Led Zeppelin: 1980-07-07 Berlin, Germany (FLAC_SB, AUD, + Bonus FM BX_5 CD)

And now we are to the last Led Zeppelin show I have not ever uploaded from the 1980 European tour as well as the last show of the band before John Bonham  died less than two months later.  EVSD did a decent job on this one too.

This is an excellent sounding 5 disc set of both the soundboard recording (discs 1 & 2), audience recording (discs 3 & 4), and the final disc 5 which has news reports of John Bonham's death and the possible end of Led Zeppelin from 1980 radio broadcasts.  The final disc can be easily added to disc 2 (soundboard) or disc 4 (audience) since it is under 4 minutes.  In fact, it could be added to both discs if you wanted it at the end of each source's  recording.  The different news reports are just one track and it is 3:52 in total running time.

LINEAGE:
EVSD silver CD's > Nero Burning Rome > FLAC Frontend > FLAC 7 > 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: Led Zeppelin
Date: July 7th, 1980
Location: Berlin, Germany
Venue: Eissporthalle
Title: Eternal Magic
Label: EVSD
Source: SB/AUD/FM BX (not a mix of these sources...read post for info)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 5
Artwork: Yes (full artwork in download)
Size:1.45 GB
Length 1: 135:28:02 (Discs 1 & 2 SB)
Length 2: 142:23:02 (Discs 3 & 4 AUD)
Length 3: 03:52:12 (Disc 5 Bonham's Death News Reports)
Length 4: 281:43:16 (All 5 Discs TRT)

SETLIST:
CD 1 (Soundboard CD 1):
101. Train Kept A Rollin'
102. Nobody's Fault But Mine
103. Black Dog
104. In The Evening
105. The Rain Song
106. Hot Dog
107. All My Love
108. Trampled Underfoot
109. Since I've Been Loving You

CD 2 (Soundboard CD 2):
201. White Summer ~ Black Mountain Side
202. Kashmir
203. Stairway To Heaven
204. Rock And Roll
205. Whole Lotta Love

CD 3 (AUD CD 1):
101. Train Kept A Rollin'
102. Nobody's Fault But Mine
103. Black Dog
104. In The Evening
105. The Rain Song
106. Hot Dog
107. All My Love
108. Trampled Underfoot
109. Since I've Been Loving You

CD 4 (AUD CD 2):
201. White Summer ~ Black Mountain Side
202. Kashmir
203. Stairway To Heaven
204. Rock And Roll
205. Whole Lotta Love

CD 5:
501. The Radio Reports

LINKS:
(1) 1980-07-07 Berkin, Germany (SB, AUD, & FM BX/EVSD
(2) 1980-07-07 Berkin, Germany (SB, AUD, & FM BX/EVSD)

MIRROR:
(1) 1980-07-07 Berkin, Germany (SB, AUD, & FM BX/EVSD) (Mirror)
(2) 1980-07-07 Berkin, Germany (SB, AUD, & FM BX/EVSD) (Mirror)

NOTE:
I'm using a free Mega account as a mirror in this upload.  Those of you downloading please leave me a message here or on the Facebook (Community Group or Secret Group) letting me know what works best as far as the links go.  I eventually plan on adding a secondary mirror site to my posts as I've always had until the last year or so.  Your opinion will help me help you.

The waveform does have clipping in the audio which surely came from EVSD over amplifying the audio or when they EQ'ed it.  It isn't horrible clipping but it has more than I like.  But what do you expect?  Many labels can press a professional disc but do not really know how to properly edit and work with the audio too many times unfortunately.  But the show and recordings sounds excellent-to-superb to my ears.

This final Led Zeppelin show may very well be the best sounding show out of the 14 concerts they performed in Europe in 1980.  This was their comeback after three years of not touring and the United States tour was to begin in November 1980.  And after the previous 1980 shows leading to this last one, they were warmed up and in a groove and ready to continue on after a short break (which wound up being 27 years before they played a full show again).

This paragraph a little off topic and not related to the show.  But it all has to do with this same 1980 time frame and what I talk about in this post.  I have a real, true, and never used Led Zeppelin ticket from their November 13, 1980 Chicago, Illinois show that never happened.  How you ask?  It is thanks to Led Zeppelin Tickets!  The day John Bonham died, the tickets arrived in the United States for the bands first shows so they could be sold.  But they were not distributed since the tour was obviously cancelled due to John Bonham's passing away on September 25, 1980.  Led Zeppelin Tickets helped me in getting my ticket and if you ever have any interest in owning one there are likely some left.  This is the FACEBOOK PAGE and their main website is HERE (or just go to LedZeppelinTickets.com for more information).

Getting back to the show at hand here now, this is a really awesome performance by the group and as I stated it may be their best performance on the tour since it was their last night.  I like Jimmy Page's (different again) intro to "Since I've Been Loving You" and his different ending to "Trampled Underfoot" as well.  I'm not saying this is the definitive copy of the show being shared or even those tracks when compared to other shows because it likely isn't.  But it is a really excellent and even superb sounding recording in both the soundboard and audience discs for the show.

I noticed on the soundboard disc 1 that there was an audience patch when I was starting to work on this upload yesterday.  I'm listening to disc 2 of the soundboard now and have not heard any more patches yet and I am up to "Kashmir".  Ha!  What a great time to make that statement because there is another audience patch for about 20 seconds in the middle of "Kashmir" I heard right after I typed what I did.

I am listening to the audience source(s) used now (after finishing the soundboard discs) as I finish preparing this upload.  The audio sounds excellent but I know an unaltered copy of a low generation audience source is what I want.  I don't know if one exists or if I even may have one on the drive not plugged in now?  I looked briefly online yesterday for anything I might not have had (audience or soundboard for 1980-07-07) and I could not find anything.  But I am fairly sure I do not have a low generation copy of this same source audience recording and if I do it is not one that is unaltered.  But it is obvious the audience recording this was sourced from was an excellent sounding recording so there is likely an unaltered copy out there somewhere (hopefully besides in EVSD's hands).

Both the audience and soundboard recordings make for very enjoyable listening though so you should not be disappointed because the instruments and vocals are all easily heard, mixed decently, and the sound is excellent at least.  The high and low frequency ranges are present as well in the audience recording and it has a more "full range" of sound..  It has its flaws in some areas but is generally a nice, clean sounding recording.  "Hot Dog" sounds like two audience sources, possibly running at different speeds, were used and that is very noticeable.

