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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

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Monday, April 11, 2016

Mazzy Star: 2000-06-04 Copenhagen, Denmark (FLAC_AUD Master_1 CD)

It's been a while since I have uploaded a Mazzy Star show so here is one requested a while back. Hope Sandoval, the singer, has a really nice voice and this show sounds a little different than most I've heard of the band so far. It seem it is more acoustic than electric in the music.

I only became aware of this band, a band that has been around since the early 1990's, after a friend introduced me to a them by requesting a show a year or so ago. It was a 2012 show I first found and as I was playing it I realized I liked it a lot too. I liked the diversity in the music, the songs, and just the overall unique sound the band has. They have an earlier 1960's - 1970's California kind of sound with a mix of other eras of music after that time-frame too. But they did not sound like a band mimicking previous bands in history and they had their own sound.

So after being introduced to something I liked, I did what I do and found more of their music and liked it too. This show does sound a little different than what they usually sound like but since it was in my Requests folder I'm uploading it.

LINEAGE:
Core Cardiod microphones > Sharp MD recorder (stationary) transfer > optical cable > hard drive > Cool Edit Pro > CD WAV Editor > 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

NOTES (copy & paste):
"New transfer (2005) -> added a bit of bass and normalized in CEP."

DETAILS:
Artist: Mazzy Star
Date: June 4th, 2000
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Venue: Loppen
Title: None
Label: None
Source: AUD (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 368 MB
Length: 71:59:34

SETLIST:
01. Leaving On A Train
02. Blues
03. Bake My Biscuit
04. Ride It On
05. I've Been Let Down
06. Bells Ring
07. Rhymes Of An Hour
08. Unreflected
09. Sparrow
10. That Way Again
11. Look On Down From The Bridge
12. Plain Gold Ring
13. Now That You're Gone
14. Among My Swan

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

The waveform has no audio clipping, brickwalling, or any other bad traits. The sound is excellent and the mix is too. The first five tracks are acoustical songs and then the band seems to join in and start playing in many tracks after that. But overall, the recording is very well done with no audience interference or noise either.

I was not very familiar with most of these songs and as I looked online to be sure I was naming the tracks right I saw this was a tour that was new for the band. I believe they had been away for a few short years and this was their return (not specifically this show) with new songs they had written.

This is a mellow (sort of country and sort of San Francisco 1969) kind of music they played this night. I don't know if I like it as much as some of the other shows I have uploaded or not? I haven't made up my mind. But I do like it regardless and I like Hope's voice in the show too. It is a very clean sounding recording and I found no audible errors (e.g. breaks in the recording, deviation from the steady mix and sound, etc) in the recording when I listened to the show either.

I was unable to locate any information on who the taper was to give them credit. But to whoever recorded the shows, thank you for an excellent job and for sharing it!

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!!!

Friday, January 9, 2015

Mazzy Star: 2012-04-07 Sacramento, CA (FLAC_AUD_Bootradr Remaster_1 CD)

This is an excellent Mazzy Star performance and recording as they were on their tour heading to the Coachella Festival to perform. I have a video of their performance at the festival, and in fact, it was the first music I ever really heard from the band and what got me hooked on them too.

I'll upload the Coachella Festival video eventually, and even though it is in a lossy format, I like the way it looks after building a DVD of it. For some weird reason I've never run across before and have been unable to find out why, the DVD version of the show I made cuts off about 90 seconds before the show ends. I tried fixing it but it will not let me get that last minute and a half of the show to DVD. The lossy webcast rip it was sourced from, a good quality TS video file rip, plays all the way through just fine too.

I wanted make mention of the site I am finding many of these excellent shows on. After finding the first shows I got on Dime, I did a little web searching for the Coachella Festival (in Indio, California) video in a lossless format. And even though I could not find it, my search brought me to The Mazzy Star Fan Forum where there are tons of shows from the band and the band's singer Hope Sandoval. I've talked a few time via Dime to the administrator of the site and he has been more than helpful and very nice too. So if you find yourself drawn in like I have been to Mazzy Star's music, the fan forum is the best resource I have come across for information and shows of the band!

LINEAGE:
Tascam DR-07mkII (96/24) > USB > WAV > WaveLab (44/16 & track splitting) > FLAC 8 > verified and align on sector boundaries > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Easy Media Creator 2010 Pro (to remove track splits) > Audacity (to removed audio clipping and bring up 400 -1000 Hz frequencies slightly in order to bring Hope's vocals up) > CD Wave Editor (to crate new tracks) > 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: Mazzy Star
Date: April 7th, 2012
Location: Sacramento, California
Venue: Harlow's
Title: None
Label: Ozowie (taper) & Bootradr Remaster
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 325 MB
Length: 69:27:17

SETLIST:
01. Disappear
02. Blue Flower
03. Common Burn
04. She Hangs Brightly
05. Ghost Highway
06. Ride It On
07. Spoon
08. Fade Into You
09. Lay Myself Down
10. Flyin' Low
11. encore break ~ band returns to stage
12. Into Dust
13. So Tonight I Might See

LINK:
(1) 2012-04-07 Sacramento, CA (AUD)

There was some clipping in the audio in portions of the show. The original taper, "Ozwowie", made mention of the audio recording level being a little high because they were unable to monitor it during the show. "Ozwowie" also said if anyone was interested in cleaning up and reworking the show they were fine with that.

