Blondie - 1978-11-04 - Boston, MA (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Blondie - Paradise Ballroom, Boston, 1978-11-04

Blondie - Slow Motion LP
Phoenix Records 44782
Australia 1979

LINEAGE: Vinyl LP > Technics SL-DL5/Shure V15HR-P > Zoom R16 > WAV > Audacity > TLH > FLAC

01 - Theme From 'A Summer Place' (0:42)
02 - In The Sun (2:44)
03 - X Offender (3:00)
04 - Hanging On The Telephone (2:07)
05 - 11:59 (3:47)
06 - Pretty Baby (4:13)
07 - (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear (2:24)
08 - Sunday Girl (2:56)
09 - Denis (3:03)
10 - Fade Away And Radiate (5:09)
11 - Fan Mail (2:44)
12 - Picture This (2:42)
13 - One Way Or Another (3:58)
14 - Kung Fu Girls (2:30)
15 - Heart Of Glass (4:21)
** - Bang A Gong (Get It On) (5:26)

TT: 46:20 (without Bang A Gong)

The only signal processing applied to this recording was manual click removal. I think I got all the big ones, and a mess of the smaller ones, over several weeks. When I found myself repairing flaws I could see but not hear, it was time to stop. Some clicks, pops, and other vinyl artifacts will remain. Slight hiss is evident from the source tape and/or the PA system and amplifiers, but the fidelity, recording, editing, and performance are all very good without any "for the time period" caveats. The source is stereo, evidently a reasonably well balanced soundboard mix. Debbie and the boys are tight, with a little more dirt under the fingernails than on the studio albums.

This offering represents Sides 1 & 2 of a double LP bootleg, also released as a single LP bootleg called Headlines (Lunar Toones/Australian Light & Magic). Sides 3 & 4 have also been released as a bootleg called Little Doll (Barbie Records), but that material is either King Biscuit Flower Hour or officially released material.

It didn't really need a split between the first two tracks, but since the artwork listed them separately, I went with it. (The vinyl had no "bands" between tracks at all, a not uncommon situation with vinyl bootlegs.)