Sunday, August 31, 2014

Led Zeppelin: 1975-02-12 New York, NY (DVD-A_SB_LPCM 96/24_2 DVD + Bonus Video)

As I stated when I uploaded Godfather Records 3 CD release of this show a few years back, "This is by far one of the best sounding Led Zeppelin soundboards to ever surface.  This recording is a perfect, studio quality recording of Led Zeppelin's complete concert at Madison Square Gardens on February 12, 1975."

Well, this is even better.  It is Empress Valley Supreme Disc's two DVD-A of the show and they are true DVD-A discs too.  The AUDIO_TS folder has the 96 kHz/24 bit high quality audio files (.AOB file extension) in it and it isn't just a VIDEO_TS audio files type of DVD-A.  Don't worry if this makes no sense to you.  Just know this is better!  And the photographs used as a slideshow during the concert's audio being listened to are great too.

True DVD-A discs like these can be confusing to many people as to how they are suppose to be burned.  Many (if not most) DVD burning programs do not burn these or burn them correctly.  And some people wind up buying programs specifically aimed at burning and making these types of DVD-A discs.  And even when a program does burn the DVD-A and it seems like all is well, many times it did not actually burn the AUDIO_TS folder to the disc since there are seldom any real audio DVD's made like this and the programs don't bother adding the ability to burn the AUDIO_TS folder or its contents.  Do not think that just because you put were able to burn this download to DVD's and and they play that you have it burned right.  You need to look at the disc on a PC, check and make sure the AUDIO_TS folder is on the disc, and be sure there are files in that folder adding up to above 3 GB on each disc.  If so, then the disc has been burned right by your software.  If not, and on DVD 1 as an example, you have only 311 MB worth of files and not 3.9 GB like you should have, you got a lossy burn and not the high quality one you are capable of getting.

I was having the same issues and problems myself as I mentioned in the above paragraph.  I couldn't find a Windows program to burn the true DVD-A disc for free either.  I put the show aside for a few weeks trying to find a way to do this burn for low-to no cost.  That was all until earlier this morning when I thought of an idea I'd had based on working on a similar (but different) problem/project in the past.  So, here is what I tried and it worked just as I hoped it would!  I created two ISO files (or image files); one for each DVD-A.  So instead of having the whole DVD-A structure and files to look at in the original file set I had gotten, you now have just one ISO file for each disc you'll be burning.  And it will burn the AUDIO_TS folder as well as the VIDEO_TS folder and files to your discs and you'll have the files for the high quality audio.  All you need to do is have a program that will burn the ISO files to disc and there are pleanty of free ones out there.  I believe a program called CDBurnerXP, easily located with a Google search, will work fine if you are using a Windows PC.

This is a lot of extra explaining before even getting to the details in this post I know.  But I want to be sure anyone not familiar with  real and true DVD-A burning  knows up front what they may need to do.  It's not hard at all either.  But if you don't do it right it'll either not work or it will be lossy audio you're listening to.

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: February 12th, 1975
Location: New York, New York
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Source: SB
Format: DVD-Audio (a true DVD-A)
DVD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Label: EVSD
Title: Flying Circus
Size: 7.99 GB

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: Yes
Source: SB
DVD's: 2 DVD+/-R
DVD's Size: 7.99 GB (total)

VIDEO:
Format: NTSC
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 9000 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO:
Sample Rate: 96 kHz/24 bit
Bitrate: 4608 kbps
Codec: LPCM
Channels: 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
Streams: 1

SETLIST:
DVD-A 1:
101. Rock And Roll
102. Sick Again
103. Over The Hills And Far Away
104. In M y Time Of Dying
105. The Song Remains The Same
106. The Rain Song
107. Kashmir
108. No Quarter
109. Trampled Underfoot

DVD-A 2:
201. Moby Dick
202. Dazed And Confused
203. Stairway To Heaven
204. Whole Lotta Love
205. Black Dog
206. Heartbreaker (including "That's Alright Mama")

