16 May 1972
Radio Luxembourg (208 metres Medium Wave - The Station of the
****Stars****) (Complete)
Lineage: SBD>FM reel>[?]>DAT>CDR>Sound Forge>CDR
2 CDs (80 + 74)
Disc 1 (Set 1)
Intro (Kid Jensen!)
Bertha
Me & My Uncle
Mr Charlie
Sugaree
Black Throated Wind
Chinatown Shuffle
China Cat Sunflower >
I Know You Rider
BIODTL
It Hurts Me Too
Tennessee Jed
Playing in the Band
Promised Land
Disc 2 (Set 2):
Intro (Kid Jensen again)
Truckin' >
Drums >
The Other One
Sing Me Back Home
Sugar Magnolia >
Not Fade Away >
GDTRFB >
NFA reprise
E: OMSN
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REMASTERING
Radio Luxembourg
The 1st set of this has long been in circulation from a CD bootleg 'Dead
DeLuxe' - good but mono and a bit trebly. Set 2 in stereo got around on
cassette too. Chris Jones sent me a copy of the complete concert in stereo
CDR
- mille fois merci, Chris. Sounds much better but runs nearly a semitone too
fast - about 4% - which makes some parts, especially Weir in Truckin' > TOO,
begin to sound like the Grateful Chipmunks. I've slowed the whole gig to play
at concert pitch. Also some 5 seconds of really rude diginoise towards the
end
of the OMSN guitar solo has been repaired from cassette, a few other anomalies
sorted, and Weir's advice to the radio audience on what to do between sets has
been patched in from Dead Deluxe. Indeed Weir does another great front man
job, eventually delivering THE news on the hour: "Everything's gonna be just
fine". The sound is great notwithstanding some hiss, more noticeable in Set
2 (esp SMBH). But I concluded that trying to denoise would cut the warm
brightness of the Europe 72 instrumental tone - and that would be a sin. Good
gig, good sound, recommended.
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