Neil Young
2004/09/17
The Clean Air Concert
Cowichan Theatre, Duncan, BC. Canada
Original info
lineage: AT853 > DAT > WAV > CoolEdit (levels, clicks) > FLAC >CD-r >EAC > FLAC
*)with Pegi Young
CDR>EAC>FLAC
The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds Tour
Friday July 5th, 2024
B.C. Place Stadium
777 Pacific Blvd.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Taper: LeifH [2024#14]
Source: CA-11 > A10
Transfer: PC via USB > RX9 > Wavepad > flac (8) via TLH
Setlist: 02:08:00
01 intro
02 Start Me Up
03 Let’s Spend the Night Together
04 Bitch
05 Angry
06 Street Fighting Man
07 Wild Horses
08 Mess It Up
09 Tumbling Dice
10 You Can’t Always Get What You Want
11 Tell Me Straight
12 Little T & A
13 Before They Make Me Run
14 Sympathy for the Devil
15 Honky Tonk Women
16 Midnight Rambler
17 Gimme Shelter
18 Paint it Black
19 Jumpin’ Jack Flash
-encore-
20 Sweet Sounds of Heaven
21 (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
Had tickets for the 2020 gig, and then… you know…
Wasn’t going to bother attending this one for a variety of reasons. Death of Charlie Watts, tickets were even more expensive than the original booking, and general dislike (to put it lightly) of stadium shows, just to name a few.
Neil Young was due in town a couple weeks after this, but unfortunately cancelled. Had tickets to both shows booked at Deer Lake Park. The money was refunded right away (much unlike Stones 2020) and all of a sudden the Stones were in town. The day of the show I found a secondary market ticket for well below face value and ended up paying about the same price as one of those Neil Young tickets.
Met up with some pals before hand for a few pints. We entered the venue during the opening act, Ghost Hounds. As soon as I got to my seat, I remembered why I never go to these kind of shows. Brutal. Ghost Hounds didn’t do it for me, generic boring American rock music. I wonder how much their buy-on was for this tour… Anyway, I used their last few songs as a record-level check to make sure I was all set for the main attraction (included here as a bonus).
The setlist was fairly ideal for a first and likely only time seeing the Stones. The overall experience left something to be desired. I never felt like I was really there but rather experiencing the show second or third hand, as if I was watching TV from across the street through binoculars or something. I’ve felt more like I was at a show while peering over a festival fence from a distance.
After being treated and sanitized, the recording sounds 150x better than it did at the show. Plus you don’t have to sit on a harsh plastic chair and smell my neighbour’s cheap hotel fatty acid soap aroma. Sit back in your favourite seat or listen to it on the go.
Peter Gabriel
Date 08-Aug-1983
Venue British Columbia Place, Vancouver
Country Canada
Type Audience
Quality * B
Media 1CD-R
Track # Track Name Track Length
1.1 Across The River 03:44
1.2 I Have The Touch 04:31
1.3 Not One Of Us 06:03
1.4 The Family And The Fishing Net 07:25
1.5 Shock The Monkey 07:41
1.6 Family Snapshot 05:02
1.7 Intruder 05:00
1.8 Lay Your Hands On Me 08:45
1.9 Solsbury Hill 05:01
1.10 Biko 09:52
Total Running Time : 1:03:04
Recording comments
Different source and tracklist to ‘Opening Show’
Converted SHN to FLAC using xACT. Created new md5.
The Midnight Cafe, February 2021.
Bob Dylan
8/1/86
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The B.C. Place
LB-3768, (75min+60min), bittorrent download 05/06; good to very good sound [B-]
very end of d1t16 cut
CD1
1 Bye Bye Johnny
2 All Along The Watchtower
3 Clean-Cut Kid
4 Emotionally Yours
5 Shot Of Love
6 That Lucky Old Sun
7 Masters Of War
8 Straight Into Darkness
9 The Waiting
10 To Ramona (acoustic)
11 One Too Many Mornings (acoustic)
12 A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (acoustic)
13 I, Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know
14 Band Of The Hand
15 When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
16 Lonesome Town
CD2
1 Ballad Of A Thin Man 2 Rainy Day Women, # 12 & 35 3 Gotta Serve Somebody 4 Seeing The Real You At Last
5 Across The Borderline
6 I And I
7 Like A Rolling Stone
8 In The Garden
9 Blowin’ In The, Wind
10 Shake A Hand
11 Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
Queen
Live in Vancouver, B.C.
