REO Speedwagon: 1981-07-15 Boston, MA (FLAC_SB/FM_Bootradr Remaster_2 CD)

PREFACE NOTE:  I have been trying for a week to fix aome errors on this show.  I really do not know what is causing them and it doesn't keep you from being able to listen to the show.  The primary problem I'm having is there are small, split second audio dropouts between tracks.  The audio can still be heard but the audio's volume level drops at the beginning of the next track for a fraction of a second.  This is NOT a track-at once (TAO) vs. disc-at-once (DAO) issue.  I do not have my software set up to allow 2 second gaps between tracks and these errors are just split second errors too.  They would probably go unnoticed by most people if I hadn't mentioned them.  It bugs me because I like to create perfect projects. But this one is going to have to wait until I can determine what the cause is.  Since this remastered version sounds so much better than the original, unedited version; I'm going ahead and uploading it anyways.  In the future, once I figure the issue out or get new software (which may be the issue), I'll re-upload it here.

Here is a show I recently found of an off-air FM recording of REO Speedwagon's Boston 1981 show.  The person that recorded it must have had issues with receiving the radio station as clearly as one would want to record a show being broadcast.  The sound was good, but it needed cleaning up and remastering of it to remove hiss, the static and pops from the actual transmission over the FM airwaves, and the high's needed to be brought up.  And at the same time, the noise that comes with increasing the high end of the audio in a recording needed to be cleaned and removed.  I spent the morning doing this work and am very happy with the finished project.  It sounds so much better and most of the flaws are not even noticeable anymore.  It's a great recording and the project came out even better than I thought I could make it!

LINEAGE:
104.1 WBCN FM broadcast > Teac tape deck > TDK SA-C90 cassette > Audacity (to convert to WAV) > TLH (to convert to FLAC) > uploaded to Dime > my download > Media Creator 2010 Pro (EQ work, cleaning filters, Excite +22) > TLH (fixed SBE's & created ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: REO Speedwagon
Date: July 15th, 1981
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Venue: Boston Garden
Source: SB/FM
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (artwork is from a 1 CD version of the show and doesn't list or contain all of the 2 CD tracks)
Label: none
Title: none
Size: 689 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Don't Let Him Go
102. Like You Do
103. Kevin Speaks
104. Keep Pushin'
105. Kevin Speaks
106. Only The Strong Survive
107. Tough Guys
108. Time For Me To Fly
109. Kevin Speaks
110. Take It On The Run
111. Kevin Speaks
112. Keep On Loving You
113. Roll With The Changes
114. Kevin Speaks
115. Flying Turkey Trot
116. Say You Love Me Or Say Goodnight

CD 2:
201. Back On The Road Again
202. Ridin' The Storm Out
203. DJ Talks
204. 157 Riverside Ave
205. DJ Talks
206. Golden Country
207. Shakin' It Loose

LINKS:
Part 1 - 1981-07-15 Boston, MA (SB/FM)
Part 2 - 1981-07-15 Boston, MA (SB/FM)

Dime Torrent - http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=458614
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.

I really enjoyed listening to this excellent era show of REO's.  I like REO's music even today.  But my favorite era of REO Speedwagon music is between 1978 and 1982/83.  They always put on great shows and I've seen (and recorded) them myself many times through the years.

Thanks to "bobobo" for the original upload too!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Journey: 1978-06-10 Passaic, NJ (FLAC_Pre-FM Remaster_1 CD)

This is an excellent remastering job on a Journey show from Passaic, New Jersey in 1978.  This is a digitally transferred pre-FM recording and sounds so much better than the other sources floating around that were just FM radio-to-tape recordings done across the country.  This is the best sounding version of this show I've heard and a lot of time was taken to make this recording just right.  Thanks to "msg" for sharing this recording.  This recording was aired live on WNEW FM as it was being recorded in 1978.

