Led Zeppelin: 1975-01-22 Chicago, IL (FLAC_AUD 1st Gen_2 CD)

After uploading the DVD-A of this show yesterday I got a request for the CD version of the show.  So this is it.  This is from the same first generation audio source and the only real difference is it is CD ready with the CD standard 4431 kHz/16 bit audio rather than the higher quality DVD-A audio which is 48 kHz/24 bit audio.  So whichever you should desire, they're both here now.

LINEAGE:
1st gen cassettes > WAV (96/24) > WAV (44/16) > 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

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: January 22nd, 1975
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Venue: Chicago Stadium
Title: Windy City Tapes Vol. III
Label: None
Source: AUD (1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 630 MB
Length: 122:26:59

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
108. The Wanton Song

CD 2:
201. No Quarter
202. Trampled Underfoot
203. Moby Dick
204. How Many More Times
205. Stairway To Heaven
206. Whole Lotta Love
207. Black Dog
208. Communication Breakdown

LINK:
(1) 1975-01-22 Chicago, IL (AUD 1st Gen/2 CD)

There is no audio clipping whatsoever in this recording.  In fact, the waveform is really far from reaching the clipping stages and has a lot of room for doing one's own project with the audio if they wanted to.  Personally, I like getting the audio like this because I then have the untouched recording as well as the possibility of working on it and making changes and making a second copy that might suite my sound taste better.  But I like this recording's sound as is.  I listened to the DVD-A last night while doing some work here at home and I enjoyed hearing the show again on its 40th anniversary.

Led Zeppelin left off "When The Levee Breaks" in this show but they kept "How Many More Times" and added "Communication Breakdown" back to this last night in Chicago out of the three in a row they played in 1975.

Plant's voice is still having some issues due to the flu.  But the band pulls off a great sounding show as we know they would.  The recording also sounds evenly mixed throughout the show, a sign of a great recording, and that is always nice.

I hope you enjoy this show..

Bootradr

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Led Zeppelin: 1969-01-23 Boston, MA (FLAC_AUD_1 CD)

Forty-six years ago today, a new band named Led Zeppelin played the Boston Tea Party.  They played two sets but we only have the first set from that historic night.  I uploaded another copy, a first generation one, not too long ago that can be found here on my site.  But I figured I'd upload the Empress Valley Supreme Disc (EVSD) label's copy today.

This is Led Zeppelin's first show in Boston and their first of four nights they played in a row. This night, 1969-01-23, and the 1969-01-26 show which was the fourth and last night are the only nights to have ever surfaced.  And I have both nights here on my site too if you want them.

LINEAGE:
EVSD silver CD's > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, to embed metadata/track titles & info, and 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: January 23rd, 1969
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Venue: Boston Tea Party
Title: Boston After Dark
Label: EVSD
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 245 MB
Length: 46:05:28

SETLIST:
01. Train Kept A Rollin'
02. I Can't Quit You Baby
03. As Long As I Have You
04. Dazed And Confused
05. You Shook Me

LINK:
(1) 1969-01-23 Boston, MA (AUD/EVSD)

EVSD did a good job on this show and did not clip the audio either.  The waveform looks great!  Page's guitar is screaming as loud as Plant's vocals are (and he hits some screaming, high notes this night).  And Bonham's drums as well as John Paul Jones' bass are all mixed well to form an excellent recording too.  This is a spectacular performance and night!

The band's first album, Led Zeppelin, had just been release about two weeks earlier and they were on fire.  These early shows of them coming out of the starting gate show what a force they were musically.  Nobody had any real idea what a powerful musical influence this band would become at this point.  But the crowds, selling out the venues already, knew something was going on and they wanted to be there to see it and be a part of it.  I can only imagine what it must have been like on this night.

I've seen reports, however I have no idea how credible they are, that the second set was recorded too.  But if it was it has never surfaced yet and I can't imagine why not.  I can only hope that it was recorded, it sounds great, and it surfaces someday soon so we can all enjoy it.  But until (or unless) this happens, we still have the first set from the concert that was 40 years ago tonight to crank up and enjoy thankfully.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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Led Zeppelin: 1975-01-22 Chicago, IL (DVD-A_AUD 1st Gen_LPCM 48/24)

Today is the the day of the final night in Chicago and Led Zeppelin's third night as they were in their opening shows in America in 1975.  This show was 40 years ago today and I'm uploading the 48 kHz/24 bit DVD-A of it.

