Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe (ABWHYes) - 1990-03-07 - Yokohama, JP (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

ABWH
Bunka Taiikukan
Yokohama, Japan 
March 7, 1990
Soundboard recording

Lineage: Soundboard -> unknown gen cassette -> CDR -> FLAC
sndchaser version

There's another version of this show floating around with lineage "source/lineage: soundboard > unknown gen tape > unknown gen cdr > flac FLAC: 638 MB, 2cdr", upon spectral analysis it appears to be sourced from my conversion, trimmed down to fit on 2 discs, and noise reduction overapplied to make it sound and test as lossy. This is the original conversion, with no noise reduction applied. There is some tape hiss, but it sounds much clearer than the version circulating.

01 - Britten Intro
02 - Time And A Word - Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Teakbois
03 - The Clap
04 - Mood For A Day
05 - Wakeman Solo
06 - Long Distance Runaround
07 - Bruford Solo
08 - Birthright
09 - And You And I
10 - Themes
11 - Bruford-Levin Duet
12 - Close To The Edge
13 - Zoh-San
14 - The Meeting
15 - Brother Of Mine
16 - Heart Of The Sunrise
17 - Order Of The Universe
18 - Roundabout
19 - Starship Trooper

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - 1990-03-04 - Tokyo, JP (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe 
March 4, 1990 (1990-03-04) 
NHK Hall 
Shibuya, Tokyo 
Japan

Linage: 
Soundboard > ? > Trade Cassette (John H December 1994) 

Transfer: 
Sony TC-WC475 > Sony DTC-ZE700 > E-MU E-DSP Soundcard > 16/48 wav > Wavelab (tracking and tweaking) > you ! 

Jon Anderson - Vocals, percussion 
Steve Howe - Guitars 
Bill Bruford - Drums 
Rick Wakeman - Keyboards 
Tony Levin - Bass 
Milton McDonald - guitar 
Julian Colbeck - keyboards 

01) [00:32] Young Person's Guide To the Orchestra 
02) [07:37] Time and a Word / Owner of a Lonely Heart / Teakbois (Jon Anderson solo) 
03) [04:28] Clap 
04) [04:43] Mood For a Day 
05) [05:00] Rick Wakeman solo 
06) [05:44] Long Distance Runaraound (dropout at 2:36) 
07) [03:35] Bill Bruford solo 
08) [06:39] Birthright 
09) [09:22] And You And I 
10) [06:36] Themes 
11) [05:56] Bruford - Levin solo 
12) [19:50] Close To the Edge 
13) [01:42] Jon sings Japanese 
14) [04:39] The Meeting 
15) [10:40] Brother of Mine 
16) [10:27] Heart of the Sunrise 
17) [10:29] Order of the Universe 
18) [06:06] Roundabout 
19) [09:13] I've Seen All Good People 

Total 2:11:21

Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe - 1989-08-15 - Pittsburgh, PA (AUD/FLAC)

 
(Audience FLAC)

Venue - A.J. Palumbo Center, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA

Lineage
Built-in stereo condenser mics > Radio Shack cassette recorder (model unknown) >master tapes > TDK D90 normal bias tapes (2nd generation) >JVC TD-W505 stereo double cassette deck > 
Aiwa XC-RW700 CD/CD recorder >TDK Music CD-Rs 80 min. > Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (wav files onto HD here) > Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (track and edit wav files here) >Flac Frontend encode level 7 

Quality - 8.5-9.5/10 very good plus to excellent audience analog recording

CD1 [77:45]
01 Introduction (1.38)
02 Time And A Word (2.45)
03 Owner Of A Lonely Heart (2.00)
04 Teakbois (0.50)
05 Three-song Reprise (1.48)
06 The Clap (4.38)
07 Mood For A Day (4.15)
08 Rick Wakeman Solo (5.50)
09 Long Distance Runaround (4.34)
10 Bill Bruford Solo (2.20)
11 Birthright (7.09)
12 And You And I (9.56)
13 I've Seen All Good People (9.59)
14 Close To The Edge (19.56)

CD2 [67:07]
01 Sound (1.44)
02 Second Attention (2.55)
03 Soul Warrior (1.33)
04 Bruford-Levin Solo (4.04)
05 The Big Dream (2.53)
06 Nothing Can Come Between Us (3.13)
07 Long Lost Brother Of Mine (4.28)
08 The Meeting (5.33)
09 Heart Of The Sunrise (10.32)
10 Order Theme (2.46)
11 Rock Gives Courage (1.36)
12 It's So Hard To Grow (2.19)
13 The Universe (2.29)
14 Roundabout (8.27)
15 Starship Trooper (12.27)

I got this concert directly from the taper about 18 years ago. I was not there but was assured by the taper that this tape contains the whole performance. Since I wasn't at the show, I don't have any amusing or amazing stories to tell, so I'll give you a brief rundown of the recording, good points and bad.

First, the good points:
1) As mentioned above, this recording is complete.
2) There is virtually NO talking, shrieking, whistling or any other audience bullshit on this recording. The taper was surrounded by very polite, quiet, respectful audience members who were there for the music and not to hear themselves talk.
3) There is no distortion present. There are no speed problems or any other serious faults to prevent you from enjoying this show.
4) This is a very clear recording. The vocals & instruments come through very clearly and distinctly. I think that the taper was fairly close to the stage when making this recording.

Second, the bad (not very bad at all) points:
1) There is a little bit of hiss. Not bad, but you'll hear it from time to time.
2) This is probably the worst point about the recording: the right channel's strength is variable. The right channel is weak for 90% of And You And I and then comes back strongly. This occurs on other songs as well. I have no idea what was going on but I suspect that there was a short or a loose connection somewhere in the mic circuitry. The right channel never vanishes totally but it is weak in several songs. This is basically why I downgraded it to 8.5. When both channels are pumping, it's a 9 to 9.5 solidly. Fixing this problem is beyond my  capabilities. Perhaps some audio wizard out in Dime land can fix this for us all. If anyone is interested in doing so, you have my complete and utter permission to knock yourself(ves) out. I could've used a splitter to record the left channel only but didn't want to create a mono recording, so I left the problem alone. If you can help, please do!!! (How I wish that the taper would've used something like a Sony or Aiwa with an external stereo tie mic instead of a Radio Shack setup but what can you do ?????).

So there you have it. This is the raw recording that I've had lo these many years. I changed NOTHING about this recording except to track it and to remove overly-long stretches of applause and screaming between songs. No music is missing. This show fits on 2 80 min. CDs. CD 1 = Tracks 1 - 14. CD 2 = Tracks 15 - 29. The song titles become more understandable if you have a copy of the legit ABWH tape lying  around so you can follow along with that setlist. That's about all that I can think of to say, so let's wrap this up.

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - 1989-08-10 - Wantagh, NY (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundbooard FLAC)

ANDERSON BRUFORD WAKEMAN & HOWE

Jones Beach Amphitheatre

Wantagh, NY

August 10, 1989

Soundboard Recording

CD1

01. Time And A Word > Owner of a Lonely Heart > Teakbois

02. The Clap

03. Mood for a Day

04. Madrigal > Gone But Not Forgotten > Catherine Parr > Merlin The Magician

05. Long Distance Run Around

06. Bill Bruford Solo

07. Birthright

08. And You And I

09. I've Seen All Good People

10. Close to the Edge

CD2

01. Themes

02. Bruford-Levin Duet

03. Brother of Mine

04. The Meeting

05. Heart of the Sunrise

06. Order of the Universe

07. Roundabout

08. Starship Trooper

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - 1989-08-02 - Harrisburg, PA (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe & Levin

Harrisburg, PA

2 August 1989

CD1/Set1

01. Young Persons Guide To The Orchestra

02. Time And A Word / Owner Of A Lonely Heart / Teakbois

03. Clap

04. Mood For A Day

05. Wakeman Solo

06. Long Distance Runaround / Bruford Solo

07. Birthright

08. And You And I

09. I've Seen All Good People

CD2/Set2

01. Firebird Suite

02. Close To The Edge

03. Themes (nice Quad effects)

04. Levin / Bruford Duet

05. Brother Of Mine

06. The Meeting

07. Heart Of The Sunrise

08. Order Of The Universe

CD3

01. Roundabout

02. Starship Trooper

This show was still early in the tour (the fourth show), and finds the band experimenting with setlist and sound effects. This may be the only show with the Firebird Suite, which drops right into the opening jam of Close To the Edge.

They were also experimenting with quadrophonic sound, with stacks of speakers on the lawn handling those effects like at old-style "azimuth coordinator" Floyd shows.

We moved to the lawn for the second set to better capture the quad effects, and found a nice spot near one of the speaker stacks. During Themes especially you can hear the sound moving in and out of the lawn speakers.

Taped by Kevin Hall & Carl Morstadt

Sony WM-D6C Professional Walkman recorder

2 Beyer M-700 microphones

Maxell metal cassettes

Mastered and FLAC'ed by Carl Morstadt (dantalion8@yahoo.com)

Master Cassettes -> Aiwa AD-WX808 cassette deck -> M-Audio Firewire Audiophile 2496 -> CDWAV 24-bit/96-KHz wav files -> Goldwave (normalizing and crossfades) -> CD Wave (track breaks)

dBpowerAMP Audio Converter (24-bit/96-KHz wav files converted to 16-bit/44.1 KHz wav files) ->

FLAC Front End (FLAC 8 with sector boundary alignment)