Tag: 1978

Talking Heads – Amsterdam, The Netherlands (11/06/78)

Talking Heads
November 6. 1978
Paradiso
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Audience

Unknown cassette wav > Nak Drogon > wav files >
WaveLab 7 (tracking and minor editing) > xACT (flac & SBE)
Fade in at beginning removed a dropout and joined together seamlessly.

Still another of Hans Devente’s amazing tapes, which he posted as a cassette to WAV transfer on his fantastic blog,

http://mywalloftapes.blogspot.com/

A collaborative effort of Matt and mj to make these great recordings available in cd ready form.

Comments from Hans:
MY PROUDEST MOMENT EVER, I WAS INVITED TO SING BACKUP ON THIS SHOW, WHICH I LATER DID AGAIN IN LONDON, AT THE LYCEUM SHOW.
ALTHOUGH PEOPLE TOOK PICTURES AT THE SHOW, I NEVER SAW THEM, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THEM
I AM ONE OF THE TALKING HEADS BIGGEST FANS, AND CONSIDER CHRIS AND TINA MY BEST FRIENDS,,FOR OVER 35 YEARS ALREADY.

SO YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS SHOW

Set List:

01. The Big Country
02. Take Me To The River
03. The Book I Read
04. The Girls Want To Be With The Girls
05. …With Our Love
06. Uh Oh Love Comes To Town
07. Love -> Building On Fire
08. Don’t Worry AboutThe Government
09. The Good Thing (With Hons on backing vocals)
10. Artists Only
11. Warning Sign
12. Pulled Up
13. Psychokiller
14. No Compassion
15. New Feeling
16. found A Job
17. I’m not In Love

Talking Heads – San Francisco, CA (09/16/78)

Talking Heads
Boarding House
San Francisco, California, USA.
16 Sep 1978

KSAN FM broadcast > TDK D90 (unknown generation but low to my ears) > CD-R > Audacity [Speed decrease – on side 1 – ONLY] > CD Wave > TLH > FLAC

01 Intro
02 Big Country
03 Warning Sign
04 The Book I Read
05 Stay Hungry
06 Artists Only
07 The Girls Want To Be With The Girls
08 The Good Thing
09 Love > Building On Fire
10 Electricity
11 Found A Job
12 New Feeling
13 Pulled Up
14 Psycho Killer + DJ
15 Take Me To the River
16 I’m Not In Love + DJ
17 No Compassion + DJ

This has a lovely warm, vibrant sound.

When I first heard the pre-FM version of this recording, I was initially impressed. That soon turned to
disillusionment with that recording…it was so sterile! The base recording has less of a ‘live’ feel than
some Talking Heads live recordings…actually one similarly sterile recording is the December 1977 San
Francisco FM recording.

No matter…this off-air tape version sounds a lot better to me – and perhaps to you too.

I was glad to find the tape again…I’m lucky to have it! Got it off someone back in the early 90’s. On
the one and only occasion that I decided to take my uncle’s dog for a walk with a Walkman, I played this
tape. Upon crossing a small bridge over a stream, the dog got excited – probably upon seeing another dog.
I stumbled, and while I didn’t fall in – the Walkman did. A friend asked why don’t I try to go back and
get the Walkman the next day…I said, well it won’t work anymore, will it? “The tape might…”, and my
friend reminded me the water was shallow.

And so it did work! My uncle laughed when I told him the story at a later date, and that the tell tale
distortion in the tape came around the ‘take me to the water’ bit in Take Me To The River! 🙂

It sounds remarkably good. Even the DJ announcer is a joy to listen to. The mild hiss and radio broadcast
helps give it an ambience and ‘feel’ the pre-FM version lack (again, in my opinion – you may disagree). Psycho Killer…actually despite its huge popularity never a big favourite for me…but here it has the bite the
frosty pre-FM version lacks!

No processing has been carried out, bar speed correcting side 1. Oddly that ran too fast, while side 2
did not – I did check carefully against the pre-FM version of this show to do this. There is the odd fault
or fade in the brightness (a bit like a long tape dropout), but I did not attempt to repair this, I thought
leave it to the experts in this case.

If this is for you – enjoy.

