Miles Davis Quintet
11-01-1969
Hammersmith Odeon
London, United Kingdom

Project ID – LL175

Source: Audience Recording
Lineage: Monaural audience recording > analog reel(s)/cassette(s) (unknown gen.)

DAT @32 kHz > wav via S/PDIF and M-Audio Audiophile digital soundcard >
Wavelab 5.0 and SoundForge 6.0 >CD Wave >FLAC (level 8)

Miles Davis (tpt); Wayne Shorter (ss, ts); Chick Corea (el-p);
Dave Holland (b, el-b); Jack DeJohnette (d)

disc 1

d1t01. Introduction/
d1t02. Directions
d1t03. Bitches Brew
d1t04. It’s About That Time
d1t05. I Fall in Love Too Easily
d1t06. Sanctuary
d1t07. No Blues
d1t08. Paraphernalia
d1t09. Masqualero/

Notes:

• d1t01: the announcement sounds to be cut short
• d1t02: The sound is very distant and muffled up to about :24, then it seems to improve.
  there is another drop in levels at 2:30 taking the quality back down a bit with more of a
  muffled sound. There seem to be a splice or a cut at 7:22
• d1t03: Digipop at 1:39, 4:35, 7:49, 12:11, 12:14, and 12:35. Drop out at 5:51 – 5:53. Mic
  adjustment at 12:23, 14:07.
• d1t04: Static at 11:02, 11:08. Mic adjustment at 15:40, 16:40
• d1t05: at 1:46 there is a loud thump. I believe this was a mic bump. There are small
  mic bumps and adjustments throughout thistrack.
• d1t06: This track also has the small mic bumps and adjustements for the first quarter
  of the track. dropout at 1:56.
• d1t07: the levels seem to bump up at :37. Mic bumps, adjustments throughout this track
  as well.
• d1t09: There are a few level changes in this track, very minor. At 8:52 through
  8:58 there is a very odd artifact. I don’t believe it should be there, but I may be wrong.
  Drop out at 9:41. Track is cut at the end, music lost.
• The sound is overall a bit distant and muffled sounding. Being a Miles audience
  recording from the late 60’s the overall sound is pretty good and par for the course
  when compared to other examples I’ve heard. I wouldn’t pass it by myself.
• “The Davis Quintet played two concerts at the Hammersmith Odeon on this date.
  This is the second concert. The Quintet toured Europe in October-November 1969 as
  part of the Newport Jazz Festival in Europe produced by George Wein.”
• Credit to Peter Losin, http://www.plosin.com/
• QC done by Bgreen

Peter Gabriel
London
Hammersmith Odeon
23-12-1978

Mono portable cassette recorder – transferred using a Yamaha cassette deck to PC via an M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496 card – Audacity

01 Me And My Teddy Bear
02 On Presuming To Be Modern
03 On The Air
04 Moribund The Burgermeister
05 Perspective
06 Humdrum
07 Nothing
08 White Shadow
09 D.I.Y.
10 Waiting For The Big One
11 Mother of Violence
12 Indigo
13 Slowburn
14 I Don’t Remember
15 Solsbury Hill
16 Modern Love
17 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (with Phil Collins)
18 Here Comes The flood

Peter Gabriel
London, England
Hammersmith Odeon
21-12-1978

Mono portable cassette recorder – transferred using a Yamaha cassette deck to PC via an M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496 card – Audacity

01 Me And My Teddy Bear
02 On Presuming To Be Modern
03 On The Air
04 Moribund The Burgermeister
05 Perspective
06 Humdrum
07 Nothing
08 White Shadow
09 D.I.Y.
10 Waiting For The Big One
11 Mother of Violence
12 Flotsam and Jetsam
13 Slowburn
14 I Don’t Remember
15 Solsbury Hill
16 Modern Love
17 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
18 Whiter Shade Of Pale

Peter Gabriel
Hammersmith Odeon, London
December 20, 1978

Audience-recording of unknown gen., supplied by “The Marathon Zephead”

Disc 1:

1. Peter Gabriel Introduction – 3.24
2. Me and My Teddy Bear – 2.22
3. On Presuming to Be Modern – 2.46
4. On the Air – 4.38
5. Moribund the Burgermeister – 5.13
6. Perspective – 4.46
7. Humdrum – 4.42
8. Nothing (early Not One of Us / Family Snapshot) – 3.40
9. White Shadow – 5.59
10. D.I.Y. – 3.38
11. Waiting for the Big One – 6.06

Disc 2:

1. Band Introductions – 1.40
2. Mother of Violence – 4.31
3. Indigo – 4.04
4. Slowburn – 5.17
5. I Don’t Remember – 5.43
6. Solsbury Hill – 6.22
7. Modern Love – 5.25
8. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway – 5.52

Total Running Time: 47.14 + 38.54 = 86.08

Nearing the end of the tour supporting his second album, like the previous one simply called
ëPeter Gabrielí, Gabriel played five nights in sequence at the famed Hammersmith Odeon in London.
The first of these is documented on this recording. The five gigs are memorable for several reasons:
one night had Phil Collins drumming, another one was a special duet gig with Tom Robinson to
celebrate Christmas, but overall the gigs were memorable for their performances, which had been
finetuned after the many gigs played during that year.

