domenica 17 settembre 2023

Eric Clapton - 1988-09-17 - East Troy, WI (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Alpine Valley Music Theater

Lineage:
Sony hand-held mic/Sony D-5 => cassette => Stand-alone Pioneer CD burner => EAC => Magix Audio Cleaning Lab => WAV => FLAC Front-end (level 8)

Disc one (73:56):

01) Crossroads (7:41)
02) White Room (6:21)
03) I Shot The Sheriff (8:15)
04) Lay Down Sally (5:30)
05) Wonderful Tonight (7:05)
06) Tearing Us Apart (6:29)
07) After Midnight (6:09) ^
08) Same Old Blues (14:50)
09) Badge (6:31) =>
10) Let It Rain (5:01)


Disc two (32:36): 
01) Band Introductions => Cocaine (8:03)
02) A Remark You Made (1:46)
03) Layla (7:56)
04) Money For Nothing (6:13) *^
05) Sunshine Of Your Love (8:36)

* Mark Knopfler - vocals
^ start slightly cut (tape flip)

Comments:
Pretty good audience recording from 17th row left-hand side from Eric Clapton's brief "Crossroads" North American tour in 1988. This is best-known for featuring Mark Knopfler on rhythm guitar (as well as, of course, vocals on one song during the encore). Setlist-wise, nothing terribly adventurous except that I believe this show contained the last (or at least, one of the last) performances of the "Badge"/"Let It Rain" medley which he'd done every night through the '85-'87 tours.

The recording is fairly well-balanced -- I remember it being REALLY loud -- although unfortunately the vocals are low in the mix (probably a function of being really far to the left -- the vocals must have been concentrated toward the center sections). There are some talkers around us. There are a couple of very small cuts due to tape flips and 30 seconds of "Lay Down Sally" are a little muffled (an usher came in wanting to see our ticket stubs, so my friend ducked the mike down for a moment). Otherwise, it's a good recording that has more "talkers" than I'd like but who are not overly distracting. I'd give it a 7-8 (on a 10-scale) for the era.

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