Heart: 1986-06-25 Tokyo, Japan (FLAC_SB/FM_1 CD)

This is a primarily excellent sounding Heart soundboard from 1986 in Japan according to the sharing party.  While this is not an easy show to find or even find information on, I do believe it is an FM radio broadcast likely.  In 1986, I don't imagine Heart's shows were only 65 minutes like this recording is.  While many FM broadcasts are full length concerts, there are also many that have a song or a few songs not in the broadcasted FM transmission.  In this recording there are some cuts after songs that sound like commercials that were removed possibly as well as a few more professionally done cuts done in the studio before the broadcast in between songs where a little more talking would have been.  I imagine their concerts were longer than 65 minutes if they were headlining which I think they were.  And finally, there is a Japanese lady announcing something in the second from last track indicating it was either an FM broadcast or maybe a Japanese TV broadcast this was sourced from.  She is talking over the band's return to stage after the encore (or is that the encore).  This may or may not be the full show?  I'm really not sure now and I'd need to look into it more.  But it really doesn't matter either way because this is what we have.

LINEAGE:
No lineage known > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Heart
Date: June 25th, 1986
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Venue: NHK Hall
Title: The Art Of Love
Label: None
Source: SB/FM
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes (front only)
Size: 447 MB
Length: 65:04:68

SETLIST:
01. If Looks Could Kill
02. The Wolf
03. Straight On
04. Nothin' At All
05. These Dreams
06. Barracuda
07. Bebe Le Strange
08. Even It Up
09. Never
10. What About Love
11. Magic Ma
12. Allies
13. Crazy On You
14. Rock And Roll

BAND:
Ann Wilson (vocals)
Nancy Wilson (guitar, keyboards, and vocals)
Howard Leese (guitar & keyboards)
Mark Andes (bass)
Denny Carmassi (drums)

LINK:
(1) 1986-06-25 Tokyo (SB/FM)

1986 was one of Heart's years they did not like as a band because the record company was trying to micro manage and force the girls to do and play what they thought the band should play.  Ann Wilson was being hounded by the label about her weight and the band was starting to write a lot less rocking songs and a lot more ballad type of songs.  It's not that they were not good songs.  It was just that their creative freedom was being taken away and they were very unhappy how the industry and label was treating and running them.

With all the above paragraph being said, they rocked out in this show.  It sounds a lot different than their 1986 American shows to me too.  Without doing more research into what they played in America, I really cannot say whether the setlist in Japan was different or not.  But they played a lot of the songs that had made them famous since 1976.  It was about a half and half setlist between old and newer songs at the time.  But they really were rocking out this night.

The only issue I have with theis recording is someone has clipped the audio.  Looking at the waveform, it was either over EQ'ed or over amplified.  I'd venture to say most listeners would not notice this because the audio isn't distorted.  But there parts in the the show I noticed that had some slight distortion or maybe a problem from a cassette tape transfer?  The recording has excellent sound and stereo speraration too.  I'm listening to "Bebe Le Strange" right now and the girls and it sounds incredible.

I made a second copy of this show using -12db in the  Compressor setting in Audacity.  But I'm going ahead and uploading the original copy because the compression is taking too much of the high frequencies away for my taste.  As "Even It Up" plays now, it starts off with the audio issue I was just referring to.  I can't tell if it is due to the audio clipping or not?  And it does not ruin the excellent recording.  It just makes it a little less perfect.

I've always loved Heart.  And any band that plays at least one Led Zeppelin tribute song, usually as good as Led Zeppelin did in the studio I might add, is awesome in my book!  These girls I've seen and recorded a number of times.  And every last time they were perfection in action on stage.  They have not lost the ability to hit the high notes or play the songs just like they did in their starting years.  And no matter whoever else they have on instruments through the years, they always pull off the classic heart sound without a hitch.  Plus the sisters have made some superb music and newer songs as they've progressed through the years too.  Maybe they aren't as well known as their older hits, but they are just as great sounding anyhow.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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