Jackson Browne – Miami, FL (01/29/78)

Jackson Browne
Jai-Alai Fronton
Miami, Florida
January 29, 1978

(Uncirculated CB Low Gen Reel)

JEMS 2019 Transfer: Low Gen reel at 3.75 IPS > Otari 5050 mkII azimuth-adjusted > Sound Devices USBPre 2 > Audacity 2.0 capture > Peak Pro 6 (pitch adjusted) > iZotope RX7 and Ozone 6 (mastered) > Peak Pro 6 (post production) > xACT 2.39 > FLAC

01 Take It Easy
02 The Fuse
03 Here Come Those Tears Again
04 Late For The Sky
05 Fountain Of Sorrow
06 Your Bright Baby Blues
07 Rock Me On The Water
08 Cocaine
09 Song For Adam
10 Doctor In My Eyes
11 Running On Empty
12 Love Needs A Heart
13 You Love The Thunder
14 The Late Show
15 The Pretender
16 The Load-Out

Known Faults:
-The Load-Out: end cut
-Incomplete: missing Stay and likely The Road And The Sky

Three months ago the extended JEMS family consisting of myself, slipkid68 and slowburn convened at JEMS South meeting up with BK to do some long needed organizing and evaluating some recent acquisitions to the archives.

One of these recent acquisitions was a collection of pristine low gen reels from the collection of CB, a long time taper/trader that many of you know from our past shares of his stellar Springsteen masters. The collection of reels has already resulted in a one major upgrade and one alternate source for two European ’81 Springsteen shows.

As we were organizing the reels, one spine caught my eye and hit me like a bolt of lightning “Jackson Browne Miami 1978”. After spending the last year focused on Jackson’s1977-1978 “Running On Empty” tour, I immediately knew Miami was, to my knowledge and research, completely uncirculated (or at least vastly under-circulated).

The “Running On Empty” Tour kicked off on August 11, 1977 still located here:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=634815
The first month of the tour were recorded resulting in the eventual release of the LP on December 6, 1977.
The first leg of the tour which resulted in the LP release appears to ran from August 11, 1977 to September 18, 1977. Other than a few benefits, an appearance on Saturday Night Live and a New Year’s Eve show at the Forum in LA, the balance of the year was focused on readying and releasing the LP.

The second leg of the tour, in which this show falls. ran from January 11, 1978 to January 29, 1978 before picking up again with two benefit concerts in Dallas beginning on March 28th.

Quality of this second leg closing night is very good and the performances are top-notch but unfortunately incomplete missing “Stay” and likely “The Road And The Sky” which was the common closer for this let.

I personally can’t get enough of this tour and this show easily fits in as one of the best. This is the fifth show I’ve had the pleasure to work on and release of this era with a few more still to go that are unfortunately on the rough side and one special surprise.

Samples and artwork included…

Thanks to BK for the transfer and the extended JEMS family….the biggest thanks goes to CB for his pristine reels and the source of another historically important show!

mjk5510

Jackson Browne – Birmingham, AL (01/26/78)

Jackson Browne
Boutwell Auditorium
Birmingham, Alabama
January 26, 1978

Transfer: Unknown tape transfer .wav file > Peak Pro 6 (pitch adjusted) > iZotope RX / ozone 5 (mastered) > Peak Pro 6 (post production) > xACT 2.39 > FLAC

01 Take It Easy
02 The Fuse
03 Here Come Those Tears Again
04 Late For The Sky
05 Fountain Of Sorrow
06 Your Bright Baby Blues
07 Cocaine
08 Doctor My Eyes
09 Running On Empty
10 Shaky Town
11 Love Needs A Heart
12 You Love The Thunder
13 The Pretender
14 The Load-Out
15 Stay

Known Faults:
-Doctor My Eyes: splice

And on to Birmingham…the “Running On Empty” tour had been on the road since August and the band was now firing on all cylinders.
Opening night is posted here:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=634815

8 of the 10 songs on the LP, which came out on in December, are now being played, the Birmingham show is tightly focused with a ton of energy and one of my favorite ’77-’78 tour shows based on both the performance and quality of the capture.

The quality of the capture is near excellent, I’m still hopeful someday the master surfaces.

The raw tape ran extremely fast and had to be pitch adjusted by -70 cents, in addition, the due diligence that goes into all my releases have been executed, channel aligned, de-clicked, dc offset removed, external audience noises extracted and final mastering.

This one comes highly recommended even for the casual fan.

Thanks to M for the file…samples and artwork provided…

mjk5510

Jackson Browne – Fort Worth, TX (01/14/78)

Jackson Browne
14 January 1978
Tarrant County Convention Center
Fort Worth, TX

Disc 1
Take It Easy
The Fuse
Fountain of Sorrow
Here Come Those Tears Again
Late for the Sky
Before The Deluge
Walking Slow
Your Bright Baby Blues
Cocaine
Song for Adam

Disc 2
Running on Empty
Shaky Town
Love Needs a Heart
You Love the Thunder
The Late Show
The Pretender
The Road and the Sky
The Load-Out
Stay

encores –
Doctor My Eyes

1st gen tape from A.M. master

2 Maxell XL II 100

Transfer 2020 – 04 – 22 by zuma66
Teac W860R > M-Audio Microtrack 24/96 >
CompactFlash card reader > PC > Gold wave >
Audacity 3.1 > Sonic Maximizer D82 >
WAV tracks split with CD Wave >
Traders Little Helper level 8

The Friday Night Horror Movie: Nocturne (2020)

nocturne movie poster

I don’t know why I keep watching films made under the Blumhouse banner. They are all well made. They have good production values. They look great. They are often very well-acted and usually the direction is handled well. But there is something so slick, so generic about them that I find almost all of them instantly forgettable. They feel as if they are made by a committee in a factory instead of by a passionate creator with a specific point of view.

Nocturne is a perfect example of this. It has a decent story and it was obviously made by good craftsmen. But it feels like a retread of Black Swan with a bit of Whiplash thrown in but with no interesting ideas of its own.

Juliet (Sydney Sweeney) and Vivian Lowe (Madison Iseman) are twin sisters who have been training to become concert pianists from a very young age. Vivian is the prodigy having just been accepted to Julliard while Juliet did not get accepted, and as it was the only school she applied too will be taking a year off. They are both seniors at a prestigious music academy.

The film begins with another student, the best in her class committing suicide by jumping off a balcony. She was set to star in the senior showcase and now there is an empty spot. All seniors are welcome to apply.

Juliet accidentally discovers the dead girl’s theory notebook which is full of all kinds of mystical horror movie drawings. Naturally, she starts using it and naturally her musical skills improve dramatically.

The sisters don’t seem to like each other very much and their rivalry skyrockets now that they have the chance to star in the senior showcase.

All of this is a good setup for something interesting to happen. But it never does. I expected the notebook angle to go into supernatural occult territory. It seemed to think about doing exactly that, but then pulled back. Juliet keeps studying and playing the songs inside it. Her skills improve and her life begins mimicking the weird drawings inside. But she never takes it too far.

The sisters fight. One of them gets hurt. One of them cheats with the other one’s boyfriend, but again the film never really runs with these ideas. A film like this should take extremes. It doesn’t need to be sort of realistic.

It is a Blumhouse film so the production values are high. It looks good. I think Sydney Sweeney is a very fine actress, but there is nothing for her to really bite into here.

Two months from now I’ll be scrolling through Amazon and I’ll see this film pop up. I’ll have to look it up on Letterboxd to see if I’ve seen it before and I’ll be surprised by the answer.

Fleetwood Mac – Rochester, NY (03/16/09)

Fleetwood Mac
20090316
Rochester, NY
HSBC Arena

Source: Audience
Lineage: Ederol R-09HR internal mics > SDHC card > Roxio Sound Editor (split, named tracks) > dbpoweramp > FLAC
Quality: 9

Set 1:

Monday Morning 03:29
The Chain 05:08
Dreams 06:06
I Know I’m Not Wrong 05:33
Gypsy 04:54
Go Insane 04:05
Rhiannon 06:18
Second Hand News 03:51
Tusk 05:03
Sara 04:42
Big Love 03:56
Landslide 04:59
Never Going Back Again 04:35
Storms 06:50
Say You Love Me 04:28
Gold Dust Woman 07:25
Oh Well 04:04
I’m So Afraid 09:23
Stand Back 05:02
Go Your Own Way 10:08
World Turning 08:48
band introductions 03:30
Don’t Stop 04:57
Silver Springs 06:45
outro 01:05
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02:18:04

U2 – Las Vegas, NV (09/29/23)

U2
The Sphere
Las Vegas, NV
September 29, 2023

Source: AT953 > SP-SPSB-10 > Tascam DR2d
Transfer: wav file > Sound Studio (16/44.1) > xACT > FLAC (level 8)
Recording location: Section 304
Recorded by: Tapehead2

01 Intro
02 Zoo Station
03 The Fly
04 Even Better Than the Real Thing
05 Mysterious Ways
06 One
07 Until the End of the World
08 Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
09 Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World
10 All I Want Is You
11 Desire
12 Angel of Harlem
13 Love Rescue Me
14 So Cruel
15 Acrobat
16 Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
17 Love Is Blindness
18 Elevation
19 Atomic City
20 Vertigo
21 Where the Streets Have No Name
22 With or Without You
23 Beautiful Day

Talking Heads – True Creature Demos, 1984

Talking Heads
1984
Demos recorded at David Byrne’s NYC Apartment

cd/EAC/FLAC

Setlist:

