lunedì 22 maggio 2017

Bruce Springsteen - 1999-06-20 - Arnhem, NL (AUD/FLAC) Crystal Cat 496-98



(Audience FLAC)

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Arnhem Night (Crystal Cat 496-98) 

Gelredome, Arnhem - Holland, 20th June 1999 

Original silver discs - dBpoweramp secure rip - flac level 6 

CD 1 
01 intro 
02 I wanna be with you 
03 The promised land 
04 Two hearts 
05 Darlington county 
06 Trapped 
07 Factory 
08 The river 
09 Youngstown 
10 Murder inc. 
11 Badlands 
12 Out in the street 

CD 2 

01 10th avenue freeze-out 
02 You can look (but you better not touch) 
03 Working on the highway 
04 The ghost of Tom Joad 
05 Meeting across The river 
06 Jungleland 
07 Light of day 
08 Cadillac ranch 
09 Hungry heart 
10 Born to run 

CD 3 

01 Bobby Jean 
02 Thunder road 
03 If I should fall behind 
04 Land of hope and dreams 

bonus tracks:
Arnhem, Gelredome (Netherlands) 19th June 1999
05 My love will not let you down
06 Prove it all night
07 Darkness on the edge of town
08 Rendezvous
09 Mansion on the hill
10 Where the bands are
11 Born in the USA
12 Backstreets
13 Stand on it

domenica 21 maggio 2017

The Velvet Underground, Caught Between the Twisted Stars (FLAC)



(FLAC)

Disc 1: Exploding Plastic Inevitable b/w Poor Richard's
01. Melody Laughter
02. Femme Fatale
03. Venus in Furs
04. Black Angels Death Song
05. All Tomorrow's Parties
06. Waiting for the Man
07. Heroin
08. Run Run Run
09. Poor Richard's

* 1-8: November 4, 1966 - Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio
* 9: June 23, 1966 - Poor Richard's Club, Chicago, Illinois. This track is actually Heroin and Venus In Furs from Ronald Nameth's & Andy Warhol's EPI film and ends with 1:17 of an unidentified Sister Ray.

Disc 2: The Chic Mystique of Nothing Songs

01. Nothing Song
02. Venus Heroin
03. Chic Mystique
04. Train 'Round the Bend/Oh! Sweet Nuthin'

* 1: November 4, 1966 - Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio
* 2: February 7, 1966 - USA Artists, WNET TV, New York City, New York
* 3: January 8, 1966 - Delmonico's Hotel, New York City, New York
* 4: May 1970 - Second Fret, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This track ends with a 2:20 instrumental - same source as the hidden track on Ostrich/Hilltop CD but longer excerpt.

Disc 3: Sweet Sister Rayn's Heroin

01. Sweet Sister Ray
02. Sister Ray
03. Hey Mr. Rain
04. Heroin

* 1,4: April 30, 1968 - La Cave, Cleveland, Ohio
* 2: March 15, 1969 - The Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts
* 3: June 6, 1993 - Wembley Arena, London, England

Disc 4: Illuminations of Atonality

01. Searchin' "Swan mix"
02. Lady Godiva's Operation "mono mix"
03. The Gift
04. Run Run Run
05. What Goes On
06. Guess I'm Falling in Love
07. A Short Lived Torture of Cacophony
08. Black Angels Death Song
09. The Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group of All
10. A Distant Mirror

* 1,2: September 1967 - Mayfair Recording Studio, New York City, New York
* 3: June 6, 1993 - Wembley Arena, London, England
* 4: August 2, 1969 - Hilltop Rock Festival, Ringe, New Hampshire
* 5: listed as "1968 live" - this is really the same version as 1969 Live album
* 6: April 1967 - Gymnasium, New York City, New York
* 7: listed as "New York City 1965", actually a part of Columbus '66 Melody Laughter recorded backwards
* 8,9: January 29, 1972 - Bataclan Club, Paris, France
* 10: the VU Rock & Roll Hall of fame introduction by Patti Smith, the band accepting the award, the band playing Last Night I Said Goodbye To A Friend, then Ghost Story from the Bataclan show, then 53 seconds of I'm Waiting For The Man from Max's Kansas City '70

The package is a CD size cardboard one, with 4 individual CD sleeves inside, each made to look like a 45 RPM singles picture sleeve. There is a photo of the Trip Club poster, Poor Richard's poster, Balloon Farm poster, and a few photos of the band and a photo of Andy Warhol peeling a large banana on the back cover. The 64-page booklet includes a Sterling Morrison interview with Greg Barrios, a review of VU & Nico album by Timothy Jacobs from Vibrations No. 2, July, 1967, Chicago Happenings by Larry McCombes from Zig Zag, Vol. 5, No. 1, April/May, 1974, New York Art And The Velvet Underground by Jonathan Richman from Vibrations, September 1967, A Quiet Night at the Balloon Farm by Richard Goldstein, Problems in Urban Living by Richard Somma, and another interview with Sterling, Reflections In A Lone Star Beer. This set is supposedly a limited edition of 500 copies. **some guy from the internet**

> A magnificent CD compilation of the most legendary (and deservedly so) of all Velvet Underground bootleg material, Caught Between the Twisted Stars is a four-disc collection drawn from throughout the original band's career (plus the 1993 reunion), lavishly packaged, beautifully annotated by an epic 64 page booklet, packed with interviews and press reports, and just about all the live VU you could possibly need. From 1966, the legendary showing at Chicago's ~Poor Richard's, where John Cale took lead vocals from an unwell Lou Reed for "Heroin" and "Venus in Furs," appears in best ever sound. From 1968, the mystery-draped "Sweet Sister Ray" transforms the band's best-known soundscape into a "Pale Blue Eyes"-esque ballad; from 1969, the truly infamous and utterly devastating "guitar amp" version of "Sister Ray" explodes with such vivacity that even if you know it by heart, it'll still take you by surprise. The performance was taped, apparently, with the recording equipment connected straight to Lou Reed's guitar monitor, rendering band and vocals a ghost in the distance while unimagined chords, riffs, and solos slice the top off your skull. Elsewhere, "A Short Lived Torture of Cacophony," from a New York performance in 1965, turns out to be a gripping rendition of the pre-Velvets Reed composition "Fever in My Pocket," while a pair of performances from Reed, John Cale, and Nico's 1972 reunion at the Paris ~Bataclan, have a sparse, acoustic charm which stands in absolute polarity to everything else on the box. Occasionally across the four discs, the sound quality lets you down a little -- "Chic Mystique," a rare jam from early 1966, is essentially hiss and drum beat with dissonant ambience somewhere in the distance, while the oft-praised "Venus Heroin" medley is scarcely even discernible. So, not everything in the collection bears repeated listens, although it's interesting that the flattest moments actually come from the 1993 reunion -- and are, as such, the most hi-fi things in sight. Whether the original Velvets rehearsed regularly or not, in concert their every movement appeared to be a step into the absolute unknown. Reformed, there was no room for any kind of unexpected maneuver, and so they recite "The Gift" with weary familiarity, or plod through "Hey Mr Rain" like they left their umbrellas at home. Musically, it's exemplary. Spiritually, it's crushing. Such lowlights, however, are the exception. Regardless of quality, the performances from 1966-1970 (and 1972) not only capture some scintillating highs, they represent a band going hell-for-leather toward a level of artistic accomplishment which even they were only partially aware of -- and whose actual significance would not be realized for years to come. A murderous mystery indeed. **Dave Thompson, All Music Guide**

The FLAC files are tagged with as much information as possible. If you're converting to another format your best bet is probably gonna be to burn 4 CDs from these here FLAC files and then let CDDB do the tagging for you.

