Steve Howe - 1994-10-12 - New York City, NY (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Steven Howe

1994.10.12

The Bottom Line, N.Y.C.

(D-sbd)

The Recording:

Master - soundboard > portable DAT recorder

Clone - DAT master > 1st DAT clone

1st DAT clone > 2nd DAT clone

2nd DAT clone > HHB CDR recorder

The Performer:

Steve Howe acoustic, electric and pedal steel guitars, vocals, backing tracks on tape

01 intro music (Luck of the Draw)

02 Meadow Rag

03 Cactus Boogie

04 Dorothy

05 Sensitive Chaos

06 Misty

07 Bareback

08 Sweet Thunder

09 Glory of Love

10 Country Mix

11 Turn of the Century

12 Diary of a Man

13 Every Time You

14 Sketches in the Sun

15 Mood for a Day

16 Heritage Review

17 Beginnings

18 Corkscrew

19 All's a Chord

20 Classical Guess

21 (talk)

22 Vultures in the City

23 Running the Human Race

24 The Gates of Delirium

25 Soon

26 Ram

27 Masquerade

28 Second Initial

29 Valley of Rocks

30 Close to the Edge

31 Clap

32 Blinded By Science

33 Heat of the Moment

Steve Howe - 2000-10-10 - London, UK (SBD/SHN)

(Soundboard SHN)

Martlets Hall, Burgess Hill 

CD1
01 intro/Beginnigs 
02 Heritage 
03 All's a chord 
04 Corkscrew 
05 Surface tension 
06 Night trad 
07 Rhythm of the road 
08 Leaves of green 
09 Classical gas 
10 Denmark 
11 Mood for a day 

CD2
01 Sweet thunder 
02 Dorothy 
03 Ram 
04 Windy and warm 
05 Second initial 
06 Vivaldi's Four seasons 
07 Country mix 
08 Masquerade 
09 Cactus boogie 
10 From the balcony 
11 The valley of rocks 
12 Clap 
13 Running the human race 
15 Soon

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 - 1989-08-10 - Wantagh, NY (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundbooard FLAC)

ANDERSON BRUFORD WAKEMAN & HOWE

Jones Beach Amphitheatre

Wantagh, NY

August 10, 1989

Soundboard Recording

1.01. Time And A Word > Owner of a Lonely Heart > Teakbois

1.02. The Clap

1.03. Mood for a Day

1.04. Madrigal > Gone But Not Forgotten > Catherine Parr > Merlin The Magician

1.05. Long Distance Run Around

1.06. Bill Bruford Solo

1.07. Birthright

1.08. And You And I

1.09. I've Seen All Good People

1.10. Close to the Edge

2.01. Themes

2.02. Bruford-Levin Duet

2.03. Brother of Mine

2.04. The Meeting

2.05. Heart of the Sunrise

2.06. Order of the Universe

2.07. Roundabout

2.08. Starship Trooper

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - 1989-08-02 - Harrisburg, PA (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe & Levin

Harrisburg, PA

2 August 1989

CD1/Set1

1. Young Persons Guide To The Orchestra

2. Time And A Word / Owner Of A Lonely Heart / Teakbois

3. Clap

4. Mood For A Day

5. Wakeman Solo

6. Long Distance Runaround / Bruford Solo

7. Birthright

8. And You And I

9. I've Seen All Good People

CD2/Set2

1. Firebird Suite

2. Close To The Edge

3. Themes (nice Quad effects)

4. Levin / Bruford Duet

5. Brother Of Mine

6. The Meeting

7. Heart Of The Sunrise

8. Order Of The Universe

CD3

1. Roundabout

2. Starship Trooper

This show was still early in the tour (the fourth show), and finds the band experimenting with setlist and sound effects. This may be the only show with the Firebird Suite, which drops right into the opening jam of Close To the Edge.

They were also experimenting with quadrophonic sound, with stacks of speakers on the lawn handling those effects like at old-style "azimuth coordinator" Floyd shows.

We moved to the lawn for the second set to better capture the quad effects, and found a nice spot near one of the speaker stacks. During Themes especially you can hear the sound moving in and out of the lawn speakers.

Taped by Kevin Hall & Carl Morstadt

Sony WM-D6C Professional Walkman recorder

2 Beyer M-700 microphones

Maxell metal cassettes

Mastered and FLAC'ed by Carl Morstadt (dantalion8@yahoo.com)

Master Cassettes -> Aiwa AD-WX808 cassette deck -> M-Audio Firewire Audiophile 2496 -> CDWAV 24-bit/96-KHz wav files -> Goldwave (normalizing and crossfades) -> CD Wave (track breaks)

dBpowerAMP Audio Converter (24-bit/96-KHz wav files converted to 16-bit/44.1 KHz wav files) ->

FLAC Front End (FLAC 8 with sector boundary alignment)

Steve Howe Trio - 2007-05-19 - Morecambe, UK (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Steve Howe Trio - 2007-05-19 - Morecambe, UK

Audience recording

Artwork: yes

Steve Howe - Electric and acoustic guitars

Dylan Howe - Drums

Ross Stanley - Hammond Organ

CD1

01 Travelin' (Kenny Burrell/Jimmy Smith)

02 Dream River (Steve Howe)

03 Chitlins Con Carne (Kenny Burrell)

04 Mood for a Day (Steve Howe)

05 Blue Bash (Jimmy Smith)

06 Close to the Edge (Jon Anderson/Steve Howe)

CD2

01 Bareback

02 Medley:

- Freight Train

- Whispering

- Trambone (Kenny Burrel and John Coltrane - unknown - Chet Atkins)

03 Cactus Boogie (Steve Howe)

04 Sketches in the Sun (Steve Howe)

05 Intersection Blues (Steve Howe)

06 Kenny's Sound (Kenny Burrell)

07 Momenta (Steve Howe)

08 The Haunted Melody (Roland Kirk)

09 Sweet Thunder (Steve Howe)

10 Clap (Steve Howe)

11 Siberian Khatru (Jon Anderson/Steve Howe/Rick Wakeman)

My jaw dropped when I found this torrent, back in late 2007: Steve, then a sixty-year-old musician, had decided to adventure himself into completely different music.

Steve had defined his jazz trio, that year, as music breathing its first breaths. Listen to "Mood for a day", for example: it's the first time his solo piece from Fragile is played on electric guitar, and the song has everything changed, including the time signature. Steve completes: "it's surprising what you can do to a tune: bend it, twist it, shake it."

On Disc 2, tracks 1-5, Steve plays solo acoustic guitar.

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe (ABWHYes) - 1990-03-07 - Yokohama, JP (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

ABWH
Bunka Taiikukan
Yokohama, Japan 
March 7, 1990
Soundboard recording

Lineage: Soundboard -> unknown gen cassette -> CDR -> FLAC
sndchaser version

There's another version of this show floating around with lineage "source/lineage: soundboard > unknown gen tape > unknown gen cdr > flac FLAC: 638 MB, 2cdr", upon spectral analysis it appears to be sourced from my conversion, trimmed down to fit on 2 discs, and noise reduction overapplied to make it sound and test as lossy. This is the original conversion, with no noise reduction applied. There is some tape hiss, but it sounds much clearer than the version circulating.

01 - Britten Intro
02 - Time And A Word - Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Teakbois
03 - The Clap
04 - Mood For A Day
05 - Wakeman Solo
06 - Long Distance Runaround
07 - Bruford Solo
08 - Birthright
09 - And You And I
10 - Themes
11 - Bruford-Levin Duet
12 - Close To The Edge
13 - Zoh-San
14 - The Meeting
15 - Brother Of Mine
16 - Heart Of The Sunrise
17 - Order Of The Universe
18 - Roundabout
19 - Starship Trooper

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