a lot of bad sounding recordings, good sounding recordings, and fewer excellent-to-superb sounding recordings. But the Millard recordings that have resurfaced over the last few years in their altered and unaltered (by Millard) forms are by far some of the best recordings to date. It took a long time after Millard's death in the early 1990's for these to surface in such a low generation form. And many of the ones that had surfaced in years gone by were put out by labels that tend to remaster/rework the audio in ways that degraded the sound quality too. Over amplifying and clipping audio is not how it's done. But a lot of labels have done just that and then did a bad EQ job to top it off. So if you're still listening to you 1990's CD of a show like this, put it in the case and give the better sounding copy (these) a try. I bet you will start gathering dust on the case of your old copy when it comes to revisiting the LA Forum shows in the future.

I hope you enjoy the concert...

Bootradr

Friday, June 27, 2014

Journey: 2001-08-18 Chula Vista, CA (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

This is an excellent Journey recording from the band's Arrival Tour in 2001. This show was from the night before they played Houston (The Woodlands) and it was nearing the end of their 2001 tour...or so they thought. About three weeks later 9/11 happened and the band was the headline act for a Volunteers for America show in Atlanta, Georgia and in Dallas, Texas. The concerts had many artists performing in an effort to raise money for the victims of the terrorist attacks on America.

I haven't had a chance to listen to this show completely through yet, but from what I've heard, I liked it. It's great to hear the earlier, post Steve Perry, shows with Steve Augeri on vocals. Plus, there are a few songs you normally don't hear or possibly even know unless you bough the officially released Arrival CD when it was released.

LINEAGE:
CD trade (Mitsui silvers) > dBpowerAmp (to encode as FLAC 8) > me > TLH (to decode as WAV and test for lossiness) > Audacity (to embed metadata/song titles and info into files and re-encode) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to reconfirm project is error free and to create and verify md5 & ffp files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: August 18th, 2001
Location: Chula Vista, California
Venue: Coors Amphitheatre
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (that's to "tupchurch for the artwork!)
Label: Rubicon Reproductions (artwork only)
Title: Been Around The World (artwork only)
Size: 685 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Any Way You Want It
102. Only The Young/Amazing Grace (Neal Schon guitar solo)
103. Stone In Love
104. Ask The Lonely
105. Kiss Me Softly
106. Lights
107. Open Arms
108. Feeling That Way
109. Anytime
110. Higher Place

CD 2:
201. Chain Reaction
202. Don't Stop Believin'
203. Faithfully
204. Nothin' Comes Close
205. Escape
206. Wheel In The Sky
207. Be Good To Yourself
208. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
209. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'

LINKS:
(1) 2001-08-18 Chula Vista, CA
(2) 2001-08-18 Chula Vista, CA

The person who shared this show said they got it from the taper that had recorded it. They didn't seem to know any details such as equipment used, transferring methods, or the true lineage. But if I had to guess, I'd bet this was either recorded with a DAT recorder or possibly a mini disc reorder with an external microphone. It has a "DAT feel" to me but I really do not know.

When looking at the waveform, it appears the original taper of the show did a great job of not clipping audio throughout most of the show too (a common and easy mistake to make). It looks as if they have a small, likely unnoticeable amount of clipping on the first disc and that was probably because they were adjusting their recording gear to the right levels. But as far as the overall show goes, it does sound excellent and the band put on a great show this night too.

I hope you enjoy the concert...

Bootradr

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Boston: 2014-06-18 Allen, X (FLAC_AUD Master_2 CD)

Here's an excellent capture of the Boston show in the Dallas/Fort Worth area by "whotapes" about a week ago. Boston has always been a band I have loved a lot. And even though I've collected as many shows as I could find of them (past and present), there just aren't as many shows available from their earlier years due to the history of the band. And the earlier years (1976 - 1979) are my favorite years for their live concerts too.

After Brad Delp's 2008 death, I wasn't expecting to hear much more of Boston other than through live recordings of past shows. But they did come back and sound and play great even today. The YouTube found singer, Tommy DeCarlo, does a great job of pulling off the songs with the Brad Delp style and sound. While no band still around today that made it through the 1970's can ever sound as good as they did in their heyday, Boston comes as close to doing it as the best of them do.

