tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615308573789950822.post9045560039881316597..comments2023-09-22T00:48:56.392-07:00Comments on Just Add Cones: LR - 1973-09-01 - MassachusettsDr. Forresterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274253625619443854noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615308573789950822.post-7622190733241312402011-02-13T19:19:11.085-08:002011-02-13T19:19:11.085-08:00Lou Reed
Tanglewood Festival
Music Inn, Lenox, Mas...Lou Reed<br />Tanglewood Festival<br />Music Inn, Lenox, Massachusetts<br />1 Sept 1973<br /><br />85 minutes, 485 MB FLAC (level 8/Verify/align on sector boundaries)<br /><br />1. Intro<br />2. Prelude<br />3. Sweet Jane<br />4. How Do You Think It Feels?<br />5. Caroline Says I<br />6. I'm Waiting For The Man<br />7. Satellite Of Love<br />8. Walk On The Wild Side<br />9. Oh Jim<br />10. I'll Be Your Mirror<br />11. Pale Blue Eyes<br />12. Heroin<br /><br />13. White Light/White Heat<br />14. Vicious<br />15. Rock And Roll<br /><br />(encore)<br />16. Sister Ray<br /><br /><br />The opening night of the "Berlin" aka the "Rock and Roll Animal" tour, <br />as captured by an excellent audience recording (certainly for its time). <br />To boot, this particular transfer comes straight from the master tape, <br />making this a huge upgrade compared to the version available on discs 1 & 2 <br />of the "Rock and Roll Mammal" bootleg (all the same, kudos to "mg196" for <br />having seeded that one in the first place and so, indirectly, spurring <br />this release). You all should thank "tradetheory" for this, who generously<br /> sent me CD-R copies of the discs which he received directly from the taper!<br /><br />After ripping the tracks from the CD-Rs (EAC log-files included), a handful <br />of clicks were removed using SoundForge's pen tool (most notably one at the <br />end of "Satellite Of Love" and another in "Sister Ray"). I've also <br />smoothened the transition between "Caroline Says I" and "I'm Waiting For <br />The Man". Otherwise no processing of any kind was necessary. I did change <br />the track splits slightly.<br /><br />Two final notes, as reported by "tradetheory": "the reason that the sound <br />quality changes in the middle of Sister Ray is that everyone in the crowd <br />was standing up at that point, so the taper got up off the ground, stood up, <br />and held his little $25 Radio Shack tape recorder above the crowd's heads. <br />And that is a dog's stifled bark in the middle of Satellite of Love--a seeing <br />eye dog belonging to a blind girl at the show."<br /><br /><br />The fade-out at the end of "Pale Blue Eyes" was already there on the copy <br />that I received; in addition, you'll find that the last track of disc 1 and<br /> the first one on disc 2 can be joined perfectly (i.e., no fade-out or -in).<br /> Still, I have kept "Heroin" at the end of disc 1, just as it was on the CD-Rs <br />that I've gotten from "tradetheory", because I feel that the song makes more <br />sense coming after the acoustic intermezzo (you know, trying to preserve the <br />flow of the concert). So, there are several possibilities for burning this <br />recording on CD:<br />- you can keep the order in which the tracks are here being seeded;<br />- you can move "Heroin" to the start of disc 2 without having to perform any <br />additional sound editing;<br />- you could even burn the main set on a single disc and put the encore of <br />"Sister Ray" on a separate one.<br /><br />Anyway, prepare yourself to blown away (or, at least, make sure to put a <br />soft cushion under your jaw, as it is bound to drop when you hear this!).<br /><br />Enjoy!Dr. Forresterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06274253625619443854noreply@blogger.com