Camel - 1980-07-19 - Wijchen, NL (pre-FM/FLAC)

(pre-FM FLAC)

Camel
Billed as 'Big Henry and the Wandering Palms'
Wijchen, De Meshallen Netherlands
July 19, 1980

Lineage: 
Unknown recording device > CD > EZCDDAX rip > HD > SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6)

Andy Latimer - guitars, flute, vocals
Andy Ward - drums, percussion
Colin Bass - bass guitar, vocals
Kit Watkins - keyboards. flute
Jan Schelhaas - keyboards

01 Nobody Knows
02 In the Nude
03 Drafted
04 Docks
05 Beached
06 Lies
07 Unreleased Track
08 Ice
09 Hymn To Her
10 Wait
11 Never Let Go
12 I Don't Wanna Be Used
13 When It All Comes Down

Camel - 2015-07-15 - Limbourg, BE (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

KURSAAL
very good audience rec. 
edirol r05 and sony ecm-717 mic-soundforge-flac. 

only upped/balanced the sound. 
no eq. 
this recording turned out very good. 

best; 
sit down in the dark and turn the volume up.... 

01. Intro 
02. Never Let Go 
03. The White Rider 
04. Song Within a Song 
05. Unevensong 
06. Spirit of the Water 
07. Air Born 
08. Lunar Sea 
09. Another Night 
10. Drafted 
11. Ice 
12. Mother Road 
13. Hopeless Anger 
14. Whispers In The Rain 

Encore: 
15. Lady Fantasy 
16. Long Goodbyes

Camel - 2015-07-07 - Bath, UK (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

The Bath Forum

Lineage:
Church Audio CA-14 cardioids > CA-9200 > Edirol R-09HR (@24/96) > Cool Edit Pro 2 > CDWave > TLH

Recorded second row in line with (suspended) house right stack

Recording, transfer & artwork by boombox

Andy Latimer - guitar, flute, recorder, vocals
Colin Bass - bass, vocals
Denis Clement - drums, recorder
Ton Scherpenzeel - keyboards
Jason Hart - keyboards, acoustic guitar, backing vocals

CD1

01 - Never Let Go

02 - Lost And Found

03 - The White Rider

04 - Song Within A Song

05 - Unevensong

06 - Spirit Of The Water

07 - Air Born

08 - Lunar Sea

09 - Another Night

10 - Drafted

11 - Ice

CD2

12 - Echoes

13 - Mother Road

14 - Hopeless Anger

15 - Whispers In The Rain

16 - Encore Break

17 - Lady Fantasy

18 - Band Introduction

19 - Long Goodbyes

boombox's notes july 2015:
These annual mini Camel tours are quickly becoming one of my highlights of every year since 2013. Unsurprisingly, these shows all pretty much sold out, but I got my ticket as soon as they were announced, so bagged the end of the second row in front of a stack, thinking it a great position to get nice and close to Andy et al, and hopefully where I could get a good recording and some photos and video. Unfortunately, the Forum staff were not the friendliest, pouncing on anyone they saw with a camera. This was a pity as they really did put on a full multi-media show, with excellent lights and some fine 70s-style projections, which would have been lovely to share. As for the setlist, it was a complete change from the previous two outings, with no Snow Goose at all (though St Alban's the previous night got some in a second encore). A much rockier set (Andy told me afterwards that they were trying to do a setlist better suited to the various festivals they are playing this summer) and tough to pick favourites, but special mention has to go to 'Ice', which got a trully well-deserved standing ovation and a fine, bittersweet, 'Long Goodbyes', which featured projections of Chris Rainbow and Guy Le Blanc, who we lost earlier this year. I've included a small folder of the few half decent pics I managed to snap as a memento for those there who weren't so lucky!

As for the recording, it's pretty good, I think, despite the PA being suspended quite high, so back in about row 10 might have been a better location. To compensate, I added a bit of a mid-range hump and took out some of the bass - when Denis hit the floor toms in the louder passages, it was causing my chest to vibrate quite uncomfortably - it's a miracle my mics coped with it. I had to reduce the level of some of the whoops, hollers and clapping of my very enthusiastic neighbour and used just a tiny bit of compression to tame some of the peaks. As always, my 24 bit masters are available for anyone wanting to do a remaster/matrix project: just make sure it's shared here for all to benefit, please.

