Monday, January 10, 2011

GG - 1980-05-13 - Cleveland, OH

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Dr. Forrester said...

Gentle Giant
Derek Shulman- vocals
Gary Green- guitar
Kerry Minear- keyboards
Ray Shulman- bass
John T. Weathers- drums
Agora, Cleveland, Ohio U.S.A.
May 13, 1980
runtime: 73:45
setlist:
1: convenience
2: all through the night
3: free hand
4: memories
5: the advent of panurge
6: giant for a day >
7: inside out
8: it's not imagination
9: underground > drums
10: band introductions
11: encore 1: for nobody
12: encore 2: number one
source: master audience tape
Performance quality: B
Recording quality: B/B- (some tape noise, or maybe stage noise.
There were some sound problems at this concert.)
lineage: unknown deck and mikes >
(nothing great but not too bad either)
Maxell XLI cassette master >
(I think Dolby B was on, but I don't know for sure because this
master tape was given to me in a trade.)
soundforge 4.5 > FLAC > torrent.
That, my friends, is what I call a 3 step torrent from me to you.
comments:
The levels in part of it were a bit low, but that's all fixed now. It's
all evened out as it should be, but there is a little bit of background
noise (could be tape hiss, probably P.A. noise, the sound at this show
did not seem to be as good as usual for a GG show. Could just be that
the acoustics in the Agora are lousy or taper didn't have a real good
seat at the concert.) It's not overbearing by any means. Just doesn't
have quite the usual master recording fidelity but I suspect due to
cheesiness of the mike or deck or the use of Dolby which sometimes helps,
more often ruins, a good recording. Thanks much to Russ in Ohio
for the recording. He did a good job not shuffling around and getting
the recording we have here. Now that it's been remastered for CD I'll
be listening to it more often too. I hope he can hear it now.

January 10, 2011 at 3:41 AM

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