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23 de enero de 2024

(010215) 10.000 Maniacs - 1993-02-17 - Berkeley, CA (DSBD/FLAC)

10.000 Maniacs - 1993-02-17 - Berkeley, CA(Digital Soundboard FLAC)

Berkeley Community Theater

Transferred by Nick C using Sony D7>Edirol R-44 via coax digital

Processed using Soundforge 10b, resample, to 16bit 44.1K and split tracks

TLH to convert to Flac

Thanks to Nick for the DAT conversion

Thanks to Spacetrucker for setlist update

01 These Are Days

02 What's The Matter Here

03 Cherry Tree

04 A Campfire Song

05 Like The Weather

06 Drift Away>You Happy Puppet

07 Trouble Me

08 How You've Grown

09 Noah's Dove

10 Greenpeace announcement - Gun Shy

11 Eden

12 Jezebel

13 Eat For Two

14 City Of Angels

15 Stockton Gala Days

16 Son Of A Preacher Man

17 Stage banter>Candy Everybody Wants

18 Hey Jack Kerouac

19 Stage banter>Few And Far Between

20 Crowd noise

21 I'm Beginning To See The Light>My Sister Rose

22 Stage banter>Every Day Is Like Sunday

23 Sweet Bessie From Pike>Gold Rush Brides

24 Stage banter>To Sir With Love

https://mega.nz/file/RiMgCLyT#pvCdOTVbgH29ZWGSkP7BffMVgjF9AkqEh6gRF-yztIw

1 de noviembre de 2023

(009069) Grateful Dead 1986-06-20 Greek Theater, Berkeley, CA (24-bit) (FLAC)

Grateful Dead

Date 1986-06-20

Greek Theatre

Berkeley CA

Set 1

d1t01 - In The Midnight Hour

d1t02 - Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo

d1t03 - El Paso

d1t04 - West L.A. Fadeaway

d1t05 - equipment break

d1t06 - Me And My Uncle

d1t07 - Mexicali Blues

d1t08 - Candyman

d1t09 - Let It Grow

Set 2

d2t01 - tuning

d2t02 - Uncle John's Band >

d2t03 - Playing In The Band >

d2t04 - Comes A Time >

d2t05 - Jam >

d2t06 - Drums >

d2t07 - Space >

d2t08 - I Need A Miracle >

d2t09 - Black Peter >

d2t10 - Around And Around > **

d2t11 - Good Lovin' **

encore The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) &&

Notes:

!! Pre-amp Bass distortion throughout, sometimes heavy; minimized as best as could

** Left channel battery started to die on master. At segue after Around & Around swapped Right channel over and inverted for last song.

&& Not on 1st gen tapes

Recording Information:

Source: 1GEN CA

Microphones: AKG c422 "omnioid" (X-Y at 90')|AKG B18

Recorder: Sony TC-D5M| Maxell MX 90's no Dolby (2nd in line)

Location: approximately 20 feet from stage handheld

Transfer: Nakamichi CR-5A> Sonic AD2k @24/48 > Marantz PMD661|24/48 SD

Recorded by: Executive Crew; Mike Davis, Tom Pinney, Aaron, John Hance

Transferred: Kyle Holbrook

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For the Bass players in da house!

the story:

The tape case says 20 feet from stage. The audio signature corroborates this as there is basically only Phil's bass along with a bit of guitar and vocals throughout most of the show. The first set when they had to thoroughly hide it

at what sounds like chest height or lower has a certain muddiness to it which cannot be characterized as quaint. I thought about asking one of my mastering guru friends to work with this, but it just doesn't seem to have the potential. there sure is some incredible bass aside from the distortions when the mic overloads the pre-amps. By the time it gets to Candyman/Let it Grow and the mic raised it up a bit the sound quality gets slightly better.

The second set is much easier to listen to, albeit still not the best of the AKG c422's ever made. There are the same bass distortions during the entire set but much less than set 1. Give it a listen if for no other reason than to hear the FINE Jerry solo in Comes A Time!

https://mega.nz/file/Rm1QmASB#BaoOaejy9BwNH5yyurT4IPsc8oSC78UPdU-GqLP7ChE

15 de octubre de 2023

(008564) Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin 1973-09-05 Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA (50th Anniversary Upgrade) (FLAC)

Transfer: Low Generation SB or FM tape > CDR > .wav > iZotope RX 8 / ozone 9 (mastered) > xACT 2.50 > FLAC

01 Meditation

02 The Life Divine

03 A Love Supreme

04 I'm Aware Of You (includes My Favorite Things)

05 Flame-Sky

06 Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord

Known Faults:

-A Love Supreme: splice

-I'm Aware Of You: two splices (previous editions fade out - see notes below)

-Flame-Sky: end cut

Mahavishnu John McLaughlin: guitar

Carlos Santana: guitar

Khalid Yasin (aka Larry Young): organ

Doug Rauch: bass

Billy Cobham: drums

Armando Peraza: congas

Earlier this year we kicked off series of releases from a long time West Coast taper/collector that recently passed away. He transferred his extensive archives to CDR years prior to his passing and then passed it to a close friend. His friend has been involved in the Bay area music scene for the last five plus decades and understands the importance of getting these historic shows out to the collector's community. We are working closely reviewing the shows and researching current circulation as well as possible upgrades.

In 1973, Santana and McLaughlin had both become disciples of spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy, this spiritual journey affected both of their musical output and they teamed up to release "Love Devotion Surrender". Though the release was met with mixed reviews at the time there was no denying it generated blistering guitar work especially on the brief tour that followed. The album and shows were not for the casual listener with songs stretching to 30 minutes.

That brings us to one of the best shows of the tour at the intimate Community Theatre in Berkeley, CA.

There has been a lot of confusion surrounding the two shows played that night regarding if the tracks are from the early show, late show or a combination, SB or FM. We are not here to rehash that and will probably never know for sure, at this point without further confirmation this is what we have.

We used the fantastic TooleMan reconstruction from 2007 as our guide and the best circulating version available...a massive thanks to TooleMan for the previous heavy lifting to sort this show out in 2007 (wow has it really been 16 years).

The entire show should be considered a quality upgrade and after weeks of work reviewing and listening to the two shows side by side below are the variances between the released versions and this version, there are no additional cuts in this new version but a few interesting differences.

The first two tracks track the same, nothing additional in these two tracks.

03 A Love Supreme

On the 2007 reconstructed version there is a splice mentioned 30 minutes into the recording that falls at 17:32 into the track, likely due to a reel change. In the notes it mentions there being tape swooshing where the change occurs and the damaged area removed, it is a 100% seamless perfect edit and without having an unedited version to compare the listener would never know there was a splice.

It took a number of run throughs to figure out what exactly was missing in the reconstructed version. In this new version the gap is in the same location on the side at 30:20 (17:22 into the track) and we can confirm it is due to a reel change as you can hear the signs of the reel being stopped. However, there is no tape swooshing after the reel change and we have been able to leave in an additional 16 seconds of music falling before and after the gap. The additional music included is between 17:15 and 17:31 on the new track.

04 I'm Aware Of You

On the 2007 reconstructed version there is a seamless splice that falls at 00:02:26.361 that apparently was edited prior to the two postings that resulted in the 2007 edition, this splice is again seamless but not mentioned in the notes, you would not realize it was there if you didn't have an unedited file to compare it to.

The gap in the original recording used for this new edition, after pitch adjustment, is at 00:02:32.844, again it is definitely due to a tape change. We were able to restore 10 seconds of music edited out. For those interested, the music originally missing but restored is between 00:02:24.062 and 00:02:34.540.

Additionally all previous versions fade out at ~22 minutes, however, new to this release the track picks up again on disc 2 and we are treated to an additional 8:10 of music not previously available.

There are no differences to "Flame-Sky".

06 Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord

There are no differences in the actual music track but there is only 6 seconds of audience after the track ends on the 2007 reconstruction, this new version contains 1:36 of audience including a brief snippet of the classical outro music adding to the "you are there" feel to the evening.

For the release's title we are sticking to the way these shows were advertised as "Carlos Santana / Mahavishnu John McLaughlin", included are a couple of advertisements for the shows and an article that has nothing to do with this show but is about the spiritualism in music and contains the lines "Santana shocks rock fans when he shears his hair" as well as "In Berkeley, a recent dope smoking audience was stunned when acid rock king Carlos Santana, known for hair to his waist, emerged on stage in a POW cut and an Indian shirt." ...err...ok, I suppose that's one way to put it...

It's hard to believe this show just passed it's 50th anniversary and we hope you enjoy this new upgraded edition.

***

There are a number of folks we are indebted to for access to this exciting new archives, the anonymous West Coast collector, may he rest in peace, his friend that had the motivation and understands the need to get these historically important shows into circulation before they were lost forever and a huge thanks to dime member 'davmar77'. He did not currently have the bandwidth to facilitate such an undertaking at this time and put us in touch...this is how dime should work.

Big thanks to Goody, our pitch master, for his continued to support of these historic releases, he does extra duty on this series of releases helping confirm the setlists and edits, extra thanks go out to him for this critical assistance!

Over the past year or so, we've unfortunately had a number of long time tapers/collectors pass on, leaving this mortal coil, fortunately many had the foresight to secure at least a portion of their archives with friends and collectors so they could be properly released and enjoyed by generations to come.

Don't wait until it's too late to get those archives out into circulation, please get in touch, there are plenty of us here that can help get those out...no tape left behind!

mjk5510

https://mega.nz/file/mAMRiYQY#LX5WEy2de4WX6p0ju3Eqvj83kUqKeSMCEQkqsh5Yhe0

(008563)Stevie Wonder 1973-03-04 Berkeley Community Theater Berkeley, CA (FLAC)

Stevie Wonder 1973-03-04 Berkeley Community Theater Berkeley, CA (FLAC)

Stevie Wonder

Berkeley Community Theater

Berkeley,Ca

March 04, 1973

Source: BGP SBD > Open reel Ampex videotape or to conventional RtR (unclear which equipment was used)

Transfer #1: (c. 1988) re-anneal master tapes (if needed) > D (probably a Sonic Solutions ADC @ 24/48) > PCM tape

Remaster #1: (c. 1988) PCM > hiss & artifact removal > "sonic solutions process" > DAT (or other digital medium > DAT)

Transfer #2: (1990) MDAT > Nakamichi deck> XLII-S/90 > MC

Transfer #3: (1990) MC > Nakamichi deck (playback) > Nakamichi deck (record) > XLII-S/90 > C(1)

Transfer #4: (2005) C(1) > Aiwa AD-F850 > THC Cables > Edirol U-A5 > USB > Wavelab 5.01a @ 24/96 > WAV

Final Mastering: WAV > Wavelab 5.0a (X-noise to reduce hiss; 192 KhZ resampler > 44.1k;

L3 Multimaximizer to increase gain and dither to 16 bits) > FLAC.

Remastered 2007: Volume boosted, evened out, and EQ applied. There was a 50 second spot in track 3 that was one channel only,

that was repaired by overwriting that portion with the other channel. There were some other low volume spots that were fixed.

Disc 1

01. Jerry Pompeli Intro >

02 For Once In My life

03. If You Really Love Me

04. Me & Mrs. Jones

05. Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You?) >

06. You Were My First, But Not My Last

07. Think I'm On The Right Track//

08. I Was Made To Love Her

09. Feel It

10. Ki//lling Me Sof//tly

11. You Are The Sunshine of My Life >

12. Big Brother >

13. Blowing In The Wind >

14. Medley: What's Going On? >

15. My Cherie Amour > Summer Breeze >

16. Love Having You Around >

17. Signed, Sealed Delivered (I'm Yours) >

18. jam

19. Superstition// (w/ Buddy Miles & Paul Keegan)

The recording runs just shy of 90 minutes.

If splitting onto two discs, the suggested split is after track 8.

There are a half-dozen small discontinuities in the recording,

including abrupt transitions between songs and small gaps,

some with brief silences and others without.