Yazoo 11/22/1982 Dominion Theatre, London, England (Mr. Sifter Remaster)

Yazoo

11/22/1982

Dominion Theatre

London, UK

Speed corrected & remastered by Mr. Sifter, Dec. 2023

Thanks to Oldtorrenttrader on TTD for uploading this. I'd heard several captures of this show and this was the clearest sounding one I'd heard, however it ran about a half-step slow and was missing "Chinese Detectives" and the first couple seconds of "In My Room." I speed corrected in Audacity, edited the missing track and beginning of "In My Room" back in from a different source, and applied some light EQ and noise removal using Izotope RX10. 

Original source notes:

Alison Moyet: Vocals

Vince Clarke: Synthesizers

Lineage/ Transfer: FM Broadcast>Cassettetape>Audacity>Wav>TLH Flac 8

01 Situation

02 Too Pieces

03 Goodbye 70's

04 Winter Kills

05 Bad Connection

06 Tuesday

07 Bring Your Love Down

08 Midnight

09 Chinese Detectives

10 In My Room

11 Don't Go

12 The Other Side Of Love

13 Ode To Boy

14 Only You

15 Situation (12" mix)

Google Drive Link

R.E.M. - Opera House, Lawrence, KS 11/16/1982 ("Listen Harder") Remix & Remaster

 R.E.M.
Opera House, Lawrence KS
November 16, 1982

lineage: "Listen Harder" silver CD bootleg

Remixed & remastered by Mr. Sifter, December 2023 using htdemucs v4, Logic Pro, and Izotope Ozone.

The original bootleg had guitars/bass and drums/vocals awkwardly hard panned left and right, respectively. Rebalanced the stereo image to address this, and tried to bring out the vocals a bit more. Given the amount of tape noise, the source tape was at least a generation or two removed from the master, so toned that down a bit as well, affecting the tonality of the music as little as possible. As always, the sound caters to my own personal preferences, but I hope some REM fans will enjoy this revamped, excellent early show, about seven weeks before they'd begin recording "Murmur."

(The original silver disc bootleg included bonus tracks from Toronto 1983, as that show circulates in its complete form, those are not included here)

01. Gardening At Night
02. 9-9
03. Moral Kiosk
04. Pilgrimage
05. Shaking Through
06. 7 Chinese Brothers
07. Wolves, Lower
08. Romance
09. Sitting Still
10. Pretty Persuasion
11. Catapult
12. 1,000,000
13. Radio Free Europe

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Allman Brothers Band - CNE Grandstand, Toronto 8/24/1990

 

Remastered by Mr. Sifter, Dec. 2023.

As the ABB estate continues to virtually ignore the 90's in their archival activities, figured it was worth spending some time on this one, from the short-lived initial reunion lineup that included Johnny Neel very prominently on piano. A full six songs from Seven Turns plus Dickeys "The Blues Ain't Nothin" which was only played in '89-90. 

The lineage of the source I had to work off was unknown, but it definitely sounds like at least a 2nd gen copy. The first cassette side (i.e. first 46 minutes) has notably clearer quality than the rest of the show, not counting the audience patch at the end of "Whipping Post" (thank you to whoever did this!), however the whole thing is still much more listenable now. It's not going to win any awards, and unfortunately the generations from the master and tools required to make it clearer and more comparable to a proper release equated to less dynamic range than I would like.  

 

Source: Soundboard

Notes:

  * 09:15-12:36 Aud patch

Set 1:

01. Jam > Don't Want You No More                 04:16

02. It's Not My Cross To Bear                    04:58

03. Statesboro Blues                             06:28

04. Blue Sky                                     06:37

05. Low Down Dirty Mean                          06:23

06. Seven Turns                                  06:08

07. Good Clean Fun                               05:10

08. Gambler's Roll                               06:40

09. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed >                14:46

10. band introductions                           00:54

11. One Way Out                                  10:39

12. True Gravity                                 26:22

Set 2:

01. Blues Ain't Nothin'                          06:37

02. Loaded Dice                                  03:27

03. Ramblin' Man                                 04:42

04. Southbound                                   07:23

05. Jessica                                      12:11

06. Whipping Post                                12:36 *

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Paul Weller 1992/11/05 Chestnut Cabaret, Philadelphia, PA (Mr. Sifter Remix & Remaster)

Paul Weller
11/5/1992
Chestnut Cabaret
Philadelphia, PA

original lineage:
DSBD > AIWA portable DAT recorder > DAT master > HHB CD recorder


Remixed & remastered by Mr. Sifter, Nov. 2023. 

Tracks split using htdemucs v4, mixed in Logic Pro and mastered using Izotope. There's a lot of official live Weller releases out there, but nothing from the tour supporting his first solo album. So a few tunes like "Arrival Time" and "Round and Round" that have never shown up on an official live document, and a few 80's tunes he wouldn't play again for many years. 

01 (When You) Call Me
02 Uh Huh Oh Yeh
03 Round and Round
04 Man in the Corner Shop
05 Bull-Rush/Magic Bus
06 Long Hot Summer
07 Arrival Time
08 Hercules
09 Everything Has a Price to Pay
10 Amongst Butterflies
11 Ends of the Earth
12 Love of the Loved
13 Ohio
14 Headstart for Happiness
15 All Year Round
16 Into Tomorrow
17 Bitterness Rising
18 I Didn’t Mean to Hurt You
19 Kosmos
20 What’s Going On
21 The Weaver

 Google Drive Link