Sunday, June 12, 2011

Renaissance - 1979-07-17 - Lenox, Mass

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Dr. Forrester said...

Renaissance
Tanglewood Music Shed
Lenox, Mass. U.S.A.
July 17, 1979
performance quality: B+
recording quality: C (distant from stage)
source: master audience tape
lineage: AKG D-190E microphones >
Sony 158 cassette deck (dolby off) >
Maxell XLI cassette > soundforge 4.5 >
FLAC 6 > torrent. Hardly the best 3 step
torrent you'll find on the dime, but it
is a 3 step torrent. (Master > WAV > FLAC > torrent.)
runtime: 93:05
setlist: (song 1 can you hear me? not in recording)
Track 1: the vultures fly high (cuts in middle)
2: the day of the dreamer
3: Jeckyll & Hyde
4: northern lights
5: forever changing
6: secret mission
7: mother Russia
8: A song for all seasons
9: ?
10: prologue
11: encore: ashes are burning
comments:
This is all but the 1st song (Can you hear me call your name?) and
part of the second (The Vultures Fly high cuts in on this recording)
of Renaissance at Tanglewood. This is the same place the Boston Symphony
Orch. plays in the summer season. Not the same place as Lenox Music Inn
where the 77 show I have up happened. (those 2 shows will fit on 2 CD's)
This was a very nice concert, I thought, but with 2 problems: It's not
complete, missing maybe about 5-10 minutes I'd guess, but of greatest
concern, this may have been better off reserved for a Pink Floyd concert,
because it's more like a Wish You Were There production. I think the missing
title is a song from "Novella", one of their good ones. This tour was
of another Renaissance album I liked alot, A Song for All Seasons. I have
a BBC concert of this tour but that has been officially released as part of
"the Day of the Dreamer" but I posted this one despite the distant sound
because it's a master and I've yet to find any other recording of this show.
Tanglewood is a very pleasant place for outdoor shows, but I was so far
back Annie and the band were just tiny specks on a radar screen. So far
back I didn't get much crowd noise either, some talk in a few parts but
most of this is listenable enough for me to enjoy it. The 77 one (part of
"renpon77" torrent) is much more close-up recording, but both this and the
2 shows from 4/83 are from the original master recording. There is some
saturation in one brief part near the end of Prologue and another one at
the end of Ashes, so I'm unable to certify this one as totally "pegless",
but the torrent file does not clip, I made sure of that. Other than those
2 brief pegs (bass/midrange saturation) this is a clipless/pegless/glitchless
and gapless torrent. There is a fade out after the day of the dreamer
(track 2) and a fadein on track 3 (Jeckyll & Hyde) with a few seconds of
overlapping applause so the disc 2 runs about 78 minutes.
You may prefer to do it differently, that's entirely up to you.

June 12, 2011 at 11:20 AM

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