LINEAGE:
SP-CMC-08s HyperCard elements > SP-SB1(no bass roll-off) > Zoom H4n (recorded @ 44 kHz/16 bit WAV) > HDD > Goldwave (to split files) > Traders Little Helper (FLAC 7) > me > you

Taper's Seating: Section 106 Row E

DETAILS:
Artist: Boston
Date: June 18th, 2014
Location: Allen, Texas
Venue: Allen Event Center
Source: AUD (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No
Label: whotapes
Title: None
Size: 669 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Rock And Roll Band
102. Smokin'
103. Feelin' Satisfied
104. Last Day Of School
105. Life, Love & Hope
106. Peace Of Mind
107. Cool The Engines
108. Surrender To Me
109. Don't Look Back
110. Something About You
111. Amanda

CD 2:
201. The Launch
202. More Than A Feeling
203. instrumental jam
204. To Be A Man
205. Walk On-Get Organ-ized - Walk On (Some More)
206. Get Organ-ized
207. Walk On (Some More)
208. Foreplay/Longtime
219. band introductions
210. I Think I Like It
211. Party

LINKS:
(1) 2014-06-18 Allen, TX
(2) 2014-06-18 Allen, TX

Boston put on a spectacular sounding show this night. They seem to be able to maintain their "old sound" better than a lot of bands can nowadays. I've yet to see Boston, not by choice, and they are one of the top bands I want to see in my life too. I've never been able to get anyone to go, and being legally blind and unable to drive, it really sucks that I can't get any friends to be interested enough to go see them. When did everyone get so old? Anyhow, I have more than a feeling that I will see them and the next time they're in my area too. So enough about that!

I'm making no changes to this upload in an effort to still save time and be able to upload a show before my day begins. So other than the "Bootradr's TLH CDDA Test" text file showing no lossiness (and I checked for SBE's too), this upload is another "as is" upload.

I hope you enjoy "whotapes" trip to Boston in Dallas/Fort Worth. I did...

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 TOO.

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

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

The Eagles: 1978-08-19 Chicago, IL (FLAC_AUD Master? Remaster_2 CD)

Here's a great recording of a show from almost 36 years ago by The Eagles. The show was shared about six months ago by someone claiming it was from the master cassette. However, this may or may not be correct?

In a very recent remastering/reworking of the earlier shared files, the fan doing the work noted they were confident this recording came off of the liberated bootleg LP for this show. The person doing the recent reworking of the audio noted there were definite needle pops at certain places throughout the show. While they removed the clicks/pops, they stated they believed this was from an LP and not the master cassette tapes. Since I don't know either way, I'm only stating what has been said. And either way, this is a great capture of the Chicago concert The Eagles put on and it sounds even better after being reworked by a fan.

LINEAGE:
(1) 2014-01-08 Original "slick2007" Torrent Stated Lineage (copy & paste):
ANALOG MASTER RB
Recorder: RS 646DS
Tape: Maxell UD-C-90
Mics: Teac ME-80 (Nak cm300)
Played back on Rotel RD-870 calibrated speed and alignment > Pre-amp: Naim 52
CDR Recorder (Stand Alone): Tascam CDR-2000
CDR: Taiyo Yuden Gold 74-ZY
PC Drive: UltraPlex40max SCSI
EAC > FLAC > To You Guys, enjoy, RB

(2) 2014-06-23 "kingrue" Reworked Torrent Stated Lineage (copy & paste):
I took the original Flac's and converted them back to Wav. Reworked the audio and converted back to FLAC using TLH.

Sector Boundary Aligned and FLAC Level 8 > Dime 6/23/14

Upon closer inspection there are undeniable needle pops at these locations.

Track 03 @ 0:39 mark
Track 04 @ 3:40 mark
Track 07 @ 0:11 mark (most likely needle pop)
Track 11 @ 0:11 mark

I don't believe that these are hand claps or mic bumps. I have a strong suspicion that this was sourced from a Liberated Boot LP.

DETAILS:
Artist: The Eagles
Date: August 19th, 1978
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Venue: Comiskey Park
Source: AUD (Master?)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No
Label: Kingrue Re-worked
Title: None
Size: 324 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Hotel California
102. Walk Away
103. Victim Of Love
104. Doolin-Dalton
105. Desperado
106. Keep On Tryin'
107. Lyin' Eyes
108. One Of These Nights
109. Turn To Stone

CD 2:
201. Already Gone
202. Witchy Woman
203. Life's Been Good
204. Life In The Fast Lane
205. Rocky Mountain Way
206. Take It Easy
207. James Dean
208. Tequila Sunrise

LINK:
(1) 1978-08-19 Chicago, IL

I'm not doing anything different with the original reworked files. Since they've been named already, I'm just uploading the shared file set as is. Do to a couple of jobs I'm working on and trying to finish up, I really don't have a lot of time to do the extras I like to normally do when I upload a show. I have checked and confirmed the file set integrity, of course, and I saved the "Bootradr's TLH CDDA Test" text file showing the results in this upload. But other than that, I'm only sharing what I got.

