Boston: 1978-11-06 Boston, MA (FLAC_AUD 2nd Gen_1 CD)

This is a great sounding Boston show that was transferred from cassette tape and shared back in 2006 and then reseeded recently on Dime.  This is a little different than the commonly known Party To Boston CD released by a label I'm not sure of.  I think it was released by and unknown label really and of course they messed with the audio and did what labels do.  This copy however is a second generation, non bootleg label cassette copy.

The original artwork for Party To Boston was reworked by the recent reseeder to reflect this second generation recording.  However, the setlist is still tracked for the 2 CD set the artwork was originally made for (the boot label) and it looks like "Television Politician" was just added at the end of CD 2 (remember, this was the 74 minute CD days).  I went ahead and left it in the upload so it's included even though both versions independently will fit on one CD-R nowadays.

And by the way, the bootleg label's copy of the show did not have "Television Politician" on it but this second generation copy does making it a (more) complete show according to the sharing party.  My copy of Party To Boston does have "Television Politician" but maybe it was added at a later date?

A friend on the Bootradr's Blind Boot Blog Facebook Secret Group (Facebook's name for the type of group) had asked if I had any RTZ (Return To Zero), a band composed of by a few Boston members during their hiatus including the late Brad Delp.  I did not have anything from RTZ.  All I could find was an mp3 copy of a RTZ 1991 Cleveland show and y'all know what I think of lossy audio.  So in an attempt to honor a request I could not quiet fill yet, I thought I'd share this recently re-shared Boston show.

All thanks and credit goes to the original taper and "zootype" for this August 2015 reseed on Dime!

LINEAGE:
2nd Gen cassette > WAV > re-tracked > normalized > removal of clicks and dropouts > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

NOTE:
No EQ work was done on the audio!

DETAILS:
Artist: Boston
Date: November 6th, 1978
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Venue: Boston Garden
Title: Party To Boston (original label artwork slightly reworked)
Label: None
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 500 MB
Length: 77:55:74

SETLIST:
01. Rock And Roll Band ~ Shattered Images
02. Peace Of Mind ~ Feeling Satisfied
03. Don't Look Back ~ The Journey
04. More Than A Feeling
05. A Man I'll Never Be
06. Smokin' ~ This Time
07. Foreplay/Long Time
08. Something About You
09. Party
10. Television Politician

LINK:
(1) 1978-11-06 Boston, MA (AUD 2nd Gen)

The recording is not without its flaws.  But it is the best copy I've heard of this show out of the two I have heard.  The first was the aforementioned Party To Boston bootleg label release.

I'm not sure why "zootype" redid the tracking and put multiple songs together?  But he did and that's the way the show in this download is tracked.  The waveform also shows audio clipping in most songs meaning the audio was a little louder than it should've been in either the recording level, tape transfer, or in the work done on the project.  Some songs have no clipping while others are not bad.  But a few have heavier clipping points  indicated by the waveform looking in Audacity.

While this isn't RTZ, some of the songs (as well as the members) were used in the RTZ show setlists I saw when researching and looking for any shows from RTZ.

If anyone has any RTZ shows, studio outtakes, or just has any information where I might be able to find any lossless RTZ RoIO's, please let me know either in a comment or on the Bootradr's Blind Boot Blog Facebook Community Page (different than the Secret Group one).  All of the information on the Facebook sites can be found under the "Contact" HTML link on the right side of my site if you look and/or scroll up or down.  And thank you if you can help too!

I hope you enjoy the 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 TOO.

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