Supertramp - Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, USA
 
Album info
 
Recording Date  : 23-05-1979
     
Length  : 102:20
Format  : FLAC
Track List
 
Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, USA (Disc 1) 56:16
01 Oh Darling (cuts In, flaws) 04:06
02 Hide In Your Shell 07:32
03 From Now On 06:55
04 Child Of Vision 06:49
05 Even In The Quietest Moments 05:35
06 A Soapbox Opera 04:52
07 Asylum 06:57
08 Downstream 03:18
09 Give A Little Bit 04:09
10 Bloody Well Right 06:03
Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, USA (Disc 2) 46:04
01 Dreamer 03:31
02 Rudy 07:40
03 Take The Long Way Home 04:38
04 Another Man's Woman 08:46
05 Band Introductions 00:41
06 Fool's Overture 13:12
07 Two Of Us > Crime Of The Century 07:36

Notes
Recorded at the Music Hall, Boston, MA, USA. Very good audience recording.


From the info file:

Supertramp

Roger Hodgson: guitars, keyboards & vocals
Rick Davies: keyboards & vocals
John A. Helliwell: sax, woodwinds & vocals
Scott Page: guitars, percussion & sax
Fred Mandel: keyboards & guitars
Dougie Thomson: bass
Bob Siebenberg: drums

Music Hall
Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
May 23, 1979

1st gen. audience recording
(missing about the 1st 25 minutes of the show)
runtime: 102:20 (minutes/seconds)

setlist:

disc 1 56:15
1: oh darling (cuts in, flaws) 4:05
2: hide in your shell 7:32
3: from now on 6:54
4: child of vision 6:49
5: even in the quietest moments 5:35
6: a soapbox opera 4:51
7: asylum 6:57
8: downstream 3:18
9: give a little bit 4:08
10: bloody well right 6:02

disc 2 46:04
11: dreamer 3:31
12: Rudy 7:39
13: take the long way home 4:37
14: another man's woman 8:46
15: band introductions :40
16: fool's overture 13:11
17: two of us > crime of the century 7:36

thanks to tortwister for track 1, 3, 6 and 14 titles

lineage: unknown mikes > Sony 152 cassette deck >
Maxell UD master cassettes > Maxell XLII 1st. gen. copy >
played on Nak. 125 into soundforge with realtek soundcard (WAV) >
FLAC > torrentially yours. first seeded in 2009.
reseeded in 2010 with complete setlist, track and total runtimes, and
a flac > wav > flac (sb's aligned) reconversion to remove the sbe's.

Do not sell this recording.
Share freely, losslessly and gaplessly.

comments:
this would have probably been the primest of Supertramp breakfast auds
except for two issues:
1: the taper arrived late for breakfast. (and about 5 songs)
2: the record levels were too high in the master recording. so
there is some distortion, especially in the first several tracks. no idea
what mikes made this but it was mastered on a Sony 152 cassette deck
from a pretty good seat location. I've tried to compensate the best
I can for the levels being over-recorded, it helped a little bit but
an overmodulated master tape is always going to sound less than
optimum. I haven't contacted the source of this tape in over 20 years
and it has likely not been played since it was transferred to my 1st
gen. copy of it. It is listenable enough to share, even though it's
incomplete, missing about 25 min. this was a long show) and over-recorded
on the master, since there isn't much for breakfast in America (something
about that just doesn't sound right at all) and this was a very nice show.
the 1st half hour is the worst sounding part, none of it sounds very good
but it gets a little better toward the end of the show.
Boston may not be quite on the Supertramp priority ladder as powerhouse
Superhip cities like Milwaukee and Buffalo, they got on the bus a little
later but they needed a fleet because alot hopped on. this show was sold out.
Breakfast in America and the logical song are among the songs MIR
(missing in recording), only the 2 biggest hits this group ever had.
They had a bunch more. the BIA 79 album produced 5 huge hits helping
this to be the album of the year in 1979 America (U.S.), and one of the
most popular albums of the decade. for those who like the music, the concert
did not disappoint at all. they sound very good in this show.
If anyone has a better and/or more complete recording of this, or has the
missing parts and wants to post a complete matrix-source post of this show
that includes some of this one, they are welcome to. we all want the whole show
and this is all I have of it.