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

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Journey: 1998-10-29 Boston, MA (FLAC_AUD Master_1 CD)

This is an great-to-excellent show from Journey's return to the stage for their first tour after replacing Steve Perry with Steve Augeri in 1998. This show was 17 years ago tonight.

I'm not sure why the full show isn't here but just under 80 minutes of it is. It starts off with "Who's Crying Now" in progress so I have to think that maybe the taper did not have the tape running as the show started or he or she was possibly late for the concert.

LINEAGE:
Sony WMD3 > master tape (TDK-SA )> Technics RS-T60R > Phillips CD-R 760 > EAC > TLH > FLAC 8 > me > EMC 2010 Pro (to re-track songs grouped together as single tracks) > 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

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: October 29th, 1998
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Venue: Orpheum Theatre
Title: None
Label: None
Source: AUD (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 559 MB
Length: 78:46:40

SETLIST:
01. Who's Crying Now (cuts in)
02. I'll Be Alright Without You
03. Open Arms
04. Love Theme From Spartacus
05. Fillmore Boogie
06. Just The Same Way
07. Anytime
08. Remember Me
09. One More
10. Escape
11. Wheel In The Sky (intro)
12. Wheel in The Sky
13. Be Good To Yourself
14. Any Way You Want It
15. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
16. Faithfully (intro talk)
17. Faithfully
18. Don't Stop Believin'

LINK:
(1) 1998-10-29 Boston, MA (AUD Master)

The audio is very clean sounding and nice on the high end frequencies in this recording. The lower bass frequencies could likely be worked with and made better sounding. The waveform looks great with no audio clipping and the sound is not bad at all. At first I thought it was excellent (and the text file will reflect this). But as I started listening to the show on the home theater system I noticed it wasn't as excellent as I thought but still very good at the same time. The crowd can be heard too but the mix with Augeri's vocals and the band's instruments is really nice and clean sounding. I was going to balance the channels a little but ran out of time to do this. The right channel is slightly louder than the left but it is nothing too bad and I bet most people would not even notice it if I didn't mention it. It still sounds excellent.

I believe it is Neal Schon that mentions in the show that the venue they were playing in this night, the Orpheum Theatre", was the same exact venue Journey had played in the first time they played in Boston. And I bet it was the 1976-03-19 show we have two sources for too. One at least is uploaded here and a remaster of another I have either uploaded or need to.

It's interesting hearing these 1998 shows as Journey toured for the first time since they last ended their Raised on Radio tour with Steve Perry in February of 1987. This was their first tour in almost 12 years. And they were a lot more humble and not playing as big of venues either as they made their return to the stage. But since it all went so well and they have been touring ever since selling out shows, well, the next year's tour in 1999 was the end of the smaller. more intimate shows and the return to the large venues with large outdoor stages types of shows they still are doing today.

I've only listened to part of the show today and sampled the rest. And I enjoyed it and think you will too if you are a Journey fan and enjoy a great audience recording.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1977-06-11 New York, NY (FLAC_AUD/SB 4 Sources Mix_4 CD)

I had three different requests for a copy of this show after uploading just the soundboard part a couple of days ago. So here is one of the two copies that I think sounds best and it is the most complete recording of the show using four sources described below.

The concert fits onto 3 CD's but has some bonus material from the same date on CD 4.

It's a shame the show ends right before "Heartbreaker" finishes because Jimmy Page is playing some super cool sounding Spanish guitar type of thing I have never heard him play before. It would have been great to have heard where it all wound up going. The show is not 100% complete but the cuts are few and this is the most complete copy of the show I have heard. It is close to complete too.

