Tag: France

Betty Davis – Le Castellet, France (07/25/76)

Betty Davis
“Riviera ’76 Festival Jazz-Rock”, Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France
Audience Recording (Sivad)
July 25, 1976 (Approximately 11:00pm)

Lineage (Sivad): Audience Recording (Sivad) > 2 UHER dynamic mics > Nakamichi 550 Portable Cassette Recorder > TDK Tape > TASCAM > Cassette Deck >
Vaio Soundcard 😦 > Audacity > HD

Additional Lineage to the above (RatedX): CD Wave > TLH Flac Level 8

Betty Davis – Vocals
Larry Johnson – Bass, Vocals
Fred Mills – Keyboards, Vocals
Carlos Morales – Lead Guitar, Vocals
Semmie ìNickeyî Neal, jr. – Drums

According to the MC Introductions: Betty davis dedicated this show to Miles Davis.

01 French MC Intro From The Stage :27
02 Instrumental ? 3:18
03 Nasty Gal 4:31
04 Dedicated To The Press 3:40
05 The Lone Ranger 9:46
06 He Was A Big Freak 5:49
07 Talkin Trash 9:23
08 Steppin In Her I. Miller Shoes 5:21
09 Instrumental ? 2:09
10 Shut Off The Light (w/Applause) 5:15

Total Time: 49.39

Note:

  • Thank you Sivad (Original Taper) on following through with my request and providing me with this show.
  • I originally received this show from Sivad as a single wave file therefore CD Wave was use to split the tracks.
  • I’m not an expert so keep that in mind when hearing the tracking specially between (05 and 06 + 09 and 10), Betty goes from one song to the next a la Miles Davis.
  • For the purist: Besides the tracking nothing else was done to the original received wave file. I leave it to the experts to remaster as they wish.
  • I can’t make the title of track: 02 and 09. I believe they are just instrumental, after careful listening to her albums none of theses appeared.
  • There seems to be a fade out after Track 08. before track 09 maybe the result of a tape flip. I do not know if any music is missing between these two.
  • From the liner notes of “Is it Love Or Desire ” this show is believe to be one of the last if not the last time the band played together.
  • Part of this show (Radio Broadcast) is still available on Dime thanks to acidhangover for the re-seed: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=336120
  • In the above referenced torrent (comments section) fellow Dimer Stonethecrow provide us with an unreleased picture of this show (Thank you)
    published on a now dead French revue : “Musiq” December 2007. I have included that picture in this torrent.
  • In the above referenced torrent (comments section) Sivad comment the following:

” A bit of first-hand information on this one, as I’ve been lucky enough to attend this three-day outdoor event that was held at the Paul Ricard racetrack in Le Castellet (south of France) where, if I remember well, the previous week-end legendary Canadian driver Gilles Villeneuve on Ferrari had won the French Formula One Grand Prix. The festival was called ìRiviera ’76î and the main reason for me to get there was that Miles had to play the ‘ony European concert’ of that year. Of course, he didn’t show up ‘cos he had just begun his infamous five-year sabbatical, but nobody knew it at that time, not even Miles himself, I believe. The stage announcer said that, because of a sudden illness Miles couldn’t be there and he sent his former wife to replace him. I only knew vaguely about Betty Davis, but that night (July 1st, 1976) all of us found out what a blast she was!

For the chronicle, other artists who performed at the festival were: John McLaughlin’s Shakti, Airto Moreira (solo performance), Pat Martino (terrific), Tony Williams & Lenny White (with Brian Auger) Larry Coryell, Joe Cocker (who was too drunk to sing, sadly), Stuff (in my view one of the greatest bands of all time), The Crusaders, Joe Beck and some other I can’t remember now. As for the Betty Davis recording posted here (http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=336120),
it is not the complete set. I recorded with my trusty Nakamichi 550 the main acts, and at least half a dozen cassettes of that event still survive, Betty Davis included. One day I hope to find the time to make digital transfers of all the stuff I have recorded in the old days and put some of it on the web for all to share.”

