| Camel - The Forum, Bath, UK (boombox) (24-96) |
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| Recorded at the Forum, Bath, UK. Great audience recording. From the info file: CAMEL The Bath Forum Bath, UK 7th July 2015 +++++++++++++++++NB THIS IS THE 24BIT FILESET, NOT SUITABLE FOR CD BURNING -+++++++++++++++++ +++16BIT VERSION AVALIABLE HERE: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=533641 +++ Lineage: Church Audio CA-14 cardioids > CA-9200 > Edirol R-09HR (@24/96) > Cool Edit Pro 2 > CDWave > TLH Recorded second row in line with (suspended) house right stack Recording & transfer by boombox 01. Never Let Go 02. Lost And Found 03. The White Rider 04. Song Within A Song 05. Unevensong 06. Spirit Of The Water 07. Air Born 08. Lunar Sea 09. Another Night 10. Drafted 11. Ice 12. Echoes 13. Mother Road 14. Hopeless Anger 15. Whispers In The Rain 16. Encore Break 17. Lady Fantasy 18. Band Introduction 19. Long Goodbyes CAMEL are: Andy Latimer - guitar, flute, recorder, vocals Colin Bass - bass, vocals Denis Clement - drums, recorder Ton Scherpenzeel - keyboards Jason Hart - keyboards, acoustic guitar, backing vocals boombox's notes july 2015: These annual mini Camel tours are quickly becoming one of my highlights of every year since 2013. Unsurprisingly, these shows all pretty much sold out, but I got my ticket as soon as they were announced, so bagged the end of the second row in front of a stack, thinking it a great position to get nice and close to Andy et al, and hopefully where I could get a good recording and some photos and video. Unfortunately, the Forum staff were not the friendliest, pouncing on anyone they saw with a camera. This was a pity as they really did put on a full multi-media show, with excellent lights and some fine 70s-style projections, which would have been lovely to share. As for the setlist, it was a complete change from the previous two outings, with no Snow Goose at all (though St Alban's the previous night got some in a second encore). A much rockier set (Andy told me afterwards that they were trying to do a setlist better suited to the various festivals they are playing this summer) and tough to pick favourites, but special mention has to go to 'Ice', which got a trully well-deserved standing ovation and a fine, bittersweet, 'Long Goodbyes', which featured projections of Chris Rainbow and Guy Le Blanc, who we lost earlier this year. I've included a small folder of the few half decent pics I managed to snap as a memento for those there who weren't so lucky! As for the recording, it's pretty good, I think, despite the PA being suspended quite high, so back in about row 10 might have been a better location. To compensate, I added a bit of a mid-range hump and took out some of the bass - when Denis hit the floor toms in the louder passages, it was causing my chest to vibrate quite uncomfortably - it's a miracle my mics coped with it. I had to reduce the level of some of the whoops, hollers and clapping of my very enthusiastic neighbour and used just a tiny bit of compression to tame some of the peaks. As always, my 24 bit masters are available for anyone wanting to do a remaster/matrix project: just make sure it's shared here for all to benefit, please. Enjoy! |