Tag: 2023

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

Bob Dylan – Perugia, Italy (07/07/23)

Bob Dylan
Arena Santa Giuliana
Perugia
Italy
7 july 2023

Umbria Jazz Festival 2023
Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour

Setlist:
01 Watching The River Flow
02 Most Likely You Go Your Way And I’ll Go Mine
03 I Contain Multitudes
04 False Prophet
05 When I Paint My Masterpiece
06 Black Rider
07 My Own Version Of You
08 I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
09 Crossing The Rubicon
10 To Be Alone With You
11 Key West (Philosopher Pirate)
12 Gotta Serve Somebody
13 I’ve Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You
14 That Old Black Magic (Johnny Mercer Cover)
15 Mother Of Muses
16 Goodbye Jimmy Reed
17 Every Grain Of Sand

Band members:
Bob Dylan – vocals, piano, harmonica
Jerry Pentecost – drums
Bob Britt – guitar
Doug Lancio – guitar
Donnie Herron – violin, electric mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel
Tony Garnier – bass

Eric Clapton – Tokyo, Japan (04/15/23)

Eric Clapton
2023-04-15
Tokyo Budokan


Lineage: DSM-6S/EL + PCM-M10 (24/96 Wave) > SoundForge(16/44.1) > Flac

Setlist:

01 Blue Rainbow
02 Pretending
03 Key To The Highway
04 Hoochie Coochie Man
05 I Shot The Sheriff
06 Kind Hearted Woman
07 Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
08 Call Me The Breeze
09 Sam Hall
10 Tears In Heaven
11 Kerry
12 Badge
13 Wonderful Tonight
14 Crossroads
15 Little Queen of Spades
16 Layla
17 High Time We Went

EC’s first concert of 2023 and the first night of a 6 date Tokyo residency.

Bob Dylan – Rome, Italy (07/09/23)

BOB DYLAN
Auditorium Parco della Musica
Sala Santa Celia
Rome, Italy
July 9, 2023

  1. intro
  2. Watching The River Flow
  3. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)
  4. I Contain Multitudes
  5. False Prophet
  6. When I Paint My Masterpiece
  7. Black Rider
  8. My Own Version of You
  9. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
  10. Crossing The Rubicon
  11. To Be Alone With You
  12. Key West (Philosopher Pirate)
  13. Gotta Serve Somebody
  14. band intros
  15. I’ve Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You
  16. That Old Black Magic
  17. Only A River
  18. Truckin’
  19. Mother of Muses
  20. Goodbye Jimmy Reed
  21. Every Grain of Sand

119:06 minutes

Band Members
Bob Dylan – piano, harp
Jerry Pentecost – drums
Bob Britt – guitar
Doug Lancio – guitar
Donnie Herron – violin, electric mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel
Tony Garnier – bass

a spot recording
recorded by spot (48-24 resolution) using a Roland R-09 with internal mics
edited using Magix Audio Lab Premium
mixed by audiowhore
uploaded by the Caretaker

Bob Dylan – San Sebastian, Spain (06/20/23)

BOB DYLAN
Auditorio Kursaal
San Sebastian, Basque Autonomous Country
Spain
June 20, 2023

  1. intro
  2. Watching The River Flow
  3. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)
  4. I Contain Multitudes
  5. False Prophet
  6. When I Paint My Masterpiece
  7. Black Rider
  8. My Own Version of You
  9. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
  10. Crossing The Rubicon
  11. band intros
  12. To Be Alone With You
  13. Key West (Philosopher Pirate)
  14. Gotta Serve Somebody
  15. I’ve Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You
  16. That Old Black Magic
  17. Mother of Muses
  18. Goodbye Jimmy Reed
  19. Every Grain of Sand

107:11 minutes

Band Members
Bob Dylan – piano, harp
Jerry Pentecost – drums
Bob Britt – guitar
Doug Lancio – guitar
Donnie Herron – violin, electric mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel
Tony Garnier – bass

a spot recording
recorded by spot (48-24 resolution) using a Roland R-09 with internal mics
edited using Magix Audio Lab Premium
mixed by audiowhore
uploaded by the Caretaker

Neil Young – Los Angeles, CA (07/03/23)

Neil Young
John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
Los Angeles, CA
July 3, 2023

Third night of the Coastal Tour. Third of four nights at the spectacular John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. Three big hits. Lots of rarities. Just like Neil said it would be. Don’t Forget Love is abandoned when the iPad teleprompter was not working. A shorter show than the first night, but Vampire Blues and a super noisy RITFW makes up for it. Excellent recording from row 7 in front of the mains. Samples below.

24bit 48K recording. If you still burn to CD, it’s pretty easy to convert the files to CD specs. Most burning programs do it internally. And it will all fit on one disc.