December 14, 1978
Pacific Coliseum
1gen Analog ReMaster to digital
Originally recorded by Fred W. from right up front and center
Tape to tape copy and mastering by Audioarchivist U – 101
Lineage:
Queen>PA & stage monitor sound>air and audience>Fred’s mics and rig (unsure – Marantz?)>Maxell UD90 tapes>vintage Akai replay deck (azimuth adjusted, no Dolby)>Sentrek 12 band analog EQ (minor low and high boost)>Denon DRM500 recording deck (Dolby on for recording) to make my tape copy>Maxell XL II 90>played back on same Denon DRM500 (azimuth re-adjusted, no Dolby)>Sentrek 12 band analog EQ (more lows and highs, shaping upper bass/lower mids)>SoundBlaster live! 5.1 card (grounded and tweaked)>Wavelab 4.0(track markers only, no digital processing at all)
Notes:
When I originally copied this from Fred’s collection for myself on cassette, I was amazed how clear this recording was and how close Fred sounded to the stage. I almost always performed EQ surgery on any copies I made to try and smooth everything out, and this was no exception. This tape, like many recordings Fred did thru the years, was pretty close to perfect already and didn’t need much work to make it sound like you were actually there, however, the lowest tones of bass and kick drum were a little thin, and upper bass/lower vocal range was a little jumpy. Well that’s all fixed now. There is some noise associated with the original tapes (normal bias “low noise” tapes!) but that should not discourage you at all. My copy sounded more pleasing than the originals did, and even more refined when played into the computer for you now. I have chosen to not process the noise out, and leave a little bit of the shit and corruption in. I think the background noise gives this tape life and breath, and removing it would kill the atmosphere it brings. You will get used to it after 5 minutes, and it’s not noticeable at all over the music.
I have tracked this for CD in the way it was on the master tapes, leaving all sides uncut. Side A is disc 1 (38:39), while sides B and C fit on disc 2 (77:27). I have included scans of my color photocopies of Fred’s original master tape covers for you, and a copy of the cover of the 1978 tour book. I have no real artworx for this NEW MASTERPIECE, so if you make some, please post them at TTD in the thread for this bootleg, and also please email me jpegs of your results.
Feel free to make audio CDR’s of this for your friends and family, but if any of them might trade further, please provide them with a copy of the FLAC files. Don’t rip from the audio CDR copies you make, EVER! There is no need to pee in the trading pool. Backup your FLAC files, you’ll need them later! If you can avoid it, don’t EnCrap to MP3 files, either. MP3 sounds like crud anyway, and this dynamic recording will suffer greatly in lossy formats. If I find out you spread around an MP3 version of this, I’ll come to your house and do bad things to you and yours… like farting in your fridge! So, just don’t make into lossy files, please! That goes for you, too AAC and OGG!
Track listings:
Disc 1 (38:39)
Disc 2 (77:27)
Hopefully I’ve gotten all the song titles right. If I’ve made mistakes, it’s only proof that I’m human. Feel free to post any corrections or additions… Thanks for listening, hope you enjoy it!
audioarchivist@hotmail.com
The technical mumbo jumbo and a more cryptic track listing follow:
Bob Dylan
Kamloops, British Columbia Canada
Interior Savings Centre
October 25, 2008
Taper: “Bach”
Lineage: Neumann AK40 > MTX 191 A > M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 > (44.1kHz / 16 Bit)
WaveLab 6.01 > dBpower AMP Music Converter > MD5summer
CD1
CD2
i didn’t harm the sound of the recording in any way!
Neil Young Solo Acoustic
March 3 1999
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada
Neil Young – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, pump organ, guitjo, harmonica
Lineage: Coresound Binaurals > DAT Master Sony TCD-D
the tape you have is my master –
I was seated right of center 8th row
by Dan Gale
Transfer: 16 bit ñ 48kHz DAT Master > TASCAM DA-20 (SPDIF out) ->
LynxTWO-B Audio Reference Interface (SPDIF in) ->
Wavelab 6.0
Editing and Mastering: on the GEMS Edit Station.
Weiss Saracon for 16 BIT ñ 44.1kHz SRC and POWR-3 Dither
Traders Little Helper for FLAC Level 8 SBE Free
Tag & Rename for FLAC Meta-Data Tagging
By Jamie Waddell shnflac@gmail.com
a GEMS* Production http://www.shnflac.net January 2009
Neil Young Solo Acoustic
March 2 1999
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada
Neil Young – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, pump organ, guitjo, harmonica
Lineage: Coresound Binaurals > DAT Master Sony TCD-D
the tape you have is my master – I was seated right of center 8th row
by Dan Gale
Transfer: 16 bit ñ 48kHz DAT Master > TASCAM DA-20 (SPDIF out) ->
LynxTWO-B Audio Reference Interface (SPDIF in) ->
Wavelab 6.0
Editing and Mastering: on the GEMS Edit Station.