Using the Trader's Little Helper (TLH) program to check for lossiness in the audience recording, it left some question marks in my mind as to whether or not lossy audio was used.  But after a frequency analysis (FA) it looked lossless and was just altered by the EVSD EQ work causing it to look possibly lossy to TLH.  This happens sometimes when EQ'ing is done, frequencies are cut or altered, etc.  But it is a lossless and NOT a lossy sourced audience source.

I'm not going to run on and do much more talking here this early morning.  I'm wanting to get this 5 CD set uploading.  I will say the full artwork scans are in the upload but they are low resolution scans and not large files.  They are 150 dpi scans so it isn't too bad and they can surely be resized  if need be.

I'm glad EVSD did a decent job on this one as well.  I'll surely be uploading other copies of this show as time goes by.  I forget what all I have for this date but I do know I have an unaltered first generation copy of the soundboard as well as so a number of various label copies and some remasters too.  I saw something that made me think there may be a Winston Remasters copy of the show but I do not have nor have I seen that one before.  It may be a future project or something like that but I really do not know.  Hopefully, if a Winston Remasters copy doesn't already exist, one will someday soon.  I have a feeling that one will be the definitive copy since he does such incredible work and he also works with the best sources (lowest generation) recordings in his projects.  He really gets things sounding the best in most cases I feel.

This is a sad show to listen to knowing it was the final, all original members Led Zeppelin show ever.  And Jimmy Page does do a "Stairway To Heaven" solo that is totally different than any other version of the song I have heard him doing.  As I stated a few posts back, it was like he was saying "goodbye" without even realizing it in this song on their 1980 final tour.  And what better way to say goodbye than through a never played before variation in "Stairway To Heaven".

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.

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Feist: 2011-09-09 Santa Monica, CA (FLAC_SB/FM_1 CD)

Today I am starting off the morning by uploading a superb sounding recording of Feist at KCRW's The Village Studio in Santa Monica, California from 2011.  She performed here a number of times through the years (at least since 2005) on a program called Morning Becomes Eclectic.  And this time, in 2011, she was promoting her new release of Metals, her fourth studio album according to the interview.

I really love this recording and a special thanks goes out to "Nibbler" for sharing the recording recently.  I have a lossy video of this session and a few others from Feist's KCRW sessions.  But to hear the audio in so much better fidelity really is great.  I may one day synchronize this audio with the video and make a new DVD of the performance?

LINEAGE:
FM BX > Onkyo HT-R520 > Analog Out (2 - RCA Mono Out) > 2 - 1/4 inch mono phone jacks In > Zoom H4n > r8Brain 96/24 - dithered to 44/16 > CD Wave Editor (for tracking) > TLH (for FLAC 8 encoding)  > 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: Feist
Date: September 9th, 2011
Location: Santa Monica, California
Venue: The Village Studio (KCRW Studio)
Title: Morning Becomes Eclectic
Label: None
Source: SB/FM BX (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 226 MB
Length: 41:38:41

SETLIST:
01. KCRW intro
02. A Commotion
03. Graveyard
04. How Come You Never Go There
05. The Circle Married The Line
06. interview
07. The Bad In Each Other
08. Undiscovered First
09. Bittersweet Melodies
10. Comfort Me

LINK:
(1) 2011-09-09 Santa Monica, CA (SB/FM BX)

MIRROR:
(1) 2011-09-09 Santa Monica, CA (SB/FM BX) (Mirror)

NOTE:
I'm using a free Mega account as a mirror in this upload.  Those of you downloading please leave me a message here or on the Facebook (Community Group or Secret Group) letting me know what works best as far as the links go.  I eventually plan on adding a secondary mirror site to my posts as I've always had until the last year or so.  Your opinion will help me help you.

The waveform looks excellent and there is no clipping or any work at all done on the audio from the way it sounds (and looks).  The mix is perfect too since it was recorded in the studio on 2011-09-09.  The broadcast over the air on FM radio was not until 2011-10-26.  I guess they didn't want to play the session before the official release of Metals which was on 2011-10-04.

There is no static or off frequency types of noises in this recording that we sometimes hear in FM broadcasted recordings.  Nearer to the end of the recording a little hum can be heard at real low volume from amp feedback or something like that.  But unless you're listening for it, you really don't or won't even notice it most likely.  This is a very clean recording and transfer.

Feist has such a spectacular voice and is such a talented musician I feel.  And she surrounds herself with artists that are cut from the same cloth.  She is my favorite female singer and has been for a number of years now.

I wish these sessions were as long as the concert was when I saw her in November of 2011.  She put on a 1 hour, 41 minute show and it was one of the best concerts I've ever been to.  The crowd loved her performance too it was obvious.  The show was inside of a very nice theater.  It was a lot different than most of the area outdoor concerts and it had the design and sound that was sharp and clean like you cannot get outdoors.  I believe with her attention to sound, detail, and fidelity, this was not by accident where the show was performed.

I cannot wait until Feist has another new recording and tour and comes through my town again.  I think she may be back in the studio now due to some recent Facebook clips she has posted.  At least I hope that is what she is indicating.  It has been four years almost since her last tour.

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.

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Journey: 1983-03-02 Tokyo, Japan (FLAC_SB/FM BX_2 CD)

Good grief, I've been trying to get time to get these last two discs uploaded from the Calm & Storm silver set all week!  And now I hope to finally get it done this morning.

This is the disc 3 and 4 silvers from Frontiers in Tokyo.  It sounds excellent and is from the FM broadcast done in Japan.  I think this is almost as good in sound as the master cassette recording of the same broadcast I uploaded in the past.  They are really pretty neck and neck and in my opinion the previous upload I made of the same material, which is easy to find here, is a little better sounding.  But you cannot go wrong with either choice either.

