Bootradr's Blind Boot Blog

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

Saturday, August 22, 2015

The Eagles: 1974-08-22 Lenox, MA (FLAC_AUD_1 CD)

Today is the 41st anniversary of this excellent The Eagles concert that was in Lenox, Massachusetts.

This is an excellent recording and the show has been passed around as a soundboard for years even though it isn't one. It's just an excellent audience recording from my favorite era of The Eagles. If I had to pick my favorite time for the band's music, it'd be between 1973 and 1977. And I like the earlier 1973/1974 time frame the best.

LINEAGE:
1998 trade cassette > Sony TC-WC475 > Sony DTC-ZE700 > E-MU E-DSP Soundcard > WAV (48/16) > Wavelab (tracking and tweaking) > FLAC 8 > (Note: it was down sampled to 44.1 kHz/16 bit at some point) > 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: The Eagles
Date: August 22nd, 1974
Location: Lenox, Massachusetts
Venue: The Music Inn
Title: None
Label: whotrader
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes (not a perfect match/for shorter version of the show)
Size: 466 MB
Length: 72:19:50

SETLIST:
CD 1:
01. intro ~ Take It Easy
02. Outlaw Man
03. Already Gone
04. Doolin' Dalton ~ Desperado (Reprise)
05. Peaceful Easy Feeling
06. Midnight Flyer
07. Pie Berry Blossom
08. James Dean
09. Good Day In Hell
10. Tryin'
11. Witchy Woman
12. encore 1 ~ crowd
13. Chug All Night
14. encore 2~ crowd
15. Tequila Sunrise

BAND MEMBERS:
Glenn Frey: guitar, piano, vocals
Don Henley: drums, vocals
Bernie Leadon: guitar, banjo, mandolin, vocals
Randy Meisner: bass, vocals
Don Felder: guitar, vocals

LIN K:
(1) 1974-08-22 Lenox, MA (AUD)

A special thanks goes out to "whotrader" for making this copy available on Dime in the past!

This is one of those cases where I've had the show for a while but have never put it to disc and listened to the full show yet. I've meant to for the last year but somehow got tied up with other things and really forgot about it. But I'm burning myself a copy of this show today and I plan on listening to it this afternoon.

A reference to the time period this show occurred in is given by the band right before "Already Gone". In 1974, with Vietnam and the political climate and turmoil, it's obvious that Watergate had already occurred because Glen Frey introduces the song saying "This is a little song for Richard Nixon" and the band jumps into "Already Gone" then.

This is the longer version of the show out of the two I have. One is missing a few tracks. And the artwork I have for this show seems to have come from the shorter version so it won't match the full setlist correctly.

This is really an excellent, full range recording and to be honest it almost meets my superb criteria. I have a hard time rating these shows because I want to rate it according to how much I like the show, sound, etc. But I do have better sounding The Eagles shows than this one. but this one is awesome in its own ways and for its own reasons and sounds awesome.

The band members can all be heard very clearly, the bass is very clean and strong, the guitars and vocals are very clean and strong, and everything is perfectly mixed. There is light tape hiss but it is not bad at all. "Whotrader" mentioned he'd EQ'ed the show slightly. I'm not sure how it sounds before the EQ but he did a great job of creating a perfect sounding output product. There is a small amount of audio clipping in the waveform but it is nothing to worry about and is not bad. Some tracks have clipping in the waveform, some have none. And those that do have it don't have much at all This is a quality show and any The Eagles fan should enjoy it a lot!

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!!!

Led Zeppelin: 1971-08-22 Inglewood, CA (FLAC_AUD 1st Gen_2 CD)

Today is the 44th anniversary of this Led Zeppelin show played at The Forum in Los Angeles, California. This is a show you really don't see too often either. Part of the reason I am sure is due to the sound of it. I rate it as a good sounding show from memory. And before I make this upload I'm changing that to a good-to-great sounding show as you'll see as you read on.

This show is a very enjoyable and easy to listen to show. The performance is great and the sound is not as bad as I first may have made it sound.

LINEAGE:
(1) Original Source: Bill B.'s master reel > Doinker transfer > Sound Forge > light EQ and channel balancing > FLAC Frontend > FLAC 6, sectors aligned and verified
(2) Additional Source Lineage: FLAC > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0.1 (appending, 103.8 stretch) > WAV > tracked with CD Wave, encoded to FLAC 8 with FLAC Frontend, tagged and verified > 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: August 22nd, 1971
Location: Inglewood, California
Venue: The Forum
Title: None
Label: Bill B. & Doinker Remaster
Source: AUD (1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No
Size: 834 MB
Length: 144:34:10

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. band introduction
102. Walk, Don't Run
103. Immigrant Song
104. Heartbreaker
105. Since I've Been Loving You
106. Black Dog
107. Dazed And Confused
108. Stairway To Heaven
109. Celebration Day
110. That's The Way
111. What Is And What Should Never Be

CD 2:
201. Moby Dick
202. Whole Lotta Love
203. Communication Breakdown
204. JPJ organ solo
205. Thank You

LIN K:
(1) 1971-08-22 Inglewood, CA (AUD 1sr Gen)

The audio waveform shows no clipping but the audio does have some distortion in parts of the show. It's not terrible or the kind that makes you want to stop listening because it's covering the rest of the music. It's likely from the microphone's capability or something like that I'm sure.

The drums are really heard heavily and Jimmy Page's guitar is not up front as the show starts out. It can be heard but it's kind of in the background. Robert Plant's vocal are up front too however. I'd guess the taper was somewhere where these instruments and vocals were being picked up. I'm not sure. But the sound does improve as many shows do in our hobby.

This "Doinker" remaster does sound better than other copies I have heard of this show. There really aren't too many copies of this show put out by labels either. I got the Freak Out titled TDOLZ copy of this show as the first one I ever heard many years ago. But it was not this clean either.

I don't want to give this show a bad rap because it does sound quiet nice the more I listen to it and it is very listenable. It seems to "come to life" as Page is jamming on "Heartbreaker" in the solo. And "Since I've Been Loving You" is sounding really good too right now. And the more I listen to the show through the PCs Bose speakers the more it really sounds nicer than I was first giving it credit for sounding.

The tapers don't seem to do much talking and the crowd is quiet too in the recording. I'm up to "Dazed and Confused" in Page's violin bow solo part and the sound is seemingly very level and mixed well. There is a little tape hiss but nothing bad. Besides, that is needed to get the high frequencies in the recording. Too many times people try to take out the hiss and wind up messing up the audio by removing the high frequencies.

It definitely has sound issues, but it definitely is also a nice capture of the show and one you can listen to loud. The real problem areas in the recording are the hard, heavy, and real fast areas where the recording equipment just couldn't handle Led Zeppelin as well! And the sound quality drops off around "Celebration Day" and continues not sounding as good through "That's The Way". After that, you'll have to see for yourself.

The band is on fire as they almost always were! And there's a really cool and different part in "Dazed and Confused" after the band kicks it back into gear after the violin bow solo you should hear and it involves all members playing together nicely.

One other cool change, and this was also in the last 1971 show I uploaded but I didn't mention it, is in "Stairway to Heaven". Robert Plant changes the lyrics up in the song. Keep in mind the fourth LP with the song on it had not been released and still had about 6 weeks until it would be on November 8, 1971. So the crowd was likely hearing this for the first time and it wasn't the successful hit it later became just yet.

I'm going ahead and uploading this one now. I could sit here and review the show song by song, but I'm just going to upload it so you can download it if you want and listen to it on its 44th anniversary yourself.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Friday, August 21, 2015

Aerosmith & Jimmy Page: 1990-08-20 & 1990-09-18 London, Englan (DVD_AUD Shot Master VHS_1 DVD)

I didn't get a chance to upload this requested DVD on its 25th anniversary yesterday. So I'm doing it today!

This is the performance of the Donnington, UK Monsters of Rock performance on 1990-08-18 with Jimmy Page playing with Aerosmith (just "Train Kept A Rollin'" with Page) and then the 1990-08-20 London, England rehearsals and the following show of Aerosmith (with and without Page) at the Marquee Club. in London

I'm not sure if this was all shot by the same person or not? Whoever shot the video at the 1990-0818 show and the 1990-08-20 rehearsals had full access where we wouldn't to be up front (8/18) and on stage with the band (8/20). And the video shot at the 8/20 concert that followed on the same day as the rehearsals looks like a single camera, tripod mounted shoot from the mid section in the balcony area. I'm not sure if the band had this recorded or someone in the audience recorded it. But the fact it is tripod shot makes me think it could be the same person who recorded the show on stage too. So I believe the whole DVD was likely shot by the same guy.

I labelled the tags for this post's video as audience shot but personally I consider it more of a semi pro shot source.

LINEAGE:
Master VHS > silver DVD > PC > me > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Aerosmith & Jimmy Page
Date: August 18th, 1990 & August 20th, 1990
Location: Donnington, UK & London, England
Venue: Donnington Park & Marquee Club
Label: AMA
Title: Jimmy Page & Aerosmith Marquee & Donnington 1990

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menu: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: Yes (low resolution)
DVD's: 1 DVD
Source: Master VHS
DVD Size: 4.32 GB
DVD Length: 1 hour, 30 minutes approximately

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Color/B&W: Color
Type: AUD Shot
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 7000 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Audio Type: AUD
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 448 kbps
Codec: AC3
Channels: 2/6
Streams: 3 (1. original source, 2. mixing board, 3, Dolby 5.1 mix)

SONGS/CHAPTERS:
1990-08-18
Donnington Park, Castle Donnington, England, UK
01. Backstage (Page, Perry & Tyler) & "Train Kept A Rollin'"

1990-08-20
Marquee Club, London, England (rehearsals)
02. Rattlesnake Shake
03. Big Ten Inch
04. Train Kept A Rollin'
05. I Ain't Got You
06. Mother Popcorn
07. Let Me Love You
08. All Your Love
09. Immigrant Song (3 takes)
10. Think About It (2 takes)
11. Red House

1990-08-20
Marquee Club, London, England (show)
12. I Ain't Got You
13. Think About It
14. Red House
15. Immigrant Song
16. Train Kept A Rollin'

LINKS:
(1) 1990-08-20 & 1990-08-18 London & Donnington (DVD)
(2) 1990-08-20 & 1990-08-18 London & Donnington (DVD)
(3) 1990-08-20 & 1990-08-18 London & Donnington (DVD)
(4) 1990-08-20 & 1990-08-18 London & Donnington (DVD)
(5) 1990-08-20 & 1990-08-18 London & Donnington (DVD)

I haven't watched this DVD in a year or so and I'm not planning on watching it all to give a full review this morning. Besides, I'm still listening to the Tulsa 1970-1970-08-21 Led Zeppelin concert just uploaded and I'm not going to stop it during the "Whole Lotta Love" medley anyhow! So this will be a short review since I'm tired and ready to go to 1sleep.

The DVD starts with the backstage talk between Jimmy Page, Steven Tyler, and Joe Perry at the 1990-08-18 Donnington show before they went on stage together. Aerosmith and Page play "Train Kept A Rollin'" and the camera angle is from in front of the first row or an area concert goers couldn't access it looks like.

The August 20th rehearsals start off the next segment with Aerosmith doing their stuff. Jimmy Page comes in later and joins them. There is a lot of talking and deciding how to do the songs (aka rehearsing) going on in that whole segment of the DVD as expected. The camera angle here is a guy walking around and filming in different areas of the stage,

And finally, the Marquee Club concert is the last part of the DVD. This is also from the August 20th date and of course after the rehearsals. The band experiences a sound issue in the show and then the show (about 25 minutes) continues on. This is the tripod mounted video part of the DVD and the small venue is filled with fans yelling "Jimmy Page" during parts of the show.

Somebody should have taught Steven Tyler the lyrics to "Immigrant Song" before they did this whole gig because he obviously never learned them. He mumbles non English sounding noises as he sings the song showing he really doesn't know the song at all.

For some reason I was thinking Page did more than one song with Aerosmith in their Donnington Monsters of Rock concert but I guess he just did "Train Kept A Rollin'". At least that is all he did in this video.

Since I am really running behind and this DVD has taken my much longer to get ready than I had planned, I'm going to wrap things up. I recommend if you are an Aerosmith fan or a Jimmy page fan you just download the DVD. I've got to get it uploading now and really cannot spend more time researching and commenting on this DVD. It is excellent/superb quality and was likely videotaped by a professional camera from someone within the band's (Aerosmith) entourage. You will like it if you like these artists and want to see a rare recording of them.

Thanks goes to "Amduscia" for sharing another great video on R-O for us to be able to burn to disc and watch!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Led Zeppelin: 1970-08-21 Tulsa, OK (FLAC_AUD Master_2 CD)

This really is a much better sounding show than I gave it credit for the first time I heard it in the 1990's. And on its 45th anniversary today, I'm uploading it for you to hear. This specific copy from the master tapes is a better sounding copy than I first heard too!

