Thursday, August 11, 2011

Anderson & Wakeman - 2010-10-09 - Cambridge


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Dr. Forrester said...

THE ANDERSON WAKEMAN PROJECT - Corn Exchange, Cambridge, England, 2010-10-09

Tracks and checksums:

DISC ONE
101 Starship Trooper
102 Sweet Dreams
103 Forever (Deeper Love)
104 And You And I
105 The Living Tree Part 2
106 Morning Star
107 Your Move
108 The Garden
109 The Living Tree Part 1
110 Time And A Word
111 Owner Of A Lonely Heart

DISC TWO
201 Long Distance Runaround
202 Yours Is No Disgrace
203 Just One Man
204 Wonderous Stories
205 23-24-11
206 South Side Of The Sky
207 Turn Of The Century
208 Living In The House Of Freedom
209 Roundabout
210 Soon
211 The Meeting

Venue:
Corn Exchange in Cambridge

Artists:
Jon Anderson: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Rick Wakeman: Keyboards

Artwork:
To follow, ticket scan included

Source:
Zoom H2>Goldwave for track splits (and see below)>FLAC

Waffle:
The first "proper" gig on the tour (there was a warm-up the night before - as you can find in one of the links). I've never been to the Corn Exchange before - it's a lovely venue, but a bit of a big barn: so when the sound comes across as a bit echoey and distant, that's how it sounded on the evening. Also, it was clear that Jon was much higher in the mix that Rick, and that comes across on the recording as well. Apologies for the odd creaking noise, the seating is almost like temporary terracing, so it creaked every time someone moved in their seat!

Have so say, it was quite an understated performance, Jon in particular coming across as quite tentative. They played all of the tracks from the new album except "Anyway And Always" (I hope I've got the two Living Trees the right way round!). Jon used a music stand with a folder holding the words on all of the new songs, so recently were some of them written. If I'm brutally honest, we weren't that carried away by the new songs (sorry if I'm going to sound disloyal here), most coming across as rather insipid and airy-fairy - I'd love to feel confident that familiarity will change that, but on the other hand, both of the guys are getting older... Feel free to discuss!!

But everything is forgiven, because they played South Side Of The Sky!

The sound on the original was way too quiet, so I boosted the volume and compressed down the peaks to compensate. Happy with it now, and didn't want to do any more.

August 11, 2011 at 9:10 AM

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