The show already sounded excellent. But I decided to fix the clipping issue and bring up Hope's vocals a little too. It was very light EQ'ing I did after fixing the clipping. In fact, I'm noticing the better vocals but I don't know if anyone else might or not? It's not that I'm any better at it. It's just that I've been listening to and working with both copies.

The taper also mentioned it sounded as if the house PA system at the show was a little underpowered for the band's performance. So the cleaning up made this a better sounding show to me, but it was not any drastic changes that were made and I was really concentrating on the vocals primarily. The harmonics do not sound like they were effected at all. I've got both versions, the unaltered and this cleaned up one. So, if anyone's interested in both of them just let me know.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Friday, December 19, 2014

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!!!

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Mazzy Star: 2012-07-15 Algés, Oeiras, Portugal (FLAC_AUD Master_1 CD)

This is an incomplete recording of a Mazzy Star show at the 2012 Optimus Oeiras Alive Festival in Portugal. As with most Mazzy Star recordings this is another excellent one. Hope Sandoval's voice can be heard well but it wasn't as loud as it might sound in most recordings. There are plenty of reasons this could have happened but I don't know why it did in this case.

LINEAGE:
Zoom H2 digital recorder @ 44/16 WAV > no lineage given > 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 double check for SBE's and create and verify ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Mazzy Star
Date: July 15th, 2012
Location: Algés, Oeiras, Portugal
Venue: Passeio Marítimo de Algés
Event: Optimus Oeiras Alive Festival
Title: None
Label: ziggyswoon (taper)
Source: AUD (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 276 MB
Length: 48:35:04

SETLIST:
01. Blue Flower
02. Disappear
03. Ghost Highway
04. Halah
05. Spoon
06. She Hangs Brightly
07. Look On Down From The Bridge
08. Fade Into You
09. Lay Myself Down
10. Flying Low (cut)

LINK:
(1) 2012-07-15 Portugal (AUD)

This recording is an incomplete capture of the show because the taper stopped recording to change their location for the Radiohead show that followed the Mazzy Star show. That's too bad. The taper mentioned how they hated to cut the Mazzy Star show short because they were enjoying it a lot but that they were more interested in the following band and had to move to another location to record them. Thankfully they were able to get most of the Mazzy Star concert though.

All thanks goes to "ziggyswoon" for recording what they did of this show and for sharing it too.

I hope you enjoy the recording...

Bootradr

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Mazzy Star: 1993-10-26 Paris, France (FLAC_SB/Pre-FM Reportedly_1 CD)

Here's an older Mazzy Star show coming up on its 21st anniversary. This is an excellent recording, however; I am frustrated not knowing for sure if it is what it claims to be and coming to the conclusion it isn't. I'll try and update as I am able to confirm or deny more details.

So here goes...this is suppose to be a transfer from a rare Sangatte CD (1000 or less made) of the pre-FM recording of this show. The Black Sessions is a French FM radio broadcast done with various artists through the years and only a few, sometimes less than 500, copies are made of the show and they're stuck in with odd purchases. Sometimes a person may buy a recording from one artist and the recording of another artist's The Black Sessions show will be with it. This is what I've read and heard in the past. It seems to be that you cannot go out and find a copy if you want to buy one. But if you do not really want one, you may wind up getting one too. And that's the story the way I've been told and read.

Now, on to this self claimed professional copy. This is not put together like one and it tests lossy. This recording is not sounding whatsoever like the 2013, 20th Anniversary, professionally made copy it claims to be and sounds like an FM radio broadcast recording. There is some hiss in the tape sound, there are cut outs between tracks as if commercials are being removed, the waveform shows some audio clipping, and it does not have a professional "feel" to it. I'm not convinced the record label doesn't release these shows in a lossy, mpeg format though because every The Black Sessions I've heard all come back as 95% mpeg sourced.

Now, after saying all of the above, this still is an excellent sounding recording. It's better than another FM broadcasted over French radio source I first got. I'm not trying to discourage anyone from getting this, but I do not believe it is what it claims to be lineage wise either.

