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Queen – London, England (07/11-12/86)

Queen
Wembley Stadium
Wembley Stadium, London, UK
July 11, 1986 (discs 1 & 2); July 12, 1986 (discs 3 & 4)



Number: WARDOUR-096
Source: Silvers > EAC > WAV > jetAudio > FLAC

A brand new release from Wardour. This time they’ve released a 4 CD-set which contains both famous Wembley shows from July 1986.

The first night is the same old source, but from a much lower generation tape, as the old version had worse quality. This version sounds much better.

The second night is a new source, taped right near the stage in great quality. You can hear the whole concert performed as live as it was in fact, without all those overdubs present on the official releases.

Disc 1
01 One Vision
02 Tie Your Mother Down
03 In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited
04 Seven Seas Of Rhye
05 Tear It Up
06 A Kind Of Magic
07 Day-O
08 Under Pressure
09 Another One Bites The Dust
10 Who Wants To Live Forever
11 I Want To Break Free
12 Impromptu
13 Guitar Solo
14 Now I’m Here

Disc 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

Disc 3
01 One Vision
02 Tie Your Mother Down
03 In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited
04 Seven Seas Of Rhye
05 Tear It Up
06 A Kind Of Magic
07 Day-O
08 Under Pressure
09 Another One Bites The Dust
10 Who Wants To Live Forever
11 I Want To Break Free
12 Impromptu
13 Guitar Solo
14 Now I’m Here

Disc 4
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 Gimme Some Lovin’
07 Bohemian Rhapsody
08 Hammer To Fall
09 Crazy Little Thing Called Love
10 Big Spender
11 Radio Ga Ga
12 We Will Rock You
13 Friends Will Be Friends
14 We Are The Champions
15 God Save The Queen

The Beatles – London, England (01/01/62)

THE BEATLES
THE DECCA TAPES
The Definitive Edition
January 01, 1962
Decca Studios
West Hampstead, London, England

Remasters Workshop RMW 540

Pitch, level and phase corrected January 14, 2010 from the CD on Masterdisc 005.

OK, Beatle Peetle, this is it! The Decca Tapes…at the honest-to-(insert your favorite deity here) right speed, at last, no foolin’.

Despite what they all said about their Decca Tapes being speed-corrected, they were all wrong. These tracks have always been at the wrong pitch on every single issue – Deccagone, Circuit, Yellow Dog (twice), Vigotone, Masterdisc… but this issue is guaranteed to have these recordings running at A=440 on every track. Each has been played against the grand piano preset on a Korg M50 workstation, and adjusted to match in Adobe Audition 3. Even if the group were not precisely tuned to concert pitch when they played it, they are now. You can play your instrument with all the songs without having to retune or being even a hair sharp or flat.

The source used here is the Masterdisc CD. It sounded the best out of all the other issues, and had no noise reduction, except that it ran a semitone sharp, with some variations. There was a small imbalance in level between channels – that’s fixed. Not a fraction of a second of audio is added or taken away.

Two fixes have been performed. The first note of “Hello Little Girl” ramped down in speed from a higher pitch. That has been straightened out. And the folks at Masterdisc had combined the channels of their tape to mono. This was fine because their playback was in phase to begin with. But on “Searchin'” there were two spots right next to each other where the phase was out for a very short time, as it had the telltale swishing of phase cancellations. Those have been patched with audio from the Vigotone CD “March 5, 1963 plus The Decca Tape.”

That iteration was horribly out of phase due to azimuth misalignment during digital transfer; it was at the wrong speed (which was fixed), and it has a ton of noise reduction applied, which dulled the high end and rolled off the bass. Even after phase correction, it was still brighter in the left and duller in the right, evidence of multiple-generation dubbing on different tape machines. So the two fragments needed for the patches are taken from the left channel, and re-equalized to match the Masterdisc sound as closely as possible. It worked out so well that you’ll never hear it when the patches go by (the patches are less than a second in total).

Barring another issue from even closer to the master, this is about as good as it gets for the Decca Tapes.

Track list:

01 Like Dreamers Do (2:35)
02 Money (That’s What I Want) (2:24)
03 To Know Her Is To Love Her (2:36)
04 Memphis (2:21)
05 ‘Til There Was You 3:01
06 Sure To Fall (In Love With You) (2:05)
07 Besame Mucho (2:40)
08 Love Of The Loved (1:51)
09 Hello Little Girl (1:39)
10 Three Cool Cats (2:24)
11 September In The Rain (1:55)
12 Take Good Care Of My Baby (2:29)
13 Crying, Waiting, Hoping (2:02)
14 The Sheik Of Araby (1:41)
15 Searchin’ (3:05)

Artwork is included.

