Peter Gabriel
The Roxy
Los Angeles, USA
1978, September 30 (Early Show)
Source: Audience
Deck: Sony TCM-100
Mic: Superscope condenser
Sound Quality: (B) VG+ sound
Source: Original Mono Master Cassette (TDK AD-90)
Recorded from on the stage
Transfer: >PB Pioneer CT-F1000>ASUS Xonar DG Sound Card>Audacity 2.0 @96k/24bit>2 channel to mono (reduce azmuth/phase error)>duplicate mono track>each Panned 45 degrees apart>Mix>Export multiple tracks 44.1k/16bit>TLH SBE Fixed>flac8>You>someone else
Time: 84 minutes
01 Me And My Teddy Bear (1:57)
02 On Presuming To Be Modern (2:47)
03 On The Air (4:22)
04 Moribund The Burgermeister (4:59)
05 Perspective (3:53)
06 Indigo (4:15)
07 White Shadow (5:04)
08 D.I.Y. (3:40)
09 Waiting For The Big One (6:24)
10 Band Introductions (1:21)
11 Mother Of Violence (3:34)
12 Slowburn (5:00)
13 Flotsam And Jetsam (3:37)
14 I Don’t Remember (early lyrics) (5:16)
15 Solsbury Hill (different 2nd verse)(5:22)
16 Modern Love (4:35)
17 The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (5:28)
18 (1st Encore) (0:48)
19 Animal Magic (4:32)
20 (2nd Encore with Mario) (2:40)
21 Here Comes The Flood (4:28)
The Band:
Peter Gabriel – Piano/ Vocals/ Drums
Tony Levin – Bass/ Stick/ Backing Vocals/ Piano
Jerry Marotta – Drums/ Backing Vocals/ Bass
Larry Fast – Synthesisers
Timmy Capello – Piano/ Sax
Sid McGinnis – Guitar/ Backing Vocals
The return of Gabriel to the Roxy was manic from the time tickets went on sale a month earlier. Less than 2 thousand tickets. 500 seats each show.
By opening night the walls could hardly contain all the energy. This new remaster really captures that.
About the sound at the Roxy. The speakers for the audience are left and right stacks, and overhead speakers above the stage speakers that carry most of the vocals. From the back of the theater you are about even with the overhead speakers and it sounds normal, but the closer you get to the stage, the more the vocals are over your head and muffled sounding.
For most of this show the mic was ON THE STAGE pointing up. So this recording is mostly, stage monitors, right next to the musicians and overhead vocals. Makes for a strange mix as they come closer to the mic.
As for the mic on the stage, at the start of Waiting For The Big One, a roadie found my mic and handed it to the first person in the audience, a minute or two later Peter jumped from the balcony (stage left balcony, no longer there) to the stage on the spot the mic was. After the song you can hear me put the mic back.
This was my 2nd time seeing Gabriel at the Roxy at 1st time taping. I got carried away.
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