| IQ - Marquee, London, UK (master) (porcellinus) |
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| IQ London (UK), Marquee Club February 28th, 1988 LINE UP Mike Holmes - guitars Martin Orford - keyboards and sax Tim Esau - bass Paul Menel - vocals Paul Cook - drums LINEAGE Sony TCD5 (with unknown microphone) --> Aiwa Excelia XK-009 (azimuth manualy aligned) --> iMac (Adobe Audition) --> Dime TRACKS 01. The Wake 02. The Thousand Days 03. Nomzamo 04. Back Street Luv [Curved Air cover] 05. Medley: Wurensh (early version - announced as 'Rat Pfink a Boo Boo') > Outer Limits 06. Through My Fingers 07. Still Life 08. Passing Strangers 09. Drive On (early version - announced as 'If I'm worth having, I'm worth waiting for') 10. War Heroes 11. Common Ground 12. Human Nature 13. Headlong 14. No Love Lost 15. White Punks On Dope [The Tubes cover] 16. The Last Human Gateway (middle & end sections) THE CONCERT Can't remember why, but I happened to be in London at the same time IQ were playing the 'old' Marquee. Made a date to interview the band for Paperlate (the Italian fanzine) and arrived at the gig's doors quite early. I remember a nice easy chat with the guys in the club's hyper-tight dressing room, but at the same time the feeling of being overwhelmed by the sense of rock history that place held in my imagination! This was my first IQ concert and I have no clue wether Martin Orford used to do it every time or it was just an impromptu occasion, but I remember him wearing a silly elephant mask throughout the whole show: when he finally took it off before the last numbers, you can hear on tape Paul Menel's sarcastic comment that he is no different below the mask... Musically I'd say this was a very tight performance from the possibly 'least' prog period in their career. THE RECORDING No memories of which or whose equipment I did use! I thought it could be my then new Marantz PMD 430, but I always used dbx when taping with that, and the IQ master cassettes are clearly marked as 'no NR' on my handwritten labels. I guess it was a borrowed TCD5 or, at worst, a Sony Walkman Professional. The quality of the tape offers a very realistic Marquee atmosphere, adequate crowd noises and shouts bantering with the band, for what I would classify as a substantially very good++ recording. The only editing done (no eq or other effect applied) was one minor repair to a right channel dropout where for a couple of seconds the sound becomes mono through the left channel duplication. But you can probably judge by the samples wether you want to download this or not. (Pre-emptive contrast clause) I read on the IQ forums a recording of this night is available among collectors, but I have no idea where that comes from nor wether it has been shared here on Dime in the past. I had already stopped trading at the time, but copies of my masters were shared with the other Paperlate guys and I guess that from there on it might have spread quite a bit. This, though, is the first time ever my master tapes have been directly digitized and shared online. |