I hope you enjoy the concert...

Bootradr

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Journey: 1979-06-09 Passaic, NJ (FLAC_SB/FM_2 CD)

It's been a couple of weeks since I've had a chance to upload anything. And even though I'm putting up a show right now, I'm still in a busy cycle over here and it may be a few more weeks before I can start uploading more shows.

I can't believe I haven't uploaded this one before. In fact, I'm still wondering if I've missed it somehow and have uploaded it?

Either way, this is an excellent copy from the master cassette someone used to record this 1979 Journey show as it was being broadcast over the air by radio station WNEW FM. And it is, as always from Journey, a superb performance too!

LINEAGE:
FM radio broadcast > master FM off-air recorded cassette tape > EQ'ed > FLAC > me > TLH (to decode as WAV and test for lossiness) > Audacity (to embed metadata/song titles and info into files and re-encode) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to reconfirm project is error free and to create and verify md5 & ffp files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: June 9th, 1979
Location: Passaic, New Jersey
Venue: Capitol Theatre
Source: SB/FM
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (Rubicon Reproduction artwork)
Label: Stulken Remaster
Title: Angels In Passaic
Size: 593 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. WNEW FM intro/Majestic
102. La Do Da
103. Next
104. Feeling That Way
105. Anytime
106. Lights
107. Too Late
108. Kohoutek
109. Winds Of March
110. On A Saturday Night

CD 2:
201. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
202. Do You Recall
203. Just The Same Way
204. Lovin' You Is Easy
205. Wheel In The Sky
206. Patiently
207. Opened The Door
208. Journey interview
209. Budweiser commercial with Journey 1
210. Budweiser commercial with Journey 2

LINKS:
(1) 1979-06-09 Passaic, NJ
(2) 1979-06-09 Passaic, NJ

I've got a few versions of this show, most if not all being recordings of FM radios broadcasts of this concert, and I'm not sure if this is the best version or not at the moment. I picked this one to upload because "Stulken" did the remastering on it and he's done excellent jobs on previous Journey projects. The artwork "Stulken" used was the Rubicon Reproductions artwork for the "Angels in Passaic" titled version. So I'm "assuming" he remastered that title but it wasn't stated in the text file.

I'm not exactly sure, but "Stulken" may be the same person as "Digital Reproductions"? I use to do CD-R trading with Scott G., the guy who ran the Rubicon Reporoductions website. But over the years contact was lost with him. I've tried contacting the "Stulken" Journey fan a time or two over the years, but I never did get a reply from them so I have no idea if they're the same person or not. If anyone out there knows the answer, I'd be interested in knowig myself and would appreciate it if you left a comment letting me know too.

Budweiser was sponsoring Journey on this tour. So needless to say, the Budweiser commercials at the end of CD 2 were two of at least three I have collected that were done by Journey for Budweiser back in 1979 and broadcast over the air during the show's FM broadcast.

I hope you enjoy this excellent Journey show from Passaic, NJ in 1979...

Bootradr

Friday, June 6, 2014

Led Zeppelin: 1970-09-19 New York, NY (FLAC_AUD Source 1 & 2 Mix_Both Afternoon & Evening Shows_ 4 CD)

This is Tarantura's 2000 mix of Source 1 and Source 2 to form a (more) complete show. I believe the majority of the mix is in the first show of the two being uploaded from this day in 1970.

After listening to the second, evening show as I was making my previous post before sunrise yesterday (it will be by the time I post this), which is CD's 3 & 4, I believe that show was one source only. Whatever the case, whatever the source, this is a great-to-excellent 4 CD set of both the afternoon and evening shows on September 19, 1970. And the majority of the sound on both shows is what I call excellent (7-to-9 out of 10). These are my personal ratings and they may not be the same to you. I tend to base my own ratings on more than just sound quality and I let how much I like or enjoy the show enter in. It's not very scientific (or helpful?), but it is what it is.

