| Supertramp - Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY |
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| Recorded at the Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY, USA. Good audience recording. From the info file: Supertramp Roger Hodgson: guitar, keyboards & vocals Rick Davies- keyboards & vocals John A. Helliwell: sax, woodwinds & vocals Scott Page: guitar, percussion & sax Fred Mandel: keyboards & guitar Dougie Thomson: bass Bob Siebenberg: drums famous last words tour Buffalo, N.Y. U.S.A. August 11, 1983 Aiwa walkman cassette deck with built in mikes, auto-levelling > > Maxell XLII 90 min. master cassettes > my copy (same) > played on Nak. 125 into soundforge with realtek soundcard (WAV) > FLAC > torrentially yours. runtime: 111:15 setlist: disc 1 61:50 1: crazy 4:51 2: ain't nobody but me 5:20 3: breakfast in America 4:10 4: bloody well right 6:13 5: it's raining again 4:40 6: put on your old brown shoes 4:35 7: 2 band members are introduced (Page and Mandel) 1:08 8: hide in your shell 7:03 9: waiting so long 6:29 10: talk (Roger announces he's leaving the band after this tour) 1:40 11: give a little bit 4:13 12: asylum 7:08 13: the logical song 4:24 disc 2 49:25 14: goodbye stranger 6:15 15: dreamer 3:39 16: Rudy 7:27 17: don't leave me now 6:33 18: fool's overture 10:26 19: encore break 2:42 20: school 5:34 21: crime of the century 6:44 a this and that production. comments: this is not what I'd call a 'hi-fi' recording, but it is an inspired show for the folks in Buffalo. Hodge says that Milwaukee and Buffalo were the 1st 2 U.S. cities to get into Supertramp music, and they sound like they're very glad to be there. the crowd sounded like they were very glad they were there too. just before track 5 Roger says that they've been in very hot weather and were very glad to find it raining in Buffalo. It must have been very refreshing at the time, since a summer tour of the U.S. usually means alot of days well over 90 degrees. that's why in alot of U.S. (and some elsewhere) summershows a band can sound exhausted after less than halfway through their show, but not here. they left out a few songs in the show (like child of vision, unfortunately, and take the long way home which seemed very odd, since that was a big hit for them.). this recording is apparently the whole show, and other than it having a frequency range of (estimated) 500-5000 hz (that sucks bigtime) it's a decent recording, and anyone used to the cheapo level Aiwa walkman models will find this a pretty enjoyable recording. No distortion, or particularly obnoxious crowd noise or erratic level changes in it, and maybe best of all, the taper (thank you Paul from N.Y.) managed to get the whole show. It's not quite as good sound as the Norman, Okla. or Worcester 83 shows, but it sounds better than I remembered it when I got it in the mid-80's. my copy of these tapes have barely been played. It's a clean enough recording that some skillfully applied EQ could probably improve it significantly. (I didn't use any in this post) It's a very nice performance before a very appreciative crowd. there are a few disc break options if preferred (such as D2 starting w track 15) Who would have known (if not from Buffalo or Milwaukee) that this is where Supertramp first became a hit in the U.S.A.? probably more than know that their 1st album came out in 1970, and sounded very different than any that followed. Do not sell this recording. Share freely, losslessly and gaplessly. |