In is above comments Sivad talks of the show being July 1st 1976 but when he sent me the file he mention the show to July 25, 1976 wich is probably right since the festival was held between July 23rd and July 26th.

As Sivad said in his e-mail exchange with me: “Considering it’s an open-air audience recording vintage 1976, I don’t think it could sound any better than this, particularly because the equipment I used was top shelf.
If you close your eyes it’s almost like being there: I had no wind shields on the mics, hence in some spots you can even feel the French riviera’s evening breeze!”

Sivad & RatedX: August 21st 2011

Miles Davis – Paris, France (11/06/67)

Miles Davis Quintet*
Salle Pleyel
Paris, France
November 6, 1967

No Blues
Label: Jazz Music Yesterday – JMY 1003-2
Unofficial Release
Italy
Released: 1990

1 ‘Round About Midnight
Composed By – Monk*
8:05

2 No Blues
Composed By – Davis*
13:05

3 Masqualero
Composed By – Shorter*
8:40

4 I Fall In Love Too Easily
Composed By – Styne*
9:00

5 Riot
Composed By – Hancock*
5:30

6 Walkin’
Composed By – Carpenter*
9:40

7 Green Dolphin Street
Composed By – Kaper*
16:50
8 The Theme
Composed By – Davis*
0:40

Jazz Music Yesterday

Bass – Ron Carter
Drums – Tony Williams*
Piano – Herbie Hancock
Tenor Saxophone – Wayne Shorter
Trumpet – Miles Davis

Recorded at Salle Pleyel, Paris, France, November 6, 1967 (info taken from jazzdisco.org).

Track 3 is mistitled “Mascalero.”
Track 4 is mistitled “I Fall in Love Too Easy.”

Matrix  Runout: JMY 1003 PHC
Rights Society: S.I.A.E.

Queen – Frejus, France (07/30/86)

Queen
July 30, 1986
Amphitheatre
Frejus, France


01.Intro
02.One Vision
03.Tie Your Mother Down
04.In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited
05.Seven Seas Of Rhye
06.Liar
07.Tear It Up
08.A Kind Of Magic
09.Day-O
10.Under Pressure
11.Another One Bites The Dust
12.Who Wants To Live Forever
13.I Want To Break Free
14.impromptu
15.Guitar Solo
16.Now I’m Here

Dics 2
01.Love Of My Life
02.Is This The World We Created?
03.You’re So Square (Baby I Don’t Care)
04.Hello Mary Lou
05.Tutti Frutti
06.Bohemian Rhapsody
07.Hammer To Fall
08.Crazy Little Thing Called Love
09.Radio Ga Ga
10.We Will Rock You
11.Friends Will Be Friends
12.We Are The Champions
13.God Save The Queen

The Who – Frejus, France (05/12/79)

THE WHO
Arenes de Frejus
Frejus (near Cannes), FRA
12. May 1979

Disc 1:

  1. Substitute
  2. I Can’t Explain
  3. Baba O’Riley
  4. The Punk And The Godfather
  5. Boris The Spider
  6. Sister Disco
  7. Music Must Change
  8. Behind Blue Eyes
  9. Dreaming From The Waist
  10. Pinball Wizard >
  11. See Me Feel Me
  12. Long Live Rock *

Disc 2:

  1. Bargain
  2. Who Are You
  3. My Generation >
  4. Join Together >
  5. My Generation Blues
  6. Magic Bus >
  7. Guitar / Keyboard Bridge >
  8. Won’t Get Fooled Again
    encore:
  9. Summertime Blues
  10. The Real Me

approx. 114 mins
seamless transfer, disc change is only a suggestion

  • tape warble from 55:37 to 57:15

Pete Townshend Vocals, Guitar
Roger Daltrey Harmonica, Vocals
John Entwistle Vocals, Bass
Kenney Jones Drums
John Bundrick Piano, Keyboards

fresh transfer:
? gen C > CD > EAC > wav > Adobe Audition > CDwave >
FlacFrontend (level 6, verified, with align on sector boundaries) >
flac > TTD

Feel free to spread this on other trackers
but don’t forget to support the artist by buying the official releases
and going to their shows!
I’d like to get feedback from you, so please comment!!

Miles Davis – Paris, France (12/07/57)

MIles Davis
December 7, 1957 (1 item; TT = 3:38)
ORTF Studios, Paris (France)
ORTF TV broadcast (C+)
RenÈ Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis

Miles Davis (tpt); Barney Wilen (ts); RenÈ Urtreger (p); Pierre Michelot (b); Kenny Clarke (d)

1 Lady Bird (T. Dameron) 3:38

1 Lady Bird
CD: Rare Live Records RLR 88665

This item was recorded for a December 25, 1957 television broadcast from ORTF, Au clair de la lune. Besides Miles Davis, the 20-minute show featured at least four other artists, including Juliette GrÈco. There are photographs in the ORTF archives (two of which are published in the December 2009 issue of Jazz Magazine) in which the Davis/Urtreger group is playing in front of television cameras, in the midst of a fake lunar landscape: Davis, Michelot, and Clarke in one crater, Urtreger and Wilen in another. These photos are dated December 7, 1957, so this may be the recording date. Thanks to Pascal Rozat for sharing with me the results of his research in the ORTF archives.

Included here twice, once in original form I received it, once remastered as best I could.

Miles Davis – Paris, France (11/30/57)

Rene Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis
November 30, 1957
Olympia Theatre, Paris (France)
ORTF radio broadcast (complete)

Miles Davis (tpt);
Barney Wilen (ts);
RenÈ Urtreger (p);
Pierre Michelot (b);
Kenny Clarke (d)

1 – Bags’ Groove (M. Jackson) 6:53
2 – Tune Up (M. Davis) 4:17
3 – Four (M. Davis) 5:57
4 – Walkin’ (R. Carpenter) 7:26
5 – No Moe (S. Rollins) 7:20
6 – ‘Round Midnight (T. Monk) 5:12

Workflow: Audacity – set up track markers, adjusted speed. Right hand channel was 9 samples ahead of left. Removed these and suddenly a more balanced mono sound appeared!

Audition:
1,2 – removed whistle at 3300Hz
4 – lowered whistle at 5900Hz
5 – reduced 3110Hz buzz
6 – reduced whsitle at 3020Hz and 6000Hz

RX3: Left hand volume down 4db on all but final track.
Worked through removing whistle slightly more in areas, on track one in particular.
Listened through and declicked/crackled where appropriate. Many are left intact as they’re either not intrusive or too much a part of the music to remove.

Two digital artefacts were found and removed.

Levels double checked – Round Midnight brought into line with other tracks (was louder). Exported as individual flacs from Audacity.

Sept. 2013

Queen – Paris, France (11/25/80)

Queen
La Rotonde du Bourget, Paris, France
25. November 1980

Quality : VG+
Lineage : AUD > Breakdown “Hello Paris” > CDR (x) > WAV > FLAC level 8

I have received it in a trade labelled as “best version around”. I’m not sure if it’s the case, but I have the version which I dowloaded a few years ago from Queenzone, and this is definitely MUCH better quality and features the complete Keep Yourself Alive.

The tracklisting is exactly the same as on the Breakdown bootleg “Hello Paris” , is it possible that this comes from this bootleg ? Could somebody confirm it ?