This DVD-A has photos of the show for the slideshow as the music plays.  It's another excellent sounding show and night too.

LINEAGE:
1st Gen cassettes > WAV (96/24) > WAV (48/24) > DVD (DVD-A authored using TMPGenc DVD Author) > me > TLH (to create a new md5 file) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: January 22nd, 1975
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Venue: Chicago Stadium
Source: AUD (1st Gen)
Format: DVD-A
DVD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Label: None
Title: Windy City Tapes Vol. III
Length: 2:02:27

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menus: No
Chapters: Yes
Size: 3.34 GB

VIDEO:
Format: NTSC
Resolution: 704 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 1510 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO:
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 2304 kbps (24 Bit)
Codec: LPCM
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

SETLIST/CHAPTERS:
01. Rock And Roll
02. Sick Again
03. Over The Hills And Far Away
04. In My Time Of Dying
05. The Song Remains The Same
06. The Rain Song
07. Kashmir
08. The Wanton Song
09. No Quarter
10. Trampled Underfoot
11. Moby Dick
12. How Many More Times
13. Stairway To Heaven
14. Whole Lotta Love
15. Black Dog

LINKS:
(1) 1975-01-22 Chicago, IL (AUD 1st Gen/DVD-A)
(2) 1975-01-22 Chicago, IL (AUD 1st Gen/DVD-A)
(3) 1975-01-22 Chicago, IL (AUD 1st Gen/DVD-A)

The photos from the show are reportedly believed to be from this date, but if any are not from the 1/22 concert, they are from the 1/21 concert the night before.

ORIGINAL NOTES (copy & paste):
"This is a standard dvd-video with a slide show and audio for playback compatibility on standard dvd players through a home theater system for maximum audio enjoyment.  All photos used are known to be from Chicago, either 1/21 or 1/22/1975, but are believed to be from the 22nd. Since the sequence of the original photos was not preserved, identification of the songs being played for each slide was done through instrumentation and lighting (all best guess). Project completed in September 2008.

Notes:
Good to Very Good audience recording. Almost complete missing about 10 minutes give or take of Moby Dick. These cassettes were located by Jonohull through a friend of his who went to all 3 Zeppelin shows in 1975 with the taper of this recording. His friend Kevin was gracious enough to lend the cassettes out to Jonohull who in return passed them along to me for repair and transfering. This is the first time this recording has ever been in circulation and the first time it has been heard by anyone including Kevin in a great many years. 

Jonohull's Notes:
One of my friends introduced me to Kevin because he knew he was at some Zeppelin shows, so I helped him get those recordings. Later he told me he had 2 Chicago shows on tape that he was at, and he was next to the taper when it happened. He had copied the master tapes the next day and these are the tapes this show is from. At this point I got excited, and the process started from there!

