Chicago 1975-08-17 Providence Civic Center Providence, RI

Chicago
Providence Civic Center
Providence, RI
17 August 1975

Master audience recording taped by Dan Lampinski

CD1/Set I
01 Anyway You Want
02 Women Don't Want To Love Me
03 Oh, Thank You Great Spirit >
04 Poem 58 
05 Brand New Love Affair, Parts I & II
06 Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
07 Just You 'n' Me
08 Call On Me
09 Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon
     - Make Me Smile >
     - So Much To say, So Much To Give (spliced)
     - Anxiety's Moment
     - West Virginia Fantasies
     - Colour My World
     - To Be Free
     - Now More than Ever

CD2/Set II
01 Long Time No See
02 Beginnings
03 Never Been In Love Before
04 A Hit By Varese
05 Once Or Twice
06 Saturday in the Park
07 (I've Been) Searchin' So Long >
08 Mongonucleosis
09 Drum Solo (spliced)
10 Old Days
11 E: Got To Get You Into My Life
12 25 Or 6 To 4


Sony TC-152SD Tape Recorder
Sony ECM-99 Stereo Microphone
Maxell cassettes



Mastered and FLAC'ed by Carl Morstadt (dantalion8@yahoo.com)
   
Master Cassette ->
Nakamichi CR-3A cassette deck with azimuth correction ->
M-Audio Firewire Audiophile 2496 ->
CDWAV 24-bit/96-KHz wav files ->
Goldwave (normalizing and crossfades) ->
CDWAV (track breaks) ->
dBpowerAMP Audio Converter (24-bit/96-KHz wav files converted to
  16-bit/44.1 KHz wav files) ->
FLAC Front End (FLAC 8 with sector boundary alignment)
FLAC files tagged with Foobar2000 Live Show Tagger

No EQ'ing.

Dan Lampinski recorded over 100 concerts in the Providence/Boston area, mostly between 1974 and 1978. His earliest recordings were made with an internal microphone deck, and though they are somewhat lo-fi compared to his later work, some very great moments in rock history were captured for posterity. In late 1974 he bought a Sony TC-152SD tape recorder, a Sony ECM-99 stereo microphone, and began using Maxell cassettes. He was also fortunate enough to have a friend who provided excellent taping seats for many shows, resulting in high quality recordings. In 1977, he switched over to a Nakamichi 550 tape recorder, two Nakamichi CM-300 microphones, and continued using Maxell cassettes.

He recorded many of the major 70's bands: Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Queen, Blue Oyster Cult, Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull, ELP, Kiss, Black Sabbath, The Who, Al Stewart, Alice Cooper, Jeff Beck, Bruce Springsteen, Supertramp, Jean-Luc Ponty, Moody Blues, Neil Young, The Faces, Rush, Rick Wakeman, Kansas, as well as several "under the radar" acts.

Since Dan never traded copies of his recordings, they are all essentially uncirculated. Some copies were made for friends, but these releases are the first time most of these recordings have ever seen the light of day, and are direct from his master cassettes. No EQ'ing has been done to any of the transfers. Feel free to EQ, matrix, patch, etc and re-post if you like, just give Dan credit for the original recording.

Dan was very meticulous about taking good care of his tapes and is very pleased that these recordings will now circulate among the trading community. Please honour his kindness and generosity by sharing these recordings freely.


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