Talking Heads – Chicago, IL (08/28/78)

Talking Heads
Park West Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 August 1978

EXCELLENT FM STEREO

download + CD-R > Audacity > CD Wave > TLH > FLAC

01 The Big Country
02 Warning Sign
03 The Book I Read
04 Stay Hungry
05 Artist Only
06 The Girls Want To Be With The Girls
07 Dont Worry About The Government
08 The Good Thing
09 Uh-Oh Love Comes To Town
10 Love-Building on Fire
11 New Feeling
12 Psycho Killer
13 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
14 Take Me To The River

This is very much a straight upload of a lovely CD-R I got a few years back.

It’s true stereo (unlike another mono version that circulates) and couldn’t be mistaken for pre-FM were it not for the very brief announcements in two places.

The only changes were reducing the speed -0 minus 3 percent (by comparing to other contemporaneous recordings), and editing
in the last chord of The Good Thing, and synch-ing in the start of Take Me To The River as there was a small skip
in the music files on that (not a CD-R fault). I synch-ed in the missing 2 seconds (! – 1 second of each) from the
download version, doing a little careful mixing to ensure a smooth match. If I hadn’t described this here you
wouldn’t know the joins were there.

NB there is some confusion over Talking Heads FM concert dates from what I can see but my CD-R – in a printed cover (very nice
but sorry I don’t have a working scanner) stated 28 August 1978.

Enjoy!

LOST HEADS!

Like another Talking Heads collector I’ve lost some of my files in a hard drive crash.

Please share more Talking Heads if you can.

In particular FM shows – such as Berkeley Performance Centre 1979.

Bob Weir Band – Boston, MA (03/05/78)

BOB WEIR BAND
March 5, 1978 Sunday
Late show 10:30pm
Paradise Theatre,
Boston, Ma. USA

Audience Stereo Master FOB
Sony ECM-99A > Sony TC-153SD
Master Cassette > CDR > EAC secure > Audacity (edits) > CD Wave (tracks) > FLAC
Nakamichi MR-1 > Tascam CD-RW900
Azimuth Aligned; Dolby B decoded, no processing or EQ
Total Time – 86:53
Recorded by Charlie Macasay
Transfer and encoding by Steve Hopkins

Disc One 37:21
01. tuning 2:04
02. New New Minglewood Blues 6:04
03. tuning 1:03
04. Easy To Slip 6:12
05. Salt Lake City 5:51
06. Lazy Lightnin’ 3:38 >
07. Supplication 4:59
08. Bombs Away 7:25

Disc Two 49:32
01. I Found Love 7:38
02. This Time Forever 4:45 >
03. Shade Of Gray 5:58
04. Heaven Help The Fool 7:03
05. Around And Around 6:05
06. tuning & talk 1:16
07. I’ll Be Dog Gone 4:48 >
08. Wrong Way Feeling 6:24
09. ovation & tuning 1:31
Encore
10. Johnny B.Goode 4:00

Rich Carlos – bass
Bobby Cochran – guitar, vocals
John Maucer – drums
Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals
Bob Weir – guitar, vocals

http://db.etree.org/lookup_show.php?shows_key=219094

Talking Heads – Croydon, England (02/05/78)

TALKING HEADS
The Greyhound
Croydon UK
February 05 1978

xx Love > Building on Fire [missing]
01 Uh Oh Love Comes to Town
02 Don’t Worry About the Government
03 The Book I Read
04 New Feeling
05 The Big Country
06 Artists Only
07 Tentative Decisions
08 Stay Hungry
09 Thank You for Sending Me an Angel
10 Who Is It?
11 Psycho Killer (tape flip at 0:06 cross-faded)
12 crowd
13 Pulled Up
14 crowd
15 Take Me To the River
16 crowd
17 No Compassion
18 crowd
19 I’m Not In Love (with Mark Knopfler)
20 crowd
21 Psycho Killer (with Mark Knopfler & John Illsley)
22 crowd
xx Gloria [missing]

Audience recording from the collection of Hans Devente, tape #16.
Transfer by Hans: Cassette > Nakamichi(?) > Audacity > WAV > FLAC 2496.
Edits: FLAC > TLH > Wavelab > R8Brain > CD-Wave > TLH > FLAC 1644 tagged.

Recording time 81:02. Overburn disc, or remove last crowd track.

This was the final show on a UK tour where Dire Straits opened for TH.
According to an eye-witness, there was a final encore of “Gloria” with
the members of Dire Straits, too bad it’s not on the tape!

Talking Heads / Dire Straits UK Tour 1978:
20-Jan-78 University Sheffield
21-Jan-78 University Manchester
22-Jan-78 Eric’s Liverpool
23-Jan-78 Outlook Doncaster
24-Jan-78 Friars Aylesbury
25-Jan-78 University Southampton
26-Jan-78 University Leicester
27-Jan-78 Polytechnic Newcastle
28-Jan-78 Polytechnic Huddersfield
29-Jan-78 Roundhouse London
30-Jan-78 Polytechnic Leeds
01-Feb-78 Top Rank Brighton
02-Feb-78 Barbarella’s Birmingham
03-Feb-78 Civic Hall St. Albans
04-Feb-78 Oasis Swindon
05-Feb-78 Greyhound Croydon

The final three tracks on this file-set are missing from the recent 24bit
transfer (Oct 2012), and are patched-in from an earlier 16bit transfer.
An MP3 version of the same tape includes 0:40 of Love > Building, and
another 0:54 of crowd noise at the end. Previous transfers of this tape
also contain fragmentary versions of three songs (Love > Building, Uh Oh
Love, & TYFSMAA) that appear to come from a different show of this tour.

THANKS to Hans for sharing this great historical recording…enjoy!

Bob Marley – Shelton, CT (06/14/78)

Bob Marley and The Wailers
# 16046 UPGRADE
June 14, 1978
Pinecrest Country Club
Shelton, Connecticut

from cassette master with a few short splices from a different edit of the same master plus
another taper’s 1st gen. source that had the tape flip in a different place.
You’ll have to listen very carefully to hear the transitions and it is now the entire show without any cut songs.

Disc 1: 56:23 – main set:
01 [05:26] Positive Vibration
02 [03:46] Dem Belly Full
03 [06:05] Concrete Jungle
04 [05:04] Rebel Music
05 [03:58] War!
06 [01:45] > No More Trouble
07 [04:50] Heathen
08 [03:26] Easy Skanking
09 [04:37] I Shot The Sheriff
10 [07:12] No Woman No Cry
11 [09:52] Jammin’

Disc 2: 25:45 – encores:
02 [06:19] Lively Up Yourself
03 [05:58] Get Up Stand Up
04 [03:36] > Punky Reggae Party
05 [09:52] > Exodus

Some microphone handling noises, level changes and minor dropouts were eliminated or minimized seamlessly and this now sounds way better than previous versions of this show. I consider this to be possibly the best sounding audience Bob Marley recording that I have heard. Check the samples to judge the sound for yourself.thanks to Dime users chkorch, wailertape and scottsays (by way of pantagruel) for supplying the various sources that make up this remaster.Info for primary cassette master source: Nakamichi CM300 microphones with CP4 shotgun capsules > Nakamichi 550 cassette deck master > Dat > CD.

No equalization or noise reduction was used in the mastering process.

Transfer: CD’s received in trade from the Dime users mentioned above > Macintosh with Digidesign AudioMedia III card > Pro Tools (nomalization, minor “nip & tuck” edits and tracking) > AIFF > xACT (Flac level 8 files with sector boundaries verified). md5 file created with checkSum+.

Talking Heads – Hamburg, Germany (01/13/78)

TALKING HEADS
Hamburg, Germany
Onkel Pˆ
13.01.78
( Aud ) ( not CD or Vinyl sourced !!! )

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

Quality : 6 – 7

01.Love Goes To Buildings On Fire ( quality : 4 – 5 )
02.Uh Oh Love Comes To Town
03.Don¥t Worry About The Government / Take Me To The River
04.The Book I Read
05.New Feeling
06.The Big Country
07.Tentative Decisions
08.Stay Hungry
09.Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
10.Who Is It ? / Psycho Killer ( incompl. )

Got this one in a trade in the middle 80¥s.

Joni Mitchell & Herbie Hancock – Berkeley, CA (09/03/78)

Joni Mitchell and Herbie Hancock
Bread and Roses Festival
Greek Theater
Berkeley, Ca. U.S.A.
September 3, 1978

FM broadcast on “Folk Festival USA” program
runtime: 30:45 (minutes/seconds)

setlist:
1: furry sings the blues 5:07
2: the dry cleaner from Des Moines 3:40
3: introduction of Herbie Hancock :52
4: a chair in the sky 6:53
5: the wolf that lives in Lindsey 7:46
6: the circle game 5:12
7: radio credits 1:15

(last song with
Tom Paxton
Odetta
the Persuasions
Todd Gibson
and Hamilton Camp)

lineage:
probably WBUR 90.9 FM (or maybe WGBH 89.7) radio (NPR) >
Sansui 8 reciever with wire FM antenna >
unknown average quality cassette deck (dolby off) >
TDK-SA 90 min. master cassette >
played on tascam 112 into soundforge (wav) >
flac (sb’s aligned) > torrentially yours.
a this and that, bread and butter production.
it’s earthy. nothing fancy.
no band. no big Marshall amps.
no eq or noise reduction or fidelity abusing.
this recording has a few brief flaws,
either in the broadcast or probably in this master recording
and a little light static here and there, but not too much.
(and 35 years earth time.) this tape has only been
played a couple of times so it is not very worn from use.
do not sell this recording.
share freely, losslessly and gaplessly.

Bruce Springsteen – Cleveland, OH (08/09/78)

Bruce Springsteen
Agora Night
The Agora Ballroom
Cleveland, OH, USA.
August 9th, 1978.

Crystal Cat 731-734.
FM Broadcast
Original Silver CD’s –>EAC v. 0,95 to WAV –> MKW Tool 0,97 to SHN

Disc 1:

01. Intro
02. Summertime Blues
03. Badlands
04. Spirit In The Night
05. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
06. Factory
07. The Promised Land
08. Prove It All Night
09. Racing In The Street / Thunder Road
10. Jungleland

Disc 2

01. Intro
02. Paradise By The C
03. Fire
04. Sherry Darling
05. Not Fade Away
06. Gloria / She’s The One
07. Growin’ Up
08. Backstreets
09. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)

Disc 3

01. Intro
02. 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
03. Born To Run
04. Because The Night
05. Raise Your Hand
06. Twist And Shout
07. Incident On 57th Street *
08. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out *
09. Kitty’s Back **
10. Point Blank **

* 16 sept The Palladium, New York, NY 1978.
** 17 sept The Palladium, New York, NY 1978.

Disc 4 – Interview, San Diego 9th July 1978. King Biscuit Flower Hour. Dave Herman, KBFH Radiostation.

01. Paradise By The C *
02. What’s Up?
03. The Product!
04. Get Some Specific From You!
05. The Sign on Sunset Strip!
06. The Name Boss, Get Started!
07. Any Kind of Life
08. Feel Close To Them Fans
09. Get Together! The E Street Band
10. Terrific Time!
11. Prove It All Night! *
12. 13-14 Year When You Heard Those Records? I was Nine!
13. The Point Was!
14. It’s a Continuation!
15. Meet The Producer, Jon Landau.
16. None Specific.
17. Long Time! Didn’t Take That Long Actually!
18. I Like It!
19. Lots More Songs!
20. Maybe So! Hard To Sing!
21. Be A Star! Trapping.
22. Defination: That Contridiction.

* Recorded at Berkeley Community Theater, Sat 11th July 1978.

Brucebase:

Soundboard and radio broadcast tapes (WMMS) available – good show. It’s interesting to note that this show was remastered by Bruce’s
management and given to KSAN in San Fransico who broadcast it as a replacement for a scheduled Winterland rebroadcast. This must
have happened in 1979 sometime. The remastered show has fantastic stereo seperation and coupled with the fact that this is a good show in the first place, it has to rank as one of the best of the available shows in 1978. – Released on LP and CD. The most recent (and best quality) CD releases of this show are”Agora Night” by Crystal Cat and “Just In Time For Summer”

Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart & Phil Lesh – Chicago, IL (11/17/78)

Bob Weir and Friends
11/17/78
Rambler Room, Loyola University
Chicago, IL

Hunger Week Benefit, billed as “Bob Weir and Friends”: Weir, Garcia, Hart, Lesh
Mickey introduced after Tom Dooley
SOURCE: GD Vault master cassette > DAT > Sonic Solutions > CD > CD(this being the disc David sent me)>extraction using adobe audition 1.5>flac level 8 > to you!

This is a tagged version of shnid: 80703

A really great listen and some unusual tunes for 1978, not to mention a couple of rarities! enjoy! thanks joe

01. WHININ’ BOY BLUES
02. TOM DOOLEY
03. THIS TIME FOREVER
04. DEEP ELEM BLUES
05. KC MOAN
06. KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR
07. BIG BOY PETE
08. JACKAROE
09. DARK HOLLOW
10. OH BOY

A big thank you to David Gans! http://www.trufun.com/

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