Camel - 2003-06-29 - Trenton, NJ (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Camel 

NEARfest 2003, Patriots Theatre, Trenton, NJ  

June 29, 2003

Soundboard recording

SBD > ? CDR > EAC > WAV > FLAC (L7)

Andrew Latimer: Guitars, Flute, Vocals

Colin Bass: Bass, Vocals

Tom Brislin: Keyboards, Vocals

Denis Clement: Drums

01 Lady Fantasy

02 Unevensong

03 Hymn To Her

04 Echoes

05 Drafted

06 Rhayader >

07 Rhayader Goes To Town

08 Lunar Sea

09 Another Night 

10 Ice

11 Spirit Of The Water

12 Fox Hill

13 Arubaluba

14 Mother Road

15 For Today

16 Introducing The Band

17 Never Let Go

Camel - 1976-06-26 - San Francisco, CA (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

01 Aristillus 1:28
02 Song within a song 7:27
03 The Great Marsh 1:48
04 Rhayader 3:18
05 Rhayader Goes to Town 5:39
06 Air born 5:00
07 Chord change 6:45
08 The White Rider 8:20
09 Lunar Sea 9:24
10 Preparation 3:25
11 DunKirk 5:57
12 Another Night 6:45

Total Disc 65:16

notes:
Coming off the successes of Mirage and Snow Goose, 1976 saw Camel release another masterful work called Moonmadness. Each member of the band contributed compositions to the album which reached #15 in the music charts. Camel had an extensive tour of the United Kingdom in March and April of 1976 to coincide with the release of this new album. The addition of Mel Collins on Sax and Flute had changed the Camel sound. His inclusion in the band at the beginning of this tour had given Camel more of a jazz feel. This was also the first time that Camel had used film as a visual component of their shows. As Andy Latimer told Melody Maker, "This is the first time we've used films, and I don't want us to get into it too much. ...We're not a very bopping band, so it's nice for the audience to have something to watch". A short break followed the 17 concert, U.K. tour after which Camel came to California for a performance in San Francisco at the Boardinghouse on June 26th. This was their first US performance in over a year and their last until February of 1979 when they again returned to play in California.  Six of the seven new Moonmadness album songs were played that night. The concert begins with two of the new entries. The audience is then told that they are about to get, "a little slice of the Snow Goose". The first three songs of that all instrumental album are then played with received with great enthusiasm. The band returns to Moonmadness material playing Air Born and Chord Change. They then proceed to The White Rider from Mirage, Lunar Sea from the new album, two more from Snow Goose and then a final selection from Moonmadness.

Camel - 1974-06-20 - London, UK (SBD/FLAC)

 

(Soundboard FLAC)

Camel

Marquee Club

London, UK

20 June, 1974

Lineage: ??? > CDR > iTunes (secure mode) > FLAC

01. Earthrise

02. The White Rider

03. Six Ate

04. Supertwister

05. Mystic Queen

06. Liggin' at Louie's

07. Homage to the God of Light

08. Lady Fantasy

One of the earliest live recordings, this is dampened mostly by a slight fuzziness in the sound, typical of a tape transfer.

Not tape hiss, so much as a feeling that it was overmastered.

But it's a good show, with the band kicking on all cylinders.

There is a slight drop on track 6 and some minor level issues on track 5, but otherwise a reasonably clean soundboard.

Camel - 1982-06-03 - London, UK (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Camel

Hammersmith Odeon, London England

June 3, 1982

01 Hymn To Her

02 Neon Magic

03 No Easy Answer

04 You Are The One

05 Lies

06 Captured

07 Drafted

08 Who Are You

09 Rayader/ Goes To Town

FM recording.

the speed was much too high and the sound very muffled.

pitch shifted, eq. and balanced the volume

Camel - 1984-05-15 - Utrecht, NL (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

VREEDENBURG

01 - Unevensong 
02 - Never Let Go 
03 - Drafted 
04 - Lies 
05 - Pressure Points 
06 - Refugee 
07 - Cloak And Dagger Man 
08 - Long Goodbyes 
09 - Lady Fantasy 
10 - Hymn To Her 
11 - Vopos 
12 - Stationary Traveller 
13 - West Berlin 
14 - Fingertips 
15 - Sasquatch 
16 - Rhayader > Rhayader Goes To Town > Radio outro

Camel - 1997-04-06 - Warsaw, PL (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Liberated Bootleg "Crystal Moon"; Highland label. 

Andrew Latimer - guitar, vocals, flute, recorder, keyboards, bass guitar (1971-) 
Colin Bass - bass guitar, vocals, keyboard, acoustic guitar (1979–1981, 1984-) 
Dave Stewart - drums, percussion (1997–2000) 
Foss Patterson - keyboards (1997 touring) 

Taper, & Taping Gear: ??Unknown?? 
Trade: Takashi (Japan, THX!!!). 
Source: SBD - Liberated Bootleg "Crystal Moon"; Highland label #HL422/423/424 
Lineage: "SBD" Trade CDR> (wav) EAC (secure mode)> (flac) Trader's Little Helper level 6 (align on sector boundaries) 
Quality: ex-/ex 

Disc One (14 tracks = 66:27 minutes): 
01 - Lunar Sea 
02 - Hymn To Her 
- Excerpt from "SNOW GOOSE": 
03 - Rhayader 
04 - Rhayader Goes To Town 
05 - Preparation 
06 - Dunkirk 
- Excerpt from "NUDE": 
07 - Drafted 
08 - Docks 
09 - Beached 
10 - Spirit of the Water 
11 - Ice 
12 - Sasquatch 
13 - Spirit of the Water (4:35m, acoustic Dutch Radio "Two Meter Sessions" March 30, 1997) 
14 - Send Home The Slates (2:21m, acoustic Dutch Radio "Two Meter Sessions" March 30, 1997) 

Disc Two (16 tracks = 63:34 minutes): 
- Excerpt from "DUST AND DREAMS": 
01 - Milk 'n' Honey 
02 - Mother Road 
03 - Needles 
04 - Rose of Sharon
05 - Irish Air 
06 - Irish Air (reprise) 
07 - Harbour of Tears 
08 - Cobh 
09 - Send Home The Slates 
10 - Under The Moon 
11 - Watching The Bobbins 
12 - Eyes of Ireland 
13 - Running From Paradise 
14 - End of the Day 
15 - Coming of Age 
16 - The Hour Candle 
17 - Never Let Go (MISSING)

Length: 30 tracks = 130:01 minutes 

Camel - 1997-04-05 - Krakow, PL (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Liberated Bootleg "Crystal Moon"; Highland label.

Hala Wista

Andrew Latimer - guitar, vocals, flute, recorder, keyboards, bass guitar (1971-)
Colin Bass - bass guitar, vocals, keyboard, acoustic guitar (1979–1981, 1984-)
Dave Stewart - drums, percussion (1997–2000)
Foss Patterson - keyboards (1997 touring)

Taper, & Taping Gear: ??Unknown??
Trade: Takashi (Japan, THX!!!).
Source: SBD - Liberated Bootleg "Crystal Moon"; Highland label #HL422/423/424
Lineage: "SBD" Trade CDR> (wav) EAC (secure mode)> (flac) Trader's Little Helper level 6 (align on sector boundaries)
Quality: ex- (great sound & sometimes sounds like an "AUD" source as mics appear to be close to the crowd)

01 - Lady Fantasy
02 - Never Let Go
03 - Irish Air
04 - Irish Air (reprise)
05 - Harbour of Tears
06 - Cobh
07 - Send Home The Slates
08 - Under The Moon
09 - Watching The Bobbins
10 - Eyes of Ireland
11 - Running From Paradise
12 - End of the Day
13 - Coming of Age

Length: 13 tracks = 68:12 minutes

Camel - 2001-03-29 - Buenos Aires, ARG (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Lasalle Coliseum

South American Rajaz Tour

Audience recording - unknown lineage

Source: Blog download in FLAC format

Lineage:

AUD > ? > FLAC > TLH > WAV > Adobe Audition CS6 (re-tracking, fixed clicks and dop-outs) > TLH > FLAC (L8, SB aligned)

Andrew Latimer - guitars, flute, vocals

Colin Bass - bass, acoustic guitar, vocals

Guy LeBlanc - keyboards, vocals

Dennis Clement - drums, percussion

Disc 1 - Set 1:

1) Three Wishes (6:58)

2) Echoes (8:12)

3) Rhayader > Rhayader Goes To Town (7:47)

4) Ice (9:15)

5) Chord Change (8:03)

6) Watching The Bobbins (7:33)

7) The Hour Candle (7:21) *

Disc 2 - Set 2:

1) Refugee (6:06)

2) Fingertips (6:03)

3) Band Introduction (2:49)

4) Slow Yourself Down (4:54)

5) Rajaz (9:13)

6) Sahara (7:25)

7) Mother Road (6:51) >

8) Little River And Little Rose (1:57) >

9) Hopeless Anger (5:13) **

10) Lady Fantasy (17:22)

* "We're just gonna take a short break...we're gonna take a short break of diez minutos...we'll be back in a moment, ten minutes".

** "...Muchas, muchas, muchas gracias, gracias, thank you... It's been wonderful, wonderful to be here in Buenos Aires, in...to see Buenos Aires, fantastic...".

Camel - 2001-03-23 - Belo Horizonte, BR (DVDfull aud-shot)

(DVDfull aud-shot)

Color

PAL

Stereo

120 mins

Andy Latimer: guitars, flute, vocals

Colin Bass: bass, acoustic guitar, vocals

Guy LeBlanc: keyboards

Denis Clement: drums

01 - Three Wishes

02 - Echoes

03 - Rhayader

04 - Rhayader Goes To Town

05 - Ice

06 - Chord Change

07 - Watching The Bobbins

08 - Hour Candle

09 - Refugee (acoustic)

10 - Fingertips (acoustic)

11 - Slow Yourself Down (acoustic)

12 - Rajaz

13 - Sahara

14 - Mother Road

15 - Hopeless Anger

16 - Lady Fantasy

New transfer from original tapes

Sound & Vision restored & enchated

Edite by Fubar 2021

Camel - 2014-03-10 - Birmingham, UK (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC A+)

Camel 
Birmingham Town Hall Birmingham UK 
10th March 2014 

CD1
00 Intro 
01 The Great Marsh 
02 Rhayader 
03 Rhayader Goes to Town 
04 Santuary 
05 Fritha 
06 The Snow Goose 
07 Friendship 
08 Migration 
09 Rhayader Alone 
10 Flight Of The Snow Goose 
11 Preparation 
12 Dunkirk 
13 Epitaph 
14 Fritha Alone 
15 La Princesse Perdue 
16 The Great Marsh (reprise) 

CD2
01 Never Let Go 
02 Song Within A Song 
03 Echoes 
04 The Hour Candle (dedicated to Guy LeBlanc) 
05 Drafted 
06 Watching The Bobbins 
07 Fox Hill 

CD3
08 For Today 
09 Reprise: Lady Fantasy 

My first ever Camel show and it was very enjoyable taped from the 3rd row just right of centre using a ZOOM H2 internal mics have done nothing but trim the ends and add artwork so crank it up and enjoy

Camel - 1979-02-11 - San Francisco, CA (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Camel
Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA.
11th February 1979

KLAX Berkley, radio broadcast

Andy Latimer; guitars, flute, vocal
Andy Ward; drums, percussion
Mel Collins; saxes, flute
Richard Sinclair; bass, vocal
Dave Sinclair; keyboards
Jan Schelhaas; keyboards

01 Earthrise - First Light - Unevensong
02 Song within a Song
03 Sleeper
04 Supertwister
05 White Rider
06 Tell Me
07 Rhayader - Rhayader Goes to Town
08 La Princesse Purdue
09 Echoes
10 Never Let Go
11 One of These Days I'll Get an Early Night

This is a very good, near mono, off-air recording from very low-gen (if not master) analogue tapes. It is clear and clean, although somewhat compressed. Two off-air analogue versions of this were used to assemble the complete broadcast, including 'Tell Me' and full intros, omitted on some traded versions. This has been pitched correctly, and slight eq balance applied. 

Camel - 1979-02-09 - San Jose, CA (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Taper, & Taping Gear: ??Unknown??

Trade: Takashi (Japan, THX!!!).

Source: FM - Liberated Bootleg "Never Let Go"; TNT Studio label #TNT940152/153

Lineage: "FM" Trade CDR> (wav) EAC (secure mode)> (flac) Trader's Little Helper level 6 (align on sector boundaries)

Quality: vg+/ex-

Length: 13 tracks = 90:31 minutes

Andrew Latimer - guitar, vocals, flute, recorder, keyboards, bass guitar (1971-)

Andy Ward - drummer, percussion (1971–1981)

Richard Sinclair - bass, vocals (1977–1978)

Mel Collins - saxophones, flute (1977–1979)

Jan Schelhaas - keyboards (1979–1981)

Dave Sinclair - keyboards (1978–1979 touring)

CD1 [44:01]

01 - Medley: Earthrise> First Night> Rhayder> Uneven Song

02 - Song Within A Song

03 - The Sleeper

04 - Supertwister

05 - Nimrodel> The Procession> The White Rider

06 - Tell Me

07 - Extract From "The Snow Goose": Rhayder> Rhayder Goes To Town>

CD2 [46:38]

01 - Extract From "The Snow Goose" (cont'd): > La Princesse Perdue

02 - The Rainbow's End

03 - Echoes

04 - Never Let Go

05 - One Of These Days I'll Get An Early Night

06 - Lady Fantasy> Encounter> Smile For You> Lady Fantasy (9:23m; February 1979 BBC)

Camel - 1980-01-27 - Tokyo, JP (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Taper, & Taping Gear: ??Unknown??
Trade: Takashi (Japan, THX!!!).
Source: FM - Liberated Bootleg "Neon Magic"; Show Company label #SC-9447-11
Lineage: "FM" Trade CDR> (wav) EAC (secure mode)> (flac) Trader's Little Helper level 6 (align on sector boundaries)
Quality: ex-/ex
Length: 6 tracks = 41:17 minutes
Artwork: included.

Andrew Latimer - guitar, vocals, flute, recorder, keyboards, bass guitar (1971-)
Andy Ward - drummer, percussion (1971–1981)
Colin Bass - bass guitar, vocals, keyboard, acoustic guitar (1979–1981, 1984-)
Jan Schelhaas - keyboards (1979–1981)
Kit Watkins - keyboards, flute (1979–1982)

01 - Echoes
02 - Hymn To Her
03 - Neon Magic
04 - Medley: Rhayader> Rhayader Goes To Town> Migration> Preparation> Dunkirk
05 - Wait
06 - Nobody Knows

Camel - 1979-01-23 - Tokyo, JP (FM/FLAC)

 

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Koseinenkin  Hall, Tokyo

January 23, 1979

Andy Latimer; guitars, flute, vocal

Andy Ward; drums, percussion

Mel Collins; saxes, flute

Richard Sinclair; bass, vocal

Dave Sinclair; keyboards

Jan Schelhaas; keyboards

01 Announcer intro

02 Unevensong (cut in, only last 3 minutes)

03 Song within a Song

04 Sleeper

05 Supertwister

06 Tell Me

07 Rhayader - Rhayader Goes to Town

08 La Princesse Purdue

09 Echoes

10 Never Let Go

There are two sources for this concert; a complete audience recording (previously torrented), and this incomplete radio broadcast. This is an off-air recording of a stereo radio broadcast in Japan, complete with some announcer intros. Sound quality is pretty good, not pristine, but clear, dynamic and undistorted with minimal hiss.

Camel - 1975-12-18 - Reading, UK (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Camel 
Reading Town Hall, Reading, UK 
December 18, 1975 

Andrew Latimer 
Peter Bardens 
Doug Ferguson 
Andy Ward 

01 The White Rider 
02 Supertwister
03 Introduction to the Snow Goose 
04 The Great Marsh 
05 Rhayader 
06 Rhayader Goes to Town 
07 Sanctuary 
08 Fritha 
09 The Snow Goose 
10 Migration 
11 Rhayader Alone 
12 Flight of the Snow Goose 
13 Preparation 
14 Dunkirk 
15 Epitaph 
16 Fritha Alone 
17 La Princesse Purdue 
18 The Great Marsh (reprise) 
19 Hommage to the God of Light 
20 Lady Fantasy 

Lineage: Unknown 
Notes from the PRRP Re-Master: As good as this recording is, there were still a number of flaws that needed correcting. 
The speed of the recording was found to be in error and was fixed. 
A gentle noise reduction was used to allow more subtle detail to be heard. 
Lots of tape clicks and pops were found and repaired. Because of the venueacoustics, an adjustment to the tonality was made. 
Dynamics were adjusted and channel balance was corrected. Finally, the show was tracked using standard live and studio references. 

1. Consistent speed error detected and corrected. 
2. Gentle noise reduction applied. 
3. Lots of clicks and a few pops repaired. 
4. Dynamics adjusted. 
5. Correct Channel imbalance. 
6. Adjust Tonality. 
7. Re-track using commercial references. 
8. Friendship segment of Snow Goose not in recording. Not played? 

Camel - 1979-11-28 - Barcelona, ES (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Linage
Tape Trade ( TDK-D c90 ) ( Low Gen ) - Denon tape deck - Yamaha Reciever - Phono Leads Into PC Soundcard - Nero Wave Editor - 
Wav - Tracks split - Traders Little Helper - Flac8 - SBE Checked

01. Echoes
02. Unevensong
03. Song Within A Song
04. Hymn To Her
05. Neon Magic
06. Excerts From The Snow Goose
07. Rainbows End
08. Ice
09. Who Are We
10. Never Let Go
11. Wait
12. Lunar Sea (Fades Out)

Camel - 1978-11-22 - Bordeaux, FR (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

CAMEL

Salle des fêtes du Grand Parc

Bordeaux, France

November 22nd, 1978

SOURCE: EX+ quality audience MASTER (for the period and at my rating ears) recorded during "Breathless" tour.

*** NEW DIRECT TRANSFER made by my friend finkployd49 (June 2013). The previous one had a lossy MD recording step ***

Upload on Dime (24th december 2009) of the previous version.

LINEAGE: JVC stereo mic -> JVC 1665 stereo cassette recorder Super ANRS on -> AGFA Carat Fecr type I master tape

-> Nakamichi Dragon (NAAC auto-azimuth) Dolby off

-> Zoom H2 24 bits/ 96 KHz -> Goldwave v.5.08 for tracks, edits, channel balance, maximization at full dynamic range.

-> TLH 2.4.1 (build 160)-> FLAC level 8 -> Goldwave v.5.08 for 16 bits / 44100 KHZ conversion.

Jan Schelhaas-K

Richard Sinclair-B-V

Andrew Latimer-G-V

Mel Collins-Sax-Flutes

Andy Ward-D

Dave Sinclair-K

CD1 [44:15]

01 - Medley (Earthrise / Rhyader / First light / Unevensong)

02 - Song within a song

03 - The sleeper

04 - Summer lightning

05 - Tell me

06 - Snow goose

CD2 [37:13]

01 - La princesse perdue

02 - Echoes

03 - Never let go

04 - One Of These Days I'll Get An Early Night

Total duration: 01:21:29

Recorded and shared by Erathostene

Prepared by finkployd49 (June 2013 / August 2015)

All thanks to mc-merc for the brilliant artwork.