| Identifier | 9340217 |
| 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. 3 - Restored & Remastered
01. Bill Graham Introduction 02. Heaven and Hell 03. Can't Explain 04. Fortune Teller 05. Pete Dialogue #1 06. Young Man Blues 07. Pete Dialogue #2 08. Overture 09. It's a Boy 10. 1921 11. Amazing Journey (cuts within) 12. Sparks 13. Eyesight to the Blind 14. Christmas (fragment only, cuts off) 15. See Me, Feel Me (fragment only, cuts in) 16. Summertime Blues 17. Shakin' All Over 18. My Generation (7 min, cuts off) Time: 57m46s Tr. 1-14: Fillmore East, New York City (NY) 22(?) October 1969 Tr. 15-18: Unknown Date & Venue. Possibly same as above. Line up: Roger Daltrey: Vocals, Harp Pete Townshend: Vocals, SG John Entwistle: Vocals, Bass Keith Moon: The World's Most Outrageous Rock Drummer Sources: Multitrack Soundboard Recordings -> (Rough) Mixdown -> R2R -> ? -> Silver Pressed Bootlegs -> EAC -> Wavemerge 2.1 -> Adobe Audition 1.5 (Speed Correcting, Editing, Manual Level Correction) -> Cubase SX3.0 (using UAD Pultec EQ + Precision EQ/MB/LIM) -> CdWave -> FLAC (L6) Used Bootleg source: Accept No Substitute (BIG011) and an unidentified tape source for Tr. 18. Restored, Edited & Mastered by Prof. Stoned Artwork by G. The Cock ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Stoned sez: Here's part three (out of five) of my current WHO project. I attempt to restore the complete lot 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. (see the info.txt file from volume 1 for more on this subject) The recordings here -save for one track- are sourced from the bootleg: "Accept No Substitute" from 1992. The CD uses a tape source of unknown generation (I suspect 1st or 2nd) and it runs very slow. Many of you already got this. But this version reconstructs the recording as accurately as possible. Speeds have been adjusted, sources have been compared, an extra track has been added and it has been mastered. All this for the optimal listening experience. The Who played five days in a row in the Fillmore East Theatre from Oct. 20 to 25. 1969. This is one of them for sure, but it's not entirely certain which day we have here. Because Of Pete's remarks after Fortune Teller ("See, we don't play the same every night", "Every night the same amplifier is always blown up during the solo of the first song" & "We have only done three shows so far") Wednesday Oct. 22 seems to be a likely date, but it could be Oct. 23 too. *** About The Restoration After comparing, considering and again comparing the music with generated 792 & 880 HZ tones, I corrected the speed with 0.64 (Track 1-14) & 0.87 semitones for Track 15-17. I believe that Tr. 15-18 are from another night. Not just because this portion runs in a slower speed, but mostly because there's no sign of the buzzing in John's amp which can clearly be heard at all times when he (and the band) are not playing during Tr. 1-14. Another indication is a 50 second fragment of an unidentified version of Amazing Journey which can be found between Tr. 14 & 15 on the ANS bootleg. It didn't match with Tr. 11 or the versions from 1969/10/18 & 1969/10/19. I removed it from this compilation. Channels were swapped in the correct order with Pete's guitar on the right. I extensively compared two different sources of Tracks 8-13, namely the 'Accept No Substitute' and '1969: Wintertime Trip' CD bootlegs. My first impression was that the latter contained a better sounding source. But when I speed corrected & mastered both sources and A->B 'ed them, the ANS boot was the clear winner. WT may have come from a lower generation tape source, but it has been permanently damaged with digital Noise Reduction and wrong EQ-ing. Its hi-end sounded terrible compared to the ANS source, which seems to be a flat & untempered A->D transfer. On top of that, the WT source has also been cut down shorter than the ANS portion. It's not a perfect source, but clearly the best we have heard so far. Track 18 is taken from a tape source of unknown generation, and does not seem to have been bootlegged yet. The soundquality is obviously less good than that of the rest, but at least it is in real stereo. I gave it a slight speed correction with -0.09 semitones. *** 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 never use Noise Reduction. Hate it. Fortunately, the main source used here is free from digital Noise Reduction, though possible an analog form of NR may or may not have been applied. But there's obvious tape hiss, and the ambiance of the recording sounds natural. I did some careful EQ-ing with the Pultec & the Precision. I gave the whole thing a careful treatment with 5-band multiband compression. To gave the sound more depth and take away some of the harshness of the guitar cymbals and vocal sound, but without losing clarity in the hi-mid & hi-end. I used three different mastering settings for the whole compilation, to make the overall sound as good and similair as possible. Then I used the Precision Limiter for some more volume, but -again- very carefully. A frequency analyses proved this to be lossless. |
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| The Who 1969-??-?? The 1969 Soundboard Tapes Vol. 3, Compilation, Compilation | |
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| Set 1 | Bill Graham Introduction
Heaven and Hell Can't Explain Fortune Teller Pete Dialogue #1 Young Man Blues Pete Dialogue #2 Overture It's a Boy 1921 Amazing Journey (cuts within) Sparks Eyesight to the Blind Christmas (fragment only, cuts off) See Me, Feel Me (fragment only, cuts in) Summertime Blues Shakin' All Over My Generation (7 min, cuts off) |
| Set 2 | |
| Set 3 | |
| Comment | Tr. 1-14: Fillmore East, New York City (NY) 22(?) October 1969
Tr. 15-18: Unknown Date & Venue. Possibly same as above. |