Pat Benatar: 2012-08-25 Dallas, TX (FLAC_AUD_Source # 3)

Here's a great, front row, right side of stage recording of Saturday night's Pat Benatar performance.  This is not my recording of the show.  I did record with two separate digital recorders but have not done too much with the files yet.  I'll upload them (Journey and Loverboy too) soon.

Thanks to "Tapehead2", over on Dime, for uploading her versions of the three concerts.

I'm not a Loverboy fan at all.  They have a few good songs I admit, but they were never my cup of tea.  I really did want to see Pat Benatar because I like her, she's had some great songs through the years, and she had her original guitarist (i.e. her 30 years married to husband Neil Giraldo) on this tour.

Being a Led Zeppelin music lover, I really liked the way this show ended.  Pat Benatar's band played their hit song from the late 1970's, "Heartbreaker", and Neil finished it off by transitioning into Led Zeppelin's famous 1969 song "Heartbreaker".  It was not the whole song from Zeppelin of course.  But what a way to close out their show :-)

DETAIL:
Artist: Pat Benatar (with Neil Giraldo)
Date: August 8th, 2012
Location: Dallas, Texas
Venue: Gexa Energy Pavillion
Source: AUD Master
Format: FLAC
CDs: 1
Artwork: No (I did include a concert/tour poster and two show jpg images)
Label: none (recorded by "Tapehead2")
Title: none
Size: 376 MB

LINEAGE:
(1. Tapehead201's linage) SP-CMC-8 (AT943) > SP-SPSB-10 > Sony M-10 /48 kHz/24 bit) Transfer: USB > WAV file > Sound Studio > xACT > FLAC (level 8)
(2. Bootradr's edits) Tapehead201's FLAC files > Media Creator 2010 Pro (to name tracks) > Trader's Little Helper (for md5 and ffp files creation) > you

SETLIST:
01. All Fired Up
02. Invincible
03. Promises In The Dark
04. Neil Giraldo (piano solo)
05. We Belong
06. You Better Run
07. Hit Me With Your Best Shot
08. Love Is A Battlefield
09. Let's Stay Together
10. Heartbreaker (with Led Zeppelin "Heartbreaker" ending)

LINK::
2012-08-25 Dallas, TX

Dime Torrent - http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=418100
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always!  Now, back to the original blog post.

While the venue could've had better sound, it was still good and the concert was great.  My buddy, digitaljourney, and I had a great time at the show.  And I was glad to have finally seen and heard (not to mention RECORDED) a live Pat Benatar show!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Sammy Hagar: 1983-03-13 St. Louis, MO (Pro Shot 2 DVD)

Here's a really cool (and great sounding/looking) 2 DVD show of a 1983 Sammy Hagar show that was aired (at a later date) on MTV.  The show was simulcast on FM, and in this case, the FM (or better) audio was used for the DVD's audio track.

I don't have a lot of time to type the details today, so I'm copying & pasting the original uploader's text file from the download I got it from.

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Sammy Hagar
Live at the Checkerdome in St. Louis
1983 MTV special

Cable TV with FM Stereo Audio > Sony SLHF-900 Super-Beta Hi Fi > TBC1000 Time Base Corrector > AVI 720X480 48K 16B PCM > DVD

Audio: PCM 16/48, Stereo

Video: MPEG2, NTSC, 720 x 480, 4:3, 10080 kbs Variable (6636 Average)

DVD covers are in the EXTRA_TS folder.