LINEAGE:
(1) Source 1 AUD Master Cassette > CD-R > ?? > FLAC > CD-R (2) > EAC (secure mode/offset corrected) > WAV > Sound Forge (to edit clicks between tracks) > shntool (to align sector boundaries) > FLAC 7 > Presence's Tracker > dBPowerAMP > WAV (thanks to ZEP77)
(2) Source 2 SB master reel (unverified) > DAT > Presence's Server > dBPowerAMP > WAV (thanks to Presence)
(3) Source 3 AUD cassette > Type I Cassette > X-Fi > Clean! > WaveLab > FLAC > dBPowerAMP > WAV (thanks to sean_the_bootlegger)
(4) Source 4 AUD 2nd Gen Cassette > VHS Hi-Fi >X-Fi > WaveLab > FLAC > dBPowerAMP > WAV (thanks to sean_the_bootlegger)
(5) then > Audacity (speed correcting, merging & matrixing) > WAV > FLAC Frontend > FLAC 8 >
(6) 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

NOTES:
Source 1: AUD master
Source 2: SB unverified master
Source 3: AUD unknown Gen. (read below)
Source 4: AUD 3rd Gen (read below)

Source 4 seems to be from the same taper than source 3 (same cuts, same crowd noises), but it's a very different generation tape and it's a bit more complete.

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 11th, 1977
Location: New York, New York
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Title: Four Source Merge
Label: Unknown
Source: AUD/SB (Sources 1, 2, 3, and 4)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 4 (3 CD just for the show)
Artwork: Yes
Size: 1.33 GB
Length: 232:35:42

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. The Song Remains The Same
102. Sick Again
103. Nobody's Fault But Mine
104. In My Time Of Dying
105. Since I've Been Loving You
106. No Quarter

CD 2:
201. Ten Years Gone
202. The Battle Of Evermore
203. Going To California
204. Black Country Woman
205. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
206. White Summer
207. Kashmir

CD 3:
301. Over The Top
302. Jimmy Page (violin bow guitar solo)
303. Achilles Last Stand
304. Stairway To Heaven
305. Heartbreaker

CD 4 (Bonus/Read Notes):
401. No Quarter
402. Ten Years Gone
403. The Battle Of Evermore

CD 4 Notes (copy & paste):
These three tracks are from the audience sources only (source 1 and a 30" snippet of the source 3 in NQ), speed corrected. It can be inverted with the 3 matrixed tracks, it will match with the previous/next tracks. This is mostly for those who wouldn't like the matrix, in my opinion the audience is more enjoyable than the dry soundboard.

LINK:
(1) 1977-06-11 New York, NY (AUD/SB/4 Source Mix)
(2) 1977-06-11 New York, NY (AUD/SB/4 Source Mix)

Some of the recording sounds superb and some sounds just good. But overall, I think the majority of this show sounds excellent. There is matrixing done with the audio too and I think that is what gives the audio the extra kick and live sound rather than just hearing these different sources independently. There is a source where you can hear the tapers (presumably), a guy and a girl, talking in a lower volume during some songs on CD 2. But the music is so crisp and clean at these acoustic points that it really doesn't mess anything up and sort of adds to the ambiance of the live experience I think.

I'm still not sure who did this project and the text file I had on it was ruined by me or possibly never had the right information in it. I cannot be sure. But it is very fortunate that I did a copy and paste of the website, which was Dime, back when I got this recording in 2011. It has all of the needed information and breakdowns of the audio and what was used when and where. I have always made either copy and paste Word documents (in the past) of sent e-mails to myself (since around 2011) to make sure I know where I got a recording from and for information in case I need to download it again or the text file did not explain things well. I had a hard time finding this Word document but fortunately I finally found it. It is enclosed in this download for you to see additional information.

The best sounding parts of the show are from the beginning through near the end of "Kashmir" where the sources 3 and 4 start being used. The sound picks up and gets much better again around Jimmy Page's violin bow solo and on through the rest of the show.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Monday, October 26, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1977-06-11 New York, NY (FLAC_SB Master_1 CD)

This is an excellent sign of hope for a future show to surface I believe. I've had this recording for a long time and there is no telling how long it had been out there before I even got hold of it. But it definitely is not one you see very often either.

If I gave this show a name I'd call it "A Sign of Hope" just because it is a sign this soundboard is out there and I hope it finds its way up to the surface soon. There are a number of 1973, 1975, and I believe especially 1977 shows that soundboards are rumored to exist or it makes sense they would exist. Just like it is with a lot of the 1973 soundboards that do not have the final songs after the encore (the "no CD 3 syndrome"), it makes sense that the recordings for the rest of those 1973 shows exist and the same applies to this show we have three songs from of the 1977-06-11 concert. Hopefully we'll know soon enough!

