The Tubes 1976-04-23 Orpheum Theatre Boston, MA

The Tubes
Orpheum Theatre
Boston, MA
23 April 1976

Master audience recording taped by Dan Lampinski

Set I/CD1
01 Young And Rich Grandiose Instrumental Overture >
02 What Do You Want From Life?
03 Tubes World Tour
04 Pimp
05 Mondo Bondage > Don't Touch Me There > Mondo Bondage Reprise
06 Brighter Day
07 Poland Whole/Madam I'm Adam

Set II/CD2
01 Slipped My Disco
02 Gimme Dat Harp > Love Will Keep Us Together
03 The Cathy Perkins Amateur Hour
04 Proud To Be An American
05 It's Not Unusual
06 3rd Stone From The Sun
07 Waiting For My Man > Boy Crazy
08 Quay Lewd's Drug Deal
09 Stand Up And Shout (spliced) 
10 White Punks On Dope


The intro to "Love Will Keep Us Together" is the Captain Beefheart tune "Gimme Dat Harp" featuring Roger on blues harp.


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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