| Identifier | 9340215 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Reference Number | DAA584 |
| Media Type | CD |
| Media Count | 1 |
| Note | The Who - The 1969 Soundboard Tapes Vol. 1 - Restored & Remastered - EX SDB's - With Mp3 for comparison - A MUST FOR WHO FANS.
***CORRECTED VERSION*** Please read... [Mod note: listening to the two mystery tracks ascertained that they are none of the officially available versions, and the torrent can thus run.] **Corrected version.** I have seeded this 5 days ago on dime. But I discovered a main error yesterday while listening. The version I seeded was not the masterwave I intended to be spread. I flacified a rejected -badly labelled- masterwave with too much aggressive hi-end. This one sounds much 'warmer' and has more depth. While I had the chance, I also improved two little things compared to the old one. This version has 'Fortune Teller' added to the Georgetown portion (see text info) and The missing opening chord of Overture (borrowed from another recording) to make that song complete. I do appreciate the nice comments I got for the old version. And I'm sorry for wasting your time, if you already downloaded this. But please consider re-downloading, the improvement -I think- is significant. Sincerely, P.S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Who - The 1969 Soundboard Tapes Vol. 1 - Restored & Remastered 01. Heaven and Hell 02. Can't Explain 03. Fortune Teller 04. Summertime Blues 05. Shakin' All Over 06. My Generation 07. Overture 08. It's a Boy 09. 1921 10. Amazing Journey 11. Sparks (some tape flaws) 12. Young Man Blues Time: 49m32s Tr. 1-6: McDonough Gymnasium, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. - 2 November 1969 Tr. 7-11: State University of New York, Long Island (Stonybrook), NY - 18 October 1969 Tr. 12: Venue/date unknown However, this is certainly not any of the officially available versions: Leeds University, London Coliseum 14 Dec 1969 or Isle of Wight 1970. Line up: Roger Daltrey: Vocals, Harp Pete Townshend: Vocals, Gibson SG John Entwistle: Vocals, Bass Keith Moon: The Loon Sources: Multitrack Soundboard Recordings -> (Rough) Mixdown -> R2R -> ? -> Silver Pressed Bootlegs -> EAC -> Wavemerge 2.1 -> Adobe Audition 1.5 (Speed Correcting, Editing, Manual Level Correction, Channel Swopping) -> Cubase SX3.0 (using Waves linMB/L2, UAD Pultec/EX-1) -> CdWave -> FLAC (L6) -> You Used Bootleg sources: 1969: Wintertime Trip & Pure Rock Theatre. Restored, Edited & Mastered by Prof. Stoned Invaluable help provided by the creator of this website: C. G Whitman. A true Who Fan, who did all the possible research. http://www.geocities.com/cgwhitman2/who/who.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof Stoned says: Here's another WHO project. This time I have attempted to restore some of the many SDB tapes from the North American fall tour of 1969 that are floating around. The problem with all these recordings is that they are not properly labelled, and in some cases it is impossible to say from which date the recording originates. Personally, I believe these are all rough mixes, made from the multitracks. These shows were recorded for a live album, but the tapes were rejected. It is claimed that Pete 'burned all of the tapes". If this is true, I assume he burned the multitrack tapes, and not the mixdown tapes of which you can hear some here. There are both reasons whether this could or could not have happened. One reason why it could be true, is that nothing of these recordings have been officially issued in any form so far. But apparantly in 1982, the forthcoming live album "Who's Last" was considered to be a mix of recently recorded live material paired with live material from 1969, which would have to be from the fall tour. Sadly, this plan never materialised, and all we can do for now is hope that some of this material will find its way on an official release, one day. The recordings here are sourced from two bootlegs: 1969: Wintertime Trip (a.k.a. Cops & Robbers & Higher Education) & Pure Rock Theatre. Many of you already got these. But there's a world of difference in what you'll hear on those CD's compared to what's on this new version. How these tapes leaked from the Who Archive is a mystery, but one can guess that this material was actually stolen by some employee or 'friend'. *** About the 1969: Winter Time Trip & Pure Rock Theatre Bootlegs --- 1969: Winter Time Trip This one claims to have been compiled from two dates (plus a lost Pete solo recording from a later date): The first 13 tracks would be from Georgetown University 1969/11/02 while the next 5 tracks would from Hull, 1970/02/15. If only it were that simple. But it is not... The 13 Georgetown University Tracks are a mixture of three sources: 1) The Tommy Part is from the well-known Fillmore East, NYC 1969/10/22 recording. 2) 'Tattoo' & 'Fortune Teller' are from Capitol Theater, Ottawa 1969/10/15. (I will cover this show in Part 2 of this series) 3) And that what remains is actually from Georgetown University 1969/11/02 and presented here as Tr. 1-5. The 5 Hull Tracks are also a mixture of three (or four) sources: 1) 'Heaven and Hell' and 'Can't Explain' are the same tracks from Georgetown 1969/11/02, in a slightly cleaner quality. After extensive comparing and listening, I have become convinced that "Fortune Teller" is from the same concert, as the overall sound and the panarama of the mix are so identical to above two tracks, that -to me- it's virtually impossible that this is from another show . 