LINEAGE:
(1) Pre-FM SBD feed > Nak 550 > Maxell UDXL2 (no NR) via Peter Hedeman
Transfer:  MC > Nak CR7-A (azimith adjust) > SBM-1 (s/pdif) > Lynx Studio Technology One (soundcard) > SoundForge 4.5 > CD Architect 4.0f > Red Book CDR.

(2) Re-Mastering:  CDR > WAV > Wavelab 5.0 (gain +5dB; X-noise to remove tape hiss and a buzz at about 120 Hz (+12dB threshold, 66% reduction; L3 Multimaximizer to increase headroom) > WAV > FLAC

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: June 10th, 1978
Location: Passaic, New Jersey
Venue: Capitol Center
Source: SB/Pre-FM
Format: FLAC
CD: 1
Artwork:No (I'm adding "Beginning The Lights" artwork to this upload and blog entry even though it's not an exact match)
Label: None
Title: Passaic 1978 Remaster (remaster of "The Band Plays On" release)
Size: 457 MB

SETLIST:
01. Richard Neer: pre-broadcast talk
02. La Do Da
03. Next
04. Feeling That Way
05. Anytime
06. On A Saturday Night
07. Winds of March
08. Wheel In The Sky
09. You're On Your Own
10. Richard Near encore break chatter
11. She Makes Me (Feel Alright)
12. more announcer chatter
13. Patiently
14. Opened The Door
15. more announcer chatter
16. Lights
17. ending talk and credits

LINK:
1978-06-10 Passaic, NJ (SB/Pre-FM Remaster of "The Band Plays On")

My very first Journey bootleg was a much, much lesser and unbalanced silver CD I got from Japan titled "Beginning The Lights".  I was happy with it so you can imagine how much more happy I've been in recent years when better recordings and remastered jobs were done to create excellent sounding versions (and more complete too) like this upload.

You can tell the mobile studio doing the recording was unprepared for the show to start at the beginning of the CD.  The announcer mentions the new technology allowing them to record from a mobile command post and view what was going on via a TV monitor as opposed to being inside of the venue and broadcasting live from there.  I just wonder if the video feed they were seeing was ever professionally recorded?  I'd love to see it.  I've seen a black and white "Winds of March" from this show and I imagine that's from the feed going to the mobile setup outside of the venue.  Wow, how things have changed since those days :-)

I like to add a folder many times and leave the original creator/uploader's text files in it so others can see what they said or see any technical data if there is any.  I've done this with this show.

This is an excellent, crank it up loud recording and I hope you enjoy it...

Bootradr

Led Zeppelin: 1980-06-29 Zurich, Switzerland (FLAC_SB/AUD Mix_2 CD)

This is an excellent 1st generation soundboard, two master audience sources mix of Zeppelin's last show in Zurich.  This mix makes the show 100% complete and the audience parts are added where the soundboard audio was either cut or not recorded (usually between songs).  Both sources sound great and this is revision 0.1 (I think the only revision) I got from my Zeppelin bootleg buddy David.  It may have been on Dime in the past but I'm not sure.  Also, David may have or may not have been the creator of this SB/AUD mixed source (the best I've heard) 2 CD set.  I believe he did the work and created the project, but still, I cannot recall for sure.  He's a master at this type of work.  But either way, thank you David for sending me the 13 DVD-R discs full of FLAC shows a few years ago!

I left the files just the way they were on the 13 DVD-R's David had sent me of various Zeppelin and other shows.  Here are some notes from the text file I got from David:

NOTE 1: Complete show. Audience source 1 used to splice in missing section of Kashmir. Alternate audience recording (Source 2) used to splice missing section between All Of My Love and Trampled Underfoot.

