The Faces - 1972-09-02 - Seattle, WA (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Seattle Center Coliseum 
Seattle, Washington 
September 2, 1972 
JEMS Master 

RIP Ian McLagen 

Recording Gear: Sony ECM-22P mic > Tandberg Model 11 R2R deck, 

JEMS 2014 Transfer: Master Reels @ full track mono > Tandberg Model 11 > Wavelab 96/24 mono > iZotope RX and Ozone > MBIT+ convert to 16/44.1 > Peak Pro XT (edit / 2 track mono / index) > xACT 2.21 > FLAC 

01 It's All Over Now 
02 Miss Judy's Farm 
03 Memphis, Tennessee 
04 Maggie May 
05 Stay With Me 
06 Angel 
07 Too Bad 
08 I'd Rather Go Blind 
09 That's All You Need > True Blue 
10 Maybe I'm Amazed 
11 (I Know) I'm Losing You 
12 Twistin' The Night Away 

JEMS' master tape of The Faces has been in the queue for some time now, but with the sad sad news of Ian McLagen's passing today it seemed only right to push it to the top. 

This is one of Stan's earliest recordings using his new Tandberg reel to reel. For those of you unfamiliar with previous releases recorded on this deck, it recorded in full-track mono and required 10(!) D-cel batteries to move those 7-inch reels along at 7.5 IPS. That Stan managed to successfully get the deck in and record dozens of concerts on the Tandberg in the '70s is nothing short of remarkable. 

He also invested in a long microphone cord for his Sony ECM-22P to get it up and way from the audience, typically attaching it to the infrastructure of the arena seating itself in hopes of getting it up and away from close audience noise. 

This show has been circulated and torrented before but this marks the first time the master has been transferred on the original tape deck to extract every bit of its full-track mono glory. As a result, this is presented in true mono, hence the small file sizes. Samples provided. 

Stan seems to recall the show being cut short due to someone in the band taking ill, but the 60+ minutes that are there pretty joyful and McLagen comes through nicely in the mix.