DVD 1
01. Love Or Money
02. Three Lock Box
03. Baby’s On Fire
04. I Don’t Need Love
05. Never Give Up
06. I’ve Done Everything For You
07. Heavy Metal
08. The Rise Of The Animal
09.I'll Fall In Love Again
10. Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy

DVD 2
11. Bad Motor Scooter
12. Red
13. There’s Only One Way To Rock
14. Baba O’Riley
15. Remember The Heroes

Note: The band played 2 extra songs that weren't included during
the video broadcast but played LIVE on the radio when the show
was originally broadcast.
"Fast Times At Ridgemont High"
"This Planet's On Fire"

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Hotfile Links:
Part 1 - https://hotfile.com/dl/200455607/7057f12/
Part 2 - https://hotfile.com/dl/200456686/7167604/
Part 3 - https://hotfile.com/dl/200458041/2d19271/
Part 4 - https://hotfile.com/dl/200458649/9f70fc5/
Part 5 - https://hotfile.com/dl/200459824/661721c/
Part 6 - https://hotfile.com/dl/200462654/019e84a/
Part 7 - https://hotfile.com/dl/200477682/3289206/
Part 8 - https://hotfile.com/dl/200478337/e674988/

FileFactory Mirror Links:
Part 1 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/33wwl8u6csz1/
Part 2 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/1dil747vlir3/
Part 3 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/2664dfvz0kjp/
Part 4 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/6oqhaemzumyl/
Part 5 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/67zc13hewca7/
Part 6 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/2iq827oyvool/
Part 7 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/6hztjtaa9cyl/
Part 8 -  http://www.filefactory.com/file/209d5sm5r1fj/

This tour, the "Three Lock Box" LP tour, was my first real introduction to Sammy Hagar's music.  There are songs on this 2 DVD set that I haven't heard in 20+ years.  It's a great performance, with the 1967/68 red Firebird on stage, and the song selection is superb.  It brought back some memories just hearing the tracks :-)

Enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Journey: 2003-06-08 Dallas, TX (FLAC_Bootradr Master AUD_2 CD)

Here's another "new" show I recorded of Journey at the "Classic Rock's Main Event" concert in Dallas.  This was one of the Styx, REO Speedwagon, and Journey shows when they all toured together.  I did record Styx and REO Speedwagon too (duh!) :-)

I have shared this show on Arrive Alive, a Journey forum, a few years back.  So it's not an uncirculated show but it probably is a low circulation one instead.

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: June 8th, 2003
Location: Dallas, Texas
Venue: Smirnoff Music Centre
Source: AUD Master
Format: FLAC
CDs: 2
Artwork: No (I did scan and include my ticket)
Label: Bootradr Master
Title: Classic Rock's Main Event - Journey
Size: 641 MB

LINEAGE:
(1. 2003) Sony MD70 recorder @ 44.1 kHz, 16 bit WAV audio with a Sony ECM-917 external microphone > transferred to PC via analog cable (no digital output on recorder) > tracked with fade in/outs and named using Easy Media Creator 5 > burned to master CD-Rs >
(2. 2012) Master Cd-Rs > Creator Pro 2010 for converting to FLAC and renaming (didn't like original naming scheme) tracks > Trader's Little Helper for md5 and torrent files creation and verification > you

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. opening music
102. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
103. Stone In Love
104. Wheel In The Sky
105. Star Spangled Banner
106. Only The Young
107. Lights
108. Open Arms (with Jonathan Cain piano intro)
109. Feeling That Way
110. Anytime
111. Don't Stop Believin'

CD 2:
201. Ask The Lonely
202. Escape
203. Be Good To Yourself
204. Anyway You Want It
205. crowd/encore
206. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
207. Faithfully

LINKS
(1) 2003-06-08 Dallas, TX (Bootradr Master AUD)

Dime Torrent - Download Here!
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always!  Now, back to the original blog post.

For some reason (maybe the hot Texas June heat or seeing REO, Styx, and Journey a few times), I cannot recall too much detail on this concert other than it was great.

Anyhow, I hope those who download the show enjoy it...

Bootradr

The Eagles: 1976-11-06 Houston, TX (Pro Shot DVD)

This is a great concert, and it is also a great upgrade to earlier versions of this show that have surfaced.  I started out with a 1 CD (audio only) recording of part of this show in the 1990's.  I didn't even realize it was on video until about ten years later.  And while the video was a great upgrade to the 1 CD audio version I had, and it was the complete show too, it still was not the best quality.  This upgrade, which I saw surfacing about two or three years ago, is great.  Work has been done to correct the audio and video issue the older copies had.  The source this video came from is a lower generation (better) copy than my original video copy too.

SHOW DETAILS:
Location: Houston, Texas
Venue: Houston Summit
Date: November 6th, 1976

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Video Compression Mode: MPEG-2
Video Format: NTSC
Video Resolution: 720 x 480
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Bitrate: 9.3 Mbps

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Audio Codec: AC3/Dolby Digital
Sampling Rate: 48 kHz
Audio channels:2
Bitrate: 192 kbps
Audio Stremas: 1

ADDITIONAL DVD DETAILS:
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: Yes (I forgot to add it to the uploaded zipped files, so grab it from the bottom of this posting if you want it)
Size: 4.16 GB
Quality: A

SETLIST:
01. Hotel California
02. Lyin' Eyes
03. Wasted Time
04. Take It To The Limit
05. Desperado
06. Midnight Flyer
07. Turn To Stone
08. Already Gone
09. One Of These Nights
10. Funk # 49
11. Fork In The Road
12. Rocky Mountain Way
13. Witchy Woman
14. James Dean
15. Best Of My Love
16. Walk Away
17. Tequila Sunrise

LINKS:
(1) 1976-11-06 Houston, TX (Pro Shot DVD)
(2) 1976-11-06 Houston, TX (Pro Shot DVD)
(3) 1976-11-06 Houston, TX (Pro Shot DVD)
(4) 1976-11-06 Houston, TX (Pro Shot DVD)
(4) 1976-11-06 Houston, TX (Pro Shot DVD)
(6) 1976-11-06 Houston, TX (Pro Shot DVD)

 The band, as usual, puts on an excellent show.  This is reportedly one of the seven 1976 to 1977 Houston Summit shows that were filmed under contracts with the venue.  I have a number of these shows (Kansas, Queen, etc) in my collection, and baring if there is any truth to the Led Zeppelin 1977 Houston Summit having been filmed, this is the show from the set of seven I have watched the most.

Between songs, as seen in all of the pro shot earlier versions, there is usually a black screen for up to a minute or two.  This isn't the case in just this Houston Summit 1976 The Eagles show.  It's the case in all that I have seen.  However, in this upgraded copy I've uploaded, someone took the time to add various pictures from The Eagles (audio is still heard on DVD) to fill in the "black gaps".

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Journey: 1979-04-18 Tokyo, Japan (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

Here is an excellent 1979 Japanese tour Journey show I got from a Japanese trader a while back.  It is really a great audience recording.  And of course, it was (and is) a very good show by the band too.

I have no idea what the lineage is on this show/source, but it sounds like a very low generation copy with good bass and highs so you can enjoy turning it up.  I can find no artwork for the show right now, but since it does have a name, I'm wondering if it may be a Gypsy Eye label CD.  They put out a number of good Journey shows (I have a few silver CDs from them myself).

DETAILS:
Band: Journey
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Shibuya-Kaikando
Date: April 18th, 1979
Label: unknown
Title: Majestic Night
Artwork: No
CDs: 2
Type: AUD (low generation)
Size: 642 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Majestic
102. La Do Da
103. Next
104. Feeling That Way
105. Anytime
106. Lights
107. Too Late
108. Kohoutek
109. Winds Of March
110. Karma
111. On A Saturday Night

CD 2:
201. City Of The Angels
202. Do You Recall
203. Daydream
204. Of A Lifetime
205. Just The Same Way
206. Lovin' You Is Easy
207. Wheel In The Sky
208. Patiently
209. Opened The Door
210. Precious Time
211. She Makes Me (Feel Alright)


LINKS:
(1) 1979-04-18 Tokyo, Japan (AUD)
(2) 1979-04-18 Tokyo, Japan (AUD)

Dime Torrent - Leak has gone dead/will eventually reupload
NOTE: I created a torrent and posted it on Dime.  If your 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.

This is a great show, and in fact, it was Journey's third and last last show in Tokyo on their Japanese leg of the Evolution 1979 tour.  The crowd enjoys the show, but they do not sound very large (like at some other Journey Tokyo shows).  The bootlegger does an excellent job of keeping silent, and as always, the Japanese crowd is quiet and respectful during songs.  The concert can be turned up loud and has a great mix of bass and high end ranges on instruments and vocals.  This one is a must have for Journey fans!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Led Zeppelin: 1969-04-24 San Francisco, CA (FLAC_AUD_1 CD)

This has to be my favorite (at least one of) Led Zeppelin 1969 show.  This show has circulated on many labels through the years, but this silver CD House of Elrond "Definitive Remastered Edition" copy is definitely the best sounding source in my opinion.  I've heard many other great versions, but they seem to lack some of the low end audio sounds this one has.  The full, clean, "being there" audio is the greatest I've heard so far.

I got this silver CD copy around 1998-2000.  The record store had CD players in it, and as soon as I checked it out, well; I checked out with it :-)

DETAILS:
Band: Led Zeppelin
Location: San Francisco, California
Venue: Fillmore West
Date: April 24th, 1969
Label: House of Elrond
Title: Fillmore 69 ("Definitive Remastered Edition" on back art and "oh so fine 69" on silver CD)
CDs: 1
Type: AUD (there have been reports this was a SB, but I believe it's just an excellent AUD recording with reportedly two microphones on stage)
Artwork: Yes (scanned outer & inner cardboard case artwork and silver CD too)
Size: 468 MB
Quality: A++

SETLIST: (keeping same names as on artwork and embedded on silver CD)
01. As Long As I Have You
02. You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover
03. Killing Floor
04. White Summer
05. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
06. Pat's Delight
Bonus Track:
07. How Many More Times (medley) (from 1969-01-26 Boston, MA show)

LINEAGE:
House of Elrond silver CD > Creator 2010 Pro to convert to FLAC > Trader's Little Helper to create and verify checksum & torrent files > you

LINK:
1969-04-24 San Francisco (House of Elrond)

Dime Torrent - http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=416170
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Here are the Dime Contrast Clauses I located for anyone interested in seeing/downloading other versions of this show:

(1)  http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=389817 (Dancing Avocado Supreme is a fan released, 2 CD version with one CD being another remastered copy and the second CD being the original master reel > PCM > DAT unedited copy.  It sounds great but is missing the lower, more bass sounds compared to this Elrond upload I believe)
(2) http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=389130 (is a KRW_Co master > DAT clone copy.  It too sounds great and compares itself to this House of Elrond version I'm uploading.  It states there is known lineage for the KRW_Co version)

Since each listener has their own subjective ratings, likes and dislikes, etc; it is hard to sometimes distinguish and discuss what a person may or may not like.  But I can definitely say that what I really like about this Elrond version is the full sound, room filling low end (the highs are great too), and overall rich sound this CD has on it.

In older versions of this show that I have, I use to have to severely turn down or even mute the part of the show where John Paul Jones' bass amp or cord starts messing up.  But in this copy, you can keep on listening as Plant and Page carry on with their ad lib "You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover" (still part of "As Long As I Have You" of course).  The distortion from earlier copies is gone!  This copy makes me feel like I'm right there at the show.

I'm definitely not demeaning any other versions of this show, and some out there may not agree with my assessment of this recording being the best.  But I definitely feel that it is.  And no matter which version of this show you have or get, they are all excellent!

If you grab (or have) this copy and have made comparisons on it with other recordings of the show, please let me know your opinion.  I'm always interested in what others think of the variations of sources, sounds, etc in music.  And it might help someone decide whether to download this version or one of the other versions in the contrast clause.

Any way you look at it, if you don't have a copy of 1969-04-24, don't wait another day.  You're missing out on an excellent (possibly Peter Grant approved :-)) show from a superb era of Led Zeppelin's history.

Enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Pink Floyd: 1987-11-18 Houston, TX (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

Here's a very interesting show that it took me right at 25 years to finally find.  And thanks to a few friends on Dime, I now have it!

I was at this show with a friend.  What a great night that was.  While I didn't record the show myself, thankfully, someone in the audience (somewhere) did.  This was my first Pink Floyd concert and it was their first tour after the years of battling that had been going on within the band.  This was the first tour, "A Momentary Lapse of Reason", without Roger Waters in the band anymore.  And it was a spectacular show too.

DETAILS:
Band: Pink Floyd
Location: Houston, Texas
Venue: Houston Astrodome
Date: November 18th, 1987
Label: none
Title: none (if I had the right to name it, I'd call it "Wish You Were Here...Oh Yea, I Was")
CDs: 2
Type: AUD
Artwork: No (I did add my ticket scans but I didn't record this show)
Size: 764 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
102. Signs Of Life
103. Learning To Fly
104. Yet Another Movie_Round And Round
105. A New Machine (Part 1)
106. Terminal Frost
107. A New Machine (Part 2)
108. Sorrow
109. Dogs OF War
110. On The Turning Away

CD 2:
201. One Of These Days
202. Time
203. On The Run
204. Wish You Were Here
205. Welcome To The Machine
206. Us And Them
207. Money
208. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)
209. Comfortably Numb
210. One Slip
211. Run Like Hell (some type of tape issue/has sound though)

LINEAGE:
(1. unknown year...from trader's notes) Mics and recorder unknown >
cassette generation unknown (but it's got to be low) > Playback Deck: Tascam 130 > Nikko 32 Band EQ > Akai DR16 Digital Hard Disk Recorder > Sony PCM-R500 DAT Recorder > Sony DAT Tape > HHB CDR-800 Compact Disc Recorder > HHB CDR > WAV > SHN
(2. 2012) CD-R trade > Creator Pro 2010 for naming tracks & converting to FLAC > Trader's Little Helper to create and verify checksum and toirrent > you

LINKS:
Part 1 - 1987-11-18 Houston Astrodome
Part 2 - 1987-11-18 Houston Astrodome

Dime Torrent - http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=416048
NOTE: I created a torrent and posted it on Dime.  If your 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 0.025% or higher so as to not get banned.  It's a much faster download almost always!  Now, back to the original blog post.

The seating my friend and I had for this show was astonishing.  I know we were dead center on one of the first few rows.  However, looking at my ticket it looks confusing.  I'm not sure what "Section M" refers to (maybe "Middle"), but I know where we were :-)

It was a miracle that we found our vehicle after the show.  We never paid any attention when parking and there was a ton of people, all parked around the venue.  I think this was a sold out show too.  But by some stroke of luck, we walked out and just happened to walk upon our vehicle (one in a multi-thousand shot).  Sitting in traffic, and even afterwards getting on Loop 610, was a nightmare.  It was hard enough walking to your car and getting out of the parking lot was next to impossible.

I crack up looking at the $20 price tag on the ticket :-)  And those were the days of rising ticket prices too.

A special THANK YOU goes to "led boots" for getting me this 2 CD copy of the show.  Every site I looked at that had this show had either dead torrents or no listing at all for the show.

I'm not sure why the last track, "Run Like Hell", has a scratchy sound in it.  But there is a skipping type of sound.  The song doesn't skip.  I'm not really sure what's up with that, but it is the last song too.

Finally getting this show, just short of 25 years later, goes to show that you should never give up on searching for those concerts you attended but didn't record.  I knew that one day it would be found out there.  And thanks to fellow traders who helped me out, I finally found it!

What a night to remember, and for those who grab this show, I hope you can get close to the enjoyment I had being there.

Enjoy the show...

Bootradr