NOTE 2: All track speeds and SBE corrected SBD tracks slowed down -6.16% using Audacity. Speed correction done April 2008. Soundboard series 009 Rev 0.1

LINEAGE:
Soundboard > 1st generation > CD-R 5 > EAC > WAV > FLAC
Source 1 AUD Masters > DAT > CD-R 1 > EAC > WAV > FLAC

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: June 29th, 1980
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Venue: Hallenstadion
Source: SB/AUD Mix
Format: FLAC
CD: 2
Artwork: No
Label: None
Title: None
Size: 724 MB

SETLIST:
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 Of My Love
108. Trampled Underfoot
109. Since I've Been Loving You

CD 2:
201. Achilles Last Stand
202. White Summer
203. Kashmir
204. Stairway To Heaven
205. Rock And Roll
206. Heartbreaker

LINKS:
(1) 1980-06-29 Zurich, Switzerland (SB/AUD Mix)
(2) 1980-06-29 Zurich, Switzerland (SB/AUD Mix)

I'd talked about uploading some 1980 Zeppelin shows a few months back but sort of forgot about it.  This is the first of many I will be uploading over time.  While my favorite "era" of Zeppelin's live shows is between 1968 and 1975, I still love the 1977, 1979, and 1980 shows too!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

ARTWORK FROM A DIFFERENT SOURCE

The Eagles: 1977-03-21 Largo, MD (FLAC_SB_1 CD)

Here's a superb soundboard of part of The Eagles show from Largo, Maryland back in 1977.  This obviously isn't the complete show because there are only eight songs.  This is reportedly from a DVD rip but I've yet to see this video anywhere before.  As excellent and this rip sounds, I hope to find the video from it before too long.

LINEAGE:
DVD > DVD audio rip > WAV > FLAC > me > TLH (create ffp & md5 files and check for SBE's) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: The Eagles
Date: March 21st, 1977
Location: Largo, Maryland
Venue: Capital Centre
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD: 1
Artwork:No
Label: None
Title: Live At The Capital Centre March 1977
Size: 330 MB

SETLIST:
01. Hotel California
02. New Kid In Town
03. Take It To The Limit
04. One Of These Nights
05. Lyin' Eyes
06. Rocky Mountain Way
07. Best Of My Love
08. Take It Easy

FileFactory Mirror Link:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/22r84i0ziwt1/

I'd really like to find the complete soundboard for this show.  I imagine this is about half of the show.  I'd need to look at some other 1977 The Eagles shows to see what songs are most likely missing.  But if you want a super sounding, incomplete version of the show; then here it is.  If anyone has any leads on where to find the full show's audio and/or the video from this concert, please leave a comment and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

I've been back for a week now from my two weeks of vacation and should be back to uploading shows daily withing a few days to a week.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Led Zeppelin: 1975-02-16 St. Louis, MO (FLAC_SB_3 CD)

This is an incredible and awesome sounding soundboard of Led Zeppelin's 1975-02-16 St. Louis concert.  I've got a few labels/versions of the show already and I believe this Liquid Led label version is the best I've come across so far.  The sound and performance are great examples of how "on fire" Led Zeppelin was on their 1975 tour in America.

LINEAGE:
Silver CD's > EAC > WAV > FLAC > > Media Creator 2010 Pro (to name tracks) > TLH > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: February 16th, 1975
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Venue: Missouri Arena
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD: 3
Artwork:Yes
Label: Liquid Led
Title: Better Late Than Never
Size: 1.20 GB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Rock And Roll
102. Sick Again
103. Over The Hills And Far Away
104. In My Time Of Dying
105. The Song Remains The Same
106. The Rain Song
107. Kashmir

CD 2:
201. No Quarter
202. Tramples Underfoot
203. Moby Dick

CD 3:
301. Dazed And Confused
302. Stairway To Heaven
303. Whole Lotta Love
304. Black Dog
305. Heartbreaker

LINKS:
(1) 1975-02-16 St. Louis, MO (SB/Liquid Led)
(2) 1975-02-16 St. Louis, MO (SB/Liquid Led)
(3) 1975-02-16 St. Louis, MO (SB/Liquid Led)

 It's been a year or two since I've listened to any of the other versions of this show I have.  But after sampling this Liquid Led version, and after I create this upload, I'm burning myself a copy to jam out to afterwards.  The clean, precise stereo in this recording has to be enjoyed on a good sound system.  The PC speakers are fine for sampling the show, but in order to enjoy it fully, you must crank it up and let it go.  And that's what I'm planning to do very soon :-)

