ABWH - 1989-11-18 - Basel, CH (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Date : Saturday, November 18, 1989

City : Basel, Switzerland

Venue : St. Jakobs-Halle

Capacity : 9,000

Lineup :

Jon Anderson (Vocals)

Bill Bruford (Drums)

Steve Howe (Guitars)

Rick Wakeman (Keyboards)

Julian Colbeck (Keyboards)

Tony Levin (Bass)

Milton McDonald (Guitars)

CD1

01 Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra (42)

02 Time And A Word ~ Owner Of A Lonely Heart ~ Teakbois (7.16)

03 The Clap (4.15)

04 Mood For A Day (3.59)

05 Rick Wakeman Solo (5.13)

06 Long Distance Runaround (4.29)

07 Bill Bruford Solo (3.12)

08 Birthright (6.55)

09 And you And I (9.42)

10 I've Seen All Good People (9.28)

CD2

01 Close To The Edge (missing part @ 17.20) (19.03)

02 Themes (7.15)

03 Levin-Bruford Duet (5.18)

04 Brother Of Mine (10.05)

05 The Meeting (6.19)

06 Heart Of The Sunrise (10.35)

CD3

01 Order Of The Universe (9.13)

02 Roundabout (8.08)

03 Starship Trooper (12.52)

04 Sweet Dreams (2.45)

Audience: 155 min

Lineage

Maxell UR 90 normal bias low gen cassette tapes > JVC TD-W505 stereo double cassette deck > AIWA XC-RW700 CD/CD Recorder > SONY CD-R AUDIO 80 min. music CDs > Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (ripped CDs onto HD here) > Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (tracked, edited and adjusted volumes of wav files here) > Trader's Little Helper (wav to flac, encode level 8, aligned on sector boundaries)

Quality - 8.5-9.0/10 very good plus to excellent minus

audience analog recording, low gen

Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe - 1989-08-15 - Pittsburgh, PA (AUD/FLAC)

 
(Audience FLAC)

Venue - A.J. Palumbo Center, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA

Lineage
Built-in stereo condenser mics > Radio Shack cassette recorder (model unknown) >master tapes > TDK D90 normal bias tapes (2nd generation) >JVC TD-W505 stereo double cassette deck > 
Aiwa XC-RW700 CD/CD recorder >TDK Music CD-Rs 80 min. > Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (wav files onto HD here) > Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (track and edit wav files here) >Flac Frontend encode level 7 

Quality - 8.5-9.5/10 very good plus to excellent audience analog recording

CD1
01 Introduction (1.38)
02 Time And A Word (2.45)
03 Owner Of A Lonely Heart (2.00)
04 Teakbois (0.50)
05 Three-song Reprise (1.48)
06 The Clap (4.38)
07 Mood For A Day (4.15)
08 Rick Wakeman Solo (5.50)
09 Long Distance Runaround (4.34)
10 Bill Bruford Solo (2.20)
11 Birthright (7.09)
12 And You And I (9.56)
13 I've Seen All Good People (9.59)
14 Close To The Edge (19.56)
77:45

CD2
01 Sound (1.44)
02 Second Attention (2.55)
03 Soul Warrior (1.33)
04 Bruford-Levin Solo (4.04)
05 The Big Dream (2.53)
06 Nothing Can Come Between Us (3.13)
07 Long Lost Brother Of Mine (4.28)
08 The Meeting (5.33)
09 Heart Of The Sunrise (10.32)
10 Order Theme (2.46)
11 Rock Gives Courage (1.36)
12 It's So Hard To Grow (2.19)
13 The Universe (2.29)
14 Roundabout (8.27)
15 Starship Trooper (12.27)
67:07

I got this concert directly from the taper about 18 years ago. I was not there but was assured by the taper that this tape contains the whole performance. Since I wasn't at the show, I don't have any amusing or amazing stories to tell, so I'll give you a brief rundown of the recording, good points and bad.

First, the good points:
1) As mentioned above, this recording is complete.
2) There is virtually NO talking, shrieking, whistling or any other audience bullshit on this recording. The taper was surrounded by very polite, quiet, respectful audience members who were there for the music and not to hear themselves talk.
3) There is no distortion present. There are no speed problems or any other serious faults to prevent you from enjoying this show.
4) This is a very clear recording. The vocals & instruments come through very clearly and distinctly. I think that the taper was fairly close to the stage when making this recording.

Second, the bad (not very bad at all) points:
1) There is a little bit of hiss. Not bad, but you'll hear it from time to time.
2) This is probably the worst point about the recording: the right channel's strength is variable. The right channel is weak for 90% of And You And I and then comes back strongly. This occurs on other songs as well. I have no idea what was going on but I suspect that there was a short or a loose connection somewhere in the mic circuitry. The right channel never vanishes totally but it is weak in several songs. This is basically why I downgraded it to 8.5. When both channels are pumping, it's a 9 to 9.5 solidly. Fixing this problem is beyond my  capabilities. Perhaps some audio wizard out in Dime land can fix this for us all. If anyone is interested in doing so, you have my complete and utter permission to knock yourself(ves) out. I could've used a splitter to record the left channel only but didn't want to create a mono recording, so I left the problem alone. If you can help, please do!!! (How I wish that the taper would've used something like a Sony or Aiwa with an external stereo tie mic instead of a Radio Shack setup but what can you do ?????).

So there you have it. This is the raw recording that I've had lo these many years. I changed NOTHING about this recording except to track it and to remove overly-long stretches of applause and screaming between songs. No music is missing. This show fits on 2 80 min. CDs. CD 1 = Tracks 1 - 14. CD 2 = Tracks 15 - 29. The song titles become more understandable if you have a copy of the legit ABWH tape lying  around so you can follow along with that setlist. That's about all that I can think of to say, so let's wrap this up.

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - 1990-03-04 - Tokyo, JP (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe 
March 4, 1990 (1990-03-04) 
NHK Hall 
Shibuya, Tokyo 
Japan

Linage: 
Soundboard > ? > Trade Cassette (John H December 1994) 

Transfer: 
Sony TC-WC475 > Sony DTC-ZE700 > E-MU E-DSP Soundcard > 16/48 wav > Wavelab (tracking and tweaking) > you ! 

Jon Anderson - Vocals, percussion 
Steve Howe - Guitars 
Bill Bruford - Drums 
Rick Wakeman - Keyboards 
Tony Levin - Bass 
Milton McDonald - guitar 
Julian Colbeck - keyboards 

01) [00:32] Young Person's Guide To the Orchestra 
02) [07:37] Time and a Word / Owner of a Lonely Heart / Teakbois (Jon Anderson solo) 
03) [04:28] Clap 
04) [04:43] Mood For a Day 
05) [05:00] Rick Wakeman solo 
06) [05:44] Long Distance Runaraound (dropout at 2:36) 
07) [03:35] Bill Bruford solo 
08) [06:39] Birthright 
09) [09:22] And You And I 
10) [06:36] Themes 
11) [05:56] Bruford - Levin solo 
12) [19:50] Close To the Edge 
13) [01:42] Jon sings Japanese 
14) [04:39] The Meeting 
15) [10:40] Brother of Mine 
16) [10:27] Heart of the Sunrise 
17) [10:29] Order of the Universe 
18) [06:06] Roundabout 
19) [09:13] I've Seen All Good People 

Total 2:11:21