Kevin's Notes:
What do I remember about the chicago concerts? It was quite a while ago and there was  a lot of effort in driving to chicago in freezing weather and then dealing with the large crowd. What I remember is that we didn't have the same seats on any of the nights and we were never very close to the stage, always in the upper balconies somewhere. It was very Magic though. I was a complete zeppelin fan. They were very special to me. I had some live recordings from earlier tours but Physical Graffiti was not out yet and new things undreamed of were emanating from that small stage down there! Almost all of my attention was riveted on Jimmy Page who was just a small figure way down there from where I was sitting. But what was coming out of him was simply unbelievable. I do remember one night we were a little closer, somewhere in the middle of the ground floor. I remember hearing Kashmir for the first time ( I hadn't understood the title when Plant announced the new song). As I said, sheer magic. No other music affected me like this. I guess this is all very subjective, and most people back home thought I was out of my tree, but now, look at all the people who are interested!! No one in my environment would have believed it then. I do remember that Plant's voice was substandard, apparently he had been suffering from the flu after hitting the freezing temperatures of Minneapolis coming straight from the much milder winter in England. That was especially true the first night. I wish I could remember more, but all of  the Led Zeppelin concerts I saw (9 altogether) had me in a state of transformed excitement ( intoxication) which I can't explain and was totally different from any other concerts I saw ( for example the Who and Pink Floyd- to name two  of the best). And, no, I was never using drugs or alcohol when I went to these concerts. Sorry if this has run on too long, but that is as accurate as I can be. That opening riff from Kashmir, which I'd never heard yet and was thus totally unexpected, is my most poignant memory. You see, the music was so overwhelming and had such a transforming effect that I was just stunned and came out of there in a state of total disorientation. I guess that's about the highest compliment you could pay to an artistic event.    I don't remember much about getting the equipment in because I wasn't paying any attention. I didn't want any distraction from the experience. All I remember is that he had a small tape recorder, and it was January with heavy winter jackets you know. I do remember that a security guard detected it while frisking him trying to enter one of the shows. He left and just came back again, this time not being detected. Very persistent fellow.

Credits:
The taper for recording the show in first place.
Kevin for lending the tapes out for repair and transfer.
Jonohull for locating the tapes in the first place. Without his leg work this release never sees the light of day.
Bozone Baby for his excellent artwork and covers,and for sorting and formatting the photos for the slides.
Weedwacker for tape restorations, tape transfers and outstanding DVD authoring.
Led Zeppelin for all the obvious reasons."

So that is from the original text file and describes those involved in making this project available for us to be enjoying it and listening to it today, forty years after it was recorded.  A special thanks goes to all of these guys and especially to "weedwacker", a well known Zeppelin audio mastering expert in our sharing circle, for his work and final work on this specific show.  And of course a special thanks in my mind to him ("weedwacker") for his audio expertise and many shares of superb quality and best generation copies of the vast number of shows he has been putting out for a number of years now.

Enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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Led Zeppelin: 1975-01-21 Chicago, IL (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

It was 40 years ago tonight Led Zeppelin played this show in Chicago.  This was their second night in Chicago and the third show on their tour in 1975 (not counting the Rotterdam and Brussels warm up shows about two weeks earlier).  I've already uploaded the 1975-01-20 show here before so I figured I'd put the show from today up now.  The band also played a third night at Chicago the next night.  And since I've never uploaded that show before, well, keep your eyes open!

This is a great sounding show.  It is almost excellent sounding but falls just a little short of excellent.  The recording sounds evenly mixed and recorded too.  A lot of times we get recordings that have a lot of ups and downs in the audio throughout the show.  And thankfully this is not one of those types.

For some reason, I have no lineage for this specific SIRA recording.  But unless somebody put it to tape and then made copies and put it back to CD-R (highly unlikely), we know it came from the Silver Rarities (SIRA) CD's and it really shouldn't have too much missing from the lineage anyhow.

I must have been planning on uploading this show a few months back when I uploaded the 1975-01-20 show?  I say this because I already had it prepared for uploading with the one exception being the text file.  I just double checked a few tracks in Audacity and it looks like there is no audio clipping too.  SIRA is pretty good about not clipping audio like many other labels do when they EQ and amplify shows.

LINEAGE:
No lineage available > 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 ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: January 21st, 1975
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Venue: Chicago Stadium
Title: Live On The Levee
Label: Silver Rarities
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 679 MB
Length: 125:22:57

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

CD 2:
201. No Quarter
202. Trampled Underfoot
203. Moby Dick
204. How Many More Times
205. Stairway To Heaven
206. Whole Lotta Love
207. Black Dog

LINK:
(1) 1975-01-21 Chicago, IL (AUD/SIRA)

I hate to sound harsh here, but I can kind of understand why Led Zeppelin dropped "When The Levee Breaks" soon into the tour.  Something just doesn't sound right when they played the song live.  It didn't sound right in Europe in the Brussels warm up show and it didn't sound right on this night either.  Robert plant also seems to want to come in early on the song.  I've noticed this on another recording or two when they still were playing the song in the early part of this Physical Graffiti LP tour.