LINEAGE:
Master Reel (unverified) > DAT > FLAC > TLH > WAV > Adobe Audition (to append and speed correct - 102.3 stretch) > CD Wave (to track) > FLAC Frontend (to re-encode as FLAC 8, tag, and verify) > 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

NOTES:
This is an unverified copy of the master and only three tracks from the show are contained in this upload/download.

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 11th, 1977
Location: New York, New York
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Title: None
Label: pernod Revised
Source: SB (Master Unverified)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 229 MB
Length: 46:30:42

SETLIST:
01. No Quarter (missing beginning)
02. Ten Years Gone
03. The Battle Of Evermore (cuts out just before ending)

LINK:
(1) 1977-06-11 New York, NY (SB/Master Unverified)

This is an excellent sounding recording of the three tracks from the soundboard. The waveform looks great and there is no audio clipping. If this were the complete show I'd be very happy with this sound all the way through it.

Hopefully this one will surface complete in the near future. I'd like to hear this show and the beginning of "No Quarter" too. Of course; we do have multiple audience sources of this show to listen to. But the master soundboard, unaltered like this copy, would be the icing on the cake.

I hope you enjoy this 46 minutes of the show...

Bootradr

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Journey: 1983-02-24 Osaka, Japan (FLAC_AUD Master Remaster_2 CD)

This is one of my favorite Frontiers tour Journey audience recorded shows out there. And this copy being shared today is a remastered copy of the master recording reportedly. And unlike the copy uploaded earlier this year by me on the show's anniversary, this copy is not only better sounding but it is lossless. It seems the copy found HERE was a lossy copy after all. This copy is by far the best I have heard and "techtuts" did a fabulous job in remastering it too!

LINEAGE:
Master cassette > EQ > FLAC > techtuts > Processing: iZotope RX4 (Light Denoise and EQ) > 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

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: February 24th, 1983
Location: Osaka, Japan
Venue: Furitsu Taikakan (Prefectural Gymnasium)
Title: Realize Your Fantasy
Label: Rubicon (techtuts Remaster)
Source: AUD (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 659 MB
Length: 110:05:05

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Elmo's Theme ~ Chain Reaction
102. Wheel In The Sky
103. Line Of Fire
104. Send Her My Love
105. Still They Ride
106. Open Arms
107. No More Lies
108. Back Talk
109. Jonathan Cain (keyboard solo into)
110. Frontiers
111. Rubicon
112. Steve Smith (drum solo)
113. Edge Of The Blade

CD 2:
201. Faithfully
202. Who's Crying Now
203. Don't Stop Believin'
204. Stone In Love
205. Keep On Runnin'
206. Any Way You Want It
207. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
208. Escape
209. After The Fall
210. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'

LINK:
(1) 1983-02-24 Osaka, Japan (AUD Master/techtuts Remaster)

Dime Torrent - Download Here!
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This show we have thanks to "techtuts" continuous searching and making new contacts that helped out with copies of some of the shows we both were looking for. He was able to get hold of a number of shows replacing some that have turned out being lossy and some neither of us had until recently. We're both still looking for a few shows and I bet that over time they will resurface again.

This show to me is superb in sound! But trying to rate it without any bias, it is definitely an excellent to superb recording of the Journey concert. The crowd is great and even though there is some of the customary Japanese hand clapping during some songs, the audience noise is very little and low. Songs like "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart" have some clapping throughout the song but it isn't the kind that ruins the song or stands out real loudly at all.

There are a few shows from this Japan 1983 tour that "techtuts" is working on remastering and I will be uploading them here after they are shared on Dime.

