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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The Jayhawks 1995/02/12 People's Bar & Grill, Ames, IA (Mr. Sifter Remix & Remaster)

 

The Jayhawks

People's Bar & Grill,

Ames, Iowa

2/12/1995

Source: sbd> DAT

Transfer: DAT> Tascam DA20mkII> M-Audio Transit

Remixed & remastered by Mr. Sifter, Jan. 2024 using Demix Pro, Logic Pro & Ozone 11. 

The original source for this show can be found/downloaded here: 

https://archive.org/details/tj1995-02-12

Remastering notes: 

This was a nice, clean mono soundboard from the early TTGG tour. Opened up the soundstage a bit with electrics on the left and Karen's piano on the right while adding some light mastering touches to beef things up without ruining the dynamics. 

PLEASE READ: The first half of "Tomorrow The Green Grass" was marred by either SBD feed problems or PA problems, where the only thing cleanly recorded for most of the track was the vocals. As such, I patched together an instrumental track flying in the rest of the band from the third verse into the first couple minutes of the song, it's not perfect but it's better than what was there, particularly since it's a relative live rarity. The rest of the show was captured well, with this version hopefully containing a better blend of instrumentation and vocals. 

 1. Tomorrow the Green Grass

 2. Clouds

 3. Settled Down Like Rain

 4. Two Hearts

 5. Wichita

 6. Nothing Left To Borrow

 7. Martin's Song

 8. Ten Little Kids

 9. I'd Run Away

10. Sister Cry

11. Blue

12. Real Light

13. Waiting for the Sun

14. Six Pack on the Dashboard

15. Bad Time

16. Miss William's Guitar

17. enc. Sioux City

18. Reason to Believe

19. Lights on the City

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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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Van Halen - "Civic Disobedience" 1976-05-29 Pasadena, CA (Mr. Sifter Remaster)

 

Van Halen
5/29/1976
Pasadena, CA
Conference Building
Pasadena Convention Center

Original source: "Civic Disobedience" Bootleg

Remixed & remastered by Mr. Sifter, Jan. 2024 using Demix Pro, Logic Pro & Izotope Ozone 11.

A great pre-Warner Bros. Van Halen show, full of early versions of several classics (Dave is still trying to decide what the lyrics of "Runnin' With the Devil" are going to be), a few songs that would soon be replaced by newer compositions, and a couple of choice covers. Of course, this one wasn't going to win any audiophile awards, but I corrected the hard panning of the original tape to hopefully more accurately represent the live sound in the room, and just tried to clean things up a bit. Turn it up and enjoy.  

1. On Fire 3:40
2. Somebody Get Me A Doctor 4:40
3. Babe Don't Leave Me Alone 3:54
4. I'm The One (Show Your Love) 4:53
5. Runnin' With The Devil 3:56
6. Let Me Swim 6:34
7. Let's Get Rockin' 3:01
8. Eyes Of The Night 4:46
9. In A Simple Rhyme 5:11
10. La Grange 5:54
11. Honolulu Baby 2:43
12. Eruption 2:50
13. House Of Pain 3:20
14. Fools 5:20

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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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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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