LINEAGE:
Tarantura 2000 silver CD's > WAV > me > TLH (for CDDA testing & to aligning sector boundaries/fix SBE's*) > Audacity (to embed metadata/song titles and info and encode as FLAC) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to recheck project was error free and to create and verify md5 & ffp files) > you

* I received these CD's in the WAV format originally a number of years back. I believe the person sharing them wasn't sure exactly what to do or how to losslessly compress and encode them and they were likely ripped with a bad CD burning program causing the SBE's and just left in the ripped WAV format. I've had the WAV files on my PC for years. As I was preparing this upload, I finally did all of the things everyone should learn to do to keep the integrity of the music as pure as possible. Every track had sector boundary errors, but with the help of TLH, they easily were fixed. My initial burn of the WAV files was just to get a listen in on the shows. Needless to say, I had a lot of pops and clicks in what I listened to due to the SBE's. But still having the WAV files, I was able to fix the errors from their initial rip yesterday and not have to fix them after a second rip from my snap, crackle, and pop CD's. The version I'm uploading is error free and from the direct WAV files I was given from the initial silver CD's burn, but of course, they're all fixed now.

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: September 19th, 1970
Location: New York, New York
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Source: AUD (both shows)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Label: Tarantura 2000/TMOQ
Title: Have You Ever Experienced?
Size: 1.47 GB

SETLIST:
(1) First/Afternoon Show (CD's 1 & 2)
CD 1:
101. Immigrant Song
102. Heartbreaker
103. Dazed And Confused
104. Bring It On Home
105. That's The Way
106. Bron-Yr-Aur
107. Since I've Been Loving You
108. Thank You (with organ solo into)

CD 2:
201. What Is What Should Never Be
202. Moby Dick
203. Whole Lotta Love
204. Communication Breakdown

(2) Second/Evening Show (CD's 3 & 4)
CD 3:
301. Immigrant Song
302. Heartbreaker
303. Dazed And Confused
304. Bring It On Home
305. That's The Way
306. Bron-Yr-Aur
307. Since I've Been Loving You
308. Thank You (with organ solo into)

CD 4:
401. What Is What Should Never Be
402. Moby Dick
403. Whole Lotta Love
404. Out On The Tiles
405. Communication Breakdown > Gallows Pole
406. The Girl Can't Help It
407. Talking Bout You
408. Twenty Flight Rock
409. How Many More Times

LINKS:
(1) 1970-09-19 MSG Tarantura (Both Shows)
(2) 1970-09-19 MSG Tarantura (Both Shows)
(3) 1970-09-19 MSG Tarantura (Both Shows)

This a great 4 CD set. And yes, as I listened to the first show again (after a few years) as I was coming back to finish this upload, it sounds much better than I remembered as I uploaded Source 3 of the second show yesterday and made some comments about it. It has its brighter moments that sound better than others. But overall, and especially after it gets going a few songs, I really liked hearing how great it does sound (but forgot).

I hope you enjoy this Source 1 & 2 mix version of both of these historic, high energy shows...

Bootradr

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Led Zeppelin: 1970-09-19 New York, NY (FLAC_AUD 1st Gen Remaster_2nd Show_2 CD)

There was a recent request for the second, evening show Led Zeppelin played in Madison Square Garden on September 19, 1970. So here is one of the best sounding copies I believe.

It had been a while since I had last listened to this show and I forgot just how incredible the band's performance was on this night. Not only did they play some unique songs in this show, they played them with high energy. Page plays some superb guitar as he making up the solos live as he's playing them. And some songs have extended parts to them that are even longer than the band's usual extended way of playing them. It's shows like this that really showcase Led Zeppelin's live talent!

I have made the mistake of confusing information and mixing it up between the two shows at Madison Square Garden (MSG) on this day in the past. Here are a few facts I am updating today, 2015-09-18, to kelp sort any information I may still need to correct in my various posts of the shows on this date.

1. There was an afternoon concert and an evening concert on 1970-09-19
2. There were at least two sources that recorded the 1st show in the afternoon. Source 1 is an Eddie Edwards recording and the Source 2 recording is from and unknown taper. Source 1 is the better sounding taping but source 2 is not bad at all either.
3. There is only one source known to exist for the second show and it was recorded by "Darth9neo".

LINEAGE:
Master cassette > open reel > SoundForge > CD > ProTools > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (for CDDA testing and then I deleted WAV files) > TLH (to align sector boundaries on CD 2 and to create and verify md5 & ffp files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: September 19th, 1970
Location: New York, NY
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Source: AUD (Source 2 1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Label: Darth9neo/Presence Remaster
Title: One More For The Road - 2005 Edition
Size: 806 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. intro
102. Immigrant Song
103. Heartbreaker
104. Dazed And Confused
105. Bring It On Home
106. That's The Way
107. Bron-Yr-Aur
108. Since I've Been Loving You
109. JPJ (organ solo intro)
110. Thank You

CD 2:
201. What Is What Should Never Be
202. Moby Dick
203. Whole Lotta Love
204. Out On The Tiles
205. Communication Breakdown > Gallows Pole
206. rock medley
     - The Girl Can't Help It
     - Talking Bout You
     - Twenty Flight Rock
207. How Many More Times

LINKS:
(1) 1970-09-19 MSG Source 2
(2) 1970-09-19 MSG Source 2

Here is what "Darth9neo" had to say about recording this show and editing it back in 2005. I'm just doing a copy & paste of his text from the text file.