Sonic Studios mic>SP-SPSB-1 Battery Box>Edirol R-07HR>ProTools (for RX, level adjustment, eq, compression, and song separation)>Flac

Taped and mastered by JB. Please don’t sell. Please do not convert to lossy format and upload anywhere.

additional processing: tested FLAC in TLH passed > renamed files to eTree standards & tagged in tag&rename > new MD5 & FFP (aikowolf)

(1:15:17)

  1. I’m the Ocean
  2. Homefires
  3. Burned
  4. On the Way Home
  5. If You Got Love
  6. My Heart
  7. Vampire Blues
  8. Prime of Life
  9. When I Hold You in My Arms
  10. Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)
  11. Ohio
  12. Days That Used to Be
  13. Don’t Forget Love (abandoned)
  14. Heart of Gold

Encore

  1. Rockin’ in the Free World

Bruce Springsteen – Dallas, TX (02/10/23)

Bruce Springsteen
Feb 10, 2023
American Airlines Center
Dallas, TX

Set One

  1. No Surrender
  2. Ghosts
  3. Prove It All Night
  4. Letter To You
  5. The Promised Land
  6. Out in the Street
  7. Candy’s Room
  8. Kitty’s Back
  9. Nightshift
  10. Encore
  11. Detroit Medley
  12. Born to Run
  13. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
  14. Glory Days
  15. Dancing in the Dark
  16. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
  17. I’ll See You in My Dreams

    Notes
    Bruce Springsteen – Lead vocal, electric and acoustic guitars, harmonica; Roy Bittan – Piano, keyboards; Nils Lofgren – Electric and acoustic guitars, lap steel, backing vocal; Garry Tallent – Bass; Max Weinberg – Drums; Jake Clemons – Tenor saxophone, percussion, backing vocal; Charlie Giordano – Organ, keyboards; Anthony Almonte – Percussion, backing vocal; Ada Dyer – Backing vocal; Curtis King – Backing vocal; Lisa Lowell – Backing vocal; Michelle Moore – Backing vocal; Barry Danielian – Trumpet; Ed Manion – Baritone and tenor saxophone;† Ozzie Melendez – Trombone; Curt Ramm – Trumpet
    Recorded by John Cooper
    Mixed by Jon Altschiller; additional engineering by Danielle Warman, Nic Coolidge, Allison Leah and Alex Bonyata
    Mix Advisor: Rob Lebret
    Post Production by Brad Serling and Arya Jha
    Art Design by Michelle Holme
    Cover Photo by Rob DeMartin
    Tour Director: George Travis
    Manager: Jon Landau
    HD files are 24 bit / 96 kHz; DSD Files are DSD64

song fifth night set
Tour premiere of ìDetroit Medleyî
Four songs from 2020ís Letter To You: ìGhosts,î ìLetter To You,î ìLast Man Standingî and ìIíll See You In My Dreamsî
ìLast Man Standingî features a new arrangement
ìIíll See You In My Dreamsî is performed solo acoustic to end the show
Two songs from 2022ís Only the Strong Survive: ìNightshiftî (written by Franne Golde, Dennis Lambert and Walter Orange, popularized by The Commodores) and ìDonít Play That Songî (written by Ahmet Ertegun and Betty Nelson, popularized by Ben E. King)
ìJohnny 99î is performed in the Wrecking Ball tour arrangement
Concert stalwarts like ìBecause The Night,î ìDancing in the Darkî and ìTenth Avenue Freeze-Outî are performed in tighter, shorter versions

Bob Dylan – Chicago, IL (10/08/23)

Bob Dylan
Cadillac Palace Theatre
Chicago, Illinois
8th October 2023

Recorded by gonzo
Remastered with artwork by Bennyboy, October 2023

  1. Watching the River Flow
  2. Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
  3. I Contain Multitudes
  4. False Prophet
  5. When I Paint My Masterpiece
  6. Black Rider
  7. My Own Version of You
  8. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
  9. Crossing the Rubicon
  10. To Be Alone with You
  11. Key West (Philosopher Pirate)
  12. Gotta Serve Somebody
  13. I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You
  14. That Old Black Magic
  15. Mother of Muses
  16. band introduction
  17. Goodbye Jimmy Reed
  18. Every Grain of Sand

Band Members
Bob Dylan – piano
Jerry Pentecost – drums
Bob Britt – guitar
Doug Lancio – guitar
Donnie Herron – violin, electric mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel
Tony Garnier – bass

The Cure – Los Angeles, CA (05/23/23)

The Cure
2023-05-23
Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles, CA

SOURCE:
SP-CMC-8 (w/Mods) > Sony PCM-A10 > Sandisk Mini-SD Card (32gb – Class 10)

TRANSFER:
.WAV (24 Bit) > Adobe Audition 2023 CC (normalize/amplify/tracking) > Trader’s Little Helper > FLAC (Level 6)

SETLIST:

  1. Intro
  2. Alone
  3. Pictures of You
  4. A Night Like This
  5. Lovesong
  6. And Nothing is Forever
  7. The Last Day of Summer
  8. A Fragile Thing
  9. Burn
  10. Another Happy Birthday
  11. Charlotte Sometimes
  12. Push
  13. Primary
  14. Shake Dog Shake
  15. From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
  16. Endsong
  17. (encore break #1)

— ENCORE #1 —

  1. I Can Never Say Goodbye
  2. It Can Never Be the Same
  3. A Thousand Hours
  4. At Night
  5. A Forest
  6. (encore break #2)

— ENCORE #2 —

  1. Lullaby
  2. Six Different Ways
  3. The Walk
  4. Friday I’m in Love
  5. Doing the Unstuck
  6. Close to Me
  7. In Between Days
  8. Just Like Heaven
  9. Boys Don’t Cry
  10. Outro

NOTES:

What’s a better encore to Cruel World (err, more like an encore to Cruel World’s own encore, so an encore to an encore?) than seeing The Cure a couple days later? Yeah I can’t think of anything better either, so here we are! I, like everyone else probably, failed to get tickets when they first went on sale (even with THREE Hollywood Bowl dates, I was completely shut out – I smell something fishy there), so I had to be patient and keep checking back on Ticketmaster every so often. I was about to give up until I read about some Firefox extension that would help refresh TM’s page every few seconds for whatever event date you wanted, so I set it to run on all three days, and the first and only date that had a ticket pop up that I was able to purchase was for Tuesday. Works for me.

This was my third time seeing the Cure, and the first time since their Pasadena Daydream performance back in 2019. My seat was rather decent, in section G2, though it became apparent I was in the senior citizen section, as no one in that section wanted to stand up. And when I did stand up, for “Pictures of You”, one of my favorite songs, I was “heckled” to sit down near the end. Then a couple songs later, duing “Lovesong”, when multiple people near me stood up, I stood up again, and then sat back down for a slower song and immediately heard the “Thanks, I can see again asshole!”. I flipped the bird and then they barked back. Gosh, I really do hope that by standing, I ruined their first concert ever. Fucking douchebags. Sorry, maybe my concert etiquette is far different than others, given I do a lot of festivals, but if you want to stand, then fucking stand. Who cares? Now if we’re discussing these idiots talking during the show? Well that’s a whole other issue. But standing? Pff, gimme a fucking break. Here’s a big FUCK YOU to all the crybabies in G2. I’d almost not want to release this recording, just to spite those dickheads behind me.

Anyway, back to the show. I thought it sounded great. I was so glad they chose the Hollywood Bowl rather Staples (or Crypto or whatever the fuck it’s called now) or Kia Forum. I generally like the Bowl and its sound, so no complaints there. It was pretty cool that they had some sounds of thunder and rain coming through the PA before they took the stage. They eventually started flashing the stage lights like it was lightning, and for a split second I had terrible flashbacks to Cruel World on Saturday night, thinking actual lightning was in the area and this show was going to get cancelled. But no, it was just Robert fucking with us all.

They played a lot of the hits, skipped a lot of the hits, and played some new stuff, including the debut of “Another Happy Birthday”. I actually think the new song “And Nothing is Forever” is the best sounding song out of all the new stuff, by a mile. I was blown away by that one. Robert said they all had a “bug” and that he was probably patient zero. That might explain why everyone but Robert looked fucking bored out of their minds on stage. Roger O’Donnell looked like he was auditioning for a new Weekend At Bernie’s. I swear, he makes Gilian Gilbert of New Order look like a raving lunatic on stage in comparison. Here’s hoping it was just that “bug”…

Bob Dylan – Boston, MA (11/05/23)

Bob Dylan
Orpheum Theatre
Boston, Ma
USA
5th November 2023

Source recording: anonymous
Sony PCM-D10
Schoeps CCM4
192/24 wav files edited in Audacity to flac

seat location-mezzanine row B right

Remastered (& downsampled to 16/44.1) with artwork (photo by Duncan Hume) by Bennyboy, November 2023 v2

  1. introduction
  2. Watching the River Flow
  3. Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
  4. I Contain Multitudes
  5. False Prophet
  6. When I Paint My Masterpiece
  7. Black Rider
  8. My Own Version of You
  9. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
  10. Crossing the Rubicon
  11. To Be Alone with You
  12. Key West (Philosopher Pirate)
  13. Gotta Serve Somebody
  14. I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You
  15. That Old Black Magic
  16. Footlights (Merle Haggard)
  17. Mother of Muses
  18. band introduction
  19. Goodbye Jimmy Reed
  20. Every Grain Of Sand

Band Members
Bob Dylan – piano, harp
Tony Garnier – electric and standup bass
Jerry Pentecost – drums
Bob Britt – electric guitar
Doug Lancio – acoustic and electric guitars
Donnie Herron – violin, electric mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel