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YES – "Ten True Boston Summers", a.k.a. “B78”
DATE: 30 August 1978
LOCATION: Boston, MA, USA
VENUE: Boston Gardens
RECORDING TYPE: Audience ["AR"]
TORRENT SOURCE: Original Nakamichi 550-recorded master tapes
TAPER: The unsurpassed Mr. Barry Rogoff
LINEAGE: Original master transfer - Nak BX 300 Dolby B via VXPocket V2 > Addonics Digicopier to Mitsui CDR via Nero 7.0 > To mastering computer from Addonics Digicopier via EAC > Pitch/Tempo naturalization and EQ work to reveal - not mix - existing detail in CEP 2.0 [no noise reduction attempted] > FLAC > Bit Torrent to Dime and You
INDEPENDENT SOURCE ANALYSIS: 27 “beta testers”, including the Taper, Gromek and others
ORIGINAL ART: Gromek
ORIGINAL PHOTOS [Photo folder and cover art]: The Taper
LINEUP: Vocals - Jon Anderson; Keyboards - Rick Wakeman; Guitars - Steve Howe; Bass Guitars - Chris Squire; Percussion - Alan White
SETLIST [for standard 80-minute CDR]:
[Vol. 1]
01V1 - Siberian Khatru; 02V1 - Heart of the Sunrise; 03V1 - Future Times; 04V1 - Circus of Heaven; 05V1 - The Big Medley [includes Squire solo]; 06V1 - Release Release; 07V1 - Howe Solo*
[Vol. 2]
01V2 – Parallels; 02V2 - On the Silent Wings of Freedom; 03V2 - Wakeman solo; 04V2 - Anderson [harp] solo/Awaken; 05V2 - All Good People; 06V2 – Roundabout
Endless, endless thanks to the Taper – this nearly if not completely miraculous AR wouldn’t exist for us to enjoy without his bravery and expertise, then and now
STRENGTHS [please also see "weaknesses" further down]:
Performance - Yet another unbelievable one from Yes' last '70s album tour, its pioneering in-the-round presentation with revolving stage and 360 degree "flying" PA system. The sound was astonishing even by today’s standards. As had often been true in previous years, the tour began before its featured new album (TORMATO) was released and astonished audience reactions to the new pieces are captured here. Typically innovative but clinical sounding new works in studio came to life on the road – among them "Release Release", and a top shelf AR of it no less. "The Big Medley" of older numbers also took nearly everyone by surprise in an era before Internet spoilers.
Source and mastering effort – For 1978 a top quality audience cassette made with one of the best then-available decks captured all the energy official, SBD-based "live" releases rarely if ever do, and in as much or more detail. Here in all its digitally transferred glory is the original master itself.
The source almost couldn’t be better even as reel to reel. There are other cassette "AR"s from the period of even better technical quality in visual analysis at least, yet this one has all their aural detail plus a 'warmth' on playback I haven't heard in others graphing better visually.
Most mastering was limited to pitch and tempo correction commonly needed in high end ARs from the 70s due to their source decks’ extensive manual setting requirements. The rest consisted of minimal high and mid frequency EQ work to reveal existing detail and mitigate some ‘distance’ resulting from the Boston Garden echo chamber’s habit of swallowing up sound from even Yes’ exceptional 1978-1980 system.
WEAKNESSES:
Performance - Despite their usual consummate professionalism Yes had a rather difficult night on 30 June 1978, largely due to the energy drain of "Release Release". It was so demanding even for Yes the subsequent performance of "Parallels" suffered as well, despite a break for Steve Howe’s solo, and in both cases vocals in particular. It was also only the tour’s 3rd engagement so a few stumbles were nearly inevitable. The following night they nailed “Release Release”, everything else went off as well if not better, and even their sound engineer seemed to do a better job of coping with the Garden’s acoustics, but no AR of that show I know of has this one’s quality.
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