** Please note that although the cover art files included are the same, the lineage (in comments) is quite different. Please compare carefully & download whichever makes you happy.
A complete recording of this show has been around for years, but this better-sounding alternate recording was discovered only in late 2003. It is a fuller-sounding recording than the more common one, but has two gaps - one in The Revealing Science of God (disk 1 track 5), and another in Ritual (disk 2 track 3). I patched both missing parts with the common recording, carefully adjusting pitch, EQ, and channel balance to make the different source unobtrusive. Sound Forge Acoustic Mirror was used to give a wider spatial effect than the pure mono source recording.
Yes plays with a full head of steam on this night. Anticipation grows during the Firebird Suite, and Siberian Khatru blasts forward almost uncontrollably. Judging from what Jon Anderson later says, the concert must have started late, and he asks people to stay and listen to the "new album."
This being the 30th anniversary of the Topographic Oceans tour by Yes, and with the convention going on this week in Boston, it seems a good time to bring out this recording. Besides, ask yourself which presidential candidate is more likely to have listened to Yes back in the day...
Yes: Jon Anderson Chris Squire Steve Howe Rick Wakeman Alan White
Tracks, CD 1: The Firebird Suite Siberian Khatru And You And I Close to the Edge Prelude to Topographic Oceans The Revealing Science of God
Tracks, CD 2: The Remembering: High the Memory The Ancient: Giants Under the Sun Ritual: Nous Sommes du Soleil Roundabout
Yes
ReplyDeleteThe Boston Tea-FTO Party
Boston Gardens
Boston, MA
26-Feb-1974
Source: newly discovered (2003) alternate recording
Transferred by: jb and mp
Mastered by: smt, January 2004
Art: smt
Lineage: audio tape > audio CD > SHN > Sound Forge > FLAC
A complete recording of this show has been around for years, but this better-sounding alternate recording was discovered only in late 2003. It is a fuller-sounding recording than the more common one, but has two gaps - one in The Revealing Science of God (disk 1 track 5), and another in Ritual (disk 2 track 3). I patched both missing parts with the common recording, carefully adjusting pitch, EQ, and channel balance to make the different source unobtrusive. Sound Forge Acoustic Mirror was used to give a wider spatial effect than the pure mono source recording.
Yes plays with a full head of steam on this night. Anticipation grows during the Firebird Suite, and Siberian Khatru blasts forward almost uncontrollably. Judging from what Jon Anderson later says, the concert must have started late, and he asks people to stay and listen to the "new album."
This being the 30th anniversary of the Topographic Oceans tour by Yes, and with the convention going on this week in Boston, it seems a good time to bring out this recording. Besides, ask yourself which presidential candidate is more likely to have listened to Yes back in the day...
Yes:
Jon Anderson
Chris Squire
Steve Howe
Rick Wakeman
Alan White
Tracks, CD 1:
The Firebird Suite
Siberian Khatru
And You And I
Close to the Edge
Prelude to Topographic Oceans
The Revealing Science of God
Tracks, CD 2:
The Remembering: High the Memory
The Ancient: Giants Under the Sun
Ritual: Nous Sommes du Soleil
Roundabout