Friday, December 3, 2010

Alice C - 1973-04-06 - Pittsburgh, PA

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Dr. Forrester said...

Alice Cooper
Civic Arena
Pittsburgh, PA USA
1973/04/06 (April 6, 1973)

Setlist -

Track 01 - Introduction
Track 02 - Hello Hooray
Track 03 - Billion Dollar Babies
Track 04 - Elected
Track 05 - I'm Eighteen
Track 06 - Raped And Freezin'
Track 07 - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Track 08 - My Stars
Track 09 - Unfinished Sweet
Track 10 - A Night On Bald Mountain one
Track 11 - Sick Things
Track 12 - Dead Babies
Track 13 - I Love The Dead
Track 14 - A Night On Bald Mountain two
Track 15 - School's Out
Track 16 - applause and MC
Track 17 - Under My Wheels
Track 18 - God Bless America (Kate Smith)

Lineage:

unknown mic > unknown tape recorder >
unknown master tape > SONY HF90 normal bias
cassette tape, 2nd gen > SONY TC-WE805S stereo
cassette deck > AIWA XC-RW700 CD/CD recorder
(tracked songs here) > SONY CD-R AUDIO 80 min. music CD-R >
Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (retracked and edited wav files here) >
Trader's Little Helper (final wav files to flac, encode
level 8, aligned on sector boundaries)

18 tracks, TT: 73:46 This is the COMPLETE concert.

Sound quality: 8-9/10, vg+ to ex- IMHO, as always.
2nd generation audience recording, I have been assured.
This sounds pretty good on a car stereo, but is best
listened to on headphones for the full sonic experience.

I received this show in a trade over 20 years ago from a
good tape trader friend. He was acquainted with the original
taper. I did NOT attend this show so this description will
not be my typical long-winded diatribe. For a tape that was
recorded in 1973 on somewhat primitive equipment, this show
sounds pretty damn good. I think that the taper was very close
to the stage because the audience is not really very audible for
the most part. You'll hear Alice bantering with teenage girls
in the audience between songs as well as yelling at the audience
from time to time but that's about it. Very little to no talking,
whistling, screaming, yelling, etc. No speed fluctuations and little
to no distortion. The tape is very bassy from time to time but not
a real problem IMHO. There seems to be no hiss. The tape at times
sounds a little muffled as if the taper were hiding the mic from
security, but again no big problem. Alice's vocals are almost always
clear and the instruments are usually pretty clear.

I did nothing to alter the sound ; this is the RAW tape as I got it.
The only things that I DID do were to track the songs and to edit out
several short dropouts where the recorder was inexplicably turned off
for just a few seconds. I then spliced the gaps together and you'll
barely be able to tell where these were fused. That's about the extent
of it, so let's wrap this up....

As always, if you have a better-sounding version of this concert,
by all means PLEASE UPLOAD IT!!! No buy, no sell, no mp3. Please
seed this as long as you can. This 2nd generation version has
NOT been circulated widely so JUMP ON IT !!! A very intense show
which really exhibits the excellence that was Alice Cooper in 1973.
I will post a sample for those of you still undecided, but I think
you'll find that this is a fine-sounding tape for the time period
and a welcome addition to any Alice Cooper fan's collection. Well,
thanks for reading this and Mr. Natural would like to add these few
comments: scream along with Alice, don't freak out and by all means,
enjoy the concert!!!

Nota bene: You have my blessing if you want to remaster this show but I
ask these two things: PLEASE know what the hell you're doing so you
don't make a fool of yourself and subject yourself to world-wide
ridicule and PLEASE post what you produce here on DIME for all to
share. Unless it sucks. Then delete it in shame while we all snicker.
That is all. Smoke 'em if you got 'em...

December 3, 2010 at 3:51 AM

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