This show is great-to-excellent sounding in my ratings. At least this copy is. My first copy on disc was the Turn The Lights Off or The Lights Go Down copy which is in reference to what Robert Plant says just after "Heartbreaker" gets started. He stops mid song and reprimands the audience for being too rowdy. He has the lighting people turn the lights on and tells the people to calm down. No telling what he saw, but I imagine people were crushing each other up front. In fact, in the beginning of the recording you hear the rowdy attitude in the crowd when a girl yells at someone "No! Shut up" or something similar.

LINEAGE:
Master > DAT > CD-R > WAV > Multi Frontend v0.983 Beta > FLAC 6 > 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: August 21st, 1970
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Venue: Civic Center
Title: Tulsa, Oklahoma August 21, 1970
Label: ton185
Source: AUD (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 762 MB
Length: 125:18:42

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. band introduction
102. Immigrant Song
103. Heartbreaker
104. Dazed And Confused
105. Bring It On Home
106. That's The Way
107. Bron-Yr-Aur
108. Since I've Been Loving You

CD 2:
201. JPJ organ solo
202. Thank You
203. What Is And What Should Never Be
204. Whole Lotta Love
205. Communication Breakdown

LIN K:
(1) 1970-08-21 Tulsa, OK (AUD Master/ton185)

This recording is really a lot more spectacular than I was expecting as I started listening to it yesterday. I was still expecting the TDOLZ or whatever label version sound I first heard years ago. I've honestly barely listened to that show because the sound just wasn't that good in my opinion. This master transfer shared by "ton185" is a huge improvement and it doesn't have the label EQ work and similar audio changing effects in it. It's the clean, unaltered master tapes and they sound great!

There is another first generation copy I had considered uploading shared by "KRW_CO" because it sounds great too. But this copy seems to have brighter high frequencies and the instruments and vocals can all easily be heard very clear, clean, and well.

Robert Plant's voice is in awesome form on this night too. The high notes he throws in as he ad-libs in songs, ones that aren't expected, are fantastic. Jimmy Page's guitar is spot on and can be heard up front in the heavier songs as well as the quieter ones. And there is a clean and level sounding bass, organ, and drums from John Paul Jones and John Bonham and it make this recording sound as great as it does.

I'm not saying the recording is perfect. There are some flaws in a few places. I just heard some tape noise, the kind you hear when a tape has errors or head problems. But it is short lived and I imagine the tape had a crinkle in it at the spot where that occurred?

I'm up to "Bring It On Home" right now and I am loving what I have heard so far. The tape is mono of course but it has a decent range of sound making it much more full and live sounding than many audience recordings (or even soundboards) from this time period. There are a few short cuts (real short) and you can hear the microphone being bumped and moved around at times too. But these are short sound issues that don't last. There is very little tape hiss heard in the show too and when you do hear it the hiss is in the quieter moments like "Bron-YrAur". There is also a short, weird digital noise at the very beginning of each CD. It has something to do with the CD burning in the lineage or the DAT transfer I believe. I've heard the same thing before when I've transferred audio or have had burners or programs that created a very similar digital noise. But again, it's nothing to worry about and it doesn't interfere with any music or even talking.

This recording is no 1969-04-24 Fillmore West in the sound quality. But it is very nice and in my own personal ratings (biased of course) it is excellent-to-superb sounding. I'll have to upload one of the lesser copies at some point so you can compare and see why it has taken me so long to actually listen to the show again.

The crowd is not as present in the recording as you might expect. The taper and people around him are seldom if at all heard in the recording. The crowd may not have been as rowdy as I first recalled. Maybe Robert Plant's early chastising of them got them to shape up? I don't know. You can hear some light conversation during "Moby Dick" but otherwise, except between songs primarily, they sound like a great crowd and you don't hear them while the music is playing.

There is just a tiny bit of audio clipping on a few tracks but definitely nothing worth worrying about or anything you'd even be able to tell unless you looked at the waveform. Actually, the more I look at the waveform it really looks like this may be a stereo recording. I doubt it but it is hard to tell right now as I am listening.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Jimi Hendrix: 1969-01-09 Stockholm, Sweden (FLAC_SB_Both Sets_2 CD)

This is an excellent soundboard of the Jimi Hendrix sets in Stockholm, Sweden during the 1969-01-09 gigs he played. There are a lot of great sounding Jimi Hendrix shows out there, but at the same time there a lot of lesser recordings that don't sound as nice. After all, we're talking about 1969 technology. Be it good sounding or poor, Jimi Hendrix shows are always an enjoying experience to me! And this is an excellent sounding one from the soundboard too so you should enjoy it.

LINEAGE:
Silver CD's > Foobar2000 > 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 ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Jimi Hendrix
Date: January 9th, 1969
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Venue: Konserthuest
Title: Caught In The Nagoya
Label: Purple Haze Records
Source: SB (Master/Swedish Radio Reels)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (full artwork in download)
Size: 858 MB
Length: 122:36:61

SETLIST:
Early Show
101. intro
102. Killing Floor
103. Spanish Castle Magic
104. Fire
105. Hey Joe
106. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
107. Red House
108. Sunshine Of Your Love

CD 2:
Late Show
201. intro
202. I Don't Live Today
203. Spanish Castle Magic
204. Hey Joe
205. Voodoo Chile
206. Sunshine Of your Love
207. Red House
208. Fire
209. Purple Haze
210. Star Spangled Banner

LINK:
(1) 1969-01-09 Stockholm, Sweden (SB/Master/Purple Haze Records)

A very special thanks goes out to my buddy Dave for sharing this with me. He is my source for Jimi Hendrix updates, news, new release notices, and just overall anything Jimi Hendrix.

I'd had this one almost ready to upload earlier this year and everything came to a crawl (or stop) for a while as I ran out of time to upload anything. But now that I am able again, I definitely wanted to get this excellent show uploaded as soon as possible,

It's been a few months since I've heard this show. But one thing I remember and the original sharing party made mention of is this. It seems Jimi is a little slow starting out the first set but he picks up in the second set. In the second set he's much more warmed up and on fire the whole show I guess. The person sharing this source called it a "bi-polar night" for Hendrix. And the second show not only is played a little better but it sounds audibly better too. Maybe it's just in my head? You be the judge.

One of these two sets was recorded by Swedish television too by the way. I'm not sure which, and I think I have some of the video from this too? Since I now have my drives unplugged I cannot confirm that. Until I can back them up with the new drives I had to replace (thankfully under warranty) I'm trying not to keep them plugged in any more than necessary until everything is backed up.

There is a full set of artwork with a booklet enclosed in the download. The artwork has some write-up on a few pages and I haven't read it just yet. So it'll probably have some information I'm failing to mention here.

The audio falls just a little short of perfect but it is not by any means something to worry about. It really is an excellent show and the sound is excellent as I've already stated. It is not 100% without flaw. There are some small amounts of distortion in the shows. But the waveform has no clipping of the audio so it's not a bad recording or EQ job causing the slight distortion. And hey, that's Jimi Hendrix's style of playing anyhow! Jimi Hendrix even mentions to the crowd "It's gonna be a little bit loud. These are English amps and we're in Sweden and the electricity is not working out with these fuzz tones..." before "Spanish Castle Magic" in the second set. If you're a Hendrix fan you will enjoy the show!

Coming in at a little over two hours long with both sets, it's a great 2 CD set to throw on and jam out to. If it weren't so early now I'd be doing that myself instead of listening through the PC speakers.

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!!!

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Page & Plant: 1998-09-21 San Diego, CA (DVD_AUD Shot_LPCM Audio_1 DL DVD)

Here is another requested upload. In fact, I've had two requests in the last month for both the 1998 shows and for this specific show so that is why I am uploading it today while I have time.

This is an excellent sounding (LPCM audio) dual/double layer DVD of the Jimmy Page and Robert Plant concert in San Diego in 1998. I really like the sound on this one too. The mix is excellent and everything from the low bass frequencies to the high vocal and guitar frequencies are present and clean. The video is great as well but it is a little shaky at times. It is not a problem though and the camera used by Third Eye Productions has always been a really great (maybe professional) camera so the video looks superb in color, lighting, and overall quality.

LINEAGE:
DVD trade > PC > me > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Page & Plant
Date: September 21st, 1998
Location: San Diego, California
Venue: Cox Arena @ San Diego State University
Label: Third Eye
Title: San Diego Sept. 21, 1998

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menu: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: Yes
DVD's: 1 DL DVD
DVD Size: 7.46 GB
DVD Length: 1 hour, 57 minutes

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Color/B&W: Color
Type: AUD Shot
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 8000 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Audio Type: AUD
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 1536 kbps
Codec: LPCM
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

SONGS/CHAPTERS:
01. Egyptian music intro
02. The Wanton Song
03. Celebration Day
04. Heartbreaker
05. Ramble On
06. Walking Into Clarksdale
07. No Quarter
08. When The World Was Young
09. Going To California
10. Tangerine
11. Gallows Pole
12. Heart In Your Hand
13. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
14. How Many More Times/Trampled Underfoot
15. Most High
16. Whole Lotta Love
17. What Is And What Should Never Be
18. Rock And Roll

LINKS:
(1) 1998-09-21 San Diego, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye)
(2) 1998-09-21 San Diego, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye)
(3) 1998-09-21 San Diego, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye)
(4) 1998-09-21 San Diego, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye)
(5) 1998-09-21 San Diego, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye)
(6) 1998-09-21 San Diego, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye)
(7) 1998-09-21 San Diego, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye)
(8) 1998-09-21 San Diego, CA (DL DVD/Third Eye)

While I don't see any mention of this copy being one of the Third Eye Remaster series DVD's, I'm pretty sure it is. The fact it has LPCM audio as well as being a DL DVD tells me it is. Most of the original Third Eye releases, originally on VHS tapes, used AC3 audio and had a low 192 kbps audio bitrate too. And as they were first remastered and put to DVD, if a show was more than one DVD in size, instead of making a DL DVD (if they were even available back then) the show would be on 2 DVD's. I believe there was a second wave of remastering done from the master recordings around the 2005 - 2010 time frame and the audio was upgraded (LPCM) as in this show and many of the 2 DVD shows were put onto DL DVD's too. I cannot say this is all 100% accurate though. There are still some "remasters" that have the 192 kbps AC3 audio out there too (maybe first remaster series?).

I mention the video is a little shaky in places but it is still much better than most people's handheld video recordings of shows. The video is not bad either but it is obvious it was not a tripod mounted shooting and was a handheld type in this show from the balcony area on the right section of the venue. It really is sharp and clear video too. I've always wondered what kind of camera Third Eye used for all of the shows he shared because it was definitely an excellent, and possibly professional camera.

We're really fortunate to have all of these various concerts recorded by Third Eye using such great equipment and knowing about video and audio too.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Grand Funk Railroad: 1975-05-18 Nagoya, Japan (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

Here's a requested show from a good while back of a Grand Funk Railroad concert from 1975. This show is a decent sounding one but there are better sounding shows out there. But since the request was for a 1975 show, this Nagoya, Japan 1975 show is what I'm uploading.

GFR was an excellent band throughout the 1970's. But as with many bands, things fell apart before the 1970's ended. However, some band members have rejoined in years spanning since the 1970's and have played tours. I even saw them on 2001-10-21 at the Volunteers For America concert in Dallas and I recorded their short set too. Maybe one day I'll upload that set and a few other artist that were a part of the 9/11 victim's families benefit event.

LINEAGE:
CD-R trade > EAC (Secure Mode) > WAV > TLH > FLAC 8 > 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: Grand Funk Railroad
Date: May 18th, 1975
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Venue: Shi Kokaido
Title: Caught In The Nagoya
Label: None
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 417 MB
Length: 84:24:74

SETLIST:
101. opening
102. Footstompin' Music
103. Rock 'N' Roll Soul
104. Closer To Home
105. Heartbreaker
106. Shinnin' On
107. Loco-Motion

CD 2:
201. Black Licorice
202. The Railroad
203. We're An American Band (promo video intro into song)
204. We're An American Band
205. T.N.U.C.
206. Inside Looking Out
207. Gimme Shelter

LINK:
(1) 1975-05-18 Nahoya, Japan (AUD)

The audio in this show unfortunately doesn't have a lot of high frequencies present in the recording. The waveform shows no clipping, but at the same time it is almost maxed out where a good EQ'ing job would require some real TLC. There is not a lot of room to try and manipulate the high frequency range without causing audio clipping. But there are ways of doing it if someone wanted to.

The Japanese crowd sounds really excited that the band is playing in Nagoya. I didn't realize they were that popular in Japan. But as history has shown, the Japanese people like good music and they get really good recordings many times too.

This recording has it's flaws but from listening to it in the past I remember it is a great show with the possibility of being made into a better sounding show.

This show was on the same day Led Zeppelin was finishing up their 1975 tour with their second night out of five in Earl's Court also.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr