Christine McVie - Country Club, Reseda, CA December 16, 1983 Complete & remastered

 

Christine McVie
Country Club
Reseda, CA
December 16, 1983


Vocals, Keyboards – Christine McVie
Bass – George Hawkins
Drums – Steve Ferrone, Mick Fleetwood on "World Turning"
Guitar – Billy Burnette, Todd Sharp


Compiled & remastered by Mr. Sifter. 


Source 1: Westwood One PC84-52 (on disc) for airing the week of 12/17 1984
Source 2: Westwood One P84-19 for broadcast week of 4/30/84
Source 3: DADDY 515 MASTER TAPE > SONY RCD W500 > EAC > FLAC 8 > TLH > YOU.

12 of the 14 tracks come from Sources 1 & 2, the original pre-FM LP's, unfortunately there is no circulating pre-FM of the complete show even though LP's exist (Westwood One In Concert IC-19), so two tracks "I'm The One" and "World Turning" were sourced from an FM capture of the broadcast. As of October 2025, this is the most complete version of this show from the best lossless sources available. 


Setlist:

Love Will Show Us How
Keeping Secrets
The Challenge
Who's Dreaming This Dream
I'm The One
So Excited
Don't Stop
Got A Hold On Me
One In A Million
You Make Lovin' Fun
World Turning
Songbird
Say You Love Me

Over My Head

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Phil Collins - Live at Perkins Palace 1982 Complete (Mr. Sifter reconstruction & remaster)

 

Phil Collins
December 19, 1982
Perkins Palace
Pasadena, CA

A Mr. Sifter pre-FM reconstruction/remaster.

This was compiled from several sources: The majority from a King Biscuit CD used for a 1993 broadcast, with another stray track coming from another KBFH CD in 1998. Three or four tracks were only ever pressed on vinyl, those are taken from original KBFH LP's. Two further tracks ("Thunder and Lightning" and "If Leaving Me Is Easy") were never broadcast, and had to be sourced from Wolfgang's Vault. I used Izotope Spectral Recovery to attempt to minimize a bit of the lossy mp3 source, but in my search there is no truly lossless source for those two tracks. 

Some of the banter and band introduction bits were taken from Philadelphia a week earlier, I have not attempted to rectify any discrepancies there, this is just about getting all the music played on that night in one place, in the best possible sound. 

Please enjoy, play loudly, and don't distribute in lossy formats.

Phil Collins: vocals, drums, keyboards
Mo Foster: bass
Chester Thompson: drums
Daryl Stuermer: guitar
Peter Robinson: keyboards
Don Myrick: saxophone
Michael Harris: trumpet
Louis Satterfield: trombone
Rahmlee Michael Davis: trumpet

Setlist: 

I Don't Care Anymore
Thunder and Lightning
I Cannot Believe It's True
This Must Be Love
Thru These Walls
I Missed Again
Behind the Lines
You Know What I Mean
The Roof Is Leaking
Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away
The West Side
If Leaving Me Is Easy
In the Air Tonight
Band introductions
Like China
You Can't Hurry Love
It Don't Matter to Me
Hand in Hand

Encore:
...And So to F...
People Get Ready

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Bob Dylan 6/30/1988 Jones Beach, Wantagh, New York (Mr. Sifter Remaster)

Bob Dylan
Jones Beach Theatre
Wantagh, New York
June 30, 1988  

 

Source:  Soundboard recording > "CDR > EAC > WAV > FLAC."
LB-06795, xref-00957

Remastered by Mr. Sifter, December 2024

Remaster notes:

Speed corrected, the bootleg circulating ran about a half-step too fast. Bass and drums were overly dominant, often drowning out Bob and GE's guitars, reduced the drums around -3db and boosted the guitars slightly using RX11 Music Rebalance. Cut some of the low rumble below 50hz to reduce excessive bass without removing Kenny's presence. Vocals still nice and clear in the mix. Turn up loud and enjoy. 