LINEAGE:
Calm & Storm silver CD's > EAC (Secure Mode, Offset Correction) > WAV > TLH  (to test for lossiness and other issues) > 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: March 3rd, 1983
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Budokan Hall
Title: Frontiers In Japan
Label: Calm & Storm
Source: SB/FM BX
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (full 300 dpi scans in download)
Size: 561 MB
Length: 83:26:19

SETLIST:
CD 1:
301. Chain Reaction
302. Wheel In The Sky
303. Line Of Fire
304. Send Her My Love
305. Still They Ride
306. Open Arms
307. Jonathan Cain (keyboards solo)
308. Frontiers
309. Rubicon
310. Faithfully
311. Who's Crying Now
312. Don't Stop Believin'

CD 2:
401. Stone In Love
402. Keep On Runnin'
403. Any Way You Want It
404. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
405. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
406. Don't Fight It
407. FM BX outro

LINK:
(1) 1983-03-02 Tokyo, Japan (SB/FM/Calm & Storm)

MIRROR:
(1) 1983-03-02 Tokyo, Japan (SB/FM/Calm & Storm) (Mirror)

NOTE:
I'm using a free Mega account as a mirror in this upload.  Those of you downloading please leave me a message here or on the Facebook (Community Group or Secret Group) letting me know what works best as far as the links go.  I eventually plan on adding a secondary mirror site to my posts as I've always had until the last year or so.  Your opinion will help me help you.

There are a few songs missing from this broadcast as you already know if you read the complete audience post for this same show.

The waveform looks great in this recording with no audio clipping.  There is a little more noise in the recording "techtuts" thought.  But the recording has great stereo separation and really has no issues. 

Here are some things I noticed after starting the upload and this information is not in the text file.  I did notice in the song "Frontiers" that there was some tape flutter or some sort of issue about mid stream in the song.  But it is a short blip.  And the very beginning of "Rubicon" has a moment where the stereo channel on one side drop out for a second and then continues on.  I don't recall these errors in the upload I made last year and there is a link to down below.  There is also a short, few seconds, clip of the audience recording near the end of "Don't Stop Believin'.  I'm guessing it was a tape flip on the recorder so the label inserted, very nicely too, the audience portion to fill the gap.  I am listening to the show all of the way through this morning for the first time so there may be a few other blips but I don't expect anything major to be wrong with this recording.

This FM broadcast is 40 minutes shorter than the full audience recording is.  Songs like "No More Lies", "Back Talk", "Edge of the Blade" and a few others are not in the broadcast.  And neither are many of the parts in between songs, the instrumental solos, and even some of the beginning intros into songs that extend longer like in "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'".

I'm going to keep this review really short today so I can get the show uploaded.  If you get this one you won't be disappointed I can say.  It is really an excellent recording.  And if you want the previous upload I made in the past of the copy I think sounds better, the one from a master cassette transfer of an off air broadcast (like this), you can find it HERE!

A special thanks goes to "Digital_Journey", "techtuts", and "Steve7777" for getting these discs to me to EAC rip and prepare to share with all of you 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.

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Triumph: 1985-03-08 Los Angeles, CA (FLAC_SB-FM_2 CD)

Today is the 31st anniversary of this excellent Triumph show that was broadcast live via satellite across all 50 states in the USA in 1985.

Triumph was on their Thunder Seven tour when this concert was played and that in itself means there are some great songs in this show.  But rather than have me describe it all, let's get it uploaded so you can listen and decide what you think.

LINEAGE:
Unknown lineage (not given) > FM BX recorded > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness and align sector boundaries) > 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: Triumph
Date: March 8th, 1985
Location: Los Angeles, California
Venue: Sports Arena
Title: Live In LA 3/8/85
Label: None
Source: SB/FM BX
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No
Size: 577 MB
Length: 88:21:33

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Superstars In Concert intro
102. pre show band interview (all members)
103. opening music ~ band intro
104. When The Lights Go Down
105. Magic Power
106. Never Surrender
107. Allied Forces
108. Lay It On The Line
109. Midsummer's Daydream
110. Time Goes By

CD 2:
201. World Of Fantasy
202. Gil Moore (drum solo)
203. Rock And Roll Machine
204. Rik Emmett (guitar solo)
205. Spellbound
206. band talking
207. Fight The Good Fight

LINK:
(1) 1985-03-08, CA (SB/FM)

The waveform look great with no audio clipping.  It looks like someone likely amplified the original audio to the maximum without clipping it possibly.  However, even though this is an excellent sounding show, it lacks a little in the mix at the beginning I think.  But it is not brickwalled either so that is good.  You can hear everyone (all three of the band members) and their instruments.  There is very little tape hiss also.

There are a few dropouts in the show.  There's one at the beginning on CD 1 and then at least two on CD 2.  "World of Fantasy" is incomplete too.  The song just drops out and then the drum solo, already playing, picks up.  I guess the taper wasn't paying close attention and ran out of tape unfortunately?

It's a little ironic that in the band interview before the show the disc jockey ask the band how they handle arguments on the road.  They indicate they really didn't have them other than the short, normal kinds like between a "husband and wide" over small stuff.  Yea, right!  Everyone knows this band came apart due to their constant disagreements and arguments.  When I first saw and met Rik Emmett in 2000 I believe half of his talk between songs was still putting down Gil Moore.  They didn't get along well.  But they did make great music while they lasted.

If you like Triumph, you'll like this show.  It sounds excellent and the performance is just as good.  I would have upload the show in the past but I only had an mp3 copy until today when I went and found a lossless copy.  So here we go.

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.

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Ten Years After: 1969-12-03 Helsinki, Finland (FLAC_SB/FM 1st Gen_1 CD)

Today is the 46th anniversary of this excellent sounding first generation recording of the Ten years After show in Helsinki in 1969.  This is an off-air recording and is very clean and mixed very well.  I have two copies of this exact recording.  One is a remaster and the other is this one that has not been remastered.

LINEAGE:
1st Gen tape > DAT(3) > CD-R > EAC > WAV > TLH > 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

DETAILS:
Artist: Ten Years After
Date: December 3rd, 1969
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Venue: Kulttuuritalo
Title: None
Label: per Erik (sharing party)
Source: SB/FM BX (1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 395 MB
Length: 68:07:20

SETLIST:
01. Spoonful
02. I May Be Wrong But Won't Be Wrong Always
03. Hobbit
04. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
05. No Title
06. Scat Thing
07. I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes

LINK:
(1) 1969-12-03 Helsinki, Finland (SB/FM BX 1st Gen)

The waveform looks good and the audio is balanced well.  There is some right channel audio clipping on the first two tracks in the waveform of each but it looks like it was likely a recording level issue and it was fixed.  And as far as I could hear listening to the show today, it is not anything you will hear or notice.  It's not a bad issue or problem at all.