As I have mentioned already in previous posts, "techtuts" really knows what he is doing with audio and he has been making some Journey masterpiece remasters and there are more that will be coming soon. Actually, there are a few I need to get uploaded now that have already been put out. I'm just running a little behind.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Friday, October 16, 2015

Journey: 2004-10-16 Tokyo, Japan (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

This Journey show played 11 years ago today is an excellent recording of their Tokyo, Japan show on October 16th, 2004. This is a very enjoyable show and it has a great mix to it. The vocals and instruments can all be heard and are balanced well. This is a very clean sounding show and great performance by Journey.

LINEAGE:
CD-R trade > EAC (secure mode, offset corrected) > WAV > TLH (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform & fix audio clipping and then to embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify ffp & md5 files) > you

NOTE:
This is not really a remaster even though I'm tagging it as Bootradr Remaster due to some work I did to it. It helps me find shows I worked on (the clip removal). No EQ work was done!

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: October 16th, 2004
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Venue: International Forum
Title: Heart Beat With Mind
Label: Sylph Records
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (300 dpi scans)
Size: 917 MB
Length: 133:29:50

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. introduction
102. Be Good To Yourself
103. Only The Young
104. Star Spangled Banner
105. Stone In Love
106. Wheel In The Sky
107. Keep On Runnin'
108. Higher Place
109. Suzanne
110. Lights
111. Walks Like A Lady
112. Chain Reaction
113. Voodoo Chile

CD 2:
201. Jonathan Cain (keyboard solo)
202. Send Her My Love
203. Open Arms
204. Neal Schon (Sakura Sakura) (guitar solo)
205. Mother Father
206. Just The Same Way
207. Rubicon
208. Edge Of The Blade
209. Escape
210. Jonathan Cain (piano solo intro)
211. Faithfully
212. Don't Stop Believin'
213. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
214. Any Way You Want It
215. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'

LINK:
(1) 2004-10-16 Tokyo, Japan (AUD/Sylph/Bootradr Remaster)

Dime Torrent - Download Here!
NOTE: I created a torrent and posted it on Dime. If you're 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.

Sylph Records has done this on some other Journey shows so it's no surprise to see the audio clipping in the waveform when I was looking. I went ahead and fixed it with Audacity.

The show has some really excellent songs and sound too. "Suzanne" is a rare song to hear live and in these shows Deen Castronovo sings a lot of the songs. He does a great job too. He is no longer with Journey as many may know and they had to recently replace Deen as drummer unfortunately. He was one of the few band members the group has had that can actually sing certain songs and sound very Steve Perry like. So I imagine this will cut down on a number of songs the band plays live now that he is gone. Journey had scaled back on having Deen sing as often in the live shows anyhow since they made Arnel Pineda the lead singer of the band in 2008. It was sounding like Deen's voice was not able to hit the notes he was going for after about 2009 in the shows I saw and this 2004 period was only about two years after Journey had him singing some of the songs that were he did best. And in 2004 Deen sounded really great too on the tracks he sang.

I'm not sure what track 204, Neal Schon's guitar solo, means with the Japanese words Sakura Sakura in brackets. I'm not sure if this is the song title or if this is a Japanese word that means something. I'm sure somebody seeing this will know and can hopefully shed some light on this. I'm just listing it this way since it was on the artwork like this. It looks like Sakure may represent a surname in Japanese but I am not for sure?

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1969-10-12 London, Enlgand (DVD-A_AUD Master or Low Gen_48 kHz/LPCM_1 DVD-A)

This is a show I have only had one copy of really. I thought I had two copies, but after finding my first CD trade day copy, I realized it was the same exact Totonka Records copy I also had on my external drive. But the old copy is no comparison to this DVD-A (audio DVD) copy of the master tape. It is much brighter, cleaner, and it's not over processed or distorted like the older copy I've had.

Two days ago was the 46th anniversary of this show and I had wanted to upload it then. But since I had other plans and things I needed to get done, I did not get the time to upload the show then. So I am uploading it early this morning.

