Black Sabbath - 1980-11-27 - Sydney, AU (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

This is a best-sources mix compiled from the following sources:

Source 1: 1st generation FM version*
Source 2: Bringer of evil (Power Gate-100)**
Source 3: 4th generation SB version***

Three different sources are available from this wonderful show and all of them have their advantages and disadvantages.

The 1st generation FM version has the best sound, best frequency range and the least deterioration. However it stops somewhere during the first few minutes of "Die young" and also omits much of the drum solo. An artificial audience track was added to it in post-production, probably by the radio station.

"Bringer of evil" is more complete and sounds quite good, but not as good as the FM version. However, this version has a strange edit, which was probably made to fit the show onto one disc. It misses some of the intro "Supertzar", has the "Die young intro", but leaves out the whole guitar solo and the count in to what I called "Die young (reprise)", apparently to make listeners believe that "Die young" was played like that on the evening. After "Die young" some of Dio's words are missing as well as a few seconds at the beginning of "Paranoid", again to hide the fact that the song is incomplete.

The 4th generation SB version is the most complete version, but has the weakest sound of the three available sources. While it is more complete than the other two sources it lacks the beginning of "Heaven and hell" available on the FM recording.

My goal was to compile the show as completely as possible, not only the music but also the banter between songs, and to make it sound as good as possible. As it were, this was not a very straightforward process, but meant making a lot of compromises. I used the FM version for the most part, adding from the other sources. I didn't want transitions between the different sources to be so very obvious, so I tried switching sources in places where the transition wouldn't stand out so much. I couldn't remove the artificial audience track, so I sometimes used it to hide transitions.

Pitch and volume had to be corrected to integrate the different sources. The stereo image was generally broadened and EQ was changed with the general aim to make transitions between the different sources less obvious and to make the instruments sound more natural, which of course is a matter of taste. The recording was also retracked. Different solutions are obviously possible, so feel free to offer what you think is a better version of this show. This is by no means attempting to be the definitive version. To my knowledge this recording has not been released officially.

Tony Iommi - guitar
Geezer Butler - bass
Ronnie James Dio - vocals
Vinny Appice - drums
Geoff Nicholls - keyboards

CD1 (45:20)
01 Supertzar***
02 War pigs*
03 Neon knights*
04 N.I.B.*
05 Children Of the sea*
06 Sweet leaf*
07 Drum solo**
08 Sweet leaf (reprise)*
09 Black Sabbath*

CD2 (46:48)
01 Heaven and hell*
02 Iron man*
03 Die young (intro)*/**
04 Guitar solo***
05 Die young (reprise)***/**
06 Paranoid**

This has been compiled and remastered by my friend Yeoman in June 2013. Please direct all your credits to him! (Anyway, if anybody among you generally hates remasters and/or hates them to be shared here, please beat me up rather than Yeoman.) Further credit goes, of course, to Markum7 for sharing his 1st gen tape copy of the FM source, to Finkployd49 for sharing his complete 4th gen copy of the SBD source, and to whoever first shared the "Bringer of Evil" bootleg release of the SBD recording. Parts of all 3 versions are included in this remaster.