Porcupine Tree

Porcupine Tree
28 March 1997
CS Livello 57, Bologna, Italy

lineage: [Aiwa CM-DS6 > Sony WM-D3]* > CD-R [x] > EAC (secure mode) > WAV > FLAC

*I am not 100% certain of the mics and recorder used, but this source is the most likely one.

Notes: The sound on this recording could be better, but it could also be a whole lot worse.  There are a few dropouts at the beginning of "Radioactive Toy", but nothing too distracting.  Anyway, what we have here is a pretty interesting recording--for starters, it's one of the few times "Cryogenics" was played (I believe there were three performances of the short version, with the other two being from the night before and the night after this show, and the long version was performed once in 1995)--that alone should spark your interest in this recording.  And did I mention the soundcheck is included?  In short, this is a recording no serious PT fan should pass up.


Disc One:
1. Up the Downstair
2. Waiting (Phase One and Two)
3. The Sky Moves Sideways (Phase One)
4. Sleep of No Dreaming
5. Signify
6. Moonloop
7. Dislocated Day

Disc Two:
1. Cryogenics
2. Dark Matter
3. The Moon Touches Your Shoulder
4. Always Never
5. Radioactive Toy
6. Voyage 34 (Phase One)
7. Talk/Chatter *
8. Waiting (Phase One) *
9. Dark Matter *
10. Up the Downstair *

*disc two, tracks 7-10 are from the soundcheck




LDB Master Series #422

Welcome to my Master Series which started way back in November 2005. This series is only about masters, concerts I
recorded myself either from audience or from radio/TV broadcasts. Occasionally I could also share masters that have
been kindly given to me by many friends and fellow tapers I have been meeting during my long career of live taping.

I have stopped seeding my masters after volume 400 about three years ago and since then I have shared just a few,
mostly to address requests from friends. I have not stopped recording shows, though, so there is quite an impressive
amount of files from my recordings that are yet uncirculated.

I have taken the liberty to look at those uncirculated masters and selected ten which I thought were special for some
reasons. They will be seeded over here. Hope you will enjoy them!

PORCUPINE TREE
Milano, Centro Sociale Leoncavallo
March 29, 1997

01. Up the downstair
02. Waiting (phase 1)
03. Waiting (phase 2)
04. The sky moves sideways
05. Sleep of No Dreaming
06. Signify
07. Moonloop
08. Dislocated Day
09. Cryogenics / Dark matter
10. The Moon Touches Your Shoulder / Always Never
11. Radioactive toy
12. Voyage 34

TT 109:06

Steve Wilson - guitar, vocals
Richard Barbieri - keyboards
Colin Edwin - bass
Chris Maitland - drums

Lineage: Sony Professional (with embedded micro) > Master Tape > Aiwa Tape Deck AD-WX828 > Audigy Soundblaster > HD >
SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6)

I don't think I have ever seeded this one. That was the first Porcupine Tree show in Milan. In 1995 the band played a
few cities but not there. That was the Signify tour and the band still fairly unknown back then. There must have been 100
people, I think. The band played well but I do not recall an exceptional show.

Also, my Sony Professional recorder had died a few days earlier while recording the third show at the Frontiera and I had
to ask a friend to borrow his. But it was not as good as mine: it was a Sony recorder with embedded microphone and with
a button that allowed you to flip the tape side without extracting the tape. So the quality is not what you would expect
from my masters. I had my machine repaired just in time for the october tour!

Pretty standard setlist with the performance of Cryogenics. I believe this is the last performance of that track live.

Enjoy another piece of history.

ldb


LDB Master Series #22

Hello, this is a collection of masters I would like to seed here. I've been taping shows for more than 20 years and have an awful lot of masters. Most of them are in the old cassette format, some others are on MiniDisc and others are on CD. I've
taped many shows of many artists over the years, so don't be surprised if you will find many different artists taped! Some shows are already circulating, some others have not circulated through collectors yet. But most of all, enjoy!
They all come from my mastertapes!

Porcupine Tree
Milano, Magazzini Generali
16th October 1997

Sony Walkman Pro with Aiwa external microphone

Even Less (extended version)
Waiting pt.1
Sleep of No dreaming
The moon touches your shoulder
Dislocated Day
Moonloop
radioactive Toy
Signify

This is one of the most special shows I've ever attended, and I remember it with fondness for various reasons. First of all, it has been the very first Porcupine tree weed ever circulated under the name of 'Even Less rehearsals' back in 2000, when I used to do these sort of things to make as many new fans as possible of the music of PT.

Just imagine PT playing in front of you, with no more than other 40 people in the venue. Steve Wilson playing 15 centimetres from you, with wonderful music and lots of surprises. The band was quite big in Italy back then, but unfortunately the same night Lynyrd Skynyrd was playing Milano after several years of absence from Italy, so most of the audience was there.

I entered the venue during the soundcheck and the music the band was playing was totally new and unknown to me. They were jamming instrumentally for a new piece called 'Even Less'. The whole of the soundcheck was spent trying this track. And then the show: 'Even Less' was played for the very first time, in its early, extended version, with different lyrics. A shock.

A friend from the security allowed me to stay in front of the stage with my Sony Pro. After a few adjustment with the recording level, the sound was almost perfect, at least for an analogue recording.

The bad news was that something went wrong after Moonloop: probably I pushed the 'pause' button and did not realise it until it was time to change tape. That's why two tracks for that night weren't recorded: Sever and Voyage 34 which closed the official set. Fortunately I managed to tape the encores.

I keep saying that THAT band does not exist anymore. It was a time where Porcupine tree could make you dreaming during their shows, entering a world of wonderful music. It was a time where the band could play in front of 40 people, more or less like it would happen if they played in your living room. THAT band will never come back, unfortunately. So sit down, relax, and enjoy that dream.

Sound quality: 10- / 10 (in my ears but especially in my heart)

LDB


Porcupine Tree 
Stoke it up!
The Wheatsheaf, Stoke on Trent
November, 1, 1997
Source: Uknown AUD>Dat>CDR>EAC>SHN

Disc 1
Even Less (16 minute version)
Signify
Waiting - Phase I
Waiting - Phase II
Sleep of No Dreaming
Up the Downstair
This is no Rehearsal
The Moon Touches Your Shoulder
Ambulance Chasing
Moonloop

Disc 2
Voyage 34
Dislocated Day
Radioactive Toy


Note: The artwork for this disc indicates extra filler material on 
the second disc which has been legitimately released on the Coma 
Divine II fan club CD. This extra material is not included!

SHNID	Date	Venue	City	State
146424	1997-03-28	CS Livello 57	Bologna	Italy
Aiwa CM-DS6 > Sony WM-D3 > CDR
147515	1997-03-29	CS Leoncavallo	Milan	Italy
Sony Professional (with embedded micro) > Master Tape > Aiwa Tape Deck AD-WX828 > Audigy Soundblaster > HD > SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6)
146425	1997-10-16	Magazzini Generali	Milano	Italy
Sony Walkman Pro with Aiwa external microphone
11901	1997-11-01	The Wheatsheaf	Stoke	UK
Uknown AUD>Dat>CDR>EAC>SHN

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