Bob Marley - 1973-05-24 - London, UK (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Bob Marley & the Wailers

Paris Theater

London, UK

BBC concert

5/24/73

Performance quality: A

Recording quality: A

source: master FM broadcast tape

lineage:

Sansui 8 reciever > (in its day it was one of the best) unknown tape deck (dolby off) > TDK-AD cassettes > soundforge 4.5 (to WAV, played from Naka. BX-125 to hard drive) > FLAC 6

01: rastafarian chant

02: slave driver (catch a fire)

03: stop that train

04: no more trouble

05: 400 years

06: midnight ravers

07: stir it up

08: concrete jungle

09: get up, stand up

10: kinky reggae

comments:

This was almost certainly the first time I ever heard a Bob Marley concert, probably the first reggae show I ever heard, and the same may well be true for many others, too. This is the BBC broadcast, the  very beginning of the opening announcement is missing but it doesn't seem like it's missing much because it starts with the announcer saying: "Here's Bob Marley & the Wailers with a Rastafarian chant"... and the opening song begins. There is a tape flip just before the last song, Kinky Reggae but you probably won't even notice that in this torrent. All the songs and between song announcer dialogue are complete. The reception is clean and the sound of this is excellent FM stereo, recorded from a broadcast on WBCN in the late 1970's (probably 77 or 78). I know this show was previously posted here on dime but I had to delete my DL of that one immediately because it failed my standard for clipless torrents. the audio files were solidly clipped throughout the concert and I couldn't even listen to it. This one comes with the Glasnost Radio Productions assurance that it is not clipped, pegged, glitched or gapped, and sounds like an FM show should sound. This was in the day when BBC concerts were broadcast on vinyl and it has great stereo seperation, an art often lost in more recent FM broadcasts. WBCN had a good turntable, and I didn't hear any scratches or skips in this broadcast (which did happen on occasion in some of the recorded concerts). This is good vintage Marley, and probably the best quality yet posted of it. I rarely played this thing because it's on 2 tapes and for a long time I couldn't find it, but this torrent comes entirely from my master cassettes, making this a 3 step torrent from glasnostrd19 to Marley nation. This one is my oldest, but probably also the best quality recording I have of BMW that is suitable for upload since it is my only Marley master. I don't remember which deck I had for this one, I've been through alot of cassette decks, especially before 87, but it was a decent one (definitely long before I got a Naka.)