Black Sabbath - 1983-08-23 - Reading, UK (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Black Sabbath live Reading Rock Festival, 27-August-83

Transfer direct from FM master tape (original broadcast recording made 9/?4 onto Sony BHF 90 cassette tape)>Ion Tape 2 PC>Audacity 1.3>Wav (16 bit)>FLAC (SBE corrected, Trader's Little Helper) 

01 - Hot Line

02 - War Pigs

03 - Black Sabbath

04 - Zero The Hero

05 - Digital Bitch

06 - Iron Man

07 - Smoke on the Water

08 - Paranoid

Time: 49.16

I really like the short-lived version of Sabbath with Gillan- and this is a storming set- Gillan being in particularly fine voice. Perhaps it was an odd choice of pairings, but I'm still kind of glad it happened. This transfer came out very well indeed- minimal hiss, and a good, clear sound.