01. Subterranean Homesick Blues
02. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
03. You're A Big Girl Now
04. Tangled Up In Blue
05. Masters Of War
06. I Shall Be Released
07. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
08. Lakes Of Pontchartrain
09. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
10. Eileen Aroon
11. Boots Of Spanish Leather
12. Silvio
13. Gates Of Eden
14. Like A Rolling Stone
15. The Times They Are A-Changin'
16. All Along The Watchtower
17. Maggie's Farm 

Total time = 89:47

Personnel:

Bob Dylan - vocals, harmonica, & guitar
G. E. Smith - guitar
Kenny Aaronson - bass
Christopher Parker - drums

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Bonnie Raitt - March 5, 1988 (late show), Rockefeller's, Houston, TX (Mr. Sifter Remaster)

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Bonnie Raitt

March 5, 1988 (late show)

Rockefeller's

Houston, TX

Bonnie Raitt - acoustic, electric guitars and vocal 

Johnny Lee Schell - bass, guitar, and vocal   

Source: DSBD > ? > FLAC 

Remastered by Mr. Sifter, October 2024. 

Remaster notes: a nice but very dry SBD, added some slight room reverb via Izotope Aurora & mastered using Waves Abbey Road Mastering, hopefully feels a bit closer to a proper live album. Nice, low-key show just before her big comeback started to kick into gear. 

01 Love Me Like a Man

02 I Ain't Blue

03 That Song About the Midway

04 Hold What You've Got

05 You Got to Know How

06 Up the Country Blues

07 Louise

08 El Salvador

09 Women be Wise

10 Big Road Blues

11 Mississippi Road

12 River of Tears

13 Medley: 

 > Write Me a Few of Your Lines

 > Kokomo

 > Walkin' Blues

 > Special Rider Blues

14 Willya Won'tcha

-- Encores:

15 Angel from Montgomery

16 Born in the Country

17 Sweet and Shiny Eyes

18 Man Size Job

Simon & Garfunkel - Vancouver, BC August 22, 1983 "Listen To The Silence" (Mr. Sifter Remaster)

Simon & Garfunkel
BC Place Stadium
Vancouver, British Columbia
August 22, 1983

lineage: from silvers "Listen to the Silence">EAC>FLAC > remaster

Remastered by Mr. Sifter, August 2024.

Remastering notes:

Removed a 60hz hum present throughout most of the recording, as well as reduced some (not all) of the hiss from clearly a cassette source. Did some modest polishing to the sound, added very slight reverb to make it feel a bit more like a live album (BC Place can hold 60,000 for concerts), but without detracting from the detail in the soundboard. Removed the annoying close clapper between songs. Removed the break between discs for a seamless transition. Retracked the show to split medleys.

A good show towards the end of the reunion tour, with a few notable arrangement differences from the Central Park gig, several different band members, a couple S&G songs not performed in 1981, and three 'Hearts and Bones' songs.

Band:

Dave Weckl - Drums
Richard Tee - Piano, Vocals
Rob Sabino - Keyboards
Sid McGinnis - Guitars
Arlen Roth - Guitars
Airto Moreira - Percussion
Anthony Jackson - Bass
Bob Livingood - trumpet
John Eckert - trumpet
Mark Rivera - saxophone
Gerry Niewood - saxophone

Cecilia
Mrs. Robinson
America
My Little Town
Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
Scarborough Fair
Cars are Cars
I Only Have Eyes for You
Homeward Bound
Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover
Late in the Evening
The Late Great Johnny Ace
El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
Think Too Much
Still Crazy After All These Years
Kodachrome
Bridge Over Troubled Water
The Boxer
Slip Slidin' Away
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
Old Friends
Wake Up Little Suzie
One Summer Night
Late in the Evening (reprise)
The Sounds of Silence

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The Allman Brothers Band - Bell Auditorium, Augusta, GA November 18, 1981 (Mr. Sifter remaster)

 

Allman Brothers Band
Bell Auditorium
Augusta, GA
11/18/1981

Source: analog SBD recording > ? > CD-R > EAC > FLAC

Remastered and speed corrected by Mr. Sifter, July 2024. Some songs have incomplete intros/outros, and "Southbound" has a cut in the middle. Not anyone's favorite era but an overlooked era, with full 5 songs off 'Brothers Of The Road,' an album they'd never return to again after the tour ended a couple months later. 
 
Thx to Sean Gleason for his original 2012 upload. 


1. Jessica
2. Can't Take It With You
3. Straight From The Heart
4. Blue Sky
5. Leavin'
6. Crazy Love
7. Things You Used To Do
8. Midnight Rider
9. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
10. Need Your Love So Bad
11. Melissa 
12. Never Knew How Much (I Needed You) 
13. One Way Out
14. Southbound
15. The Judgement
16. Encore: Statesboro Blues
17. Whipping Post

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Talking Heads - True Creatures Demos 1984 (Mr. Sifter remaster, speed corrected by Prof. Goody)

 

Talking Heads
True Creatures Demos

Remastered by Mr. Sifter
Speed/Pitch-adjustments by Prof Goody
March/May 2024

1984 Demos recorded at David Byrne's NYC Apartment

cd/EAC/FLAC >

Goody's additional lineage: Audition (Pitch Bender, various amounts) > TLH (FLAC Level 8; Align sector boundaries; .ffp) > foobar2000 (tags)

Setlist:

1. Wild Wild Life 4:14
2. Puzzlin' Evidence 4:27
3. Love For Sale 5:09
4. The Lady Don't Mind 4:30
5. Hey Now 2:52
6. Road To Nowhere 3:55
7. Instrumental (Hey) 5:08
8. Papa Legba 3:38
9. People Like Us 4:47
10. City Of Dreams 5:22
11. Radio Head 5:06
12. Give Me Back My Name 4:02

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Nick Lowe & His Noise To Go feat. Paul Carrack - Portland, OR October 23, 1982 (Mr. Sifter remix & remaster)

 

Nick Lowe & His Noise To Go 

feat. Paul Carrack

Euphoria, Portland, OR.

October 23rd 1982 

Nick Lowe: vocals bass

Paul Carrack: vocals keyboards

Martin Belmont: guitar

Bobby Irwin: drums

Remix notes:

The source had instruments and vocals panned almost entirely to one side, like an early Beatles stereo recording. Extracted tracks via DeMix Pro & mixed in Logic Pro. Not much bass on the master tape, unfortunately, but did the best I could do. 

Original notes:

Soundboard Analog Master

From The Krw_co Collection

Transferred and Presented By Krw_co

LINEAGE SOUNDBOARD ANALOG MASTER>NAKAMICHI DR-1 (W/MANUAL AZIMUTH ADJUSTMENT)>

CREATIVE SOUNDBLASTER X-FI HD MODEL #SB1240 WAV(24/96KHZ)>MAGIX AUDIO CLEANING LAB FOR

KRW TRACK MARKS VOLUME ADJUSTMENT AND EDITS>WAV(16/44.1KHZ)>TRADERS LITTLE HELPER FLAC (LEVEL 8)

SETLIST

1 A Little Unkind

2 I'm In Love

3 Don't Give My Heart A Break

4 Tempted

5 Stick It Where The Sun Don't Shine

6 My Heart Hurts

7 Mary Provost 

8 Always Better With You

9 From Now On

10 Burnin

11 Cruel To Be Kind

12 Switchboard Susan

13 I Need You

14 I Found Love

15 (I Love The Sound Of) Breaking Glass

16 Cracking Up

17 How Long

18 Lesson In Love

19 Heart Of The City

20 So Right, So Wrong

21 I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock And Roll)

22 (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding

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Living Colour 1989/04/22 The Ritz, New York (Mr. Sifter Remaster)

 

Living Colour
New Ritz
New York City
April 22, 1989

Remastered by Mr. Sifter, March 2024. Tape flips removed, minor hiss reduction via Izotope Spectral DeNoize, mastering via Ozone 11. 

Middle Man
Desperate People
Memories Can't Wait 
Funny Vibe
Broken Hearts
I Want to Know
Glamour Boys
Open Letter (to a Landlord)
Money Talks
Cult of Personality
Jam
Which Way to America?
The Ocean 
Sailin' On 
What's Your Favorite Color? 
Talkin' 'bout a Revolution 

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Aerosmith 1982/12/04 Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, IN (Mr. Sifter remaster)

Aerosmith
December 4, 1982
Market Square Arena, IN

Source: "Jimmy Rocks!" CD-R bootleg

Remastered by Mr. Sifter, February 2024.


This was a pretty rough tape, definitely a 2nd or 3rd gen copy of the original SBD, almost not worth working with but for the inclusion of the rarely played "Jig Is Up." Unfortunately to get any real detail out of this tape meant introducing some of the kind of prickly treble that is often unappetizing, so it's a bit of a lesser of two evils choice for this show. On the other hand, the SBD recording itself is very well recorded, a nice balance of both guitars, hopefully a lower gen tape will surface one day. 


01 Intro
02 Back In The Saddle
03 Big Ten Inch Record
04 Three Mile Smile
05 Reefer Head Woman
06 Rock In A Hard Place
07 Lord Of The Thighs
08 Lick And A Promise
09 Jig Is Up
10 Sweet Emotion
11 Dream On
12 Lightning Strikes
13 Walk This Way
14 Milk Cow Blues
15 Toys In The Attic
16 Train Kept A Rollin'

Steven Tyler - Vocals
Jimmy Crespo - Guitars
Rick Dufay - Guitars
Tom Hamilton - Bass
Joey Kramer - Drums

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Aerosmith 1988/09/15 Pacific Amphitheater, Costa Mesa, CA (Mr. Sifter remix & remaster)

Aerosmith

9/14/88 
Pacific Ampitheater, Costa Mesa, CA

Remastered by Mr. Sifter, Feb. 2024.


Source: "Come Together" soundboard bootleg https://www.discogs.com/master/722471-Aerosmith-Come-Together > Remastered via DeMix Pro & Isotope Ozone

Remaster notes:

A VERY clean (digital?) soundboard from 1988. Unfortunately along with that crispness came a frustrating lack of bass. "And Justice For All" had come out mere weeks before...coincidence? Isolated Tom's bass as much as possible via DeMix Pro, separated the vocal track to get a better balance, but left the rest alone. Boosted the overall low end in mastering to help boost Tom's presence and compensate for the thinness of the original sources as well, and attempted to minimize an annoying high frequency in the high hat a bit. 

The overproduced Permanent Vacation tracks like "Dude" and "Rag Doll" that have a lot of processed drums and tracks/keyboard samples don't fare as well, they're much more blatant in this mix than presumably were in the house that night, but overall this is still a solid document of their early MTV era. 



01. Rats In The Cellar                           06:36
02. Same Old Song And Dance                      05:45
03. Heart's Done Time                            04:14
04. Let The Music Do The Talking                 05:17
05. Permanent Vacation                           04:40
06. Lord Of The Thighs                           06:21
07. Rag Doll                                     04:48
08. My Fist Your Face                            04:28
09. Come Together                                04:57
10. Milk Cow Blues                               06:08
11. Draw The Line                                08:41
12. Dream On                                     06:52
13. Dude (Looks Like A Lady)                     04:52
14. Sweet Emotion                                07:25
15. Mama Kin                                     04:12 
                                              ________
                                              01:28:16

(Recording is missing "Hangman Jury", "Back In The Saddle," "Last Child," and "Lick And A Promise". If someone has a more complete version of this show, please share!)

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Rush - Power Windows Demos (Mr. Sifter Remaster)

Rush
Power Windows Demos

Remastered by Mr. Sifter, Feb. 2024

Middletown Dreams
The Big Money
Mystic Rhythms
Marathon
Emotion Detector
Grand Designs
Territories
Manhattan Project

So, who knows if the story below that came with the original distribution is true, but there's so little unreleased Rush studio material out there that this tape seemed worth the time to work on and see what could be done. The quality and sonics varied from track to track, and overall it (understandably) bears all the hallmarks of a 2nd or 3rd gen dub or poor quality cassettes/decks used in making this source tape. 

Don't expect miracles, but I have tried to draw a bit more detail and depth out of what was on the cassettes, as always it may or may not be to a listener's particular tastes. I reduced some of the tape noise, rebalanced the sound to bring Geddy's vocals out a bit more, and did some overall EQ. 

Source: (see below) > iZotope RX > iZotope spectral de-noise > mastering via Ozone

Google Drive Link

Original notes: 

RUSH

Power Windows Demo Tape
Original Version (No Noise Reduction)
UltimoGuitarist's cassette tape of the Power Windows Demos
Encoded with Tag&Rename

"Alright guys. I think i've stumbled across a rare gem that no one out there has or has heard.

Our drummer showed played me a cassette tape of Power Windows in its entirety before it was even taken to the recording studio. That's right, sort of like a pre power windows personal recording of Alex's.

Now, he says that he's probably the only one who has it, and here's why.

Apparently a friend of his was walking downtown in Toronto, and Alex Lifeson's son had this tape, and was shouting out, "listen to my dads new album power windows!!" etc. And this friend of my drummers was given the tape by lifesons son, and then gave it to our drummer since he knew he was a hardcore Rush fan.

So now our drummer has this tape, and he's certain that no one else has it, so I wanted to check in with you guys to see if anyone else out there has it, and whether or not its worth it to make it public.

For the record, he played the tape for me, and I listened to manhattan project, and he wasnt lying. Completely different arrangements and a nice home made sound to recording. It's like sitting in the house with them while they jam. Quite amazing.

So he's going to back it up to CD, and give me a copy, and i'll make it public for you all to hear if this is something that no one knows of. So let me know.

This isnt one of those lame threads of someone just making up BS for something to do. I wouldn't yank your chains. This thing is real, and im willing to share it with you guys if you wanna hear it. I'm gonna stay on him and make sure he puts it to CD for me."

Elton John - 1989/08/02 Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts, Mansfield, MA (Mr. Sifter Remaster)

Elton John
8/2/1989
Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts, Mansfield, MA
Sleeping With The Past Tour

Lineage: soundboard > ? > Maxell XLII cassette copy (probably 2nd or 3rd gen.) > played on tascam 112 with pitch adjustment into soundforge (wav) > flac (sb's aligned) 

Remixed & remastered by Mr. Sifter, Jan. 2024.

1. Bennie And The Jets
2. Island Girl
3. Harmony
4. Tiny Dancer
5. Sleeping With The Past
6. The Bitch Is Back/Brown Sugar
7. I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
8. Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters
9. Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters Part Two
10. Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
11. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
12. Daniel
13. Candle In The Wind
14. Sacrifice
15. Blue Eyes
16. Philadelphia Freedom
17. Burn Down The Mission
18. Healing Hands
19. Kiss The Bride
20. Stones Throw From Hurtin'
21. Sad Songs (Say So Much)
22. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
23. I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That
24. Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
25. I'm Still Standing
26. Rocket Man

Elton John: piano and lead vocals 

Davey Johnstone: guitar and vocals 

Fred Mandel: guitar, keyboards 

Guy Babylon: keyboards

Romeo Williams: bass 

Jonathan "Sugarfoot" Moffett: drums 

Mortonette Jenkins: backing vocals 

Marlena Jeter: backing vocals 

Natalie Jackson: backing vocals 

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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)

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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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Kiss - "Shit Fits At The Ritz" (Mr. Sifter Remaster) 8/12/88 The Ritz, New York, NY

Kiss

The Ritz, New York, NY, USA

1988-08-12

Source: "Shit Fits At The Ritz" bootleg

Remastered by Mr. Sifter, November 2023.

This was the better sounding of the multiple FM sources I had of this show, however it ran a half step slow (Kiss was in standard tuning for this tour). Speed corrected, a few ~15 second missing sections from this boot were patched with another source, awkward radio DJ banter and station ID's cut. Drums/bass processed to beef them up a bit, overall EQ tweaked. It's still an FM broadcast, with the reduced dynamic and frequency range that involves, but hopefully this is an improvement on the raw cassette capture. Great show, with Kiss returning to their NY club roots, but with 15 years of additional experience and material.

Deuce

Love Gun

Fits Like A Glove

Heaven's On Fire

Cold Gin

Black Diamond

Bang Bang You

No No No

Firehouse

Crazy Crazy Nights

Calling Dr. Love

War Machine

Reason To Live

Tears Are Falling

I Love It Loud

Strutter

Shout It Out Loud

Lick It Up

Rock And Roll All Nite

Detroit Rock City

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