Bryan Ferry - 2014-04-15 - Los Angeles, CA (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Bryan Ferry 
Club Nokia 
Los Angeles, CA 
April 15, 2014 
JEMS Master 

Lineage: 
Church Audio CA-11 mics > Church Audio 9100 pre-amp > Edirol R-09HR 24/96 capture > iZotope RX3 edit > Peak 6.1 with Ozone 5 mastering > covert to 16/44 > FLAC 

01 Re-Make/Re-Model 
02 Kiss and Tell 
03 Slave to Love 
04 Ladytron 
05 Same Old Blues 
06 If There Is Something 
07 Oh Yeah 
08 Reason or Rhyme 
09 Stronger Through the Years 
10 Tara 
11 In Every Dream Home a Heartache 
12 Take a Chance With Me 
13 More Than This 
14 Avalon 
15 Love Is the Drug 
16 Virginia Plain 
17 Both Ends Burning 
18 Let's Stick Together 
19 Editions of You 
20 Jealous Guy 

Bonus Tracks from McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA, April 7, 2014 
21 Prairie Rose 
22 Running Wild 

JEMS has seen and recorded Ferry and Roxy Music going back to 1976, the most recent being a fine 2011 set at the Beacon in NYC that we posted shortly after the show. This night was one of those weird ones where the recorded performance is better than the in-person one. Something felt a little rushed as I watched it unfold, and as much as I appreciated the crack young band (especially drummer Cherisse Osei) and how willing Bryan was to give them the spotlight (he quite literally sat out of it, stage left, on keyboards for at least half the show), the show only resonated deeply in a few moments, notably "Same Old Blues," "If There Is Something," "Virginia Plain" and a song I've been waiting since 1983 to hear again in concert, "Take a Chance With Me." 

But the recorded document is quite forgiving. While "More Than This" is inexplicably less than a minute snippet, many of the performances are hard to argue with upon further review. Bryan's vocals aren't as upfront as one might like, but fifth row seats delivered a nice, up-close recording. Samples provided. 

There are, however, a few caveats. That bane of all tapers, Wolf Whistle Guy, was seated directly behind me, and he lets his piercing note loose multiple times across the set. I tamed some of them with isotope RX, but artifacts remain. He was also the kind of jackhole who feels the need to narrate the performance, at full volume, for those seated next to him. There wasn't much I could do about that. There are also two brief instances where this otherwise wide stereo recording is crushed to mono, to mask a conversation directly into the mic. 

While all that is annoying as fuck, it still doesn't detract from a fine snapshot of Bryan Ferry circa 2014. JEMS was also on hand for Bryan's Seattle date a week earlier, but a speeding ticket caused us to miss the first several songs of the show. I've pulled the two variants, "Prairie Rose" and "Running Wild," and added them as bonus tracks. 

BK for JEMS