| IQ - ...and this is it! (CRAPIQ01) |
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| Recorded at the Fulham Greyhound, Fulham, London, UK. Very good audience recording. From the info file: IQ Fulham Greyhound, Fulham, London 29th June 1983 '....and this is it!' - CRAPIQ01 Audience Recording CD - 52'47' 1. It All Stops Here - 7'39' 2. The Last Human Gateway (part one) - 12'38' 3. Just Changing Hands - 5'42' 4. Fascination - 6'15' 5. Intelligence Quotient - 6'44' 6. The Enemy Smacks - 13'47' Line up Peter Nicholls - Vocals Mike Holmes - Guitar Tim Esua - Bass Martin Orford - Keys, BVs Paul Cook - Drums Comments This is a direct transfer from 21 year old master recording on a good old TDK AD90. No noise reduction was used (not present on this recorder) so, given the quality of the tape, tape hiss is audible, but not overly so. The transfer was from tape deck (Aiwa AD-F800) to Audio CD recorder, then EAC to WAV to FLAC. The recording is stereo, using a stand mounted mic - this can be heard being moved about between tracks. This is a very good relatively early audience recording which, although short, I'd rate highly (A-/B+). There i however a short edit in 'Enemy' due to a tape filp at about 9min in. :-( IQ were the support band this night (I can't recall the headliners but they were a non-descript pub band). IQ got a very persistent call for an encore (I'd stopped recording by then) and came back and tried to persuade the pub to let them do another but it was refused. It is of note that practically everyone left the pub when the headliners came on!! This was my first experience of Gateway - still in it's embryonic form and ending after the 'I wouldn't let you down again' section. A classic in the making! Captain Ransid - Sep 04 |