Some people have problems playing real DVD-A discs. But this is not an DVD audio but an audio DVD (not real scientific descriptions but the way many describe the two types). This show will burn and play just like any other standard DVD would and it should play on all players. It is still classified as a DVD-A, but in this case the audio is embedded in the VOB (video) files and is not a separate file type or set of files inside of the AUDIO_TS folder. If you don't understand this or it makes no sense right now to you, don't worry about it. As long as you know how to burn a DVD (it is very, very simple) you can burn this and listen on any DVD player.

LINEAGE:
Master > 48 kHz DAT > Audio DVD > me > TLH (to create a new md5 file) > you

NOTES (Presence copy & paste notes):
The lineage is in question, but is definitely a low generation. Other circulating copies and bootleg releases show significant and very clever tinkering. Some examples are the removal of an audience member commenting "Good Times, Bad Times" during its use as a lead-in, and a fake ending added to How Many More Times. You can have a good read about what I and others discovered here:

http://www.royal-orleans.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21427

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: October 12th, 1969
Location: London, England
Venue: Lyceum Ballroom
Source: AUD (Master or Low Gen. 48/16)
Format: DVD-A
DVD's: 1
Artwork: Yes (may not be the right artwork but it is a match)
Label: Presence
Title: None

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menus: No
Chapters: Yes
Slideshow: No
Size: 769 MB
Length: 59:23

VIDEO:
Format: NTSC
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 8000 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO:
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 1536 kbps (16 Bit)
Codec: LPCM
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

SETLIST/CHAPTERS:
01. Communication Breakdown
02. I Can't Quit You Baby
03. Heartbreaker
04. You Shook Me
05. What Is And What Should Never Be
06. Dazed And Confused
07. How Many More Times

LINKS:
(1) 1969-10-12 London, England (Master DVD-A)

This DVD-A is a project made by "Presence" from the master tape of the show. He did not add any slideshow images or video to the project so what he did do is produce a higher sample and bit rate audio project with higher quality audio.

I've been collecting a lot of higher quality audio and DVD-A projects over the years as well as I record my shows in the 96 kHz/24 bit audio too. The purpose if for making some future DVD-A projects. I've tried using a program called lplex but I either don't understand it, I don't have the full program, or something else is going on in this old DOS based looking program. Sooner or later I'll either learn the program or get one that does work. It's not a high priority but it is one I want to learn to do correctly where I can make some nice, high audio and image/video quality projects.

I haven't talked much about the show being uploaded yet. The audio ranges from great-to-excellent. But it blows away the Totonka label copy on CD that I mentioned earlier. The audio definitely has it's issues and is not without faults. But it is a huge upgrade to any copy (or the copy) I've heard. Just hearing what Plant is saying, Jimmy Page's guitar playing, and the more even mix and high end frequencies present makes this an easy to listen to show unlike the Totonka label copy.

I love the sound in this recording myself. There is very little tape hiss too. And the band is playing very well on this night in London too. It is a classic 1969 performance that is nothing short of perfect. And the audience is really quiet too. Even in between songs it is not near as loud as it was when the band played in America. So there really is no audience interference in the recording for the most part.

There are some short tape stops in the show that seem to primarily be between songs. The first one interfering with any music is near the end of "You Shook Me" (more or less 20 minutes into the show). I do not think this was a tape flip but I do not know what the reason is. "Dazed and Confused" is sounding excellent and has some unique musical moments in it on this night. The final track in the recording, "How Many More Times", is obviously an encore song and the audio quality drops a little at the beginning of it. But after the band starts playing it and before they move towards the non studio and jam parts in it the sound regains its earlier qualities. "Ho0w many More Times" is unfortunately cut a little short. The tapers sounds like he tries to stop and start the tape a few (maybe two or three) times in the last 30 seconds of the audio. The taper obviously had a 60 minute tape I guess and did not have enough tape to record the whole show. I wonder what Led Zeppelin played after "How Many More Times"? You know "Communication Breakdown" was likely in there as well as a few other staples of the Led Zeppelin 1969 concerts.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Ten Years After: 1969-09-01 Lewisville, TX (FLAC_SB_1 CD)

Ten Years After is a band I really, really like but have only uploaded one other show of theirs so far. There are a number of bands this is the case with too. I like them a lot but I've uploaded only one show or even no shows in a number of cases. I've got a lot of their shows as well as some excellent (and even master) DVD's too and I think I may put a few other shows up from Ten Years After really soon.

