| J-Card Comment | Alice Cooper
Civic Arena
Pittsburgh, PA USA
1973/04/06 (April 6, 1973)
Setlist and Fingerprints -
Track 01 - Introduction.flac:9f465a7c3e495fdb519a0c7f9845c1d8
Track 02 - Hello Hooray.flac:a676507bb8a5b0509f87822105305b2d
Track 03 - Billion Dollar Babies.flac:c9a62745681de0d808a21eec9a0331f8
Track 04 - Elected.flac:2acd0c55c1092cafbd7d92a021123cdd
Track 05 - I'm Eighteen.flac:3a552d47b3053b1cd4c464ca1aa3158d
Track 06 - Raped And Freezin'.flac:a70b15abac329d6d6bd3bececf3bd2b7
Track 07 - No More Mr. Nice Guy.flac:3a78cf1d4bb5f5568f22e17290e3410a
Track 08 - My Stars.flac:4e021d8c371acced35abed8c3d80c066
Track 09 - Unfinished Sweet.flac:88c60ee92e9d6f06f67e10d274b0cb86
Track 10 - A Night On Bald Mountain one.flac:554c2392b4b9cec3cd6ee14c2d2ba182
Track 11 - Sick Things.flac:ac4d125ee74f09c5b5979df906a0b8fb
Track 12 - Dead Babies.flac:4b40b27fbe5a314e8073df688690431a
Track 13 - I Love The Dead.flac:0bfdd8de069c4d297181a6b6539b3515
Track 14 - A Night On Bald Mountain two.flac:6a880aa4f4ac206f58bc903f086171db
Track 15 - School's Out.flac:e5c4a00f4e01c4409bfe8f7f1ddf664a
Track 16 - applause and MC.flac:d556d467242fba4ca04af6f307a89fe8
Track 17 - Under My Wheels.flac:a31c7ec22f618a19233376e8f33eef51
Track 18 - God Bless America (Kate Smith).flac:6830cdda4f85c6966206595af1744873
Lineage:
unknown mic > unknown tape recorder >
unknown master tape > SONY HF90 normal bias
cassette tape, 2nd gen > SONY TC-WE805S stereo
cassette deck > AIWA XC-RW700 CD/CD recorder
(tracked songs here) > SONY CD-R AUDIO 80 min. music CD-R >
Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (retracked and edited wav files here) >
Trader's Little Helper (final wav files to flac, encode
level 8, aligned on sector boundaries)
18 tracks, TT: 73:46 This is the COMPLETE concert.
Sound quality: 8-9/10, vg+ to ex- IMHO, as always.
2nd generation audience recording, I have been assured.
This sounds pretty good on a car stereo, but is best
listened to on headphones for the full sonic experience.
I received this show in a trade over 20 years ago from a
good tape trader friend. He was acquainted with the original
taper. I did NOT attend this show so this description will
not be my typical long-winded diatribe. For a tape that was
recorded in 1973 on somewhat primitive equipment, this show
sounds pretty damn good. I think that the taper was very close
to the stage because the audience is not really very audible for
the most part. You'll hear Alice bantering with teenage girls
in the audience between songs as well as yelling at the audience
from time to time but that's about it. Very little to no talking,
whistling, screaming, yelling, etc. No speed fluctuations and little
to no distortion. The tape is very bassy from time to time but not
a real problem IMHO. There seems to be no hiss. The tape at times
sounds a little muffled as if the taper were hiding the mic from
security, but again no big problem. Alice's vocals are almost always
clear and the instruments are usually pretty clear.
I did nothing to alter the sound ; this is the RAW tape as I got it.
The only things that I DID do were to track the songs and to edit out
several short dropouts where the recorder was inexplicably turned off
for just a few seconds. I then spliced the gaps together and you'll
barely be able to tell where these were fused. That's about the extent
of it, so let's wrap this up....
As always, if you have a better-sounding version of this concert,
by all means PLEASE UPLOAD IT!!! No buy, no sell, no mp3. Please
seed this as long as you can. This 2nd generation version has
NOT been circulated widely so JUMP ON IT !!! A very intense show
which really exhibits the excellence that was Alice Cooper in 1973.
I will post a sample for those of you still undecided, but I think
you'll find that this is a fine-sounding tape for the time period
and a welcome addition to any Alice Cooper fan's collection. Well,
thanks for reading this and Mr. Natural would like to add these few
comments: scream along with Alice, don't freak out and by all means,
enjoy the concert!!!
Nota bene: You have my blessing if you want to remaster this show but I
ask these two things: PLEASE know what the hell you're doing so you
don't make a fool of yourself and subject yourself to world-wide
ridicule and PLEASE post what you produce here on DIME for all to
share. Unless it sucks. Then delete it in shame while we all snicker.
That is all. Smoke 'em if you got 'em...
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