Yes 1994/06/19 "Endless Dream" Canandaigua, NY (Mr. Sifter Remix & Remaster)

 

Yes
June 19, 1994
Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center
Canandaigua, NY

Remixed & Remastered by Mr. Sifter, Dec. 2023

Source: "Complete Endless Dream" boot > Remix Pro 5 > Logic Pro > Isotope Ozone > FLAC

This was an already (surprisingly) good sounding recording, just tried to give a bit more depth and instrument definition to the show, as it's probably the best sounding thing we'll ever get from the Talk tour as long as Steve Howe is still alive. 

Original release notes: 

This is a new weed for the 6/19/1994 Canandaguia, NY Talk show, distributed as SHN. Most of the show origniates from the famous "Endless Dream" silver CD boot, and those parts have been left un-altered (though they have been put back in the original order). It sounded great already, with only a little bit of static from the Concertsonics recordings.

However, it was incomplete. The first seven minutes or so of this show were missing from the "Endless Dream" boot, and also some of the intros to some of the other songs were cut as well. I don't know if they were left off for time considerations, or perhaps static in the original recording, or whatever. 

However, thanks to a fellow Yesswapper, David D, I've been able to find an alternate concertsonics recording of this show, and have patched all the missing pieces. The alternate recording patches needed to be speed and piched adjusted to match the rest of the show. The left and right channels were also evened out. 

Lineage, most of show: Silver CD > EAC (secure) > SHN
patches : 2nd gen concertsonics > CD > EAC (secure) > Goldwave > Wavelab 4.0 >SHN

1. Perpetual Change
2. The Calling
3. I Am Waiting
4. Rhythm Of Love
5. Hearts
6. Real Love
7. Changes
8. Heart Of The Sunrise
9. Cinema
10. City Of Love
11. Owner Of A Lonely Heart
12. And You And I
13. Where Will You Be
14. I've Seen All Good People
15. Walls
16. Endless Dream
17. Roundabout

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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

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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."

Blog Exclusive: The Allman Brothers Band - 6/28/1992 Roy Wilkins Auditorium, St. Paul, MN (Mr. Sifter Remaster)

 

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The Allman Brothers Band
June 28, 1992
Roy Wilkins Auditorium
St. Paul, MN 

Remixed & remastered by Mr. Sifter, Feb. 2024

Remaster notes:

As the original description says, this was an almost mono, very flat sounding SBD. Split into stems via DeMix Pro I was able to achieve a decent stereo image and bring out Woody's bass, which seemed almost nonexistent in the original tape. The bass extraction is sometimes inconsistent, but it's better than it was before at least. Unfortunately the keys were a bit buried and there wasn't much that could be done about that, but Dickey, Warren, and Gregg's vocals are nice and clear now. Added a slight bit of verb to make it feel more in line with a proper live album, and fades between "Black Hearted Woman" and "Seven Turns" to make that transition slightly less jarring due to the cuts in the source tape.

1. Don't Want You No More
2. It's Not My Cross To Bear
3. Statesboro Blues
4. Don't Keep Me Wonderin'
5. Blue Sky
6. Nobody Knows
7. Black Hearted Woman (cut)
8. Seven Turns
9. Midnight Rider
10. Southbound
11. Melissa
12. Pony Boy
13. Warren solo
14. Hootchie Coochie Man
15. Get On With Your Life
16. True Gravity
17. Revival
18. Whipping Post
    
    

greg allman - keyboards, guitar, vocals
dickey betts - guitars, vocals
butch trucks - drums, tympani
jaimoe - drums
marc quiones - percussion
warren haynes - guitars, vocals
allan woody - bass 

Original notes: 

Lineage: DSB > DAT 48 kHz  > my DAT clone
Transfer : Donnie Loeffler , Jan 2024 NO POST PROCESSING !!!!
DAT > s/pdif > Mac > Audacity > 44.1 kHz > FLAC 

I received this in a  trade from “jerry” way back in the mid 90s on DAT.  According to the notes on the tape it is listed “DSB” for digital soundboard; it sounds like that to me, no real cassette hiss or analog “saturation”. ABB soundboards are really just monitor boards, they are stereo but with a narrow field and they sound rather “flat” in comparison to other artists soundboards i.e. Grateful Dead.  I saw the ABB in Louisville 1992 2nd row and never could find a tape, so this is the closest date I could find and a soundboard.  There are some egregious cuts , “black hearted woman” is cut on the end which BLOWS since they have a nice triplet “other one” type jam at the end of that tune; why there is a cut there? Did someone flip a cassette down the line?  Yes, there is a small drop out in “blue sky” that I seamed and the beginning of “seven turns” is cut , there could be a acoustic tune missing in front, they didn’t open with “seven turns” very much or at all according to set lists?  However, it’s a good listen and clean otherwise; it’s difficult to hear a bad performance by this line up … EVER.  It’s my favorite line up besides the original line up .  1992 was the BEST year for the line up as well … find a copy of the commercial 1992 LIVE releases, or even better , buy them or download them to support ABB family , all of them are good: Live set 1 and 2, and latter released “play all night: March 10/11, 1992 Beacon Theatre … this source has been previously circulated but this is a “new transfer” … 

Kiss 1986/03/27 Asylum Tour: Eric Civic Center, Erie, PA (Mr. Sifter Remaster)

 

KISS
1986-03-27
Erie, PA


A rare SBD from the Asylum tour, albeit one absolutely destroyed by a constant buzzing on the source tape that the FOH engineer took all the way until Gene's bass solo to fix. I did the best I could to remove it as much as possible using Ozone DeNoise, it's still embedded in the music but much less obtrusive. Added some light EQ/mastering touches but otherwise left the recording as-is.


01. Detroit Rock City
02. Fits Like A Glove
03. Creatures Of The Night
04. Cold Gin
05. Bruce Kulick Solo
06. Uh! All Night
07. Eric Carr Solo
08. War Machine
09. Love Gun
10. I Still Love You
11. Gene Simmons Solo
12. I Love It Loud
13. Heaven's On Fire
14. Rock And Roll All Nite
15. Tears Are Falling
16. Lick It Up

KISS: Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Eric Carr, Bruce Kulick

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Elton John 1995/08/30 Riverport Amphitheater, Maryland Heights, MO (Mr. Sifter Remix & Remaster)

 

Elton John

Wednesday August 30, 1995

Riverport Amphitheater

Maryland Heights, MO

Remastered by Mr. Sifter, Jan. 2024.

Remaster notes: 

Split and remixed using DeMix Pro and Logic Pro. Mastered with Ozone 11. Remixed to achieve a better balance and also achieve some minor stereo separation with keys & guitars. Drums and bass EQ'd to have better presence, and added a slight bit of reverb to the final mix to make it feel more like a live album and less like a straight SBD feed. There are some brief dropouts in the original source, they are noted by the original seeder at the bottom.

Like my previous entry from 1989, this fills a gap in the official Elton live catalog, with nothing official from the Made In England tour as yet appearing. Unfortunately only 4 songs from that album appear, but they're great, and a couple other rarities like "Dixy Lily" and "Come Down In Time" round out the setlist nicely. 

1995 band: 

Elton John – piano and vocals

Davey Johnstone – electric and acoustic guitars, banjo, mandolin, backing vocals

Guy Babylon – keyboards, backing vocals

Bob Birch – bass guitar, backing vocals

Ray Cooper – percussion, spoken vocal on percussion solo

John Jorgenson – electric and acoustic guitars, saxophone, backing vocals

Charlie Morgan – drums

Original source notes:

Source: Mono SBD > XLR > DBX 160XT (leveling) > Sony TCD-D8 > DDS 90M (16/48)

Transfer: Sony TCD-D100 > Custom S/PDIF Cable > M-Audio Microtrack II > Kingston CF/16GB-S2

Lineage: Wavelab 6 (EQ, +2db) > r8brain PRO > CD Wave Editor (FLAC6) > Live Show Tagger

Credit: 

Marshall Stacy - recording and DAT loan!

Kobi (liveween.com) - gear loan

James E / BlingFree - transfer, edit, track and FLAC

Set:

01 I'm Still Standing

02 I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

03 I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That

04 Sacrifice

05 Dixie Lilly

06 Honky Cat

07 Come Down In Time

08 House

09 Simple Life

10 The One

11 Piano Solo

12 Take Me To The Pilot

13 Made In England

14 Someone Saved My Life Tonight

15 Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

16 Bennie & The Jets

17 Levon

18 Rocket Man

19 Band Intros

20 Can You Feel The Love Tonight

21 Believe

22 Pain

23 Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)

24 Drum Solo

25 Pinball Wizard

Encore:

26 Bitch Is Back

27 Your Song

28 Funeral For A Friend

29 Last Song

Notes:

Light static throughout recording

Dixie Lilly - Static at end of song

Honkey Cat - 4 Drop-outs

Someone Saved My Life Tonight - 1 Drop-out

Last Song - Heavy static in middle

Funeral For A Friend - 1 Drop-out

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