Weiss Saracon for 16 BIT ñ 44.1kHz SRC and POWR-3 Dither
Traders Little Helper for FLAC Level 8 SBE Free
Tag & Rename for FLAC Meta-Data Tagging
By Jamie Waddell shnflac@gmail.com
a GEMS* Production http://www.shnflac.net January 2009
-a couple lil stutters in first two songs..barely noticable
Queen
03/11/77
PNE Coliseum
Vancouver, BC
Tracklist :
Disc 1:
Disc 2 :
I have some artwork but it didn’t come with this version and anyway it’s not very good – I’m sure Alex
Solan can do far better! (hint hint please!)
Size : 476 MB
Here’s another one that according to Queenconcerts has never been shared here in lossless. The
sound is not great, but it’s not bad either – I’d give it a B(-) – but still worth a listen, IMHO.
It’s not complete, either, nor is there any lineage. However, it comes out 100% CDDA on Audiochecker.
Please keep these lossless files lossless! If this goes dormant please bump it and some good Queenzoner will seed it. Good download and enjoy!
Posted by Ginger01
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Wed. April 17, 1991
Pacific Coliseum
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Audioarchivist Analog Master Cassette Recording
Digitally transferred and ReMastered at 24 bit 96 khz
Downsampled and dithered to 16 bit 44.1 khz CD ready files
Setlist:
01 intro – Star Spangled Banner
02 Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
03 Crime In The City
04 Blowin’ In The Wind
05 Love To Burn
06 Cinnamon Girl
07 Mansion On The Hill
08 Fuckin’ Up
09 Cortez The Killer
10 Powderfinger
11 Love And Only Love
12 Rockin’ In The Free World
13 encore break
14 Roll Another Number
Capture:
Sony PC-62 stereo condenser mic on hat > Sony stereo mic extension cord > Sony WM DC3 Professional Recording Walkman (Dolby B on, CrO2 / Metal bias) > Maxell XL-II 90 cassette masters
Location:
Pacific Coliseum – blue seat (upper level)
My seat was originally Sec 8 Row 30 Seat 12 (upper left side)
I moved to the back to be in the middle. Center line of the building!
Recorded from section 33 upper blue in the very back, far away.
It was a very loud show and it sounded great from this distance.
Transfer:
Maxell XL-II 90 cassette masters > Tascam 202mkII playback deck (Dolby off, normal bias PB, azimuth adjusted for each tape side) > Radio Shack gold end 3.5mm to stereo rca cord > Shack 6 foot gold end 3.5mm stereo extension cord > Soundblaster Audigy @ 24 bit 96 khz > Wavelab 5.01b (recording, tracking, and mastering)
Processing:
24 bit 96 khz master clone split files > Wavelab toolsone (level balance) > Waves Q10 Paragraphic EQ (bass ramp and mid-high tweaks)> Waves S1 Shuffler (stereo enhancement) > Wavelab peak master (limiter @ -.01db) > 24 bit 96 khz batch rendered Remaster files > SoX resampler via Foobar2000 to 44.1 khz (very high quality setting, 95.2% passband, 25% phase response no aliasing) > iZotope RX Advanced MBit+ dither to 16 bit (Ultra noise shaping, high dither) > FLAC8 + torrent via TLH > YOU!!!
Quality:
One of my better recordings I think. Ex- for an audience recording of its time, comparing to some others I’ve heard from this tour… You be the judge! Bright and clear and full frontal sonic assault, just as it was that night! Crank it up! Full dynamics – be warned of Neil’s shrieking guitar work that can rip your face off (even at this distance!)…
Comments:
I think this one turned out amazingly good, especially considering how far back I was! I knew Neil’s show was going to be a loud one on this tour, and that there wasn’t going to be any “quiet” songs! I could have possibly moved to a seat in the lower level to be a bit closer, but it was a pretty full arena that night, and I probably would have had to be asked to move. The section I was in was not deserted, but had plenty of room for a wandering fan unhappy with his assigned seat. I picked a chair that was exactly parallel with the mid-line of the building, perfectly centered in the middle of the P.A. I wasn’t exactly back row at the top, but probably about 2/3 up the section. The closest people were maybe 10 seats away in any direction, so there isn’t very much close proximity audience noise.