Darth9neo wrote:
"I taped this show on a borrowed Bell and Howell cassette recorder, and transferred it the next day to open reel tape. For its time, and the technology used, it is a very good sounding tape. I was in the first 10 rows -- that is, from about the middle of "Immigrant Song." When that song started, I was in the 83rd row.

A few technical details in the spirit of full disclosure: 1) When I made the cassette-to-reel transfer, I had the daft idea of trying to simulate the spatial effects I heard at the concert during some of Page's solos, and during the Page/Plant call and response sections. I know -- hey, I was 16, and this wasn't for general consumption. In the intervening years I had tried various times to restore the tape to mono, but those attempts always resulted in a dulling of the highs, and I was never able to find an EQ that I liked. When I transferred the open reel tape to my hard drive, circa 1999, I did what I could to mitigate the panning, or at least see to it that it wasn't as abrupt as it is on the original reel. What you're hearing, believe me, is an improvement. 2) I also made two edits for the sake of flow. The first is during the guitar solo in Heartbreaker. In 1972, some moron at a party erased a few seconds of the solo. I joined what was left. Similarly, there was a cassette side change during the drum solo in Moby Dick.

Most of you who have heard this recording at all first heard it about a year ago when it turned up on STG, by way of Badloser. I wasn't exactly hoarding it: I had passed out lots of copies, both on cassette over the years, and on CD once I made the transfer. It just never found its way into Zep trading circles, I guess, until I did a trade with Badloser, who immediately identified it not only as a show that wasn't out there, but as an unusual one as well. He upped it to STG, and the rest is, so to speak, history.

At that time, however, Presence noted some audio anomalies -- SBE's, pops, etc. It also had some speed problems, which were corrected in the Eddie Edwards remastered version that has been around for some time.

A few weeks ago, Presence suggested that I make a new transfer, and although I'm not able to do that at the moment, I did find a source that was two CD generations earlier than the one used for the original upload. Since one of those generations was a copy made by a third party on a machine that routinely caused pops and other problems, I sent a copy to Presence, who agreed that it was a superior source. He did some subsequent work on the recording, which he'll detail.

lf you have a problem with audience recordings -- what can I say. This is a fantastic show, with some killer performances, including a SIBLY that, to me, has something that no soundboard has been able to capture. Enjoy!"

"Presence", from Royal Orleans, took the tape he was supplied and did some work with it. It appears the master cassette has still never had a digital transfer as of 2005,

Presence wrote:
As Darth9neo stated, earlier this year we discussed doing a new transfer of his open reel source. While that did not come to pass, we subsequently learned that the discs used for the initial release were at least two CD generations away from the shelf masters and that during these generations is when the index boundary errors and other clicks were introduced. While I managed to do a pretty good job cleaning those up for my initial "Presence version" it was difficult to do and left several repair artifacts that could just not be cleaned up. After that release Eddie Edwards pointed out that the pitch needed correction, thus "Born To Please" came about.

The shelf master discs are largely free and clear from the clicks and pops found before. There were about three sector boundary errors, but these were generated by splitting tracks in SoundForge and thus are easily restored. For this release I also used parametric equalizing to lower the 250Hz frequency, the hollow reverb of the auditorium, ever so slightly, just enough to allow the other instruments to come through. I then applied a pitch correction of +1.5%, but not to the entire source. Some sections of the tape were at the correct pitch, but most was not. I also cleaned up the source a bit by trying to remove some of the crackle. All in all, it turned out very nice and I hope everyone enjoys it as it is arguably one of the best shows Led Zeppelin ever turned out.

Earlier this year the taper and I discussed doing a new transfer of his open reel source. While that did not come to pass, we subsequently learned that the discs used for the initial release were at least two CD generations away from the shelf masters and that during these generations is when the index boundary errors and other clicks were introduced. While I managed to do a pretty good job cleaning those up for my initial "Presence version" it was difficult to do and left several repair artifacts that could just not be cleaned up. After that release Eddie Edwards pointed out that the pitch needed correction, thus "Born To Please" came about.