Please preserve the lossless quality of this material.

Enjoy!

Uploaded to Demonoid on January 14, 2010.

Remasters Workshop
RMW 540

Natalie Merchant – London, England (03/25/88)

Natalie Merchant
Donmar Warehouse
London, England
March 25, 1988
(opening for Tracy Chapman)

Source: aud > ? > CD received in trade > extracted via iTunes > FLAC

Sound quality: B / B+

Tracklist:

  1. A Campfire Song
  2. Gun Shy
  3. Everyone a Puzzle Lover
  4. Don’t Talk
  5. The Painted Desert
  6. Lilydale
  7. What’s the Matter Here?
  8. Maddox Table
  9. Verdi Cries
  10. Like the Weather
  11. After Talking To Myself (unreleased)
  12. Where the Soul Never Dies (with Tracy Chapman)

Notes:

This was Natalie’s second-ever solo performance (she also performed at this same location on the previous day), serving as the opening act for Tracy Chapman. Most songs are Natalie performing entirely alone, accompanying herself on piano, although there is cello on at least one song and possibly some limited acoustic guitar on another. Tracy Chapman performs with Natalie
on the final track.

This recording is interesting not only for the rare solo performances of older songs, such as “Everyone a Puzzle Lover”, “Lilydale”, and “Maddox Table”, but also for the unreleased song “After Talking to Myself”. There is at least one other recording of Natalie performing a partial version of that song, and it is available on the Chicago 4/14/88 recording (uploaded separately).

Queen – London, England (09/18/76)

Queen
Hyde Park, London, UK
September 18 1976

[01] Opening: Bohemian Rhapsody
[02] Ogre Battle
[03] Sweet Lady
[04] White Queen (As It Began)
[05] Flick Of The Wrist
[06] Medley: (You’re My Best Friend / Bohemian Rhapsody / Killer Queen / The March Of The Black Queen / Bohemian Rhapsody)
[07] Bring Back That Leroy Brown
[08] Brighton Rock (Including: Guitar Solo)
[09] Son And Daughter (Ending)
[10] ’39
[11] You Take My Breath Away
[12] The Prophet’s Song
[13] Stone Cold Crazy
[14] Keep Yourself Alive
[15] Liar
[16] In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited

The Faces – London, England (xx/xx/73)

The Faces
London Paris Theatre 1973
“That’s All You Need”

EX Stereo (sounds like it’s from a transcription disc)

Download from blog > TLH > WAV (for de-clicking) > Click Repair (low setting – 20 due to treble frequencies in this recording) > TLH > FLAC

Track Listing

01 Miss Judy’s Farm
02 Too Bad
03 That’s All You Need
04 Stay With Me
05 Memphis
06 True Blue
07 Twistin’ The Night Away
08 You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want to Discuss It)
09 Cut Across Shorty
10 Bad & Ruin
11 It’s All Over Now
12 Had Me A Real Good Time
13 I’m Losing You

Band Personnel

Rod Stewart – Vocals
Kenny Jones – Drums
Ron Wood – Guitar
Ian McLagan – Organ, Piano
Ronnie Lane – Bass

I found this was the same as a Live at Paris Theatre London 1973 CD I have. However that
seemed to run too slow compared to this…this version (from a blog) sounds like it’s from a transcription disc so I’ve plumped for this one and it seems reasonable to assume the speed is
correct. The balance was off (biased to the right) on the CD so this seemed the logical choice
overall.

Minor de-clicking was carried out…just sometimes Click Repair has the odd adverse effect
on some recordings – I believe this is where there are several frequencies at the similar
level to a vinyl click – so a low setting was selected here and careful vetting of the results which were fine, and where there was any doubt, I did not use de-click.

On googling for the date of this concert, I saw two concerts from 1973 with similar tracklistings
to each other (but not to this one) listed as April and August 1973. However all sources I
have seen – my CD cover, online CD listings – suggest this is also a Paris Theatre concert,
and the acoustics suggest it is to me too.

Any help on confirming the date would be welcome

Fleetwood Mac – London, England (05/18/88)

Fleetwood Mac
19880518
London, England
Wembley Arena

Source: Audience
Lineage:
Quality: 8 (8.5)
Comments:
Notes:

Set 1:

  1. intro 01:14
  2. Say You Love Me 04:22
  3. The Chain 05:58
  4. Dreams 04:28
  5. Isn’t It Midnight 04:57
  6. Oh Well 04:29
  7. Seven Wonders 04:16
  8. Stop Messin’ Around 04:18
  9. Sara 05:31
  10. Everywhere 03:22
  11. Gold Dust Woman 06:59
  12. Don’t Let Me Down Again 03:59
  13. Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You 04:55
  14. Another Woman 04:24
  15. Brown Eyes 03:03
  16. World Turning 15:34
  17. Little Lies 04:23
  18. Stand Back 04:57
  19. You Make Lovin’fun 04:37
  20. Go Your Own Way 06:44
  21. Blue Letter 04:32
  22. Don’t Stop 05:42
  23. Songbird 03:54
  24. goodbye 01:04
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    01:57:42

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – London, England (06/26/22)

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
British Summer Time
Hyde Park
London, U.K.
June 26, 2022

Source: DPA 4060 => Tascam DR-2d
Conversion: WAV => Audio Cleaning Lab => FLAC (16-bit)

Track listing (66:11):
(1) Rich Woman (4:46)
(2) Can’t Let Go (3:47)
(3) Fortune Teller (4:21)
(4) Trouble With My Lover (3:40)
(5) Rock and Roll (4:21)
(6) The Price of Love (4:30)
(7) Please Read The Letter (6:34)
(8) High and Lonesome (4:22)
(9) It Don’t Bother Me (4:43)
(10) Band introductions (1:00)
(11) Quattro (World Drifts In) (4:24)
(12) Gone Gone Gone (3:24)
(13) The Battle of Evermore (6:28)
(14) When The Levee Breaks (9:44)

Comments: This recording captures Percy’s headlining set at the “British Summer Time” festival on June 26, 2022. Powerful performance, though unfortunately shortened for the festival. The taper clearly found a sweet spot — the dynamics are excellent, and the crowd around him is eerily silent. Very unusual for a general admission festival for crowd noise to be absent.

Many thanks to TallTaper for taping and sharing. I was just the helper who EQ’d and tracked it.

Pink Floyd – London, England (10/21/94)

Pink Floyd
Earls Court Exhibition Hall
London, England
21 October 1994

Complete Earls Court Volume 9
ROIO Records (#ROIO CDR-017-IX)

Disc 1:

  1. (intro)
  2. Astronomy DominÈ
  3. Learning to Fly
  4. What Do You Want from Me
  5. On the Turning Away
  6. Poles Apart
  7. Take It Back
  8. Sorrow
  9. Keep Talking
  10. One of these Days

Disc 2:

  1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
  2. Breathe
  3. Time >> Breathe (reprise)
  4. High Hopes
  5. The Great Gig in the Sky
  6. Wish You Were Here
  7. Us and Them
  8. Money
  9. Another Brick in the Wall

Disc 3:

  1. Comfortably Numb
  2. Hey You
  3. Run Like Hell

David Bowie – London, Canada (05/14/04)

David Bowie
John Labatt Centre
London, ON, Canada
14th May 2004

FM radio broadcast of a selection from the set…

Recorded by Soledriver…

Radio Broadcast > Technics Tuner > Aiwa Tape Deck >
Tascam DA-20 Mk 2 DAT machine > HHb burnit CDr recorder…no EQ
CDr > EAC > Traders Little Helper > Flac8 sector aligned

01 – New Killer Star
02 – Cactus (Pixies cover)
03 – Sister Midnight (iggy Pop cover)
04 – All the Young Dudes
05 – The Loneliest Guy
06 – Under Pressure
07 – Station to Station
08 – Ashes to Ashes
09 – Quicksand
10 – Modern Love
11 – I’m Afraid Of Americans
12 – “Heroes”

David Bowie – vocals, guitars, stylophone, harmonica
Earl Slick – guitar
Gerry Leonard – guitar
Gail Ann Dorsey – bass guitar, backing vocals
Sterling Campbell – drums
Mike Garson – keyboards, piano
Catherine Russell – keyboards, percussion, acoustic guitar, backing vocals

Feel free to do whatever you like with this recording as long as you don’t charge money for it!
MP3, Who Cares? Just remember to support the artists, and live music!!

Pink Floyd – London, England (10/19/94)

Pink Floyd
Complete Earls Court Volume 7
ROIO Records (#ROIO CDR-017-VII)
Earls Court Exhibition Hall
London, England
19 October 1994

Disc 1:

  1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
  2. Learning to Fly
  3. High Hopes
  4. Lost for Words
  5. A Great Day for Freedom
  6. Keep Talking
  7. Coming Back to Life
  8. Sorrow
  9. Another Brick in the Wall
  10. One of these Days

Disc 2:

  1. Breathe
  2. Breathe (continued)
  3. On the Run
  4. Time
  5. Breathe (reprise)
  6. The Great Gig in the Sky
  7. Money
  8. Us and Them
  9. Any Colour You Like >> Brain Damage
  10. Brain Damage (continued) >> Eclipse
  11. Wish You Were Here
  12. Comfortably Numb
  13. Run Like Hell