It cracks me up as Alvin Lee is talking before "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl".  He is saying that the song will probably be their last song and the crowd can be heard doing the "noooo...booo" kind of thing showing they want to hear more.  He just calmly says "But it's 5 hours long" in a joking manner.  And of course it isn't the last song either as they do play another.

A special thanks goes to Erik for originally sharing the show and to "LB" for posting it on Dime.

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.

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

Feist: 2007-05-10 Santa Monica, CA (FLAC_SB/FM/Studio 1st Gen_1 CD)

I've been going way to long without my Feist fix!  As I've stated in each post I've made of her music probably, I love her voice and music too.  And this 2007 live FM studio broadcast recorded is a superb sounding and perfect mood setting example of what I wanted to hear this morning.

A special thanks goes out to "Nibbler" for recently sharing this lossless recording at my request.  I have got be honest when I say I don't remember when I even asked him to reseed his copy or if I did?  I've made some requests in posts and forums before and this is the second person who has helped in the last 9 years.  He may have seen my requests for Feist here or I may have PM'ed him on Dime or asked via the Dime Yahoo Group.  Wherever he saw I was asking about this show, he was kind enough to re-post the show again after coming across it and he even sent me a PM letting me know.  And he did a superb job of recording the audio too!

LINEAGE:
FM broadcast > Harman Kardon AVR30 > analog out > Sony RCD-W500C > Audio CD-R > WAV > Pioneer DVR-RW DVD-108 > EAC > CD Wave Editor (for tracking and encoding as FLAC.8) > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, Normalize audio, 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: Feist
Date: May 10th, 2007
Location: Santa Monica, California
Venue: KCRW Studio (Santa Monica College)
Title: Morning Becomes Eclectic
Label: Nibbler (taper)
Source: SB/FM/Studio (1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 204 MB
Length: 34:06:24

SETLIST:
01. KCRW FM intro
02. So Sorry
03. band talk
04. The Park
05. Feist (switching instruments)
06. The Water
07. Feist (interview)
08. I Feel It All
09. Safety Bricks
10. Feist (telling band they're still on air live)
11. Sea Lion Woman
12. KCRW FM outtro

LIN K:
(1) 2007-05-10 Santa Monica, CA (SB/FM/Studio 1st Gen)

This recording really showcases Feist's beautiful voice and her talent as a singer.  This recording, being a studio live broadcast from the radio station, is more acoustic sounding than the actual songs in a live show would have been.  And it is a nice change too.

I made a small project out of this recording and fixed some errors in the track order.  After finding the live video of this performance and making sure the setlist was correctly oriented, I used Normalize in Audacity on the tracks and the outcome sounded like a nice improvement to me.  The original tracks sounded fine too.  But Normalize evened out the audio volume and made for a nice listening experience.  I also made a copy of the recording without any Normalize attributes too as a backup.

Feist was at the KCRW studios for the second time in this broadcast.  The first time, in 2005, was for the Let It Die album release and this time in 2007 was for her The Reminder album which she was starting her touring on the following week she says.  The Reminder is really the release that made he a much more well known name and a Canadian Grammy (Juno Awards I believe they are called) winner too.

I've been waiting since Feist finished up her 2012 touring for a new album or tour but so far I am only seeing hints she may be doing something now via Facebook.  I sure hope so because it was late 2011 the last time she released anything new and I really want to hear and see her in concert again.

The original date reported for this performance in the sharing of this audio was reported as 2007-05-11.  However, the official KCRW website shows this show was on 2007-05-10.  I'm guessing it may have been rebroadcast a day later or maybe the date could have been reported wrong by either "Nibbler" or KCRW FM?  I'm just going by when the radio station said the show was broadcasted live.

There have been a few new shows I have wanted to get uploaded here lately.  One is a show I recorded a week ago today and another is the Led Zeppelin 1975-03-03 newly surfaced Fort Worth, Texas soundboard!  Originally the party sharing the first Led Zeppelin copy I got had requested people wait until after this weekend to share it.  But the next day another person who had also gotten a copy as it was released by EVSD shared their copy on Dime.  So all is fine on uploading it now I'm sure but I just need to get the time and sit down and make the upload.  I'll get around to getting some music uploaded here as soon as I have some time.  Hopefully; this lack of uploads lately will soon be over and I'll be back in full swing.

I hope you enjoy the studio recordings...
 
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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.

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Journey: 1978-09-02 San Mateo, CA (FLAC_SB/FM BX Remaster & Upgrade_1 CD)

What better day to share this huge audio upgrade of this Journey show that occurred 37 years ago today than on its birthday.  This is a big sound upgrade and an excellent LP rip and reworking project my "techtuts" and a small amount of preparing by me.

The real audio work as well as the LP owner was done by "techtuts" and I only tracked the songs, removed the beginning and end LP blank spots, used Audacity to Normalize the Side B audio, and removed one silent gap in "Wheel In The Sky" (after the song was over).  "Techtuts" did all of the audio work and sent me the Side A and B tracks to listen to and finish the easy stuff.

This is the best copy of this show I have heard in the last 20 years.  There are some really poor copies and some that are better sounding as well as more complete too.  There are some mediocre copies too that sound nice.  But this one is far better than any I have heard and you won't even be able to tell it was an LP rip either.

All copies of this show, which was an FM broadcasted show, have an issue I really can't put a name on.  I call it channel fading for lack of the correct terminology.  At points the left channel and/or the right channel seem to drop and rise again in volume.  I'm not sure if all copies of this show have come from the same source?  Maybe it was a source not receiving the FM signal at full signal strength the whole time?  Or maybe it was taken from a cassette that had some head problems or was just old?  And there is always the chance this was an issue in the studio at the time of the broadcast too?  I really do not know.  But the problem is not a show stopping issue like I've heard on some other recordings before.

This recording has great stereo separation and no clipping in the waveform.  And the songs still sound really excellent and I can only hope that maybe there is another source that is an even better upgrade to this one (and the full show) in the future.  But until that day comes around, I have a feeling this may be the best sounding copy thanks to "techtuts" and the work he put into making this available to all of us!