Fingerprints, checksums, packaging images (front, back & inside), album covers (front & back) and cd images included (all images in both 72dpiRGB.png & 300dpiCMYK.tif).

AC/DC with Axl Rose - 2016-09-14 - New York, NY

(Audience FLAC)

AC/DC with Axl Rose 
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 
September 14th, 2016 
Recorded by viper from Section 225, Row 12, Seat 10 (See photos included for my view) 
Source: Nokia Lumia Icon w/built-in HAAC mics > Audio Recorder Pro app > 16bit/48 KHz PCM/WAV 
Encoding: Trader's Little Helper > FLAC (Level 8) 

Lineage: 
Original FLAC files (16-bit, 48kHz) > xAct 2.37 (decode to WAV) > iZotope RX Advanced 1.30.768 (resample to 44.1kHz) > xAct 2.37 (encode to flac, align sectors, ffp). 

00 Intro 
01 Rock or Bust 
02 Shoot to Thrill 
03 Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be 
04 Back in Black 
05 Got Some Rock & Roll Thunder 
06 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 
07 Rock 'n' Roll Damnation 
08 Thunderstruck 
09 High Voltage 
10 Rock 'n' Roll Train 
11 Hells Bells 
12 Given the Dog a Bone 
13 If You Want Blood (You've Got It) 
14 Live Wire 
15 Sin City 
16 You Shook Me All Night Long 
17 Shot Down in Flames 
18 Have a Drink on Me 
19 T.N.T. 
20 Whole Lotta Rosie 
21 Let There Be Rock (with Angus Young guitar solo) 

Encore: 
22 Audience/Pre-HtH Solo 
23 Highway to Hell 
24 Riff Raff 
25 For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) 
26 Post-Show Comments 

Length: 146mins, 32secs (2hrs, 26mins, 32secs) 

Notes: 
When I first heard this AC/DC w/Axl Rose thing was happening I thought "you have got to be kidding me mates! this is going to be an abomination". AC/DC is my favorite band of all-time and this guy was about to ruin my favorite band's legacy. Well, I couldn't have been more wrong. Mr. Rose Ruled! He truly redeemed himself this year, both with Guns and Roses and as Guest Vocalist with the greatest band that's ever been. Dare I hope for an actual studio album w/Mr. Rose and then a farewell tour? 

More Notes: 
One on-the-fly split after track 21. Everything else split with Audacity. Again, a pretty good capture with my Nokia Lumia Icon but please let me know what you think. Some samples in the comments below. Photos and videos here: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/acdc-with-axl-rose-played-msg-pics-videos-setlist/

venerdì 19 maggio 2017

U2 - 2017-05-17 - Santa Clara, CA (AUD/FLAC)



(Audience FLAC)


U2
Levis Stadium
Santa Clara, Ca
May 17, 2017

Recorded by Daspyknows
Recorded from 50 yard line about 5 to 10 feet off dead center
(same spot as my 1987 Joshue Tree recordings)
Schoeps MK41/NBox Platinum Tascam DR-2D 24 Bit 48K

Processed using Soundforge 11, resample, to 16bit 44.1K
TLH to convert to Flac

Master 2017.15


01. Sunday Bloody Sunday
02. New Year's Day
03. A Sort Of Homecoming / America (snippet)
04. Bad / America (snippet)
05. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
06. Where The Streets Have No Name
07. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
08. With Or Without You
09. Bullet The Blue Sky
10. Running To Stand Still
11. Red Hill Mining Town
12. In God's Country
13. Trip Through Your Wires
14. One Tree Hill
15. Exit / Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (snippet)
16. Mothers Of The Disappeared / El Pueblo Vencera (snippet)
17. Crowd

encore(s):
18. Beautiful Day / Do You Know The Way To San Jose (snippet)
19. Elevation
20. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
21. One
22. Miss Sarajevo / The New Colossus (snippet)
23. The Little Things That Give You Away