Where the 1977 Tour was as basic as possible in the dressing department, this yearís tour saw the
band wearing fluorescent vests, while Peter was apart from this also wearing gardening gloves and
brought his teddy bear to accompany him for the first song ëMe and My Teddy Bearí. Along with some
lengthy verbal bantering by Peter this can be heard on the recording as well. It takes quite a bit
ëtil the actual first full band song commences after another intro, this time one of Larry Fastís.
With full power the band launch themselves into a rousing version of ëOn the Airí.

This first night of the Hammersmith Odeon shows features ëIndigoí, which was only rarely done on the
1978 tour, but made a short reappearance into the set over here. The highlight of the gig
performance-wise might be ëWhite Shadowí though. Where early on in the tour the song was fairly
similar to the album, here the song is played extremely tight, with Jerry Marotta banging the kick
drum in the instrumental intro and interlude.

With itís unusual first 10 minutes and Peter talking more than ever, this tour was quite playful.
Another example of this is the rendition of an unreleased song by the name of ëNothingí, which would
eventually be worked into both ëNot One of Usí and ëFamily Snapshotí. During ëWaiting for the Big Oneí
Gabriel went into the audience this tour, with him disappearing and then popping up at a totally
different spot in the venue, picked up by a spotlight. At the end of the song the whole band switch
instruments and finish the song that way. This lets Peter return to his very first instrument:
the drums!

All in all, the 1978 tour and this show in particular were fun gigs, where Peter and the band didnít
take themselves too serious, but were able to deliver by rocking out with some strong performances.

WHAT WAS DONE?

The tape was first transferred as a 32-bit wave, with the azimuth adjusted to zero.
Since the recording turned out to be mono, only one channel was used to eliminate phasing problems.

As the recording was very hissy, noise reduction was used, in various small steps to reduce the noise
with less annoying artifacts, but with good overall results. After this, the recording was speed
corrected, as it run at the wrong speed.

Equalisation was done to get a better balanced sound.
The biggest of the improvements was done with multiband compression. Since the recording was quite
distorted and compressed the dynamics in the different frequency bands were expanded quite a bit
to let the recording breathe more and mask the distortion. It’s still very much present, but not
as much in the way as before, and it’s now certainly listenable. Also, during the multiband
compression some of the heavier reverb and some more hiss was reduced.

After this, a little equalisation was again done to get the optimum balance in sound. In between
songs Peter was hardly understandable due to heavy reverb on his voice, which turned out to be mainly
in the bass regions. Here the lower frequencies were reduced a bit to make Peter’s speech more
audible.

Since the recording was still mono, two slight different multitap delays were added, and a little
reverb to open up the space.

Finally Ozone 3 was run over all of it, not to change the sound very much for which it can be used as
well, but only slight changes and especially to normalize the sound.

Then fade-ins and fade-outs were applied, the whole file was converted to 16-bit again and then cut
up in tracks. The files were converted to FLAC.

THANK YOU TO:

Thanks to “The Marathon Zephead” for letting me browse through his complete 1978 collection!

As always, hope you enjoy this remaster!

Jesper Moonen
January 28, 2007

If you have any comments, a question, or perhaps even have an unusual Gabriel
recording (on tape, CD, or anything else), which you would like to offer to the
project, just send me an e-mail at sledgehammer86 AT hotmail DOT com

Queen
Complete Kampuchea Concert
Live in London, UK
Hammersmith Odeon
December 26, 1979

Label: Gipsy Eye 137/138
Material from this show has also been released on the bootleg “Crazy Tour”. It is, however, incomplete and the sound quality is inferior to this one.

Audio Source: Audience recording

Sound quality: EX – EX+ for an audience recording.
True lossless files (ripped in burst mode, but that does not affect quality unless there were ripping errors – I have spotted nothing sounding like that in the files). The tracks are expertly mastered, with nicely balanced frequency/amplitude ranges. Quite audible crowd presence that enhances the live feeling without interfering with the clear sound of music.

Lineage: Aud ? > ? > Silver Bootleg > CDR (X) > WAV (EAC) [burst mode] > FLAC (Level 8)

Artwork: Front and back artwork included, 160 DPI.

Number of discs: 2

Total Running Time: 113:51 (70:47 / 43:04)

Info: A classic Queen performance, one of their best! Includes Brian’s one time performance of Silent Night during his guitar solo.

Tracks:

CD 1
01 – Intro 2:19
02 – Jailhouse Rock 1:39
03 – We Will Rock You (fast) 2:58
04 – Let Me Entertain You 2:59
05 – Somebody To Love 7:37
06 – If You can’t Beat Them 4:49
07 – Mustapha 2:49
08 – Death On Two Legs 3:10
09 – Killer Queen 1:57
10 – I’m In Love With My Car 2:04
11 – Get Down Make Love 5:33
12 – You’re My Best Friend 2:41
13 – Save Me 4:02
14 – Now I’m Here 7:05
15 – Don’t Stop me Now 4:16
16 – Spread Your Wings 7:15
17 – Love Of My Life 3:57
18 – ’39 3:37

CD 2
01 – Keep Yourself Alive 7:49
02 – Guitar Solo (with Silent Night) 6:01
03 – Brighton Rock 1:11
04 – Crazy Little Thing Called Love 3:42
05 – Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Audience singing) 1:14
06 – Bohemian Rhapsody 5:33
07 – Tie Your Mother Down 4:42
08 – Sheer Heart Attack 5:12
09 – We Will Rock You 2:16
10 – We Are The Champions 3:44
11 – God Save The Queen 1:40