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| LDB Master Series #422 Welcome to my Master Series which started way back in November 2005. This series is only about masters, concerts I recorded myself either from audience or from radio/TV broadcasts. Occasionally I could also share masters that have been kindly given to me by many friends and fellow tapers I have been meeting during my long career of live taping. I have stopped seeding my masters after volume 400 about three years ago and since then I have shared just a few, mostly to address requests from friends. I have not stopped recording shows, though, so there is quite an impressive amount of files from my recordings that are yet uncirculated. I have taken the liberty to look at those uncirculated masters and selected ten which I thought were special for some reasons. Hope you will enjoy them! PORCUPINE TREE Paris, Olympia October 13, 2009 Remastered 10 Years Anniversary The Incident: 01.Occam's Razor 02.The Blind House 03.Great Expectations 04.Kneel and Disconnect 05.Drawing the Line 06.The Incident 07.Your Unpleasant Family 08.The Yellow Windows of the Evening Train 09.Time Flies 10.Degree Zero of Liberty 11.Octane Twisted 12.The Seance 13.Circle of Manias 14.I Drive the Hearse ------------- intermission ------------------------- 15.Start of Something Beautiful 16.Russia on Ice 17.The Pills I'm Taking (aka Anesthetize part 2) 18.Lazarus 19.Strip the Soul 20..3 21.Normal 22.Bonnie the Cat 23.Sound of Musak 24.Trains TT 124:07 Lineage: Aiwa CM-DS6 > Edirol R-09 > HD via USB > SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6) John Wesley - guitar, backing vocals Steve Wilson - vocals, guitar, keyboards Colin Edwin - bass Richard Barbieri - keyboards Gavin Harrison - drums I don't even remember if I shared this recording. Possibly not because of the PT ban that must have happened sometime around this time. Anyway, when I listened to this one I thought it could be improved a bit. Back ten years ago we did not have the right tools to do it but now you can do beautiful things and improve the sound. This one sounded a bit distant and muffy. Infact, I remember recording it from the right-hand side of the Olympia where you have the balcony above you and the music comes to you a bit awfully. That's why I don't like this venue that much. Also, tracking of The Incident album was completely wrong, but that was the time when you had to track the music manually on your MiniDisc on the run, while recording a show. So I have worked a bit on the sound and tracked the show correctly. I have added some minor reverb and added some dynamic. Applauses were lowered down a bit and the two channels perfectly balanced. Now it sounds good to my ears. That was going to be my last Porcupine Tree show. At that time I did not know the band would stop and that The Incident was going to be their last album. But for sure I felt that something was not going right onstage. Having seen that band so many times live since 1995, I could feel something. Steven did not seem completely happy about the new music. I did not like myself either so I left the venue with somehow bitter taste. The band was becoming too heavy and some of the numbers they played in Paris from the old catalogue (Russia On Ice, Lazarus, Trains) seemed completely out of place. The band was taking a direction I did not like. Anyway, here is the 10th anniversary remaster of Paris 2009. Overall a very enjoyable recording from metro_cubo and some nostalgia for those great years ldb |