I did an EAC rip about a week ago of a 2000 CD-R trade I did for this Ten Years After performance at the 1969 Texas International Pop Festival. And today I'm uploading the soundboard of this show. It's an excellent recording of a superb performance.

LINEAGE:
CD-R trade > EAC (secure mode, offset corrected) > WAV > TLH (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Ten Years After
Date: September 1st, 1969
Location: Lewisville, Texas
Venue: Dallas International Motor Speedway
Event: Texas International Pop Festival
Title: Texas International Pop Festival
Label: Oh Boy! (possibly)
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes (300 dpi scans)
Size: 279 MB
Length: 53:59:63

SETLIST:
01. Good Morning Little School Girl
02. I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes
03. Hobbit
04. Spoonful
05. I'm Goin' Home

LINK:
(1) 1969-09-01 Lewisville, TX (SB)

To be perfectly honest, I am not sure if this is actually the Oh Boy label copy of this show. I was remembering as I was scanning the artwork for this upload that I had found it and it was a perfect match back in 2000. It may have been the Oh Boy label copy too, but I just cannot say for sure now. And the CD-R artwork I added was nothing more than my own creation of a stick on label . Ignore the Chili Ghost Bootlegs label because it was something I was playing around with at the time.

This is an excellent sounding recording wherever it came from. I have another recording of the same show that is a FLAC copy and it doesn't sound as good as this copy does.

I get the impression there may have been another song in this show but it has not been released. The reason I say this is because the announcer on stage says "your gonna have to make some more noise if you want another song" or something similar about a minute after the song ends on track 5 (the last track). It sounds like they really didn't add the encore to any copies of the show I've ever seen. Either they didn't play another song or maybe they did but I've never seen it.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Led Zeppelin: 1972-10-09 Osaka, Japan (FLAC_AUD Source 1_Bootradr Remaster_3 CD)

Tomorrow will be the 43rd anniversary of this excellent Led Zeppelin show in Osaka on the band's 1972 Japan leg of their tour. I really like this recording and the more I listen to it the more I enjoy it.

The only mistake I made was in the embedding of the metadata on this version I'm uploading now. Instead of changing the text in the Comments line to read "Bootradr Remaster copy" I forgot and left it stating "Unaltered copy" which is the way I made my first copy. But most people will never see this I bet anyhow and it's no real problem.

Since the waveform in this recording was very, very low in amplitude I went ahead and used Audacity to Normalize the tracks and make them louder but at the same time I made sure they kept their same audio attributes and quality of sound too. No EQ work was done at all.

LINEAGE:
H-Bomb silver CD's > WAV > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, Normalize -1.0 dB, 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

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: October 9th, 1972
Location: Osaka, Japan
Venue: Festival Hall
Title: Let Me Get Back To 1972
Label: H-Bomb (Bootradr Remaster)
Source: AUD (Source 1)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes
Size: 847 MB
Length: 142:06:19

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Rock And Roll
102. Black Dog
103. Over The Hills And Far Away
104. Misty Mountain Hop
105. Since I've Been Loving You
106. Dancing Days
107. The Song Remains The Same
108. The Rain Song

CD 2:
201. Dazed And Confused
202. Stairway To Heaven
203. Moby Dick

CD 3:
301. Whole Lotta Love
302. Stand By Me
303. Immigrant Song

LINK:
(1) 1972-10-09 Osaka, Japan (AUD Source1/H-Bomb & Bootradr Remaster)

This is really an excellent sounding recording and the show is excellent as well. The recording seems to keep the same steady mix and volume throughout the entire show from what I've heard. And I've listened up through "Whole Lotta Love" at this point. There are some flaws in some areas of the recording of course. But overall, the recording is at minimal points great and at some points superb with the majority of the show being excellent in my opinion.

The band does "Stand By Me" as part of the encore in the show and it sounds really nice. The recording had no clipping in the waveform and was so low as I mentioned I raised the volume to make the recording better sounding and at the same time it helps with hearing Plant's vocals better I believe.

