Steve Hackett - 1980-09-29 - New York, NY (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Steve Hackett

Bottom Line

New York City, NY

September 29 (30), 1980

Speed Corrected

pre-FM/FM (unknown lineage) > cassette > CDR > FLAC

Additional Lineage: FLAC > TAudioconverter (combine tracks) > Audacity > FLAC > TLH > FLAC (level 8)

Steve Hackett: Guitars, Vocals

John Hackett: Flutes, Guitar, Bass Pedals

Nick Magnus: Keyboards

John Shearer: Drums

Pete Hicks: Lead Vocals

Dik Cadbury: Bass, Vocals

01. Slogans

02. Every Day

03. The Red Flower Of Tai Chi Blooms Everywhere

04. Tigermoth

05. Time To Get Out

06. The Steppes

07. Blood On The Rooftops Excerpt / Horizons

08. Kim

09. Narnia

10. Jacuzzi

11. Sentimental Institution

12. Spectral Mornings

13. Clocks

14. Band Introduction

15. The Show

16. It's Now Or Never

17. Land Of A Thousand Autumns

18. Please Don't Touch

Date Question:

I have this dated as September 29, 1980 although I think there is some question about that. Steve Hackett definitely mentions that this show is in New York after Every Day. Steve Hackett played at least two shows on that date in New York. There is an audience recording for the early show. This does not match that. So, if this is from September 29, 1980 it must be from the late show.

However, there is also a recording of an off-air FM broadcast that circulates which is dated from September 29, 1980 - I am speaking specifically about the version shared by Lucifer Burns, edited by tonsofsobs and from the collection of S.N.(Chicago). That off-air FM recording doesn't match this one or the early show audience recording. Certainly, radio stations will sometimes cut out material for different broadcast but Steve Hackett says different things entirely on this recording as compared to the

off-air FM recording from the collection of S.N.(Chicago).

Steve Hackett also played at the Bottom Line in New York on September 30, 1980. That show was filmed professionally and there is also an audience recording from Lostbrook which matches it. This definitely doesn't match that show. Were there two shows on September 30, 1980 and if so, could this be from a different show than the video on that date?

Also, the audio quality of this is very clean. There is frequency content > 15 kHz and the waveform looks a lot more like a pre-FM source than an off-air FM recording what with its excellent dynamics. The audience noises are quite significant though so this is not likely to be straight from the soundboard. Could this actually be sourced from pre-FM reels from a radio station?

Speed Correction Notes:

The original audio ran fast for the most part. I say for the most part because the middle section of the show actually didn't need speed correction. I found this quite odd. A significant clue as to why can be seen in the audio's frequency spectrum. There are repeating high frequency harmonic peaks, which can be seen as the horizontal lines in the included spectrogram of the original audio before speed correction. Note how right around the 30 minute mark (after Track 6: The Steppes) the lines shift, and then shift again around the 45 minute mark (after Track 10: Jacuzzi). What that suggests to me is that this show's audio is pieced together from multiple reels/cassettes, and evidently the speed was a bit different on them/during the transfer.

The speed corrections I applied are:

Track 1-2: -2.7%

Track 3-6: -2.3%

Track 7-10: 0%

Track 11-12: -3%

13: -2.4%

Track 14-18: -1.9%

I made no other edits. I did the speed correction in Audacity on a combined single track created with TAudioconverter. TLH was used

to fix SBE and create a new checksum.

-ledwhofloyd, Sept 2021

;flac fingerprints generated by xACT 2.50 on 2021-12-25 14:46:23 +0000