Saturday, December 4, 2010

Asia - 2008-04-10 - Collingswood

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All Four Original Members of Asia
Scottish Rite Auditorium
Collingswood, NJ (fifteen minutes from Philadelphia, PA)
April 10, 2008

Source: DPA 4061 > CA ST-9100 > Edirol R-09 (line in, 24/44.1)
Lineage: Wav file > Sound Studio > xACT > FLAC (level 8)
Taping location: Mezzanine left, row N
Taped & transferred by: TT

Asia returns to the States to promote their new album, Phoenix. John Wetton looked and sounded great... by all accounts a successful recovery from his open heart surgery last August. They played two tracks off the new album, Never Again and An Extraordinary Life, both well received by the audience.

Note: My levels ran a little hot and there is some distortion during really loud parts, for example the climaxes to Open Your Eyes and Fanfare, and some parts of Sole Survivor. Frankly as a taper, this is highly irritating to me, but fortunately it is limited to only a few isolated notes here and there. 98% of the recording is not affected. The two new songs are fine. I mention this in the interest of full disclosure.

Asia lineup:

John Wetton: Bass, vocals
Steve Howe: Guitar, vocals
Geoff Downes: Keyboards, vocals
Carl Palmer: Drums


SET 1 / DISC 1: 67:55

01 Intro
02 Daylight
03 Only Time Will Tell
04 Wildest Dreams
05 Never Again
06 Roundabout
07 Time Again
08 Geoff Downes keyboard solo (bolero from Cutting It Fine)
09 Steve Howe acoustic piece
10 Clap
11 Voice Of America (acoustic)
12 The Smile Has Left Your Eyes (acoustic)
13 Ride Easy (acoustic)
14 Open Your Eyes


SET 2 / DISC 2: 63:00

01 Fanfare For The Common Man
02 Without You
03 An Extraordinary Life
04 In The Court Of The Crimson King
05 Video Killed The Radio Star
06 The Heat Goes On (with Carl Palmer drum solo)
07 Heat Of The Moment
08 Don't Cry (full electric, not acoustic)
09 Sole Survivor

Intended for free trade and distribution only, never for sale!

Enjoy!

Recorded and upped on Dime by Tapehead2, April 2008.

December 4, 2010 at 4:17 PM

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