LINEAGE: (not likely correct prior to my getting it)
Sangatte Records 20th Anniversary silver CD > sold and bought on e-Bay > downloaded from a Mazzy Star fan forum > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Mazzy Star
Date: October 26th, 1993
Location: Paris, France
Venue: Studio 105
Title: The Black Sessions
Label: Sangatte Records (not likely)
Source: SB/Pre-FM (not likely)
Format: FLAC (likely lossy MPEG source)
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 430 MB
Length: 71:41:56

SETLIST:
01. Mary Of Silence
02. Ghost Highway
03. She Hangs Brightly
04. Bells Ring
05. Halah
06. Blue Light
07. Ride It On
08. Into Dust
09. Give You My Lovin'
10. Blue Flower
11. So Tonight That I Might See
12. Wasted (also reported as "Hair & Skin", a Red on Green cover)
13. Rock Section

LINK:
(1) 1993-10-26 Paris (The Black Sessions)

If anyone wonders why a lot of people actually check the audio quality and add the various files we do to ensure the files are verifiable and intact, it's because you cannot always believe what you read when you find a show. And it's not that the person sharing it is necessarily lying. Many times they didn't check to verify what they reported in their post was correct or maybe they didn't even know or ever learn how to verify some very simple things. I think that is the case in this example here. Here is a copy and paste of part of the information given for this sharing of this recording:

This audio file comes from the a 2oth anniversary special edition CD issued by Sangtatte Records. Many thanks to (removed so as to not embarrass or insult the people involved) for kindly sharing a CDR copy of his original CD I believe he found at a not-cheap price on ebay. A lossless FLAC audio file of the CD can now be shared via the Forum boots list. The prior versions of The Black Sessions listed in the boots list were lacking in audio quality. I'd hoped a better version might turn up. Now, thanks to jamband, we can enjoy a top quality audio version of The Black Sessions.

I plan on adding some more help to my site for those interested in verifying recordings. And I also plan of learning to do some more things I've put off after having difficulties learning them. But I can recommend one program now that every last trader should get and it is free! Get Trader's Little Helper! Not only can you convert, get information, analyze, etc, etc your recordings with this program but it will help you learn more about the music your downloading and possibly sharing yourself. It's a must have if you don't have it.

This most definitely is a better sounding copy than the previous one I'd found, and even though it is an mpeg, lossy source and falsely represented somewhere along the way copy I am sure, I'm still thankful to have it for the sound upgrade!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Monday, October 20, 2014

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Mazzy Star: 2012-07-18 Zurich, Switzerland (FLAC_AUD Master_1 CD)

This is a recording from a band I just recently was introduced to. They've been around since 1990, and the singer, Hope Sandoval, has been singing since at least 1983 I can see from recordings I've come across. I was wondering how this young girl could have been singing for so many years and then I finally looked up her bio on the internet and discovered she's 48 years old now! She has definitely found the fountain of youth if anyone has!

But the friend that introduced this band to me very recently had me locate and burn a 2012 show to DVD for him. We checked it out at my place and I was really impressed by the music and the singer's voice. This is what I call "mood music" because it seems to be best to listen to in certain mindsets. If you're pumped up and ready to rock out, then no, you aren't wanting to hear this likely. But if you're more relaxed, like the fall and winter months arriving seem to get me each year, and if you want a music you can almost listen to without actually listening to it (like when working on a project or something), then these are just a few examples that I find are perfect for the music and mood.

This is the first professionally successful artist (band) I've come across in a while that I've taken a big interest in. And if you have or haven't heard of them, maybe you should check out Mazzy Star too.

LINEAGE:
Audience recording by hanwaker > dpa 4061 new cabling by StereoLux / dpa MPS 6010 modified with Black Gates by StereoLux > XLR-cables by StereoLux (thanks Heiko!) > Korg MR-1 DSD/DSF-Format 1 bit / 2.8 MHz ( line in ) FOB/5 m in front of right stack > hanwaker mastering > dithered and converted to 16 bit / 44.1 kHz with Korg AudioGate mono recording (had to drop one channel due to distortion) tracked, level fixed ,fade in fade outs > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness and align on sector boundaries) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to double check for SBE's and create and verify ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Mazzy Star
Date: July 18th, 2012
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Venue: Rote Fabrik (Open Air Stage Am See)
Title: None
Label: hanwaker
Source: AUD (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 303 MB
Length: 71:05:35

SETLIST:
01. Blue Flower
02. Disappear
03. Ghost Highway
04. Halah
05. Ain't Nobody To Turn Me Around
06. She Hangs Brightly
07. Look On Down From The Bridge
08. Fade Into You
09. Lay Myself Down
10. Flyin' Low
11. crowd ~ encore
12. Blue Light
13. So Tonight I Might See

LINK:
(1) 2012-07-18 Zurich, Switzerland (updated link)

I've only listened to a little bit of this excellent audience recording so far. And it's not the best recording I've found either. But as I kick back in a little while tonight, and after I burn it to disc and put it in the home theater system, I'm really going to listen and let it play.

This band has a lot of Pink Floyd, The Doors, and even some Robert Plant vs. Led Zeppelin influences in their music. And there are a lot more influences you can pick out too. They have a very West Coast late 1960's into early 1970's type of sound but it is much more modern and completely different at the same time. It's very difficult to explain their music and that may be one thing I like about it. I believe they are from San Francisco and that might explain a large part of their exposure to that kind of music. Of course I live nowhere near San Francisco or California at all and I have a lot of exposure to that era and style of music. But I had to go looking for it and have for decades too!

I hope you enjoy the band and the show...

Bootradr