I've got to get some more sleep before this morning (already here) creeps up any closer. I have a busy day and I just wanted to upload this very enjoyable and historic Led Zeppelin show before I tried catching a couple more hours of sleep.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Journey: 1982-04-17 Kanagawa, Japan (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

This is an EAC rip of a newly surfaced (in the last three months) Journey show. Tarantura released this "Mr. Peach" recording of Journey's 1982 Yokohama Gymnasium concert in June. I'd be interested in knowing if anyone has ever gotten a copy of this show before Tarantura got a hold of it? I'd love to find an unaltered copy of this show and possibly one "Mr. Peach" might have shared in the last 33 years this show has been "out there".

This is the very first time I have ever heard of this show (recently) and it has not ever been one in any trading circles. But there still could be copies of it out there and if Dime and Bootradr's Blind Boot Blog aren't the places to find those people who might have a copy, I don't know what forum would be!

A very special thanks goes to "Digital_Journey", "techtuts", and "rockphantom" for getting this copy to me so I could hear it, EAC rip it, and share it with other Journey fans too.

LINEAGE:
Tarantura silver discs > EAC (secure mode, offset corrected) > WAV > TLH (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: April 17th, 1982
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Venue: Yokohama Gymnasium (Bunka-Taikukan Yokohama)
Title: Escape From Yokohama
Label: Tarantura
Source: AUD (Mr. Peach recording)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (300 dpi scans)
Size: 756 MB
Length: 96:24:11

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. opening announcement ~ Escape Tour intro music
102. Escape
103. Line Of Fire
104. Lights
105. Still They Ride
106. The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love)
107. Lovin' You Is Easy
108. Open Arms
109. Mother, Father
110. Jonathan Cain (piano solo intro)
111.Who's Crying Now (cut)

CD 2:
201. Where Were You
202. Steve Smith (drum solo)
203. Dead Or Alive
204. Don't Stop Believin'
205. Stone In Love
206. Keep On Runnin'
207. Wheel In The Sky
208. Neal Schon (guitar solo intro)
209. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
210. Any Way You Want It
211. closing announcements & crowd

LINK:
(1) 1982-04-17 Kanagawa, Japan (AUD/Tarantura)

Dime Torrent - Download Here!
NOTE: I created a torrent and posted it on Dime. If you're 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 show is complete other than the fade out in "Who's Crying Now" as the tape flip point is reached. The first track is a pre-show beginning track with Dio music playing over the venue speakers before the show begins. It lasts 3 minutes, 6 seconds in length. Too bad the taper, "Mr. Peach", didn't get the tape started after this point because then we'd have the full "Who's Crying Now" which probably is missing about a minute or maybe 90 seconds before it ended. But it's just one of those things you can never anticipate when taping in the days before digital recorders where tape flips, or even digital mini discs, had to be changed. You never know when the tape may need to be flipped before the show starts.

The unfortunate thing with this recording is that Tarantura got hold of it before the collectors did. They brickwalled the recording making it really hard to do much to improve their lack of a good job. They almost seemed to have wanted to take something good and make it not as good it seems. The show isn't bad but it isn't the great, full range sound it could have been either if Tarantura had not gotten it first.

These Japanese boot labels do not know how to master a show I am convinced. However, "techtuts" is still trying to work with the audio Tarantura put out here for a future remastering of the show. Limited things can be done to improve the show's sound and he will be working on it for a future upgrade if it is possible. This is one reason I hope we can find an unaltered copy of the show before Tarantura got hold of it. Because it sounds like it could have been an excellent recording before Tarantura messed with it.

I created an A4 (I believe that is the CD case) artwork cover for the back with the tabs using the spine on the cardboard case Tarantura used. In other works, there's a front and back artwork that is ready to print and fit into a case if you have one and want to do that.

Hopefully, and only time will tell, there are some more Journey shows out there that have not surfaced yet and when they do they will not surface via a boot label but will surface via individuals instead with some lineage and unaltered audio too.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr