Eric Clapton – Melbourne, Australia (11/24/84)

Eric Clapton
Sports and Entertainment Centre
Melbourne, Australia
November 24, 1984

CD-R1 – Geetarz 194 – SB 4

Track List:

Motherless Children
I Shot the Sheriff
Same Old Blues
Tangled in Love
She’s Waiting
Steppin’ Out (Shaun Murphy)
Blues Power
Badge
Blues Medley:
Who’s Loving You Tonight?
Have You Ever Loved a Woman?
Ramblin’ On My Mind

Band Lineup:
Eric Clapton Guitar, Vocals
Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn Bass
Chris Stainton Keyboards
Peter Robinson Synthesizer
Jamie Oldaker Drums
Marcy Levy Backing Vocals
Shaun Murphy Backing Vocals

Geetarz Comments:

Here’s a rarity from what I consider a “lost tour”, the short Australia / Asian tour that finished off 1984. Very few of these shows were recorded (what’s up with you Aussie tapers?) and it’s one of those tours that is often overlooked.

If you consider EC’s career from a historical perspective, 1985 is considered by many to be the pivotal year when EC burst back on the popular music scene in a big way, with the Live Aid performance. But the groundwork began to be laid in 1983 with the ARMS concerts, and then in a more intense fashion as EC recorded new material in 1984, began to change his band, and then of course had his invigorating summer stint with Roger Waters as a sideman, allowing him the freedom to just PLAY GUITAR.

Considered in this light, the fall 1984 tour could almost be looked at as a dress rehearsal for the new sound and new band that would propel EC into the popular music scene of the 1980s, back into the charts in a big way, and introduce him to a new generation of post-baby-boom fans.

Here we have a rare document of that tour, one I’ve not seen circulated much if at all. This is clearly what I call a “pure” soundboard recording, with no audience mics in the mix, with the audience only audible as bleed-through.

The original tape source was quite rough, and it took a bit of work to bring out something more listenable. Along with the basics of appropriate EQ and normalization, this took as much noise reduction as it could stand without stomping on the high end, which was already attenuated a bit.

This finished version is much more listenable in my opinion – check it out for yourself and see!

If you enjoy the 1985 tour as much as I do, this is one you may have overlooked.

Cassette source (unknown generation, probably 3-4) > Tascam AD-700a (Playback) > XLR Balanced Analog > HHb CDR800a burner > Mitsui Gold CD-R > Sony DRU-840A > EAC v 0.99 Prebeta 4 (Secure) > WAV > Soundforge 9.0e > Remastering > CDWav (Tracking) > FLAC (Level 5) > YOu !!!

Artwork by Kream – thanks!

Derek and the Dominos – St. Louis, MO (11/27/70)

Derek and the Dominos
1970-11-27
St. Louis, Missouri
Henry W. Kiel Municipal Auditorium

Track List:

  1. Layla
  2. Roll it Over
  3. Blues Power
  4. Stormy Monday
  5. Got to Get Better in a Little While
  6. Nobody Knows You
  7. Tell the Truth
  8. Let it Rain

Band Lineup:
Eric Clapton Guitar, Vocals
Carl Radle Bass
Jim Gordon Drums
Bobby Whitlock Keyboards, Vocals

Geetarz Comments:

There are at least three versions of this in circulation …the original (previously hoarded) version from the master, theMid Valley release (MVR-300, “Speed Freaks”) which “broke”the show into circulation, and this “fan remaster” that has some more aggressive noise and hiss reduction.

It’s likely a matter of individual taste which version you prefer. I’m not yer mum, and not up to me to tell you what
you can, and can’t, have.

The original recording is low in average volume, and has a bit of hiss, etc. As the volume is increased, the hiss and
noise are increased as well, so this version also applies some fairly heavy noise reduction. This does result in some
artifacts from the noise reduction, but many people likely won’t notice that.

In the end, again, it’s up to personal preference as well as your listening situation (headphones, stereo, car,
convertible with top down, etc.)

The Band – Albany, NY (02/16/86)

The Band
JB’s Tavern
Albany,NY
02/16/1986

01 intro, tuning *
02 I’m Steppin Up In Class
03 tech problem with microphone
04 //Across The Great Divide
05 My Love
06 The Battle Is Over
07 You Don’t Know Me
08 Java Blues
09 It Makes No Difference
10 The Shape I’m In
11 The Weight
12 Genetic Method
13 Chest Fever
14 I Ain’t Got A Home
15 Stage Fright
16 I Shall Be Released
17 Up On Cripple Creek
18 crowd, banter
19 WS Walcott Medicine Show
20 Wish You Were Here With Me
21 Willie And The Hand Jive *
22 Rivers Of Babylon (accapella) *

The Band:
Levon Helm
Rick Danko
Garth Hudson
Richard Manuel
Jim Weider

Source: Unknown soundboard (first gen cassette)
Lineage: Nakamichi MR-1 > Korg MR-1000 @ 1 Bit/5.6MHz > AudioGate > wav 24/96 >
Adobe Audition 1.5 > Wavelab 6 with iZotope Ozone 4 > CD Wave > TLH > Flac 24

Add. Lineage on this version : > R8brain decoding to .WAV16 > changing .flac titles to reflect this > TLH > .FLAC16 (cut on sector bountaries) > new checksums

Notes:
The last 42.7 seconds of “Hand Jive” and all of “Rivers Of Babylon” are missing and have been patched in from a 2nd gen soundboard which was released in March 2009 as part of the Live Music Preservation Project

John Lennon – Mind Games Sessions

John Lennon
Mind Games Sessions
Misterclaudel
From Historical Original Master Recordings


Mind Games

1-1 Demo #1 (Make Love Not War) (1970)
1-2 Demo #2 (I Promise) (1970)
1-3 Alternate Take Rough Mix
1-4 Promo Mono 45″ Version

Tight A$

1-5 Demo
1-6 Rough Mix
1-7 Rough Mix With Overdubs #1
1-8 Rough Mix With Overdubs #2

Aisumasen (I’m Sorry)

1-9 Demo #1 (Call My Name) (1971)
1-10 Demo #2 (Call My Name) (1971)
1-11 Demo #3 (Call My Name) (1971)
1-12 Demo #4 (Call My Name) (1971)
1-13 Demo #5 (Call My Name) (1971)
1-14 Demo #6 (Call My Name) (1971)
1-15 Demo #7 (Call My Name) (1971)
1-16 Demo #8 (Call My Name) (1971)
1-17 Rough Mix #1
1-18 Rough Mix #2 With Overdubs

One Day (At A Time)

1-19 Alternate Take
1-20 Rough Mix #1
1-21 Rough Mix #2 With Overdubs

Bring On Lucie (Freda People)

1-22 Demo (1971)
1-23 Alternate Take
1-24 Rough Mix With Guide Vocal

Intuition

2-1 Demo Take 3 With ‘How?’ & ‘God’
2-2 Demo Take 4
2-3 Rough Mix

Out Of The Blue

2-4 Rough Mix #1
2-5 Rough Mix #2
2-6 Rough Mix #3

Only People

2-7 Rough Mix #1
2-8 Rough Mix #2 With Overdubs

I Know (I Know)

2-9 Acoustic Demo #1
2-10 Acoustic Demo #2
2-11 Acoustic Demo #3

Vocal Overdub

2-12 Demo Take #1
2-13 Demo Take #2
2-14 Demo Take #3
2-15 Demo Take #4
2-16 Demo Take #5
2-17 Demo Take #6
2-18 Alternate Early Take
2-19 Alternate Take Rough Mix #1
2-20 Rough Mix #1
2-21 Rough Mix #2

You Are Here

3-1 Alternate Take
3-2 Rough Mix

Meat City

3-3 Demo
3-4 Demo #1
3-5 Demo #2
3-6 Rough Mix
3-7 Single Version

Rock ‘N’ Roll People

3-8 Piano Demo (1970)
3-9 Piano Demo (1973)

August 1 1973 Session

3-10 Take 6
3-11 Take 7

August 4 1973 Session

3-12 Take 5
3-13 Take 6
3-14 Take 7

I’m The Greatest
1970 Demos
3-15 Piano Demo #1
3-16 Piano Demo #2

1971 Rehearsal

3-17 Studio Demo #1
3-18 Studio Demo #2

1973 Session For ‘Ringo’ LP

3-19 Take 1 (Breakdown)
3-20 Take 2 (Breakdown)
3-21 Take 3 (Breakdown)
3-22 Take 4 (Breakdown)
3-23 Take 5
3-24 Take 6 (Breakdown)
3-25 Take 7 (Breakdown)
3-26 Take 8
3-27 Take 9 (Breakdown)
3-28 Take 10
3-29 Take 11
4-1 Takes Unknown
4-2 Rough Mix

1973-1974 Pussy Cats Session

Mucho Mungo

4-3 Demo Take 1
4-4 Demo Breakdown
4-5 Demo Take 2

Demo Taping With Harry Nilsson

4-6 Demo Sequence #1
4-7 Demo Sequence #2
4-8 Demo Sequence #3

Mt. Elga

4-9 Rehearsal

Record Plant Jam Session – March 28 1974

4-10 A Toot And A Snore/Never Trust A Bugger With Your Mother
4-11 Little Bitty Pretty One/Jam
4-12 Lucille
4-13 Sleepwalk – ‘Nightmares’ Jam
4-14 Stand By Me #1 (Breakdown)
4-15 Stand By Me #2 (Breakdown)
4-16 Stand By Me #3 (Breakdown)
4-17 Stand By Me #4
4-18 Cupid/Chain Gang/Take This Hammer

Companies, etc.
Recorded At – Record Plant, N.Y.C.
Credits
Featuring – Bobby Keys (tracks: 4-10 – 4-18), George Harrison (tracks: 3-19 – 3-29), Harry Nilsson (tracks: 4-6 – 4-8), Jesse Ed Davis (tracks: 4-10 – 4-18), Paul McCartney (tracks: 4-10 – 4-18), Ringo Starr (tracks: 3-19 – 3-29), Stevie Wonder (tracks: 4-10 – 4-18)

Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (01/13/80)

Grateful Dead
January 13, 1980
Oakland Coliseum
Oakland, CA

Cambodian Refugee Benefit

–Setlist–
101-d1t01 – Jack Straw ->
102-d1t02 – Franklin’s Tower
103-d1t03 – New Minglewood Blues
104-d1t04 – Tennessee Jed ->
105-d1t05 – Looks Like Rain ->
106-d1t06 – Don’t Ease Me In
107-d2t01 – Playing in the Band ->
108-d2t02 – Drums ->
109-d2t03 – Not Fade Away ->
110-d2t04 – Sugar Magnolia

–Encore–
111-d2t05 – U.S. Blues
112-d2t06 – Land Of a Thousand Dances
113-d2t07 – Amazing Grace

Carlos Santana and John Cippolina on NFA and Sugar Mags
— Greg Errico on U.S. Blues

Peter Gabriel – Paris, France (09/12/80)

PETER GABRIEL
Paris, Olympia
September 12, 1980

“Bonsoir encore une fois, Paris”

01.Intruder
02.The Start
03.I Don¥t Remember
04.Solsbury Hill
05.Family Snapshot
06.Milgram¥s 37
07.Modern Love
08.Not One Of Us
09.Lead A Normal Life
10.Moribund The Burgermeister
11.Mother Of Violence
12.Humdrum
13.Bully For You
14.Games Without Frontiers
15.And Through The Wire
16.I Go Swimming
17.Biko
18.On The Air
19.DIY

TT 111:20

Lineage: Unknown recording device > n generation tape > Teac Tape Deck AD-RW900 > Creative Recon 3D Sound Blaster > HD >
SoundForge 10.0 Pro > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6)

Peter Gabriel – Piano, Tambourine, Vocals
John Ellis – Guitars
John Giblin – Bass
Jerry Marotta – Drums, Saxophone
Larry Fast – Keyboards

LDB Special Series #472

Out of my 17,000+ shows and radio broadcasts, I have many concerts that were special for some reasons: the setlist, the musicians, the venue or unexpected events. These are the ones I’d like to propose you. Most of these come from my cassettes collection, so they will be released at a slower pace than my Master Series! But you won’t be disappointed!

I will try to gather the most unusual things I have in my collection and, as always, your feedback and comments will be my reward for all the work involved in this project.

DO NOT share this music on mp3, just convert it for your own use. Sharing mp3’s is the right way to make me stop sharing music here.

Here is something quite special: towards the end of the tour PG played five straight shows at the Olympia, making possibly the longest stand in a single venue ever. I do not recall Gabriel having played the same venue for five nights in a row!

These were exceptionally dense performances by a band that by then had reached a perfect synch and interaction, even if the bass player was not the same that had started the tour some six months earlier as Tony Levin was not available.

I was able to get almost all dates from french traders which probably shows that these are extremely low generation copies, even if I do not have the exact lineage. The setlist did change but not that much, except that here we have the very last performances of White Shadow which was never recorded in any other 1980 tour.

These dates circulate with some confusion in the dates, but I could reconstruct which date is which through the recollection of a couple of friends who did attend these shows. One of them even got Pete¥s tambourine which he used to throw to the audience at the and of Solsbury Hill! Hopefully I can shed some light on the exact dates.

To define each date, I have called them with the intro words to Solsbury Hill. Every night Peter would start his speech in a different way, so it is clear that all 5 dates are different. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to “Five Nights In Paris”!

The Who – Who By Numbers Demos, 1975 Tape

THE WHO
“Who By Numbers”
Demos 1975 Tape
( not CD or vinyl sourced !!! ) FLAC

218 MB

TAPE>CDwave>WAVE>FlacFrontend Level 8>FLAC>TORRENT

Quality : 8 – 10

  1. Slip Kid (03:55)
  2. Instrumental ( ??? ) (02:54)
  3. Untitled ( ” I¥m gonna fight to make you mine ” ) (03:18)
  4. Brrr ( instr. ) (03:28)
  5. Squeezebox (02:22)
  6. Keep Me Turning (03:37)
  7. However Much I Booze ( instr. ) (07:45)
  8. Instrumental ( blues ) (04:42)

I got this one in a trade in the middle 80¥s.
I compared the songs which were released on the scoop records, with the commercial versions. In my opinion , there are some significant differences.

( length, other instruments…. )

So, I think ( I hope ) there is no reason to ban this torrent.
But if it will be, please tell me all the reasons. So I have the chance to seed it again.

One important point is ( maybe) , I got this tape short before the first scoop album were released.

I will put the unknown tracks as mp3 samples, so you can help me finding out the titles.

Pink Floyd – London, England (05/19/73)

Pink Floyd
Earl’s Court Exhibition Hall
London, England
May 19th 1973

CD1

  1. Obscured by Clouds / When You’re In [15:23]
  2. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun [14:54]
  3. Careful with tha Axe, Eugene [11:19]
  4. Echoes [25:35]

    CD2
  5. Speak to Me [1:38]
  6. Breathe [3:02]
  7. On the Run [5:37]
  8. Time / Breathe (reprise) [6:44]
  9. The Great Gig in the Sky [6:21]
  10. Money [7:00]
  11. Us and Them [8:40]
  12. Any Colour You Like [6:30]
  13. Brain Damage[3:48]
  14. Eclipse [3:34]
  15. One of These Days [8:45]