Ironically, the next official releases of the 2014/2015 remastered Led Zeppelin albums is Physical Graffiti.  It's due out in a few weeks.  So 40 years later, around the same time the LP was being released 40 years ago, they're releasing it again but with bonus materials this time and a better sound!  Don't forget to buy it!

The band was still playing "How Many More Times" as well as "When The Levee Breaks" at this early stage in their 1975 tour thankfully.  That didn't last too many shows however.

I know there are some contradictions regarding a track or two, and maybe it is "When The Levee Breaks" and "How Many More Times", as to whether or not one of the three nights in Chicago on the 1975 tour had a track or two added from one of the other night's shows.  I wrote about this in the 1975-01-20 upload.  I just checked my previous post for the January 20th show and the discrepancy is whether "How Many More Times" on the 1975-01-20 show is actually this night's (January 21st) performance of it.  It seems that it is too.  But the good thing is that this night's show doesn't seem to have any discrepancies and is accurate in the setlist for it.  See my 1975-01-20 upload I made if you want more information.

I started to upload the Tarantura label copy of this show also last night.  But unfortunately, the copy I was able to get has the two second haps between tracks and was likely ripped using DAO (disc at once).  I think DAO is the ,ethod where it inserts the two second gaps.  If not, it was a TAO (track at once) burn I believe.  It's too bad because the audio sounds better to me than this SIRA label copy does.  I got the show yesterday over on Dime and I'm in communication with the uploader to see if there is any way to get a copy without the gaps.  The gaps really ruin the continuity of the show and nobody wants them.  If I get the better sounding copy and it flows flawlessly, I'll upload it too eventually.

I hope you enjoy this show from 40 years ago today...

Bootradr

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Norah Jones: 2007-01-20 Paris, France (FLAC_SB/FM_1 CD)

This show was eight years ago today and the first Norah Jones show I've uploaded too.  I'm not very familiar with her music or story.  However, in the last year I've gotten a few copies of some of her shows.  And she has a really nice voice.

I decided to upload this show today, not only because it's the eighth anniversary of it, but because I wanted to upload something new and different even to me.  She starts out with a Hank Williams song in this show but I would not have known that had she not mentioned it.

From what I've heard as I listen to this show while preparing it, she has some beautiful harmony and melody going on in this live performance.  There is piano, guitar, pedal steel guitar, and a mix of instruments playing in the songs too.  The music ranges from a soft melodic music to a country type of music and on to another unique style of music.  And I like it when an artist can implement a variety of instruments and musical styles into their songs and make their own  unique sound.  That's one thing I love in Feist's music.  And even though the music and voice Norah Jones plays and sings doesn't sound like Feist, there is something that kind of has a Feist like feel to the songs.

LINEAGE:
FM BX (aired on 2007-01-26) > Creative SoubdBlaster soundcard line-in > WAV > Nero Burning Rom > CD-R > EAC > WAV > dbPower Amp > FLAC > me > WAV (tested 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: Norah Jones
Date: January 20th, 2007
Location: Paris, France
Venue: Maison de Radio - Studio 104
Title: Studio 104 Paris, France, 2007
Label: Unknown
Source: SB/FM
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 420 MB
Length: 71:57:08

SETLIST:
01. Cold Cold Heart
02. Sunrise
03. Thinking About You
04. Sinkin' Soon
05. Not Too Late
06. Not My Friend
07. Humble Me
08. Wake Me Up
09. Broken
10. Until The End
11. Creepin' In
12. The Long Way Home
13. Little Room
14. My Dear Country
15. Rosie's Lullaby
16. Be My Somebody
17. Don't Know Why
18. Come Away With Me
19. crowd/encore
20. Lonestar

LINK:
(1) 2007-01-20 Paris, France (SB/FM)

I can't recall which movie I saw Norah Jones performing in right now.  But the movie, and her performance in it, helped me decide to check out some of her shows.  Her music is a little off the beaten path of what I usually listen to.  But the more I listen to the music and her voice, the more I seem to enjoy it.

For some unknown reason this show was broken up into a 2 CD set.  But it easily and completely fits on a single CD-R.

The waveform looks great and there is no audio clipping at all.  But the TLH lossiness test, once again, is all over the map.  TLH is known to give bad results many times on shows broadcast over FM radio and then checked.  So this is another recording that needs a frequency analysis and spectral analysis done to confirm its lossy/lossless integrity.

This CDDA/MPEG false results analysis with Trader's Little Helper is really getting old too.  I love the TLH program for the superb features it has even though the testing for MPEG and CDDA sourced audio is not one of its strong points at all.  I need to go ahead and figure out the right way to read the spectral analysis and how to confirm without any doubt my frequency analysis testing is correct.  I'm familiar with how to do the tests in Audacity but the problem is understanding the test results for me at this time.  I also have another program, AVS, that can do the FA and SA testing and I'll check this show later tonight and see if I can decode the results any easier with AVS.  This is something I need to do as well as want to do because I am tired of not truly knowing for sure when TLH gives me these mixed results.  I'll update this show's information if I find out this show is an MPEG, lossy sourced show.

I did some internet searching for artwork for this show and was able to find some.  Unfortunately, and maybe even correctly, the higher resolution artwork for the front and center (or cover art) art has "mp3 version" added to the bottom.  So there is obviously a FLAC version or some other lossless version artwork out there too but I couldn't find it or read the website for the artwork on the back artwork.

Thanks goes to "Paulramone" for making this recording available and sharing it last year too.

I hope you enjoy this show...

Bootradr

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Fleetwood Mac: 1979-11-06 St. Louis, MO (FLAC_SB_2 CD)

This is an excellent Fleetwood Mac soundboard from their Tusk LP tour in the end of 1979.  I got this show for the first time this last year and have really enjoyed it.  It's a little different though too.  It's an excellent soundboard but there are fade ins at the beginning of each track and fade outs at the ends of them on CD 1.  I'm not sure why either?  I've never come across a recording where each song fades in and out.

I believe the songs are all complete with one exception of a track cut just a little early.  There are some tracks that do not have the fade in/out issue too, but there is an audible cut in the audio where the audio between songs was was taken away.  But this is on CD 2 that this occurs on.  See my mention of this down near the end of this post for more details. 

The only good thing about the audio fades and cuts being done is that it is just the crowd cheering and maybe some band banter from the stage that is missing and not the music's audio missing instead.

LINEAGE:
Soundboard > ? > CD > EAC > TLH > me > WAV (tested 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: Fleetwood Mac
Date: November 6th, 1979
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Venue: Checkerdome
Title: Tusk Tour - St. Louis, MO November 6, 1979
Label: None
Source: SB
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 679 MB
Length: 110:48:46

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Say You Love Me
102. The Chain
103. Dreams
104. Not That Funny
105. Rhiannon (incomplete)
106. Over And Over
107. Oh Well
108. Sara
109. What Makes You Think You're The One
110. Oh Daddy
111. Save Me A Place

CD2:
201. Landslide
202. Tusk
203. Angel
204. You Make Loving Fun
205. I'm So Afraid
206. World Turning
207. Go Your Own Way
208. Sisters Of The Moon
209. Blue Letter
210. Songbird

LINK:
(1) 1979-11-06 St. Louis, MO (SB)

One other strange thing to mention in the recording has to do with the audio clipping.  CD 1 has no audio clipping but CD 2 has audio clipping when looking at the waveform.  I'm not sure why?  I don't know if the person transferring the show from tape might have amplified the second CD (or tape side) when transferring it or if it might even be a second source.  The fade ins/outs I was talking about are just cuts on CD 2.  I think someone tried editing the fade ins/outs out and might have EQ'ed the show a little on CD 2 causing the clipping.  But there really is no way for me to know because I'm not sure what the source of this recording was.

Even with the clipping on CD 2, there is no audio distortion discernible to my ears.  However, there are a few places where there are some audio errors.  When listening to both CD 1 and CD 2, "Rhiannon" has some short lived errors and the song is cut short before it ends (CD 1) and "I'm So Afraid" has some audio defects that are very short lived also.  "World Turning" (CD 2) has a short cut (silence) mid stream in the song too but resumes after a few seconds.  So just a short part of the song is missing audio.

There may be another track or two that have some kind of flaws too.  It's been a while since I've listened to the show and I'm listening as I make this post now. But even with a few small flaws and an incomplete song, the recording is excellent and a very enjoyable sounding show as well as excellent Fleetwood Mac performance.

The one thing I really like about the sound in this show is the audio mix.  The vocals are up front and crystal clear as well as the instruments too.  The soundboard mix (I'm guessing) was a superb one.  It's just too bad this isn't the complete soundboard with no edits or cut outs between the songs.  I'm not complaining, I'm just just wishing.  This is the complete show as far as the setlist goes though and no songs appear to be missing from what was played on this night in 1979 at St. Louis' Checkerdome.

I hope you enjoy this Fleetwood FLAC 1979 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.

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Journey: 2001-02-07 Hiroshima, Japan (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

Last, but definitely not least, this is Journey's final Japan concert on the first leg of their opening tour in 2001.  This is a superb sounding show and one of their very best.  This was their sixth and final show before they returned to the United States the following day.

I believe their first show on this 2001 Arrival tour in Japan, the 2001-01-30 Tokyo concert, and this final concert are the two best of all six shows.  Well, there is one show I don't have still.  But of the five I have I believe this to be true.  Both in sound and in performance, they are excellent-to-supebr shows.  And this Hroshima show is the very best concert of them all in my opinion.  Steve Augeri is spot on and the band is too.  Neal Schon's "Who's Crying Now" guitar solo is straight out of 1981 too and he is smoking!  They're pumped up and have an energy that they put out in this show that transcend CD audio and can be felt listening.

This show has some great extras in it including the length of it.  This show is a lot longer than the already long previous Japan shows on this tour.  This show is almost two and a half ours long!  They also play "La Raza Del Sol" and they seldom played that song.  This is also the first show where they come back after their final song, "Faithfully", on every other Japan 2001 show and they play two more songs.  So with the quality of sound, the length, the quality of the performance, and the setlist; this is my favorite show from this tour.  Journey went out with a big bang in these Japanese concerts!

LINEAGE:
CD > dBpoweramp > Sony Vaio PC > FLAC 8 > me > WAV (tested for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: February 7th, 2001
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Venue: Astel Plaza
Title: Light My Heart Way
Label: Anaconda
Source: AUD
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 894 MB
Length: 143:33:51

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Message Of Love
102. To Be Alive Again
103. Ask The Lonely
104. Neal Schon (guitar solo)
105. Stone In Love
106. All The Way
107. Signs Of Life
108. Lights
109. Jonathan Cain (piano solo)
110. When You Love A Woman
111. Who's Crying Now
112. Just The Same Way
113. Don't Stop Believin'
114. La Raza Del Sol115. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'

CD 2:
201. Kiss Me Softly
202. Escape
203. Higher Place
204. Live And Breathe
205. Wheel In The Sky
206. Be Good To Yourself
207. Any Way You Want It
208. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
209. The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love)210. Faithfully
211. I Got A Reason
212. We Will Meet Again

LINK:
(1) 2001-02-07 Hiroshima, Japan (AUD/Anaconda)

It never fails!  There always seems to be a problem or question when dealing with recordings after the mid 1990's when the dreaded mp3 (or MPEG) audio ruined the scene.  This is another case of not knowing for sure if this is an MPEG sourced audio or a true lossless audio sourced recording.  Especially looking at the test results from CD 1.  Without a good frequency analysis and spectral analysis we just have to hope for the best because TLH gives a lot of false results.

There is something else worth mentioning about this show's audio.  There is no clipping!  The clipping is no minute that is is pretty much non existent.  Anaconda did a wonderful job of producing and releasing this gem.  This is the only night out of the five we have that has no audio clipping.

I have a favor to ask.  Please, if you have the 2001-02-04 Shizuoka, Japan show, upload it!  That is the one date that I'm sure exists but I have yet to come across or find.  It'd be nice to have the last remaining show to make it a complete six night, twelve disc set.

I hope you enjoy this show...

Bootradr

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