LINEAGE:
Technics SL-D30 > Project Phono Box MM > Behringer UCA202 > iZotope RX4 (Declick, Denoise, EQ Match) > FLAC 8 > me > TLH > WAV  (aligned sector boundaries) > CD Wave (to track and to remove pre/post LP silence & a small gap in one track) > EMC 2010 Pro (to rejoin track the gap was removed from) > Audacity (to view waveform, Normalize Side B, embed metadata/track titles & info and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to double check for SBE's and create and verify ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: September 2nd, 1978
Location: San Mateo, California
Venue: Monitros Studios
Title: Guitars And Amps
Label: Allied Productions (techtuts and Bootradr Remaster)
Source: SB/FM BX (in studio)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes (LP art and some back art I made for an old copy in 2000)
Size: 290 MB
Length: 51:07:65

SETLIST:
01. Of A Lifetime
02. I Would Find You
03. Feeling That Way
04. Anytime
05. La Do Da
06. Can Do
07. Winds Of March
08. On A Saturday Night
09. Wheel In The Sky
10. Next

FOUR TRACKS NOT ON LP COPY OR IN THIS DOWNLOAD:
11. You're On Your Own
12. Look Into The Future
13. She Makes Me (Feel Alright)
14. Lights

LINK:
(1) 1973-05-28 San Mateo, CA (SB/FM/techtuts & Bootradr Remaster)

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This concert was a benefit concert Journey did for a high school.  It was the Borel Middle School Benefit show and Journey raised $6,000 for uniforms for the school.  Ha!  $6,000 back then probably equates to $60,000 nowadays (just kidding...I have no idea).

I created some artwork for the show back in 2000, but this copy already had the LP artwork too that it came with.  Since the LP artwork isn't really CD artwork comparable for the rear of a CD case I'll include the back cover artwork I created and it is ready to print and add to the back case of any regular size CD case.

I have heard that Monitros Studio had studios in San Francisco and San Mateo, California.  I even looked it up in the past and confirmed it via the web at some point.  This is a show that occurred in San Mateo, California from all the research others and myself have done in past years.  My back artwork does have San Francisco on it however because in 2000 that's where "we" thought the show was performed.

This show has some really cool and more rare Journey tracks too that you do not usually hear very often live.  Songs like "I Would Find You" and "Can Do" are on this copy.  And on the full show, which has the four additional songs but not near as good a sounding recording, "Look Into The Future" was in that part of the show.

The date for this show has been in question also for some time.  Most have settled on September 2, 1978. The setlist is not in any normal Journey concert played type of order either..  When Steve Perry was new in Journey (he joined in 1977 and started performing live around March of 1978), they would start their shows off with a few songs without him singing.  This show is arranged in that same manner.  I believe he comes in on the third song.  The songs are in a random sounding and different order and I'm not sure how the band decided on what was going to be played in this FM radio concert.  But it's a great variety of songs and a mix of the new at the time Infinity LP songs as well as songs from the pre Perry era of Journey.  Of course Perry, like in the live 1978 concerts, sings with Gregg Rolie on most of the tracks he was never on in the studio released LP's before he was in the band.  It really gives them a completely new life too.

As far as information goes, don't be fooled by the song titles on the album (surely a bootleg sold) listed artwork.  It lists songs like "Next" as "Midnight Dreamer" and we know that is not the right title.  It also shows "Of A Lifetime" as being named "Kohoutek" which is a completely different Journey song altogether.

The LP artwork included came from a previous Dime member upload of this same show.  The artwork is in a high enough resolution I have been able to zoom in and see the text.  Ironically, and four years before "Separate Ways" (1982) was ever created as a song by the band, the back artwork from the LP talks of Aynsley Dunbar leaving the band as Journey and Aynsley "...have gone their separate ways..." it states.  In fact, I just recalled this was reportedly Dunbar's last performance with Journey before they replaced him with drummer Steve Smith .

I hope you enjoy the show...

UPDATE:Dime member "sandpshkr" replied with some local to San Mateo and helpful information regarding the school and possible studio name for the beneficiary (middle school) and studio.  I will research further and see if I can confirm any updates to these and correct them in my post as I research more.  I've already corrected the school name above.  Of course, this update won't be in the text file already uploaded.

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Foreigner: 1978-12-01 Philadelphia, PA (FLAC_SB/FM BX_1 CD)

This is an excellent sounding older Foreigner show from 1978 that was an FM broadcasted concert.  I'm uploading it by request for some 1970's Foreigner.  And I'm glad that request came in because I never really had listened to much of the more classic rock sounding Foreigner.  I was use to the common 1970's and 1980's songs played on the radio all of the time of course.  I've had Foreigner 4 on CD since the 1980's with a lot of the older tracks on them.  But songs like "I Need You" I had not heard before and this is a different sounding Foreigner to me that I like better honestly.

LINEAGE:
FM BX > unknown > CD-R > WAV > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness and align sectors on boundaries) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to double check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Foreigner
Date: December 1st, 1978
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Venue: The Spectrum
Title: None
Label: None
Source: SB/FM BX
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1 (possibly 2...read below)
Artwork: Yes (very basic PDF art found online and included in download)
Size: 372 MB
Length: 79:30:32

SETLIST:
01. Long, Long Way From Home
02. I Need You
03. Blue Morning, Blue Day
04. Woman Oh Woman
05. Cold As Ice
06. The Damage Is Done
07. At War With The World
08. Starrider
09. Double Vision
10. Spellbinder
11. Feels Like The First Time
12. Hot Blooded
13. Headknocker

BAND LINEUP:
Mick Jones - Guitar
Dennis Elliott - Drums
Ian McDonald - Multi-Instrumentalist
Al Greenwood - Keyboards
Ed Gagliardi - Bass
Lou Gramm - Vocals

LIN K:
(1) 1978-12-01 Philadelphia, PA (SB/FM BX)

According to the information with this show, this was one of the last shows with all of the original members in the lineup.  The last time I saw Foreigner two years ago, there was nobody from the original band in the group because Mick Jones had to take a few shows off for some reason.  My mind is drawing a blank right now, but one of the members of Night Ranger filled in and the show was spectacular.  I recorded the audio and video of the show but I was way back in the venue and the camera was reaching its limits in focusing.  I think I did use Adobe Premiere Pro to make a simple DVD of the show with no menus and just chapters.  They were one of the opening bands for Journey and I was very impressed by the band of foreign Foreigner members!

But getting back on track here and talking about this show, this really is an excellent sounding show and the performance from what I have listened to is an excellent one too.

The songs "Blue Morning, Blue Day" and "Woman Oh Woman" were not originally is this FM recording and came from another (FM recording I assume) source and were added to fill in the gaps in the shorter version of the show that aired.  A little research online indicated some thing the two songs are actually from the FM broadcast of a Washington, DC show the band played in March of 1978.  The songs came from the show according to what I have (which is someone's word I don't know).  Supposedly; the tracks just were not in the original FM broadcast that the rest of the show was recorded from.  Tracks 3 and 4, "Blue Morning, Blue Day" and "Woman Oh Woman", are the two in question as mentioned and they have a slightly lesser quality recording sound.  They still sound great and it's no big deal but the rest of the show sounds a couple of notches up in quality.  I'd rather have the two songs, if they are from the show, not sounding as good in the file set to make it complete anyhow.

This reminds me of something I wanted to mention.  And your CD-R media and burner and software will be what makes a difference whether this is a 1 CD or 2 CD show for you.  The time, as listed above under the details area, is right at the 80 minute mark for CD-R's.  There's a 30 second difference and all CD-R's, like computer drives and other storage devices, need a certain amount of space to format the device or disc storing the data.  The 30 seconds may make you need to burn this on two discs or it may not.  It's all up to your equipment you write to disc with and the media you're storing it on.  And it varies from brand to brand.  Some people may want to use their software's overburn feature since it's seconds we're talking about if it has that capability.

What I like in this early version of Foreigner is the guitar and the whole classic rock sound.  Ballads can be great, but I really like the material here that is much more rock and roll sounding in my opinion.  The song I mentioned at the beginning, "I Need You", has a great, long solo and the song just has that 1970's era sound and feel to it.  It really makes me want to find some more 1970's Foreigner recordings of live shows.

I've found a few (four or five) 1977 to 1978 Foreigner SB, FM BX, and similar concerts over the last few days and I'll upload some more eventually.

I hope you enjoy the show...
 
Bootradr

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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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Journey: 1978-09-02 San Mateo, CA (FLAC_SB/FM/Studio_2 Source Mix_Bootradr Remaster_1 CD)

This is a great recording of Journey and one of the rarer ones to circulate too.  For many years, I never uploaded this show because all of the earlier copies I had obtained over the years were not that great.  But about two years ago, and I believe it was thanks to a Dime member but I can't confirm that at the time, I was able to get this upgrade.

I tagged this post as "Bootradr Remaster" but it is not a real remastering job.  I just did this because of the work I did do in adding the second source mix as you'll see below.  No audio altering was done to this project.

This was not the complete show though.  However, I took the four missing tracks not in this upgraded copy from the Gypsy Eye label's Look Into The Future bootleg, and in a decent quality recording too, and added them to the end of the show where they belonged.  Gypsy Eye's bootleg release doesn't have the high notes like this Allied Production copy does.  It has a little bit of a "muted" sound in the high frequencies.  But I went ahead and merged them and did not alter anything in the audio.  But the show could use a remastering or EQ job to make it even better sounding.  But it still sounds excellent I think and especially when it is compared to earlier versions circulating.

LINEAGE:
Guitars and Amps LP > Pioneer PL-260 turntable > Edirol R-09 > 44/16 WAV > ClickRepair (remove pops and crackles) > DeNoise (remove noise) > Adobe Soundbooth (manually remove other ticks, clunks, etc that ClickRepair didn’t detect) > TLH >  FLAC 8 > me > added last four tracks from Gypsy Eye recording > 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: September 2nd, 1978
Location: San Mateo, California
Venue: Monitro Studios
Title: Guitars And Amps (plus Look Into The Future's last four tracks)
Label: Allied Productions (Gypsy Eye on last four tracks)
Source: SB/FM BX (in studio)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 468 MB
Length: 77:17:06

SETLIST:
01. Of A Lifetime
02. I Would Find You
03. Feeling That Way
04. Anytime
05. La Do Da
06. Can Do
07. Winds Of March
08. On A Saturday Night
09. Wheel In The Sky
10. Next
11. You're On Your Own
12. Look Into The Future
13. She Makes Me (Feel Alright)
14. Lights

LINK:
(1) 1973-05-28 San Mateo, CA (SB/FM BX/Studio)

This concert was a benefit concert Journey did for a high school.  It was the Burrell Junior High School Benefit show and Journey raised $6,000 for uniforms for the school.  Ha!  $6,000 back then probably equates to $60,000 nowadays (just kidding...I have no idea).

I created some artwork for the show back in 2000, but this copy already had the LP artwork too that it came with.  Since the LP artwork isn't really CD artwork comparable for the rear of a CD case I'll include the back cover artwork I created and it is ready to print and add to the back case of any regular size CD case.  The only issue is neither artwork creations are for the full show and the LP artwork is way off on the setlist too.

I have heard that Monitro Studio had studios in San Francisco and San Mateo, California.  I even looked it up in the past and confirmed it via the web at some point.  This is suppose to be a show that occurred in San Mateo, California from all the research others and myself have done in past years.  My back artwork does have San Francisco on it however because in 2000 that's where "we" thought the show was performed.

This show has some really cool and more rare Journey tracks too that you do not usually hear very often live.  Songs like "I Would Find You" and "Can Do" are on this copy, and on the full show, which is the Gypsy Eye label's four additional songs, "Look Into The Future" is on it also now.

The date for this show has been in question also for some time.  Most have settled on September 2, 1978. The setlist is not in any concert played type of order either..  When Steve Perry was new in Journey (he joined in 1977 and started performing live around March of 1978), they would start their shows off with a few songs without him singing.  This show is arranged in that same manner.  I believe he comes in on the third song.  It is a different order and I'm not sure how the band decided on what was going to be played in this live FM radio show.  But it's a great variety of songs and a mix of the new at the time Infinity LP songs as well as songs from the pre Perry era of Journey.  Of course Perry, like in the live 1978 concerts, sings with Gregg Rolie on most of the tracks he was never on in the studio released LP's before he was in the band.  It really gives them a completely new life too.

As far as information goes, don't be fooled by the song titles on the album (surely a bootleg sold) listed artwork.  It lists songs like "Next" as "Midnight Dreamer" and we know that is not the right title.  It also shows "Of A Lifetime" as being named "Kohoutek" which is a completely different Journey song altogether.  Maybe somebody who isn't blind like me can actually read the text on the back of the artwork.  It looks like newspaper clippings added to the album art and they may have some details of help and interest.  I just cannot read it myself.

Well, maybe I can read it.  The artwork is in a high enough resolution I have been able to zoom in and see the text.  Ironically, and four years before "Separate Ways" (1982) was ever created as a song by the band, the back artwork from the LP talks of Aynsley Dunbar leaving the band as Journey and Aynsley "...have gone their separate ways..." it states.  In fact, I just recalled this was suppose to be Dunbar's last performance with Journey.

I hope you enjoy the show...
 
Bootradr

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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!!!

Sarah McLachlan: 1992-04-06 Boston, MA (FLAC_SB/FM BX_2 CD)

A few hours ago would have been this concert's 23rd anniversary but I was too lazy tonight to upload it in time and wanted to catch up on some TV programming I'd DVR'ed.  But since it really is a superb 23 year old recording, I'm going ahead and uploading it anyhow.  The same excuse goes for why I didn't upload the Led Zeppelin Chicago, Illinois first night out of four show from 1977-04-06 too (I accidentally have 1975 in text file) :-)

Sarah McLachlan is an artist I never even heard of before the mid 1990's since she wasn't classic rock related.  And when I first heard her singing from some friends that liked her and played her CD's, one being a roommate at the time, I thought it was really nice.  But I paid little attention to it until the later part of the 1990's (probably 1998) when I got a few live shows of her that were really great recordings in a CD-R trade.

As the years have gone by, and they have, I've not listened to a whole lot of Sarah McLachlan but I've still collected a number of shows.  I like how clean most of her shows and her voice sound.  And she sings a mood setting music too.  A lot of her songs I still do not really know or know what they're even saying.  But it is a very easy going and clean music, and in some ways, it is a little like the artist Feist's music that I really love.  She's not anything like Feist even though I compared her to Feist.  But it is a type of music that is very unique and very mood setting or right for the when you are in the right type of mood.

In a way, Sarah McLachlan's music is a romantic type of music that goes good when you aren't really listening to the meaning of it but have it playing in a romantic setting (as an example).  And no, I'm home by myself tonight with the pups crashed out on my feet under the desk :-)

LINEAGE:
WFNX FM stereo simulcast > Maxell XLIIS (Dolby OFF) > Nak cassette deck 2 >
Pioneer PDR-W839 CD burner > CD-R's > EAC > FLAC > WAV (Cool Edit*) > CD Wave > FLAC 8 > 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

* See copy and paste information below relating to remastering done with Cool Edit software.

DETAILS:
Artist: Sarah McLachlan
Date: April 6th, 1992
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Venue: Charles Playhouse
Title: None
Label: None
Source: SB/FM BX (1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (front only)
Size: 571 MB
Length: 82:59:06

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. intro
102. Drawn To The Rhythm
103. Back Door Man
104. Home
105. Lost
106. Shelter
107. Black
108. Out Of The Black
109. Ben's Song

CD 2:
201. I Will Not Forget You
202. The Path Of Thomas (Terms)
203. Into The Fire
204. Steaming
205. Vox
206. Gloomy Sunday

LINKS:
(1) 1992-04-06 Boston, MA (SB/FM BX)

This show was recorded by "babybreese" as it aired live over WFNX FM in Boston and was later remastered by "RossMan" as he did retracking, some audio remastering, and some light tweaking on the audio too.

Here are some notes from the original information provided (copy & paste):
"OUTSTANDING FM recording. While this show was a great transfer to begin with, I felt it could use just a slight tweaking, due a few spots where the sound was getting clipped and some of the track points were after the song had begun.  So I rebuilt the entire show in CoolEdit and isolated 3 different spots where the recording was getting clipped and reduced them down to the average of the the entire recording. I now felt that the show had room to breath and then normalized both channels of the entire show to 98%. I then opened it up in CDWave to retrack all the cue points. There are 2 fades in the recording: One between tracks 9 & 10, where it was split for 2 discs and again between tracks 13 & 14. I feel that this is an improvement but I would only call it a "slight" remaster."

This is a very nice sounding show, it has good stereo separation, and it would surely be one any Sarah McLachlan fan would enjoy very much.  The recording is only about 2 - 3 minutes over the length of a CD-R's capacity and could be over-burned I'm sure if you're software and discs allow that and made to fit on one CD-R.

I've had this recording for years and years now.  And tonight, as I make this posting, is the first time I've ever listened to it.  Sarah really does have an awesome voice and vocal range too and it reminds me of why I started (and still do at times) collecting some of her shows.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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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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Heart: 1980-04-03 Fort Worth, TX (FLAC_SB/FM 2 Source Mix & Remaster_2 CD)

I've been busy lately as well as a little burned out and have skipped uploading a few Zeppelin birthday shows and uploading much of anything over the last week.  I had wanted to upload this show on its 35th anniversary but I didn't.  So here it is three days after its birthday.

This is a nice upgrade to the copy of this show I uploaded in the past.  This is the WMET FM master reel-to-reel taping and WAAF FM  master cassette taping merge of the two sources and it has also been remastered.  The sound is a lot sharper than either source's unaltered recording is (both of which I do have and compared).  The remastering and mixing of the two sources was posted by "gr19" on Dime so all thanks go to those involved in making this recording available.

I had originally thought the "KRW_Co" shared WMET FM master reel-to-reel copy was from the radio station's master reel.  So some of the information embedded in the audio tracks may be slightly incorrect if it states this.  I listened to this copy being uploaded all the way though on April 4th and realized that both recordings (or sources) are from off-air recordings of the two radio stations and I had been mistaken thinking one source was from the radio station's master reel.

This the full and complete audio from this Fort Worth 1980-04-03 concert too.

