Wednesday, September 28, 2011

UK - 1978-10-07 - Boston


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Dr. Forrester said...

Source 1 -

Back by Popular Demand in Boston!
U.K.
Allan Holdsworth- guitar
Eddie Jobson- keyboards and violin
John Wetton- bass and vocals
Bill Bruford- drums and percussion
Orpheum Theater
Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
October 7, 1978
filename: UK10778flac16
performance quality: A-
recording quality: B+ (nice aud)
source: audience tape (unknown generation, probably 2nd)
runtime: 56:05
setlist:
1: alaska >
2: time to kill
3: the only thing she needs
4: carrying the cross
5:
6: thirty years > in the dead of night
7: encore: caeser's palace blues
comments:
this is a nice audience recording from the original-lineup U.K. U.S. tour,
not to be confused with U.K.'s 1st stop in Boston. They did 2 shows at the Paradise,
on July 11, 1978, late show was broadcast live (cutting into Alaska- bastards) and one
(maybe the same, maybe not) was broadcast on the BBC Rock Hour series (recorded).
One of the July shows was released officially, although I've yet to find the released
version, but I am certain that nothing from this show was used for it.
When you play 2 (very) sold out shows at the Paradise in Boston on your debut tour,
it means 2 things.
1: your band has made it in a big way, and
2: usually your next Boston gig will be at the Orpheum Theater.
It happened to the Police, U-2, and a few others. Not many. U.K. was one of the few.
This
was a fairly long tour, long enough to include what I can only call "back by popular
demand" shows in cities they had already played. Unfortunately they did not bring any
different songs to the set, but we got a fine sounding set of the familiar ones for a
third time around in 1978. A weird year it was, Brand X never made it to Boston at all
in 1977 so they played 4 shows in Boston in 1978. Boston is in New England after all,
and we love our U.K. (and theirs too). there were a couple of little slips/mistakes in
this show, but overall, a very nice inspired performance that any fan of this band would
enjoy hearing. The recording has good presence, recorded fairly close to the stage with
decent deck and mikes (don't know what was used). I think the untitled song is Forever
until Sunday, or maybe Sahara of Snow. These guys must have had some bummer time at
Caeser's Palace to come up with that for an encore. (kinda reminds me of Deep Purple's
Smoke on the Water, that way, not musically) I'd much rather hear Nevermore, but
I don't think they've ever done that live in concert (or mental medication). Too bad, but
U.K. is one band I don't tire of easily, even with just 1 album of this lineup. That
"second album" Wetton refers to in almost every 78 UK show I've heard never happened, as far
as I know. tracks 3 and 4 (in studio form) were supposed to be on it so the live gigs
are your only way to hear them. There is a flip cut during "in the dead of night" but I've
spliced it so you may not even notice unless you're paying very close attention. Although
a couple of generations down, it's still clean and sounds like very low-gen. It does sound like
a little section of In the Dead of Night is missing (about 1 minute I would guess), and
many went home from this show thinking it seemed awfully short. All these U.S. shows I've heard
only run about an hour or so, a few are a little longer, but most of those seem to be European
gigs. Don't know why so short a show, the crowd was very receptive for this show, and they
were the headline band as they usually were. I believe they may even have been the only act
in this show (not sure about that.)
do not sell this recording.
It's not (holds)worth it.

September 28, 2011 at 5:28 AM
Dr. Forrester said...

Source 2 -


U.K.
Orpheum Theater
Boston, MA
7 October 1978

Master audience recording taped by Dan Lampinski

01 Alaska >
02 Time To Kill
03 The Only Thing She Needs
04 Carrying No Cross
05 Forever Until Sunday
06 Thirty Years >
07 Presto Vivace >
08 In The Dead Of Night (spliced)
09 E: Caesar's Palace Blues

Bill Bruford - Drums
Allan Holdsworth - Guitar
Eddie Jobson - Violin, Keyboards
John Wetton - Bass, Vocals

Nakamichi 550 Tape Recorder
Two Nakamichi CM-300 Microphones
Maxell cassettes


Mastered and FLAC'ed by Carl Morstadt (dantalion8@yahoo.com)

Master Cassette ->
Nakamichi CR-3A cassette deck with azimuth correction ->
M-Audio Firewire Audiophile 2496 ->
CDWAV 24-bit/96-KHz wav files ->
Goldwave (normalizing and crossfades) ->
CDWAV (track breaks) ->
dBpowerAMP Audio Converter (24-bit/96-KHz wav files converted to
16-bit/44.1 KHz wav files) ->
FLAC Front End (FLAC 8 with sector boundary alignment)
FLAC files tagged with Foobar2000 Live Show Tagger

No EQ'ing.

September 28, 2011 at 5:28 AM
Anonymous said...

Whoa! Can't thank you enough for all these amazing UK shows. Saw them in Hartford in October that same year. Great show but set list was way too short. Thanks again, you made this proghead's day.

September 28, 2011 at 3:55 PM

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