Audio :

Disc 1 :

  1. Jailhouse Rock
  2. We Will Rock You (fast)
  3. Let Me Entertain You
  4. Play The Game
  5. Mustapha / Death On Two Legs / Killer Queen / I’m In Love With My Car / Get Down Make Love
  6. Need Your Loving Tonight
  7. Save Me
  8. Now I’m Here / Dragon Attack
  9. Love Of My Life

Disc 2 :

  1. Keep Yourself Alive
  2. Drum Solo / Guitar Solo
  3. Battle Theme
  4. Brighton Rock (ending)
  5. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
  6. Bohemian Rhapsody
  7. Tie Your Mother Down
  8. Another One Bites The Dust
  9. Sheer Heart Attack
  10. We Will Rock You
  11. We Are The Champions
  12. God Save The Queen

Pink Floyd – Lille, France (12/07/72)

PINK FLOYD
Palais des Sports
Lille, FRANCE
1972-12-07

Filling A Gap

Source:

Telefunken tape recorder, external mic (mono) > Audacity (1.2.6) no Filter >
WAV (48Khz/24bits) > remastering / cleaning / restoration (MOB “touch”) > FLAC (44.1Khz/16bits)

Setlist:

Disc 1: Dark Side Of The Moon

  1. Speak To Me
  2. Breathe
  3. On The Run
  4. Time
  5. The Great Gig In The Sky
  6. Money
  7. Us And Them
  8. Any Colour You Like
  9. Brain Damage
  10. Eclipse

Disc 2:

  1. One Of These Days
  2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
  3. Echoes

Taped by: ZEF

Remastering notes (from MOB):

The rough recording was already very good, but needed some restoration and cleaning before
being spread worldwide. Indeed, due to the age of the mastertape, a lot of crackles,
tape warble and level fluctuations were present on the rough digital transfer.
These have been manually cleaned as much as possible. Also, the rough version had
a lot of clipping that needed to be corrected. Some frequencies with musical content
were buried in the original transfer, therefore a slight EQ was applied in order
to bring clarity to the recording. There were some abrupt cuts on the mastertape
(two cuts during Breathe, one cut at the beginning of Us And Them and one cut
in the middle of OOTD, not to mention numerous “pause” operations by the taper
during some tunings and applause between songs).
These have been restored by editing, so that the recording is now presented
in a continuous way, with smooth transitions.

Notes by PE:

Almost like David Vincent, it all started with a torrent which had attracted my attention :
Gong 1973-06-19, a gig at Roger Salengro’s salle – Lille, France, chez les ch’tis.

Contact was made with the seeder (Sous-Marin) who turned out to be the taper of this show.
Sewing up, and after a few blow-jobs I learned that he had recorded the Campus radio show
AM original broadcast (1970) : Pink Floyd 1970-01-23 at the ThÈ‚tre des Champs ElysÈes.
I therefore encouraged him to torrent this recording.
Then, on his website, I saw a date which intrigued me : Pink Floyd 1972-07-12,Lille.
…. Lille? le pays des ch’tis úuf course ! but as far as I knew no recording
of this particular gig were reported !…

With this new contact we discussed via emails until I learned that the taper (named ZEF)
actually taped this gig and that SousMarin owns a mp3/128Kbits recording of this show.
Then began the quest for the “lossless” source of this recording…
Days passing, a lot of blow-jobs again and weeks later, an email just arrived,
ZEF replied to Sous-Marin :

I had a small tape recorder, the later Telefunken (R.I.P blessed tape recorder)
connected to an external microphone.
I digitalized the tape with Audacity (version 1.2.6) using default settings.
Audacity detected my recording as being in mono. I did not correct the file
or apply any filters. This was a “rough” transfer direct from tape to HD.

Bingo! we finally got it:)

Dedicated to all the good people in Yeeshkul, IFWT & PRS hubs.
I really want to thanks all the guys behind this release :

MOB – for the mastering of this show,
Breathe – for his general help, and the use of IFWT label for this release.
Alex – for helping in translations,
Sous-Marin (aka AndPh.) – for grabbing the source
Raymond Dzarek (aka PhD.) – for discovering 2 years back that a recording exist!
Philippe R., – for permission to use the ticket scan.
don’t forget to see his website, fool of goodies at:
http://philippe.rollin2.free.fr/INDEXES/index2.html

…and the last, but not the least, the taper ZEF (aka AndP.)!

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FREE TRADE ONLY

Now, time to seed IFWT-CDR-035
Thanks all

Cheers,
BruNo. (aka PE)