I remember thinking how odd the prop Fender Giant amps looked from this distance – almost normal! Then these little ants that were the band came out on stage, and made this behemoth sound come through the P.A. system! Amazing soundman they must have, and a great audio system as well. I went to look at the soundboard area and remember seeing the bank of Tascam DA-88’s recording 24 tracks of digital (3 units linked up) – I don’t think any of the Vancouver show made it onto Arc / Weld, and I think this was a great show, so I wonder if maybe one of their tapes failed or something on this night? Hmmm……
So, yeah, even at this distance, I still remember this as being one of the loudest shows I’ve ever been to – especially in The Pacific Coliseum. I kind of felt sorry for the people who were right up close to the speakers! I’ve read that Neil got hearing damage from mixing the recordings they had for the live album (has nothing to do with playing the damned shows that loud, does it? nooo… haha) and in doing the “mastering” work that I’ve done for my little release here, I think I might have done some not-so-good things to my hearing, too (has absolutely nothing to do with seeing several hundred concerts through life, nooo….) but I can assure you that this show sounds really good cranked up loud! What?
I like this recording a lot. I read something that Jimmy Page said about recording techniques: “…distance creates depth…” and I applied this expression to recording this show. You can hear that the stage is deep and straight in front of me, and you can distinctly hear the left and right sides of the entire coliseum filling up with this rolling wall of sound that washes over the audience and rattles the rafters of the building and crashes down all at once onto my microphone. There is very little “backbeat” echo because of this effect of the reverb and P.A. sound reaching me almost at the same time. I don’t think these seats would have worked so well for other (quieter) shows, but this one was well loud enough to carry up to where I was. The tones from the guitars that seem to ring out from different places in the hall are well preserved on this recording. It’s amazing that it just comes from that itty-bitty Sony mic that comes standard with the Sony WM D3 walkman. I’d have to put this one in my personal top ten recordings list… somewhere!
It sure was a blast to watch Neil pretty much give birth to “grunge music” right in front of my eyes! haha. More or less. Awesome to see a band rock it out so hard with such a sense of urgency to it. It’s this sense of urgency especially in some of Neil’s vocals that (I think) might make this one of the better shows of the tour (that I’ve heard). I’m no expert, but for how many times he’s played Vancouver I think he must like it there, and he probably tries harder to put on a good performance here. With that in mind, have a listen to my newly released master recording and hear this great show yourself!
Other than a few tape-to-tape EQ’d to death copies that I made for a few friends around ’92 – ’93 I’ve never really gotten this one out there before now. Brand new digitization march 2011 @ 24 / 96 hi-res, EQ’d to enhance bass, stereo field also enhanced slightly, downsampled and dithered to CD ready FLAC files for your convenience. Sorry about the poorly timed tape flip in “Keep On Rockin’ In The Free World” – I was watching the tape reel wind down trying to get the end of “Love And Only Love” complete, waiting for the break to flip tapes. That break never came exactly as planned. The blank tape playback here represents approximately how much of the whole show is missing from tap flips. There’s another gap between “Love To Burn” and “Cinnamon Girl” just missing a few seconds of crowd noise…
I did tape Sonic Youth as well. I know that their fans will want that posted as well. I have no idea what most of the songs are called, so it’s hard to track their set. If you’d like to help with some naming schemes for their part, drop a line and we’ll hook something up…
Please don’t Re-Re-ReMaster this version of this show. The files have already been processed once, as well as them being “only” CD quality files. I will most likely release a full hi-res master clone version of this show in the future to please both the 24/96 fans and the Re-Re-Remasterbastardizers out there! hehe. Please share these lossless files freely – don’t buy don’t sell – but only share them as their original full lossless fileset. Feel free to include any new files (like art or a new text file or something) with the originals if you re-post elsewhere, but always keep the full original fileset (including this info file) fully intact! Don’t change or delete any original files.
Please don’t encrap this lossless fileset to eMPty3 format unless it is only for personal use. Better yet – don’t pervert the files to eMPty3 at all! haha. Do not distribute to anyone as lossy files. Friends don’t let friends listen lossy. Destroy used eMPty3 files when done with them. Keep your FLAC files handy for when you get a better audio system or for when you get the results of that much-needed hearing test!
Please share any cool photoshop-y artworx covers with us! Please email me copies if possible, and maybe consult with me as you work on your art, as I would love to maybe have a touch of input on the wording on the covers. Thanks!
Enjoy my original master recording that’s been previously uncirculated until now. Didn’t mean to keep it from anyone, but it takes time to transfer and process several boxes of various analog masters! I guess that I just finally got around to this one.
Keep on fuckin’ up the free world!
Oh, wait… That’s wrong. Nevermind……
audioarchivist@hotmail.com