Thanks to "bostonbro" for uploading their EAC ripped copy for others to get and share.  I left their AEAC log and text files in this upload and put them in a folder for those (like me) interested in the technical information for this source.  I also checked for SBE's and there were none.  So, this show is ready to go!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Journey: 1978-07-01 Dallas, TX (FLAC_SB_1 CD)

SPECIAL NOTE (2013-09-15): Gypsy Eye, a boot label I use to respect for lossless quality audio, has taken this show I've worked on and they're selling it on Japanese websites and elsewhere.  This has been confirmed as a copy with an mpeg audio stream (aka mp3).  I could care less about any credit for the work, but I do despise it being passed along by Gypsy Eye as a lossless version they're selling now.  Don't buy this exact same show and version you're getting for free here because it is still not known to be available in a lossless format!  The lossless source is in Bill Graham's vault.

This Journey concert I'm uploading, one I just recently mentioned in my Aerosmith Texxas Jam 1978 upload saying "I hope it surfaces someday soon", has surfaced!  This show is still not circulating anywhere and never has as far as I know.  I think it probably just recently surfaced but I'm not sure?  This is an excellent soundboard of Journey's Texxas Jam 1978 concert in Dallas.  Now, I just need to wish that the June 12th, 1982 Houston Astrodome Journey Texxas Jam show will surface!  And I do!

This is a great recording that I made even better.  Unfortunately, the sound mix (presumably from the soundboard) was off during all of the first song and it gets corrected (or better) during the second song.  But it gets even better when the third song starts.  Whoever was mixing the sound at the show did a good job, but they also change the sound a few times during the show.  It still sounds great, but if it already sounded great, then leave it alone.  I did very little in EQ'ing the show.  But I did a slight EQ'ing and I used some cleaning filters/settings to sharpen the sound as well as remove most of the tape hiss.

The source for this audio is an unaltered Wolfgang's Vault (aka the late Bill Graham's masters) recording.  As quoted on Wolfgang's Vault regarding this recording, "(they want to be) providing you with a pure and uncut representation of what was captured during the performance".  My clean up is an improvement and that's why I'm uploading it.  But if anyone want's the raw, 100% unaltered version, just leave a comment and let me know.  Personally, I prefer to get it unaltered because I can then do what I want to do with the recording.  But I also like a better sounding recording, and I know that many people who may download this show mmight not have the software and/or knowledge to clean the recording up.  So, I'm uploading my cleaned version.  Like I said already, I can post the unaltered version too.

LINEAGE:
Wolfgang's Vault > captured via PC soundcard and saved as 44.1 kHz/16 bit WAV file > Media Creator 2010 Pro (for hiss removal, EQ'ing, track splitting & naming, and converting to FLAC) > TLH (for fixing SBE's,  creating ffp & md5 files, and then verifying) > you

NOTE: I do not know the source's audio specifications, or Wolfgang's Vault bandwidth (i.e. bitrate, sample rate, etc).  But since I do not know, I took the 44.1 kHz/16 bit (CD quality standard) file I captured in my digital copy of the streaming show and left it in that format when I converted it over to FLAC.  I've been told Wolfgang's Vault shows are the highest bitrate (320 kbps) mp3's and no longer FLAC, but I don't know for sure.  Even if this is a glorified mp3 (and I don't know if it is or isn't) that was streaming, it sounds great.  This is just a heads up for those like me that want to maintain a source files' integrity.  I just wish I knew the source file's original specifications.