The shelf master discs are largely free and clear from the clicks and pops found before. There were about three sector boundary errors, but these were generated by splitting tracks in SoundForge and thus are easily restored. For this release I also used parametric equalizing to lower the 250Hz frequency, the hollow reverb of the auditorium, ever so slightly, just enough to allow the other instruments to come through. I then applied a pitch correction of +1.5%, but not to the entire source. Some sections of the tape were at the correct pitch, but most was not. I also cleaned up the source a bit by trying to remove some of the crackle. All in all, it turned out very nice and I hope everyone enjoys it as it is arguably one of the best shows Led Zeppelin ever turned out.

There really isn't much more I can add to this other than it is a very enjoyable show. I'm listening to the show mix right now as I make this post for the Source 2 recording. I may upload both the early and late shows from Tarantura's Source 1 & 2 mix release today too? It's a 4 CD copy of the Source 1 & 2 mix recordings of both shows on this September 1970 day.

Anyhow, I hope you enjoy this Source 3 version of the show...

Bootradr

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Led Zeppelin: 1973-01-XX Ascension In The Wane - The January 1973 Soundboards (FLAC_SB_10 CD)

Some of the 1973 European Led Zeppelin shows were requested recently. This is an excellent compilation of the January 1973 soundboards that exist and were put out by the Godfather label (also called Godfather Records and The Godfather).

This share was posted last year by "130269" on a torrent site and all thanks for the original sharing of it goes to them! They did an excellent, professional job of putting the box set together, naming the songs, and scanning a LOT of artwork. They didn't shortcut their upload by skipping helpful processes (like naming files, full artwork scans, etc) that help out those who download their work!

This is a compilation of all of the soundboard recordings known to exist or that have surfaced from Led Zeppelin's January 1973 leg of their European tour before coming to the United States. This is a big upload/download (about the size of a single layer DVD...not too big).

A number of show's from the 1973 tour we have incomplete soundboards of. Some we may only have two or four (examples) songs from, some we have complete shows from, and some are almost complete but for whatever reason (I think the bootleg labels are hoarding them for future releases personally) we don't have the complete show. In fact, there is a large number of what I call "CD 3" shows we have from the American tour where all we have is what would be on CD 3 ("Stairway to Heaven", "Whole Lotta Love", "Heartbreaker", etc). Whatever the reason may be, this beginning leg of the European tour is the same way. I'll itemize what is included in this upload of course.

One other thing worth mentioning is I don't know whether I'll have to break this upload into two separate uploads (CD's 1 - 5 and CD's 6 - 10) or not yet. I do know after downloading the torrent version I couldn't transfer the folder over to other hard drives without breaking it up into two parts due to the maximun length of MS Windows' file path construction. If the path (C:/User Name/Music/Bootlegs/....." as an example) includes more than 260 characters in it, it will not move or transfer all files (or unzip correctly) and you'll get a Windows message letting you know there is a problem. So, if you download this, create a folder to put the zipped files into, and then run across an extraction problem as you're trying to unzip and look at the files; then try a shorter path or just rename the folder you saved the material into "0" and see if that shortens the path enough to finish unzipping the files. If the path is still too long, create a temporarily, short folder name (like "0") directly on your C: drive (most PC's primary hard drive) and unzip the files there and then rearrange whatever you need to to be able and move them where you want too. Creating a short named folder on your C: drive will make the path much shorter. As one last example, rather than having something like "C:\Users\Your Name\My Music\Bootlegs\Led Zeppelin\....." it will just be "C:\". That will make the path to the folder name you created and put the zipped files into very short and it will extract with no issues. It's a much shorter path and it'll allow you to rename anything you want or need to rename after that and then deal with moving it where you want to store it. Use the md5 checksum file (after installing if you don't have it already Trader's Little Helper which a free program and super helpful tool everyone should have) to verify all files are there after unzipping then. There are tons of checksum creating and verification programs and you can use any of them if you want to. But TLH is really a necessity I believe if you're serious about collecting music.

Of course, all that I just mentioned is only necessary if you need to do this or are having issues as you extract the files because the path to where you're unzipping them exceeds 260 characters. Too bad Microsoft did't make it a 1000 characters huh? :-)

LINEAGE:
Godfather "Ascension In The Wane" silver CD's > auCDtect Task Manager (for lossless verification & digital signature) > me > TLH (for decoding to WAV for my own lossless testing, to test for SBE's, and to create and verify new md5 & ffp files) > you

NOTE:
Thankfully, "130269" took the time to do this upload right and he named the tracks. Many people who share shows don't take the extra time to make an upload as good as it can be. But that definitely wasn't the case here. It also made it where I didn't have to mess with the actual audio files other than to test for sector boundary errors and decode a version to the WAV format and double check for any lossy properties. After checking, all I had to do was delete the WAV files and that left the tracks/files originally created just as they were when I got them. And that also means my file fingerprint (ffp) should be a perfect match with the original ffp text file in each CD's folder that was put there by "130269" too.

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: January, 1973
Location: Europe (multiple locations)
Venue: Multiple (see post and/or text file)
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 10
Artwork: Yes (full artworks scans in download)
Label: Godfather
Title: Ascension In The Wane - The January 1973 Soundboards (box set name/each show has its own title too)
Size: 3.18 GB

SETLIST:
CD 1: "Oxford Blues" - Oxford, UK, New Theatre 1973-01-07
01. Rock And Roll
02. Over The Hills And Far Away
03. Black Dog
04. Misty Mountain Hop
05. Since I've Been Loving You
06. Dancing Days
07. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
08. The Song Remains The Same
09. The Rain Song

CD 2: "Oxford Blues" - Oxford, UK. New Theatre 1973-01-07
01. Dazed And Confused
02. Stairway To Heaven
03. Whole Lotta Love

CD 03: "One For The M6" - Liverpool, UK, Empire Theatre 1973-01-14
01. Over The Hills And Far Away
02. Black Dog
03. Misty Mountain Hop
04. Since I've Been Loving You
05. Dancing Days
06. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
07. The Song Remains The Same
08. The Rain Song
09. Dazed And Confused

CD 04: "One For The M6" - Liverpool, UK, Empire Theatre 1973-01-14
01. Stairway To Heaven
02. Whole Lotta Love
03. Heartbreaker
04. The Ocean

CD 05: "Groovin' In The Garden" - Stoke, UK, Trentham Gardens 1973-01-15
01. Rock And Roll
02. Over The Hills And Far Away
03. Black Dog
04. Misty Mountain Hop
05. Since I've Been Loving You
06. Dancing Days
07. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
08. The Song Remains The Same
09. The Rain Song

CD 06: "Groovin' In The Garden" - Stoke, UK, Trentham Gardens 1973-01-15
01. Dazed And Confused
02. Stairway To Heaven
03. Whole Lotta Love

CD 07: "The Black Hole of Calcutta" - Southampton, UK, Southampton University 1973-01-22
01. Rock And Roll
02. Over The Hills And Far Away
03. Black Dog
04. Misty Mountain Hop
05. Since I've Been Loving You
06. Dancing Days
07. The Song Remains The Same
08. The Rain Song
09. Dazed And Confused

CD 08: "The Black Hole of Calcutta" - Southampton, UK, Southampton University 1973-01-22
01. Stairway To Heaven
02. Whole Lotta Love
03. Heartbreaker
04. Thank You
05. How Many More Times
06. Communication Breakdown

CD 09: "Odds and Ends" - Bradford, UK, St. George's Hall 1973-01-18
01. Dazed And Confused
02. Whole Lotta Love
03. Immigrant Song

CD 10: "Odds and Ends" - Dundee, Scotland, Caird Hall 1973-01-27 (tracks 01-03) & Southampton, UK, Gaumont Theatre (soundcheck) 1973-01-21 (tracks 04-08)
01. Whole Lotta Love
02. Heartbreaker
03. Communication Breakdown
04. drums & mellotron tuning
05. Love Me
06. Frankfurt Special (a.k.a. Station Blues)
07. King Creole
08. Love Me (Reprise)

LINKS:
(1) January 1973 SB's
(2) January 1973 SB's
(3) January 1973 SB's
(4) January 1973 SB's
(5) January 1973 SB's
(6) January 1973 SB's
(7) January 1973 SB's

There is a ton of high resolution artwork from the box set booklet too and it has all been scanned by "130269" and included in the upload. While these are just the January 1973 soundboard recordings from Europe, there are other European concerts from the following months too of course (not in this upload though). Also, some of these recording may or may not be the definitive recordings for each of the dates from January 1973. In other words, they may be the best out there or they may not be. There are other master, 1st generation, etc sources for each of these dates too. But this box set is an excellent compilation of the January 1973 shows and it is very enjoyable!

My favorite out of the box set is the 1973-01-22 Southampton, UK show. It wasn't too many years ago when this concert was a newly surfaced soundboard. Hopefully, and there is a lot of speculation on what is or may be out there and hasn't surfaced yet, there will be some more 1973 soundboards that surface and are new to the trading and sharing community soon!

I've renamed folders, shortened the path (file names of folders, not songs), etc to make this a single upload/download that should unzip into most locations a person might save it to without the issue of running into 260 characters or more I think. But if you do have a problem unzipping it, just do what I mentioned above and that will solve the issue.

I left "130269's" lossless checking and fingerprint text files in the upload as well as tested the files myself and added an additional text file into each folder showing the results. "130269" did a superb job of putting this box set together and sharing it. He even added a missing track from the 1973-01-22 Southampton CD 1. It appears Godfather had left out "Over The Hills and Far Away" in the box set and "130269" added it from another Godfather source that had it on it. It sounds great and flawless too.

I hope you enjoy January 1973 when you have some time to travel back and listen...

Bootradr

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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Blondie: 1979-12-31 Glasgow, Scotland (Pro Shot/TV DVD)

PREFACE: I'd originally shared this DVD back in 2009. When asked to re-upload it the other day, I said "sure, no problem". This was something I had no problem doing since it was never officially released.

Well, I should have done some checking prior to uploading it again! After looking this morning online, I saw that as of November 2010, over a year after my first upload of the show, this was being put on an official release slated to be sold. Dang!!! Due to this, I have removed the links here so as to not be breaking the copyright laws and causing myself any problems. One good thing for those interested in the show is that it can be officially bought and it is the complete show too.

I'm sorry for any problems this may have caused anyone but I cannot afford to be sued or have any legal problems over something this simple (or stupid on my part)!

Here's a Blondie show from New Year's Eve 1979 a few have requested lately. I'd shared it 5 years ago but a lot has changed (mainly the links and services) since then.

I first really "heard" Blondie in 1980. I'd likely heard her on the radio prior to that, but I found an 8-track tape of her in 1980 and fell in love with her voice. I wasn't allowed to listen to rock 'n' roll as a kid so I missed out (back then) on a lot of great artists and had to sneak around to finally start listening to the music I loved. My dad actually found my first Blondie cassette tape and smashed it against a brick wall. When he came across the Blondie 8-track tape, he used a Roberts R7 (I think that's the model...been to long ago) reel-to-reel recorder with and 8-track port to record over it. Today, I own that Roberts reel-to-reel recorder and things area lot different. I think this is half the reason I love music, and especially the late 1960's - early 1980's music, so much. The other half is that it was just excellent music!

Enough about me. Here's the details!

LINEAGE:
2005 VH1 Classics standard definition TV BX > HD VIP622 DVR > HDMI cable > Philips DVDR3475 standalone DVD burner (transferred in HQ/High Quality 1 hour mode) > Sony DVD+RW > removed commercials and created song chapters > PC > TLH (for creating and verifying md5 file) > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Blondie
Date: December 31st, 1979
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Venue: Apollo Theatre
Program: BBC Old Grey Whistle Test
DVD's: 1
Label: Bootradr Project
Title: Old Grey Whistle Test
Total Running Time: 40:03

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menus: No
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: No
DVD Size: 2.63 GB

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Color/B&W: Color
Type: Pro Shot/Television Broadcast
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Data Rate: 9558 kbps
Total Bitrate: 9814 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 256 kbps
Codec: AC3
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

CHAPTERS:
01. Old Grey Whistle Test intro
02. unknown ending of Blondie song/program announcer introducing Blondie
03. Dreaming
04. Slow Motion
05. Shayla
06. Atomic
07. Eat To The Beat intro > Picture This
08. Pretty Baby
09. Heart Of Glass
10. Hanging On The Telephone
11. Sunday Girl (with Scottish bagpipes intro)

LINKS:
Part 01 - 1979-12-31 Glasgow DVD
Part 02 - 1979-12-31 Glasgow DVD
Part 03 - 1979-12-31 Glasgow DVD
Part 04 - 1979-12-31 Glasgow DVD
Part 05 - 1979-12-31 Glasgow DVD
Part 06 - 1979-12-31 Glasgow DVD

The last song. "Sunday Girl", is only 3 minutes, 6 seconds long and the credits start rolling right before the song fades out and the program ends. I could've used the standard DVD burner's menu, but instead I decided to just make this a put in and play DVD with no menu. If I ever build another DVD project out of this I'll add a menu.

There was some confusion the first time I uploaded this DVD as to whether or no it was from the officially released 1979 Apollo Theatre DVD. It isn't. That show was from March of 1979, and while I don't have it, the TV program noted that this show was on December 31st, 1979 before it began airing.

I think Blondie and her whole band were at their prime in this time period. Her voice is flawless and the music, while still having some disco types of sound (I never liked disco and never will) in some songs, was much more rock 'n' roll sounding with guitar, keyboards, drums, and the likes.

I hope you enjoy the superb Blondie performance from almost 35 years ago ...

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