BONUS VIDEO:
1975-02-07 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY excellent stage shot video with audio

LINKS:
(1) 1975-02-12 EVSD True 96/24 DVD-A
(2) 1975-02-12 EVSD True 96/24 DVD-A
(3) 1975-02-12 EVSD True 96/24 DVD-A
(4) 1975-02-12 EVSD True 96/24 DVD-A
(5) 1975-02-12 EVSD True 96/24 DVD-A
(6) 1975-02-12 EVSD True 96/24 DVD-A
(7) 1975-02-12 EVSD True 96/24 DVD-A
(8) 1975-02-12 EVSD True 96/24 DVD-A
(9) 1975-02-12 EVSD True 96/24 DVD-A

It's my opinion that the bonus video, incorrectly listed as Nassau Coliseum on the artwork, is pro shot.  It has the time code, the person shooting it had more than a home 8mm video camera, the location of the person and their movements were right at the stage, and in one part I believe a photographer is caught in the video standing next to them.  This show likely has more footage!  And for all I know, the whole concert may have been filmed.  Either way, the DVD-A 96/24 audio is superb here and it is one of the best sounding unreleased Zeppelin shows to have surfaced in recent years.

One last comment and note I want to mention is I have reworded this post before posting it.  However, the text file I zipped up and started on uploading this morning is the old, pre proofread, and fast first draft I made just to get the 8 GB of files uploading before I left for a while.  So if you want to copy and paste this post from the web and add it as your test file, it'll be the updated and fixed version of the information on this show and the recordings.

I know you'll enjoy the show...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!

  THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!




Saturday, August 30, 2014

Janis Joplin & The Kozmic Blues Band: 1969-08-30 Lewisville, TX (FLAC_SB_1 CD)

Forty-five years ago today, Janis Joplin was jamming on the stage of the Texas International Pop Festival in the Dallas, Texas area.  And this is an excellent-to-superb recording of that historic day so long ago, just two weeks after Woodstock.

LINEAGE:
Oh Boy silver CD > EAC (secure mode, enjoy attached EAC log in German language) > WAV > Flac Frontend (level 8) > FLAC > thetradersden > me > WAV (to test for lossiness and delete WAV files) > TLH (to verify supplied  md5 & st5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Janis Joplin & The Kozmic Blues Band
Date: August 30th, 1969
Location: Lewisville, Texas
Venue: Dallas International Motor Speedway
Event: Texas International Pop Festival
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Label: Oh Boy
Title: Texas International Pop Festival
Size: 198 MB

SETLIST:
01. Wavy Gravy stage announcements
02.
Raise Your Hand
03. As Good As You've Been To This World
04. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
05. Maybe
06. Summertime

LINK:
(1) 1969-08-30 Texas International Pop Festival


Even though I like the Big Bother and The Holding Company era of Janis' music better, she still sounds superb here too even competing with the horns at times.  This is a very interesting and likable, however pretty short, concert she put on.

I'm not changing anything in this upload.  I'm not embedding any metadata file names into the songs or doing anything other than confirming its lossless claim and adding a text file of my own to show the results.  The rest was a group project according to the source but I see no mention of any remastering done in the lineage or what exactly was done in the group project?  Plus, the artwork is from the Oh Boy label.  So who really knows?  But it sounds lovely and is a show you won't regret getting if you don't have it.

I hope you enjoy the concert...

Bootradr


SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!

  THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!



Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Journey: 1983-08-19 Tacoma, WA (FLAC_AUD Master 44/16_2 CD) (JEMS Uncirculated Master)

The out of phase issue with the original upload of this show a couple of days ago has been fixed and this is the fixed version.  Believe me, if you want to hear the show the way it should sound, this is the copy you need.  I've asked the Dime moderators to pull the original version that was out of phase so as to avoid any confusion.  I'm sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused anyone

This is a new, uncirculated recording of Journey's show from Tacoma, Washington's new Tacoma Dome in 1983.  This is a JEMS master recording.

LINEAGE: NO EQ'ing DONE

Recording Gear: Sony Walkman D6C with a Sony ECM-939 microphone

JEMS 2014 Transfer: Master cassettes > Nakamichi CR-7A azimuth-correction > Audacity 2.0 24/96 capture > iZotopeRX MBIT+ resample to 16/44.1 > 24/96 & 16/44 WAV file sets sent to Bootradr > AVS Audio Editor 7.2 (to join 24/96 files into one file) > Audacity (to balance audio, removed a few tape clicks, fix a few clipping points caused by stage fireworks, and amplify 2.4 db) > CD WAV Editor (for creating track splits and editing out tape flips) > Audacity (for down sampling a 16/44.1 copy and embedding metadata/track info into both the 24/96 and 16/44.1 copies & for encoding as FLAC) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to align sectors on boundaries & to create and verify md5, ffp, and torrent files) > original out of phase audio torrent upload > audio phase issue fixed by JEMS > TLH (to create and verify new ffp, md5, and torrent files) you

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: August 19th, 1983
Location: Tacoma, Washington
Venue: Tacoma Dome
Source: AUD (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (thanks to "tupchurch for creating the artwork!)
Label: JEMS Master & Bootradr Project
Title: Stand On The Edge
Size: 517 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Elmo's Theme (opening)
102. Chain Reaction
103. Wheel In The Sky
104. Line Of Fire
105. Send Her My Love
106. Still They Ride
107. Open Arms

108. No More Lies
109. Jonathan Cain (keyboard solo)

110. Rubicon
111. Steve Smith (drum solo)

112. Escape
113. After The Fall (long intro)
114. After The Fall

CD 2:
201. Faithfully
202.
Jonathan Cain (keyboard solo)
203. Who's Crying Now
204. Don't Stop Believin'
205. Neal Schon (guitar solo)
206. Stone In Love
207. Keep On Runnin' (cuts in)
208. Lights
209. Any Way You Want It

210. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
211. Elmo's Theme (closing)

LINKS:
(1) 1983-08-19 Tacoma, WA (JEMS Master)
(2) 1983-08-19 Tacoma, WA (JEMS Master)

Dime Torrent - Download Here
NOTE: I created a torrent and posted it on Dime.  If your a Dime member, you'll know what to do.  If not, sign up for a free account and READ THE RULES.  Go to http://www.dimeadozen.org for their home page.  And remember to keep your sharing ratio at 0.25% or higher so as to not get banned.  It's a much faster download almost always!  Now, back to the original blog post.


The Tacoma Dome venue was brand new when Journey played this show.  In fact, Journey was the second band to play at the venue with the first act being David Bowie eight days earlier.  This was also Journey's second from last show on their 1983 Frontiers tour Steve Perry tells the audience.

As for the audio on this show, it is a very clean recording.  There are some clicks and pops at various points in the recording that are from the master tapes it seems.  But it isn't anything horrible or show ruining at all.  The initial upload of this show a couple of days ago has an out of phase issue with the audio.  This is an easy to look up topic and I found a great, easy to understand description of the phase issues at http://www.uaudio.com/blog/understanding-audio-phase/ that explains the issue.  The sound is a little flat and it isn't a full range of sound type of recording either. 

I really like how clean the sound is throughout the whole show and there is very little audience noise too.  Steve Perry's vocals are very up front in the recording also.  In fact, all vocals and instruments alike are.

I really appreciate JEMS sharing this show with me so I could finish getting it ready and share it with everyone else interested in it.  Being a huge Led Zeppelin fan too, I have been very familiar with the various JEMS transfers and work on a number of Led Zeppelin recordings, as well as other artist recordings too, which they've put out for us to collect and hear over the years.  So please be sure to thank the source of the sharing on this uncirculated master Journey recording...and that is JEMS!

I hope you enjoy the concert as much as I have...


Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!

  THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!