Notes:
30th Anniversary of Joshua Tree, where has the time gone. I knew I needed to do this show since my original Joshua Tree tour recordings were some of the most well known recordings from a 35 year taping career. How times have changed. For those shows we had 60 pounds of gear and help from security. Now we have 2 pounds of equipment but need to really work to get tickets, beat walk through metal detectors, wands and stupid security rules. I got down there early and was waiting for another taping friend who had my ticket reserved. My friends  ended up running late and getting caught in traffic meanwhile there were rumours of an earlier start due to curfew and train issues. While I was killing time listening to my 11/15/87 recording in the car I ran the battery down. Dumb move and another jump in the stress level. I heard from a fellow taper who got his gear in and I said I would be late so make sure to capture the opener Mumford and Sons since I didn't expect to be in by the start. My friends showed up, I packed up  his gear since better to have one point of failure sneakking gear in. Got to security and passed through almost unscathed. They wouldn't let me bring in my oranges. Since when is a tasty little tangerine a security risk? Next stop was the bathroom to get set up. Both of us went into a  handicapped stall together to get rigged up (it is SF) and we went out to the GA floor. Security then said no plastic water bottle and I had to pour it into a cup. Poured the water bottle into a cup, found my spot and poured the cup back into the bottle. Had about 10-15 minutes and spotted the other taper 30 feet to my left. Mumford and Sons came on and played for about 50 minutes. Between bands it got quite a bit more crowded and then a bit before 9 Larry Mullen Jr starts walking around the stage and makes his way to the B stage which was anout 20 feet in front and to my left. He sits down and starts the drum intro to Sunday Bloody Sunday. As they blast into the song  I notice how good it sounds. The first part of the stage is on the B stage but I am looking straight ahead not seeing much of the band but enjoying every note. From there they blast into one early vintage song after another. The video screens are also entertaining and I am pretty sure I recognized the road they used in the video footage during Where The Streets Have No Name. For me this was the best U2 show in a long long time. There was some political overtones which were expected and enjoyable and Bono was able to convey his view that we all are on this planet together so we should all work to make it a better place. Before I knew it the set was over and we were waiting on an encore. This was generally newer material and they ended right at 11 on a high note. Made my way back to my car and my friend was waiting  with jumper cables. Got the car started and made it home after a great evening. Enjoy this one.


lunedì 15 maggio 2017

U2 - 2017-05-12- Vancouver, BC (AUD/FLAC)


(Audience FLAC)


Edgerulz- ZoomH2 GA
Taper: joekickass


01 Sunday Bloody Sunday
02 New Years Day
03 A Sort of Homecoming
04 MLK
05 Pride
06 Where the Streets Have No Name
07 I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For
08 With or Without You
09 Bullet the Blue Sky
10 Running to Stand Still
11 Red Hill Mining Town
12 In Gods Country
13 Trip Through Your Wires
14 One Tree Hill
15 Exit
16 Mothers of the Disappeared
17 Encore Break
18 Beautiful Day
19 Elevation
20 Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
21 Bono Talking
22 One
23 Miss Sarajevo
24 The Little Things That Give You Away



Recorded on the floor, about 10 people from the outer stage ramp on edge's side, just to left of center stage. Should have been Mid mic Gain, but looking at my recorder now, could have been Low mic gain, Rec level was 73. My previous recordings are too high and distorted, this one is much nicer to listen to. I listened with headphones and I think it sound great. First show, so I was really there to enjoy it so there is some talking in between songs, but the none during. Do with it what you will, I'm just sharing. Enjoy.

domenica 14 maggio 2017

Paul McCartney - 2015-06-23 - Charlottesville, VA (AUD/FLAC)



(Audience FLAC)

John Paul Jones Arena
Charlottesville , Virginia
June 23, 2015
44khz/16bit

Recorded by bcironmaiden
Recorded w/ SP-CMC-8 Sound Professionals Deluxe Audio Technica Cardioid Stereo Microphones >
SP-SPSB-1 Sound Professionals Mini Battery Module > Olympus LS-10 Linear PCM Recorder HD > Sony Sound Forge 96khz/24bit > 44khz/16bit > CD Wave Editor Track Split >
TLH ( Flac 8 ) > You

Paul McCartney - Vocals/Bass/Guitar/Piano
Brian Ray - Bass/Guitar
Rusty Anderson - Lead Guitar
Wix Wickens - Keys
Abe Laboriel - Drums

01. Eight Days A Week
02. Save Us
03. Got To Get You Into My Life
04. One After 909
05. Temporary Secretary
06. Let Me Roll It
07. Foxy Lady Jam
08. Paperback Writer
09. My Valentine
10. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five
11. The Long And Winding Road
12. Maybe I'm Amazed
13. I've Just Seen A Face
14. We Can Work It Out
15. Another Day
16. Hope For The Future
17. And I Love Her
18. Blackbird
19. Here Today
20. New
21. Queenie Eye
22. Lady Madonna
23. All Together Now
24. Lovely Rita
25. Eleanor Rigby
26. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
27. Something
28. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
29. Band On The Run
30. Back In The U.S.S.R.
31. Let It Be
32. Live And Let Die
33. Hey Jude
34. Encore:
35. Another Girl
36. Hi, Hi, Hi
37. Can't Buy Me Love
38. Yesterday
39. Helter Skelter
40. Brings People On Stage
41. Golden Slumbers
42. Carry That Weight
43. The End

167:33.57

Amazing show by Paul and Band !!!! I took my Daughters to this show (10 & 12 They LOVE McCartney & all things Beatles , I'm doing a good job as a Daddy ). The look on their faces when Paul came out was worth every penny spent on this LONG road trip ..... 303 Miles . We wanted to go to Philly but the website for Wells Fargo bounced me out while checking out .... it does that quite often !!!!! So we spent a couple days down in sunny Virginia . So glad we went to this show .... The sound in JPJ Arena is WAAAAY better than Wells Fargo .... WAY BETTER !!!! At any rate , Great show , Great venue , Great time with the family .... Sound is really good , no talkers or singers , only clapping between songs .

mercoledì 10 maggio 2017

The Who - 1972-08-16 - Brussels, Belgium (AUD/FLAC)


(Audience FLAC)

Summertime Mods 

Forest National, Brussels, Belgium 
Killing Floor (KF 99028/29) 

Silver CD --> WAVE (xACT) --> FLAC 8 

Quality: VG- AUD (Stereo) 

DISC ONE 
01 I Can't Explain 
02 Shakin' All Over 
03 My Wife 
04 Summertime Blues 
05 Baba O'Riley 
06 Behind Blue Eyes 
07 Bargain 
08 Won't Get Fooled Again 
09 Magic Bus 

DISC TWO 
01 Relay 
02 Pinball Wizard 
03 See Me, Feel Me 
04 My Generation 
05 Sparks 
06 Naked Eye 
07 Long Live Rock 

This is one of the better sounding audience recordings from 1972. 
There is a cut in "Won't Get Fooled Again" at 5:40, and in "Naked Eye" at 1:44.

domenica 7 maggio 2017

Depeche Mode - 2017-05-05 - Stockholm, SWE (AUD/FLAC)



(Audience FLAC)

Depeche Mode 
City: Stockholm, Sweden 
Venue: Friends Arena (Solna) 
Date: 2016-09-01 
Audience: 37.040 

Taper: Trekytt 

Master - **** 44.1-16 BIT **** 

Lineage: 
AT 943 External Stereo Microphones >> SP-SPSB-10-80020 - Sound Professionals - Micro-mini microphone power supply with mini 12vdc battery >> Olympus LS- 10 >> 30m from stage >> WavePad Editor >> 48 / 24 Bit >> Dithered 44.1-16 Bit >> Songsplit >> Tracking >> Wave >> FLAC Level 8 >> DIME >> You

Dave Gahan - Vocals 
Martin L.Gore - Synths, Guitar, Vocals 
Andrew Fletcher - Synth, Back-Up Vocals 
Peter Gordeno - Synth, Bass 
Christian Eigner - Drums 

01 Intro 
02 Going Backwards 
03 So Much Love 
04 Barrel Of A Gun 
05 A Pain That I´m Used To 
06 Corrupt 
07 In Your Room 
08 World In My Eyes 
09 Cover Me 
10 Home 
11 A Question of Lust 
12 Poison Heart 
13 Where´s The Revolution 
14 Wrong 
15 Everything Counts 
16 Stripped 
17 Enjoy The Silence 
18 Never Let Me Down Again 
19 Encore Break 
20 Somebody 
21 Walking In My Shoes 
22 Heroes (Bowie-cover) 
23 I Feel You 
24 Personal Jesus 
25 Outro 

Total Running Time: 2 Hours : 13 Minutes : 36 Seconds 

NOTES: 
Excellent concert by the "synth-masters". Only negative thing is perhaps that they only played 5 songs from the latest LP. Otherwise a great concert but somehow a little bit predictable. If you compare with other "stadium-rock-bands" like "The Cure", who practiced about 100 songs and mixed their setlists every night then of course this is something totally else. 

As an old fan of the "synth-masters" I understand that they work in a different way. Also maybe partly the pressure to deliver the hits like "Enjoy The Silence", "In Your Room" or "Never Let Me Down Again" is something they have to take into account when preparing the setlist. Also they have never really been a band that can switch songs as they wish. 

I only hope for the sake of the fans seeing them later on this tour, that they will include more new songs, as the new LP is really the strongest for the last 10 years. This is ofcourse only my "humple opinion". "Cover Me" worked really well live. 

It doesn´t mean that their latest 3-4 albums are bad, just the new LP "Spirit" is an "right-trough" strong album with almost all songs have potential to become DM-classics. At least in my "humble opinion". 

The TV-screens in the stadium also of course has to be in synch with the actual song being played, so once again I really understand how this machinery works, just a bit sad that they could have mixed it up with some other older songs and play at least 2 more songs from the excellent new LP. New songs like "Scum" or "Fail" are too good to 
be left out. 

The TV-screens were really great, I think most of you will enjoy the "visuals". 

I have to give credit to the other "stadium-veterans" U2, when they toured "ZOO TV" they played 8 songs of the "Achtung Baby"-album every night. Again we are talking about a different "stadium-rock-monster" here. 

Personal highlights for me this evening was hearing all 5 new songs and ofcourse the songs "Barrel of A Gun" and "Home" from my favorite DM-album "Ultra". 

Of course each and everyone of you has different opinions and let´s face it, It´s very hard for an "stadium-rock-band" to please every human being out 40.000-50.000. 

Also they payed tribute to Bowie with the cover "Heroes". Great stuff. 

sabato 6 maggio 2017

Dire Straits - 1979-03-31 - San Francisco, CA (SBD/FLAC)



(Soundboard FLAC)

"The New Old Waldorf"

Lineage:
Button Kodak Silver CD-R > LiteOn iHAP322 > EAC v. 0.99 Prebeta 4 (Secure, Offset Correct @ +6,0,24 bytes) > FLAC (Level 8) > You !

01. Down to the Waterline

02. Six Blade Knife
03. Once Upon a Time in the West
04. Lady Writer
05. Water of Love
06. In the Gallery
07. News
08. What's the Matter Baby
09. Lions
10. Sultans of Swing
11. Wild West End
12. Where Do You Think You're Going?
13. Eastbound Train
14. Southbound Again

Geetarz Comments:
Most excellent! Once again, Button does it best with this effort. This combines the best quality parts from all available sources to make the best possible recording of this show. An essential part of any DS collection. If it's "Button" ... you know it's good!