(FM broadcast FLAC)
John Cale
Jarlateatern, Stockholm
3 November 1975
Excellent stereo FM recording.
Original torrent - FM->Philips C120 Cassette->Cool Edit Pro->Wav->Flac
Level adjustment due to high levels in above - Audacity > FLAC
Recorded live at Jarlateatern, Stockholm on November 3 1975
The complete show (12 songs) Broadcasted 5 November 1975.
Recorded on from FM radio (first generation).
01 Ghost Story
02 A Child's Christmas In Wales
03 I'm Waiting For The Man
04 You Know More Than I Know
05 Pablo Picasso
06 Fear
07 Helen Of Troy
08 Guts
09 Darling, I Need You
10 Heartbreak Hotel
11 Cable Hogue
12 Baby, What You Want Me To Do
Bonus tracks - same concert, different broadcast with slightly different mix (added reverb).
Original torrent - Lineage: FM (Swedish radio) => Analog master tape => SBLive => Cooledit => Wav => flac
Level adjustment due to high levels in above - Audacity > FLAC
13 A Child's Christmas In Wales
14 I'm Waiting For The Man
15 Pablo Picasso
16 Fear
The band:
John Cale : vocals
Chris Spedding : guitars
Pat Donaldson : bass
Timmi Donald : drums
Chris Thomas : keyboards
This is a very clear, stereo recording - high quality indeed. A Child's Christmas in Wales is a little lumpen but this does have some different lyrics after the instrumental interlude, which might have been in an oblique reference to his marriage ending. Possibly. I suspect this was John easing into performing with a band...some of it is stilted at first. On the other hand I'm Waiting for the man and Pablo Picasso work very well, despite the former having a shaky ending - the latter really rocks. As does Fear! Certainly from Pablo Picasso onwards the band are in a good and strong, tough even, groove. Guts for instance seems to have more spark than the album version, the latter petered out for me a little, John keeps the fury going here.
The show ends on a cover of Baby What you want me to do, which rocks and swings finely - not the first thing (or last, to be pedantic, as it's the final number) you'd expect from John, but it's really good anyway. The lead guitar, from Chris Spedding, almost brings to mind Canned Heat.
This was originally shared from two different FM sources - an original full broadcast, and a further short broadcast with a different mix. Darling I need you was from a third source, the details of which I have not kept - however to me it sounded the same as the first source (the lineages of the sources 1 and 2 appear directly above in this description).
The levels were decreased on this to give it a little headroom / room to breathe, as the peaks had been cut off in the original torrents - I do find it odd that that torrent sites will not tolerate lossy recordings, but at the same time cutting the peaks off and compressing them, like the "loudness wars" all over again, is rarely questionned.