LINEAGE:
(1) KRW Source Lineage: WMET FM BX > reel-to reel master tapes > WAV > CD-R > EAC > FLAC >
(2) Patch Source Lineage (beginning of track 1, middle of track 10, end of track 21, all of track 22): WAAF 107.3 FM live BX > Sansui 8 receiver with wire antenna > unknown average quality cassette deck (Dolby off) > almost never played TDK-SA 90 min. master cassette >  played on Tascam 112 into Soundforge (WAV) > FLAC > sector boundaries aligned) >
(3) Remaster Lineage: Dime FLAC download > WAV (balancing and patching tracks 1, 10, 21 and 22) > FLAC (sector boundaries aligned again) >
(4) 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: Heart
Date: April 3rd, 1980
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Venue: Tarrant County Convention Center
Title: None
Label: A This And That Production
Source: SB/FM BX (Source 1 Master Reel & Source 2 Master Cassette Mix)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No (I'm including the Bebe Le Strange boot art...not an exact match)
Size: 708 MB
Length: 94:30:08

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. FM radio interview and intro
102. Bebe Le Strange
103. Crazy On You
104. Straight On
105. Even It Up
106. Raised On You
107. Strange Night
108. Dog And Butterfly
109. Dreamboat Annie ~ Just The Wine
110. Down On Me
111. Mistral Wind

CD 2:
201. Silver Wheels
202. Magic Man
203. Barracuda
204. Rockin' Heaven Down
205. FM radio announcer ~ encore 1
206. Rock And Roll (Led Zeppelin cover)
207. Sweet Darlin'
208. FM radio announcer ~ encore 2
209. I'm Down ~ Long Tall Sally
210. Unchained Melody
211. FM radio outtro

LINKS:
(1) 1980-04-03 Fort Worth, TX (SB/FM/2 Master Sources Mix)

The fidelity of the primary, "KRW_Co" sourced, WMET FM audio recording is the better of the two sources.  The WAAF FM source was only used to patch missing parts of the show in a few short places.

This show was being broadcast live and worldwide as it happened back in 1980.  Heart puts on great show with their new lineup of band members as the opened their Bebe Le Strange tour.  I believe Ann Wilson says this is either the fourth or fifth show on the tour in the early interview track.

I first got this show myself back in the 1990's in a CD-R trade or from a local collector friend "Digital_Journey".  It was a great sounding show then I thought.  But the original source I had as well as the few others I have gotten over the years all fall short of this recording's sound.

There are some audio changes (besides the two sources sound differences) in the show and I am convinced they're part of the original FM broadcasted airing of this show in 1980.  So all copies have the sound changes I'm referring to.  In earlier copies, all copies of the show had a slight high pitch noise in the audio.  And in the pre-internet days when we traded shows and the generation of the copy might be a lot higher, this brought out the high pitch tone more I believe.  It wasn't a show stopper kind of noise but it was annoying nevertheless.  You can hear as track 1 starts up in this recording and the interview is taking place the high pitch noise I am referring too.  But it quickly disappears as the audio gets much better and the show starts up.

While searching for some facts or information on the show, I asked "whotapes" if he had any additional information since he was at this show in 1980.  He said the one thing that was different than other shows was the fact you had to buy your tickets at the Tarrant County Convention Center and that was the only way you could get them.  So there were no third party ticket vendors selling them and he said the lines outside at the Tarrant County Convention Center were very, very long.  I never asked him this, but I believe he may have been saying this was more or less a first come, first serve kind of ticket sales concert.  But I can't state that for sure.

So far, this is the best copy of the show I have heard out of the five or six copies I have obtained over the years.  I was able to turn it up loud and enjoy it Saturday; so I did!

I hope you enjoy the show too...

Bootradr

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Kiss: 1974-04-01 Cleveland, OH (FLAC_SB/FM BX_1 CD)

Here is an excellent recording of a Kiss concert from Cleveland that was broadcast by WMMS FM in 1974.  I'm not sure if it was live or pre-recorded.  But either way, it was recorded on tape from the FM radio broadcast and it is extremely clean and excellent sounding too.

I've had some early 1973/1974 Kiss requested and that is why I am uploading it a few days prior to its 41st anniversary.  It's only four days early anyhow.

This recording is not what you expect.  I can say that because we all expect a 1974 recorded FM broadcast to sound sub-par even if it still sounds excellent to us.  But this is not the case here and the sound may be closer to superb than excellent in my rating of it.

LINEAGE:
No lineage given other than FM broadcast and no EQ work done on recording > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness and pad one track) > 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: Kiss
Date: April 1st, 1974
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Venue: Agora Ballroom
Title: Cleveland 1974
Label: Zodiac
Source: SB/FM BX (WMMS FM)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 206 MB
Length: 36:12:68

SETLIST:
01 .Deuce
02. Strutter
03. Cold Gin
04. She
05. Firehouse
06. Nothin' To Lose
07. 100,000 Years
08. Black Diamond

LINK:
(1) 1974-04-01 Cleveland, OH (SB/FM BX)

This is reported as the first known Kiss FM broadcast.  And I just got this show late last year too and there are a lot of huge Kiss collectors who know more than I ever will that agreed.  Plus, the sharing party , (someone I cannot thank because I cannot determine who it may be) states in their original information that this was discovered through their YouTube "KISS8mmfilms" page.

What strikes me as incredible is how sharp and clean the highs are in this recording too.  It sounds like it should be an official release almost.  The mix is great in the broadcast and everyone in the band can be heard very cleanly as they sing and play instruments.

I don't know if this is the full show or not?  It makes sense it very well may be because Kiss was still pretty new in 1974 and they may (or may not) have been an opening band at the time.  But they obviously were getting enough recognition to have been broadcasted over the radio.

It is kind of funny hearing Paul Stanley say at one point in "100,000 Years", and  as he is trying to get the crowd to clap their hands, "Come on, don't tell me you may not be clapping because your friends think it's not cool.  Why don't you people just loosen up a little bit."

After doing a little internet research, I found another posting of this recording and found some artwork as well.  I'm not 100% sure this copy I am uploading is the Zodiac label copy.  But since everything matches, I'm adding that artwork too.  Also, the information in the other posting of the show says this is the full, eight song set too.  So it is the full performance after all which is always a good thing.

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.

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