Simon & Garfunkel – Amsterdam, The Netherlands (05/21/70)

Simon & Garfunkel
NCRV Television
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
21 May 1970


Total Time 75:47 (79:56)

  1. The Boxer 4:41 (5:12)
  2. Homeward Bound 2:37 (2:55)
  3. Fakin’ It 4:07 (4:06)
  4. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) 2:04 (2:35)
  5. Silver Haired Daddy 3:08 (3:30)
  6. I Am A Rock 5:12 (5:38)
  7. For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her 2:23 (2:38)
  8. Mrs. Robinson 3:29 (3:17)
  9. Scarborough Fair 3:16 (3:52)
  10. El Condor Pasa 3:01 (3:28)
  11. Leaves That Are Green 3:01 (3:05)
  12. Punky’s Dilemma 2:21 (2:24)
  13. America 3:36 (3:48)
  14. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright 3:45 (3:59)
  15. Song For The Asking 2:14 (2:04)
  16. A Poem On The Underground Wall 2:16 (2:46)
  17. Bridge Over Troubled Water * 6:10 (6:14)
  18. The Sound Of Silence 5:15 (5:20)
  19. Bye Bye Love 7:59 (8:03)
  20. Old Friends/Bookends 4:46 (4:52)

Paul Simon – guitar, vocals
Art Garfunkel – vocals

  • Larry Knechtel – piano

Simon & Garfunkel – Paris, France (05/01/70)

Simon and Garfunkel
Live In Paris
The Olympia, Paris
May 1, 1970

excellent SBD

  1. 2:38 Homeward Bound
  2. 4:22 The Boxer
  3. 3:20 Fakin’ It
  4. 1:54 The 59th St. Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)
  5. 3:11 Silver Haired Daddy
  6. 3:28 I Am A Rock
  7. 2:55 For Emily, Wherever I Shall Find Her
  8. 2:53 Anji
  9. 3:23 Scarborough Fair
  10. 2:38 Mrs. Robinson
  11. 2:42 Green Turns To Brown
  12. 3:31 America
  13. 3:03 So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
  14. 4:08 Lightnin’ Express
  15. 1:41 Song For The Asking
  16. 2:19 A Poem On The Underground Wall
    Total 48:54

Notes:

One of their last shows before they broke up (for the first time!) This first circulated as a 15 track disc and then a 16 track version appeared, identical in all other respects, this is the 16 track set.

Simon & Garfunkel – Los Angeles, CA (08/23/68)

Simon & Garfunkel
The Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles, CA
August 23rd, 1968


Tracklist:

01 – Mrs Robinson (2:57)
02 – Homeward Bound (2:36)
03 – Intro (2:35)
04 – April Come She Will (2:01)
05 – Fakin It (3:27)
06 – Overs (2:16)
07 – The 59th St Bridge Song (Feelin Groovy) (1:38)
08 – Intro (1:10)
09 – America (3:30)
10 – A Most Peculiar Man (2:28)
11 – I Am A Rock (3:12)
12 – At The Zoo (2:08)
13 – Scarborough Fair-Canticle (3:45)
14 – Bye Bye Love (2:25)
15 – Cloudy (2:09)
16 – The Leaves That Are Green (2:41)
17 – Punky’s Dilemma (2:23)
18 – Intro (0:33)
19 – Benedictus (2:53)
20 – The Dangling Conversation (2:44)
21 – Intro (0:50)
22 – For Emily Whenever I May Find Her (2:38)
23 – A Poem On The Underground Wall (1:59)
24 – Anji (2:28)
25 – The Sound Of Silence (3:26)
26 – Richard Cory (2:50)
27 – Old Friends (1:53)
28 – Bookends (1:36)
29 – He Was My Brother (3:07)
Total time: 70:28

Simon & Garfunkel – Syracuse, NY (11/xx/67)

Simon And Garfunkel
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
1967-11-xx

reel-to-reel “The NET-FM Show” – great early S&G!

This show is not taken from any previous torrent, it’s from my reel. Upon doing the transfer I noticed that Simon and Garfunkel sounded like Alvin and the Chipmunks. When the show was pitched, it was found to be almost a semitone too high. Pitch was matched to the online program “Virtual Keyboard”. This is truly a special Simon and Garfunkel show from the height of their powers, and shouldn’t be missed if you like the band.

Setlist: Runtime 27m14s:

A Poem On The Underground Wall
For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her
Overs
Introduction of Edward Simon
Anji
Patterns
The Sounds Of Silence
Scarborough Fair
America
Punky’s Dilemma

Known personnel:

Paul Simon
Art Garfunkel
Edward Simon 2nd Guitar
others unknown

Lineage: FM ->?->reel->Sound Forge 6.0 at 24 bit 48Khz ->heavy pitch correction ->60hz notch filter ->downsampling in Sound Forge->FLAC via FLAC frontend, level 6, sectors aligned and verified. Most of the warts in this recording were left in.

Enjoy!

A DoinkerTape

Down But Not Out

Sorry, I’ve not been around much of late, Covid finally got me. So far it has not been too bad of a hit. I mainly feel like I have a really bad cold – stuffy head, lots of coughing, aches, and pains – and I find that I am utterly exhausted all of the time. But it certainly isn’t as bad as it could be.

Me being me I’ve tried to blog a little but sitting up for more than about 20 minutes at a time wears me out. But never fear my music-loving friends, I shall be back. I don’t know when that might be, hopefully, next week, but don’t you dare count me out.

Miles Davis – Los Angeles, CA (05/02/73)

Miles Davis
1973-05-02 (recording date)
“Midnight Special” TV program
Ahmanson Theater
Los Angeles, CA

TV broadcast or soundboard recordings, 21:16

Miles Davis (tp); Dave Liebman (ss, ts, fl); Pete Cosey (g, perc); Reggie Lucas (g); Khalil Balakrishna (sitar); Lonnie Liston Smith (keyb); Michael Henderson (el-b); Al Foster (d); Badal Roy (tabla); James Mtume Foreman (cga, perc)

1 Fragment A 16:17 [complete segment as broadcast]
2 Fragment B* 4:58 [partial takes, fragments, that were recorded but not broadcast]

plaz post:

  • balance and stereo image correction
  • click and pop repair
  • each fragment gain normalized separatley to 0 dB

plaz notes:
Fragment A is not tracked: I don’t even know if there’s more than one tune, at least the band never stops. Sounds like Tune in 5 into Zimbabwe.

Note that Fragment B is similar to KOB.de listing for this date.

  1. Tune In 5 fragment
  2. Zimbabwe fragment

Miles Davis – Oslo, Norway (11/09/71)

Miles Davis Septet
09 Nov 1971
Chateau Neuf, Oslo, Norway

Received in trade.
This is what I know: This show was broadcast by Norsk Rikskringkastning TV (NRK) and was also an FM broadcast. I have two different sources for the radio broadcast and they don’t sound anywhere near as good as this.
There’s also an NRK webcast. Contrast clause(s): the video stream is here: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=357067, and an audience recording here: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=449047.)

As the audio quality is excellent (check samples), I wondered if my version of the recording was taken from the (lossy) web stream. However, TLH confirms that the tracks are “100% CDDA” (see details below). Additionally, I have included the Spectrum Analysis. Granted, I’m no expert on this, but there’s no obvious cut off at 18000-20000Hz.

  1. Directions (J. Zawinul)
  2. Honky Tonk (M. Davis)
  3. What I Say (M. Davis)
  4. Sanctuary (W. Shorter)
  5. It’s About That Time (M. Davis)
  6. Yesternow (M. Davis)
  7. Funky Tonk (M. Davis)
  8. Sanctuary (W. Shorter)

Duration: 1:19:23
Shorter than the TV broadcast, which included approximately 2 mins of dead air and signal bars.

Miles Davis – tp
Gary Bartz – ss, as
Keith Jarrett – el-p, org
Michael Henderson – el-b
Ndugu Leon Chancler – dr
Charles Don Alias – cga, perc
James Mtume Forman – cga, perc

Miles Davis – Berlin, Germany (11/06/71)

Miles Davis Septet
November 6, 1971
Philharmonie
Berlin, Germany



NDR Radio ‘live-to-air’ FM radio broadcast, 83:52, A

Miles Davis (tpt); Gary Bartz (ss, as); Keith Jarrett (kb); Michael Henderson (b); “Ndugu” Leon Chancler (d); Charles Don Alias (perc); James Mtume Foreman (perc)

1 Introduction / Band Warming Up (0:51)
2 Directions (14:05)
3 Honky Tonk (17:50)
4 What I Say? (8:28)
5 Sanctuary (4:41)
6 It’s About That Time (16:26)
7 Funky Tonk > Sanctuary (21:27)

Version History

This recording originates from a plaz transfer of his friend’s tape in 2000 or thereabouts, so here’s the original information….

Lineage: NDR FM stereo radio broadcast > R > cas > cdr
Transfer: Akai stereo cassette deck > TASCAM CD-RW700

Editor 1: 1st generation cassette transfer and WavLab 4 restoration by plaz and Guiseppe Candiamo

  • Continuous NR: The original transfer disc contained a couple of perfect noise samples at the start and end, so it was possible to remove most of the broadband tape noise and hiss without adversely affecting the music. The two channels were separated into L and R channel files and de-noised independently because the noise was different for each channel. The continuous DNR process was run successively at a very low rate, using the output from the previous run to remove any DNR artifacts during the subsequent run, a virtual CEDAR processing stack. This process was applied to each of the two cassette tape sides involved, and then the files were reassembled.
  • spliced 2 tape sides: This recording was copied from a continuous reel and appears to be the complete live-to-air broadcast.
  • gain normalized and tracked

The layout of the original trade CDRS:
CD1 [47:48]
1 Introduction / band Warming Up (0:56)
2 Directions (14:55)
3 Honky Tonk (2:38)
4 Funky Tonk (1:41)
5 Honky Tonk (6:50)
6 What I Say? (15:48)
7 Sanctuary (4:56)
CD2 [39:18]
8 It’s About That Time (17:04)
9 Funky Tonk / Sanctuary (22:13)
TT: 87:04

Editor 2 (twat with advisor Prof Goody)

Post Production: FLAC > WAV > Adobe Audition (Pitch Bender: +60 cents, Fade Out: d1t08) > CD Wave (Re-Tracked & removed gaps) > TLH > FLAC
Editor 3 (TomP with Nero 7)

  • Reduced RH channel to 70%
  • Cross-faded L&R channels (80:20 ratio) to fix headphone unfriendly mix
  • Fixed glitch 8.22 in Honky Tonk
  • Fixed glitches 3.37 3.52 & 4.30 in Sanctuary
  • Fixed glitch at 0.41 in “It’s About That Time”
  • Combined the split Honky Tonk tracks (inc. short Funky Tonk fragment)
  • Fixed the Fade out between Sanctuary & It’s about that time; now it is a continuous set

Comments:
Recording clarity is superb, with very low noise, so the original recorder did a fantastic job, but it still needed the final touches (details above) to make it a ‘must have’ recording; its has low noise and a great mix as the 3 percussionists are spread across the stereo image. I would classify it as similar to the quality of the official Black Beauty CDs, a slightly edgy sound, but terrific powerful performance, definitely towards the electric side (my distinct preference as Keith plays a lot more organ) rather than jazz side of this group’s recordings, so…Hope you enjoy this as much as I do now! Many thanks again to ‘twat’ for his post and encouragement for this remaster

Editor 4 (plaz): Sound Forge 10 Pro

  • repaired a few clicks and pops, removed a few micro gaps near a couple of the track boundaries, gain normalized and retracked.

Acknowledgements:
Thanks to ML for his generosity in loaning me his 1st generation cassette of this (then uncirculated) stereo recording. Thanks to Giuseppe Candiamo at AllSound Restore for invaluable help with this and other music projects. Thanks for the remastering work by Professor Goody (editor 2) and TomP (editor 3). Eric Theissen has kindly created the artwork.

Miles Davis – Zurich, Switzerland (10/22/71)

Miles Davis
October 22, 1971
Neue Stadthalle,
Dietikon, Zurich
Switzerland

First show

Deutsche und R‰toromanische
Schweiz Radio 3 broadcast (2004)

Miles Davis (tp)
Gary Bartz (ss, as)
Keith Jarrett (kb)
Michael Henderson (b)
“Ndugu” Leon Chancler (d)
Charles Don Alias (pc)
James “Mtume” Foreman (pc)

  1. Directions (13:04)
  2. What I Say? (10:58)
  3. Sanctuary (03:42)
  4. It’s About That Time (13:15)
  5. Bitches Brew (11:55)
  6. Funky Tonk (25:53)
  7. Sanctuary (01:00)

Total time: 79:50

FM radio broadcast > ?? > Trade > EAC (4x, secure) > FLAC (level 6, with sector align)
Sound quality: A, excellent

Miles Davis – New York, NY (06/20/70)

Miles Davis Septet
June 20, 1970
Fillmore East Auditorium
New York, NY, USA

Unedited soundboard recording, 57:27

Miles Davis (tp); Steve Grossman (ss, ts); Chick Corea (el-p, perc); Keith Jarrett (org, fl);
Dave Holland (b, el-b); Jack DeJohnette (d); Airto Moreira (perc, voc); Bill Graham (ann)

1 Directions (10:53)
2 The Mask 1 (11:15)
4 It’s About That Time (11:03)
5 I Fall in Love Too Easily > Sanctuary (4:37)
6 Bitches Brew (9:42)
7 Willie Nelson (9:20)
8 The Theme (0:34)

–Reference Set List–
1 Introduction (0:08)
2 Directions (10:52)
3 The Mask (11:11)
4 It’s About That Time (11:18)
5 I Fall In Love Too Easily (1:04)
6 Sanctuary (3:17)
7 Bitches Brew (9:43)
8 Willie Nelson (9:43)
9 The Theme (with applause) (0:57)