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: July 1st, 1978
Location: Dallas, Texas
Venue: Cotton Bowl
Event: Texxas Jam 1978/Texas World Music Festival
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No (I put the various web art below in a folder)
Label: Bootradr Remaster
Title: Hot Texxas Jam 1978
Size: 295 MB

SETLIST:
01. La Do Da
02. Next
03. Feeling That Way
04. Anytime
05. On A Saturday Night
06. Winds Of March
07. She Makes Me (Feel Alright)
08. Wheel In The Sky
09. Lights (fades out/incomplete)

FileFactory Links:
Part 1 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/5be36doipa5r/
Part 2 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/1w1rjv8b54bv/n/

A super big THANK YOU goes to "tupchurch", a great friend and Journey fan too, who alerted me to this newly found Journey 1978 Texxas Jam recording.  I have never seen this show anywhere but I knew it had to exist.

If you lived in Texas during the late 1970's - late 1980's (1978 - 1988 actually), then chances are you remember hearing commercials for the "Texxas Jam" concert event each year.  Each year was up to a three day event with multiple, "hot on the charts" bands of the time performing their concerts.

And speaking of "hot", this was a burning hot Texas July day in 1978 when Journey played.  And the Cotton Bowl is an outdoor football stadium.  From the beginning of the recording, you can hear how (miserably) hot it must have been from the comments about the heat throughout the whole show.  The Cotton Bowl had the huge, firefighter hoses that they used to spray water out across the crowds just like they did when I saw the last Texxas Jam (being called Monsters of Rock too) in 1988 at Rice Stadium.  It was a way to help keep people in the crowd from overheating too much.  Texas summers are not nice days to be outdoors.  And packed together with 80,000 other people like at this 1978 Texxas Jam, you don't want to be outside at all  (unless you're watching Journey of course).

Wow, I just found something online that (1) backs up what I just said above and (2) excites me a lot.  A documentary of the 1978 Texxas Jam is reportedly coming out in Summer 2013!!!  See the video trailer I just added below :-)  Oh boy, there are a lot of cool Texxas Jam 1978 - 1988 items I'm finding.  I'm only adding  a few to this upload and they are the same images as I'll add below (no video added).

I hope you enjoy this historic rock and roll show from the very first Texxas Jam (and they did spell it "Texxas" too)...

Bootradr

And here's a local news station's, WFAA TV, news report

And a few images!

Led Zeppelin: 1972-05-28 Brussels, Belgium (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

This is a very good recording of Ledc Zeppelin's show in Brussels in 1972.  I was going to upload the master cassette version yesterday (the show was 41 years ago yesterday), but after checking out this Empress Valley Supreme Disc version, I decided to upload it instead.  I think this is a better sounding (and I'm sure EQ'ed/remastered) version.

Band: Led Zeppelin
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Venue: Voorst Forest National
Date: May 28th, 1972
Label: EVSD
Title: The Belgian Triple
CD's: 2
Type: AUD
Artwork: Yes 
Size: 712 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Immigrant Song
102. Heartbreaker
103. Black Dog
104. Since I've Been Loving You
105. Stairway To Heaven
106. Going To California
107. That's The Way
108. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp

CD 2:
201. Dazed And Confused
202. What Is And What Should Never Be
203. Whole Lotta Love

LINK:
Part 1 - 1972-05-28 Brussels, Belgium (AUD/EVSD)

This recording is very good and you do not hear the audience very much.  However, Robert Plant spends more time telling the crowd to "shut up" and "sit down" than you normally hear in other rowdy Zeppelin shows.  In between a lot of the songs on CD 1, he spends time trying to get people quite.  This is especially true during the quieter songs.  But the rowdy, loud crowd is not heard in this recording.  In fact, I have been wondering where the actual taper must have been in order to not get the loud crowd Plant keeps complaining about.

I listened to this show yesterday (actually the same show but the master cassette version) not realizing it was the 41st anniversary of the show and I really loved it.  It'd been quite a few years since I'd listened to my older "Burning Ticket" (Baby Face label) copy I'd gotten in a 1990's CD trade.  The master cassette version was a huge upgrade in my opinion and I believe this EVSD version is even cleaner.  The EVSD version doesn't have as much hiss from the tape in it as the master copy does.  But the highs are still there and the bass is too.  It is a great sounding show, both performance-wise and sound-wise.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr