Robert Plant w Phil Collins - 1983-09-06 - Worcester, MA (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

The Centrum 
Worcester, Mass. 
September 6, 1983 
1st gen audience tape 

lineage: 
Realistic twinhead stereo mike > Sony WMD-6 cassette deck (dolby off) > Maxell XLII 90 min. master cassettes > copy (same) > played on tascam 112 into soundforge (wav) > flac (sb's aligned)

Robert Plant: vocals 
Robbie Blunt: guitar 
Bob Mayo: guitar, keyboards, backing vocals 
Jezz Woodruffe: keyboards 
Paul Martinez: bass 
Phil Collins: drums 

CD1 64:27 
01: in the mood 8:31 
02: pledge pin 5:19 
03: messin' with the mekon 5:56 
04: worse than Detroit 6:56 
05: moonlight in Samosa 5:41 
06: fat lip 5:36 
07: through with the two step 10:38 
08: other arms 7:45 
09: horizontal departure > lively up yourself 8:03 

CD2 69:30 
10: reckless love 8:55 
11: band introductions 1:38 
12: slow dancer 9:25 
13: like I've never been gone 8:57 
14: big log 7:37 
15: burning down one side 6:10 
16: far post 4:58 (1st live performance) 
17: stranger here than over there 8:14 
18: interview with Rob Barnett on WAAF radio after Sept. 6, 1983 show 2:00 
19: interview with Carter Alan July 1985 11:36 

runtime: 133:58 (minutes/seconds) 

disc 2 can also be started with the band intros, if so, disc 1 is 73:22, and disc 2 is 60:35. 

notes: 
a great performance. (Robert mentions in 1985 interview, just a few days before worcester 1985 show, that this show was one of the highlights of his 1983 tour) band is hot, Phil Collins playing drums, it's the 1st Plant show in mass. since Led Zeppelin in 1973 (long story there, and ten years gone, so there was a Plant jones going on here like a shark feeding for the 1st time in 10 years) 
and the 1st ever live performance of "far post", so the crowd is super pumped fortunately the crowd is not too overwhelming in the recording, and the performance is very enthusiastic, as good as any zep show for Robert. his voice was in prime form and he was definitely in the mood for a melody for almost 2 hours in worcester. the last 4 songs (tracks 14-17) are encores. it has been said here in mass that nothing shades one's ears from the overbearing sunlight of a screaming crowd at a rock concert better than a purple moon. this was a very loud crowd, maybe the loudest ever at a centrum concert? but somehow the taper managed to get a clear relatively unobstructed recording, although there is some change in quality here and there as people pass in front 
of the stereo mike. even with all that going on, probably one of the best recordings of the 1983 plant tour to circulate, and there isn't a better show.