The Who – Isle of Wight, England (08/30/69)

The Who
1969-08-30
Isle of Wight Festival
Isle of Wight, UK

Near 65 min audience recording

Setlist:
01 – Intro
02 – Heaven and Hell
03 – I Can’t Explain
04 – Fortune Teller
05 – Young Man Blues
06 – It’s A Boy
07 – 1921
08 – Amazing Journey
09 – Sparks
10 – Eyesight to the Blind
11 – Christmas
12 – The Acid Queen (tape flip inside)
13 – Pinball Wizard
14 – Do You Think It’s Alright
15 – Fiddle About
16 – There’s A Doctor
17 – Go To The Mirror
18 – Smash The Mirror
19 – I’m Free
20 – Tommy’s Holiday Camp
21 – We’re Not Gonna Take It
22 – See Me Feel Me
23 – Summertime Blues
24 – My Generation

Notes:
A very good-sounding audience tape. The tape suffers from crackling, speed fluctuation, and minor distortion at times.
The audience around the taper is quite rowdy in the beginning, but they settle down pretty quickly.
Received from a collector without lineage.

The Band – Isle of Wight, England (08/31/69)

The Band
August 31, 1969
Woodside Bay near Ryde, Isle Of Wight Festival

AUD MR > DAT > CD > EAC > WAV > FLAC

01 We Can Talk
02 Long Black Veil
03 To Kingdom Come
04 Ain’t No More Cane
05 Don’t Ya Tell Henry
06 Chest Fever
07 I Shall Be Released
08 The Weight
09 Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever

[37:33]

I did not harm the sound of the recordings in any way. Pitch adjustment done by the original taper.
Tr.1 is missing about two seconds at the beginning, apart from that this the complete performance.

The Doors – Isle of Wight, England (08/30/70)

The Doors
August 30, 1970 (Saturday)
East Afton Farm
The Isle Of Wight Festival
Isle Of Wight, England

Track List:

01. Introduction – 0:18
02. Back Door Man – 4:18
03. Break On Through – 4:53
04. When The Music’s Over – 13:31
05. Ship Of Fools – 7:37
06. Roadhouse Blues – 6:07
06. Light My Fire – 14:21
07. The End – 18:18

Soundboard Recording

Multi-Track Master > DAT > DAT > CDR > WAV > Flac Frontend > FLAC (lvl 8, SBE aligned)

Notes from the original uploader:

For years, The Doors’ performance at the Isle Of Wight has only been available in an edited or incomplete form. The most popular release, “Palace Of Exile,” is missing over a minute in the middle of “The End” and the intro to “When The Music’s Over” is severly edited. Audience recordings of the show are missing “Roadhouse Blues.” Previously on this site someone offered a matrix of the audience and soundboard sources in order to recreate the complete concert in the best quality available. Now for the first time, we have a master DAT source for the COMPLETE Isle Of Wight concert in perfect soundboard quality. At almost 70 minutes total, this is as good as it gets until an official release gets made — if one is ever made.

This comes direct from the multi-track master recording. Quality is near perfect. The only downside is that the stereo separation isn’t very good. It sounds like it’s an unmixed copy of the multi-track master. So you’ll hear Ray’s organ more in the center than it should be and Ray’s vocals are mixed way down so you don’t hear them at all during “Break On Through” and other songs. (A good thing for some?) Still, I would place the overall quality as better than “Palace Of Exile.” Little to no hiss. Bass level is much more reasonable. Sharper sound quality overall.

One small note: About 4:29 into “The End,” the music drops out for about 5 seconds and you only hear Jim’s voice. Not sure why, but “Palace” doesn’t have this mixing