Wild Wild Life
Puzzlin Evidence
Love For Sale
Lady Don’t Mind
Hey Now
Road to Nowhere
Instrumental (Hey)
Papa Legba
People Like Us
City of Dreams
Radio Head
Give Me Back My Name

None of these have turned up on the new official cds as extra tracks. Nor on the box set “Once in a Lifetime”

Queen – New York, NY (02/05/77)

Queen
Madison Square Garden
New York City
February 5th, 1977

Source: Audience
Quality: Good

Disc 1

01 Ogre Battle (Cut)
02 White Queen (As it began)
03 Somebody To Love
04 Killer Queen
05 The Millionaire Waltz
06 You’re My Best Friend
07 Bring Back That Leroy Brown
08 Sweet Lady
09 Brighton Rock
10 Brighton Rock (end)
11 ’39
12 You Take My Breath Away

Disc 2

01 White Man
02 The Prophet’s Song
03 Bohemian Rhapsody
04 Stone Cold Crazy
05 Keep Yourself Alive
06 Liar
07 In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited
08 Now I’m Here
09 Big Spender!
10 Jailhouse Rock
11 God Save The Queen

Led Zeppelin – Los Angeles, CA (06/21/77)

Led Zeppelin
1977-06-21
Inglewood, CA
The Forum

Source: Audience
Lineage: 1st gen cassettes(TDK SA 90)x3>Nakamichi 670 pitch & azimuth-adjusted playback deck>Nakamichi Outboard Dolby B Unit>Wavelab 96/24>Izotope 44.1/16>flac
Taping Gear: AKG mics, Nakamichi 550 cassette deck
Taped By: Mike Millard
Transferred By: JEMS

Setlist:

Intro
The Song Remains The Same
Sick Again
Nobody’s Fault But Mine
Over The Hills And Far Away
Since I’ve Been Loving You
No Quarter
Ten Years Gone (cut in middle due to tape flip)
The Battle Of Evermore
Going To California
Black Country Woman
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
White Summer
Kashmir
Over The Top
Heartbreaker
Noise Solo (cut in middle due to tape flip)
Achilles Last Stand
Stairway To Heaven
Whole Lotta Love
Rock And Roll

Length: 197:03

Notes:
Alternate set of unmarked tapes for this show transferred with Dolby B on as per Mike’s notes on the tape labels using an adjustable outboard Dolby B unit. This is the 1st time (May 2010) these tapes have ever been digitized. The sound is completely unaltered except for pitch correction during playback and fades added for each of the tape flips.

Prince – The Hague, The Netherlands (08/18/88)

Prince
Small Club
08/18/88
Het Paard Van Troje, The Hague, Rotterdam, Holland

Disc 1
Instrumental Jam
D.M.S.R.
Just My Imagination
People Without
Housequake
Down Home Blues

Total time: 53:09

Disc 2
Cold Sweat
Forever in My Life
Still Would Stand All Time
I’ll Take You There I
I’ll Take You There II
Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic

Total time: 52:37

It is no secret that this is arguably the most essential bootleg recording in circulation for Prince fans. It is first and foremost on my personal list of favorites. Even though there are now a plethora of soundboard recordings available from nearly every tour, this is a perfect recording of a coveted aftershow.

The sound quality is to my ears identical to the original release of Small Club 2nd Show That Night by X records in 1989. This is the first time I’ve said this about any reissue of this show. Although many have tried before this is the first Small Club recording to actually match the original in sound quality. There have been no less than a couple dozen of reissues over the past 6 years. In a blind test with both sources playing simultaneously I could not tell them apart. If there is a difference in sound it is discernible to me.

The show itself is a true aftershow classic, with everything we could ask for in a performance: killer guitar solos (Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic & Just My Imagination), great vocals (Still Would Stand All Time), lots of Boni Boyer, and a couple of unreleased songs (People Without, etc..). This is Prince at his physical and performing prime. Looking back I would have to say that 1987-88 featured him at his best more consistently that any other time of his career. His aftershows during this time period
are just legendary including the incredible Camden Palace show in London on July 25th, the Hamburg show in late August and one of the first, the Quasimodo gig on the Sign O the Times tour. Never has his ferocity been so evident at shows such as these. His effortless ability to mix stunning cover versions and unreleased tracks along with completely new renditions of his classics is remarkable. It also has a lot to do with his look. Watch the clips of the Camden Palace gig and you can see a stronger, firmer Prince that we’ve seen in the recent years. Not one as frail and
weightless as we’re becoming accustomed to now. What is also noticeable in those aftershow clips is that Prince KNEW he had just hit his prime. His relaxed mood with the European fans, his musicianship, and his first truly great backing band had reached a peak at this time unmatched to that point in his career. His confidence and showmanship have never been so apparent.