2) Tattoo' is the same version from Capitol Theater, Ottawa 1969/10/15 and so, the third track that was included twice. 3) 'Young Man Blues' is not identified but is almost certainly recorded sometime during the October-November 1969 North American tour as well. In other words, this recording has been mislabelled. Jon Astley, the producer of all the Who re-issues was reported saying that the bass guitar was accidently not recorded on the multitracks of the hull '70 show, which is one reason why it is unlikely that the last two tracks are from this date. This bootleg has a gigantic speed problem, on which i will come back later. --- Pure Rock Theatre This one is even more complicated. The sleeve gives no credits, but this collection is taken from various dates (if not more). 1) The majority comes from Capitol Theater, Ottawa, 1969/10/15 2) Three tracks are from Leeds University, England, 1970/02/14 (The well-known Live at Leeds concert) 3) The five Tracks that can be found on this compilation from State University of New York, Long Island 1969/10/18 4) One track from Theatre des Champs Elysees, Paris 1970/01/16 The sound quality on this bootleg is quite clean on most of the tracks, which implies that they come from low generation tape sources, though it's has some Noise reduction. *** About The Restoration --- Georgetown University, 1969/11/02 After studying this material for a while, I decided to make my own corrected versions of these two boots. Thus, I assembled the five tracks version of this show together in the correct order. I corrected the speed with -1.03 semitones, which is quite a difference, after comparing them very precisely to generated E (660 Hz) and G (792 Hz) tones. Except 'Fortune Teller", which came from the misslabelled "Hull" portion got a SC of -0.43. I swopped the channels, so that Pete's guitar was on the right. Then, I painstakingly compared the two different sources of the first two tracks. In the end, I became convinced that the so-called "Hull" versions originate from a lower generation tape source, and so I used those. I corrected the speed of these two tracks too (I forgot the exact level of semitones already...), with the same precision. These version ran significantly slower, and therefore demanded a less drastical speed change. Because the 'Hull' versions were faded out/in, I used the rejected versions to reconstruct the missing seconds before and after "Heaven and Hell". Then, I amplified the right channel everything after "fortune teller" considerately to get the bass guitar a bit less loud in the mix --- State University of New York, Long Island 1969/10/18 This one was a lot easier to do. Unlike any other source found on the two aforementioned bootlegs, the speed was actually precisely correct on these tracks. Channels were already in the correct order as well. The (very important) opening chord of Overture was missing. I found this so annoying that I decided to borrow the opening chord of Overture from the 1969/10/22 recording and edit it seamlessly to this recording. I think it works quite well. A lot better than without. This source has about ten seconds of the beginning of "Eyesight to the blind" before you hear the Reel-to-Reel machine being turned off. A very dramatic moment, that I didn't wanna omit. --- The mystery track from "1969: Winter Time Trip" I added this track too (Tr. 12). I gave it a slight speed correction of -0.05 semitones. Unlike everything else on this comp, YMB is in mono, and of a little lesser sonic quality. *** About The Mastering I attempted to get a 'natural' sounding remaster. Not the kind that makes your ears bleed, nor that kind that sounds heavily processed. I didn't use Noise Reduction for this recording. Hate it. But unfortunately some severe NR was used in the original mastering of both "Pure Rock Theatre" & "Winter Time Trip". So if you hear it, that's where it comes from... I gave the whole thing a treatment with multiband compression. Because of the rough nature of the mixes, this made the vocals and bass guitar sound a lot more coherent in the mix. I used seven (!) different mastering settings for the whole compilation, to make the overall sound as good and similair as possible. I also did some very slightly EQ-ing with the Pultec & the EX-1. Then I used the L2 for some more volume, but very carefully. No macho mastering. A frequency analyses proved this to be lossless. Enjoy Y'all !! |
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Performance
| The Who 1969-??-?? The 1969 Soundboard Tapes Vol.1, Various, Various | |
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| Set 1 | Heaven and Hell
Can't Explain Fortune Teller Summertime Blues Shakin' All Over My Generation Overture It's a Boy 1921 Amazing Journey Sparks (some tape flaws) Young Man Blues |
| Set 2 | |
| Set 3 | |
| Comment | Tr. 1-6: McDonough Gymnasium, Georgetown University,
Washington D.C. - 2 November 1969 Tr. 7-11: State University of New York, Long Island (Stonybrook), NY - 18 October 1969 Tr. 12: Venue/date unknown However, this is certainly not any of the officially available versions: Leeds University, London Coliseum 14 Dec 1969 or Isle of Wight 1970. |