Jon Anderson - 2012-07-07 - Agoura Hills, CA (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Canyon Club,

Lineage:
CA-14 (cardiods) > CA-9200 > GAKables mini starquad > Edirol R-09HR (@ 24bit/96kHz) > Audacity (fades, track splits, amplify, export as 16bit/44.1kHz) > TLH (flac level 8)

Taper:
klingklang

Location:
left of soundboard

01. Open (excerpt) >
02. Yours Is No Disgrace
03. Sweet Dreams
04. America
05. Time And A Word
06. One Love
07. Under Heaven's Door
08. Flight Of The Moorglade
09. I'll Find My Way Home
10. Open (excerpt) >
11. Starship Trooper
12. Give Love Each Day
13. Unbroken Spirit
14. Owner Of A Lonely Heart
15. piano medley: Set Sail > Close To The Edge > Heart Of The Sunrise > Marry Me Again > The Revealing Science Of God
16. And You And I
17. The Light Of Love
18. Long Distance Runaround
19. Tony And Me
20. Turn Of The Century
21. I've Seen All Good People
22. Roundabout

encore:
23. Open (excerpt) >
24. State Of Independence
25. Wonderous Stories
26. Soon

Notes by the taper:
This was my 13th solo Jon Anderson show. While he forgot the words to a couple of songs and his voice was raspy compared to the show I saw the previous week in Templeton, he still put on a superior performance. It was particularly nice to hear "Turn Of The Century" again and the sweet dedication to his daughter, Deborah, before "WS." The crowd was the most energized one I've seen at a Jon show in quite some time, but they also showed respect by being completely silent during certain songs. However, there was something wrong with the sound at the venue. A weird noise began with his piano medley and his voice and guitar have an odd crackle sound from that point on.

Unfortunately, this recording suffers from a whistler immediately to my left. He's not as deafening on the recording as he was at the show and he at least kept the majority of his pain-inducing shrills to between songs (the exceptions are in "YIND," in the piano medley and during "WS"). He also had the loudest clap and woop of anyone else around me. I also had a lot of people behind me who talked a few times. There were two women who only had the vaguest notion of the artist they were seeing as I overheard them loudly exclaim a sense of recognition to just a couple of songs. And at the other end of the Yes fan spectrum, there was a man who sang along during parts of the encore songs.

I stood along a horizontal footpath, so there is constant phasing and occasional noise from people walking by. It's rather minor up until the encore, but there are two moments that are louder than most: in "RSOG" when a man with dangly keys aggressively walked by (it almost sounds like my mics rubbing); during Jon's intro to "Soon" (this one sounds like a robotic belch). There is also a loud pop in "The Light Of Love" in the left channel that I was not able to remove. And being a supper club, there is the inevitable clinking of plates, glasses and silverware heard throughout. There's also a fan that is constantly heard in the background, as well as the sound of an exit door behind me as it slammed shut whenever a person left the venue.

I amplified this, but did nothing else to the recording. So be sure to turn this up, but please note that the applause and whistles between songs are considerably louder than the music. And if burning to cd, the suggested split is between "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" and the piano medley.