The Doors 1970-04-10 Boston Arena, Boston, MA (late show)

 
The Doors
4/10/1970 (late show)
Boston Arena, Boston, MA

  Source: AUD > MR (see Notes)
   Taper: Joe Maloney [maloneyjoe68_at_aol.com]
 Lineage: MR > DAW > SDII > WAV > shn (see Notes)
Transfer: Jamie Salerno [jjs4_at_po.cwru.edu] 5/29/2005

   Disc 1 [55:31]

 1. Intro
 2. Break On Through
 3. When The Music's Over
 4. Roadhouse Blues
 5. The Spy ->
 6. Alabama Song ->
 7. Back Door Man ->
 8. Five To One
 9. Build Me A Woman
10. You Make Me Real
11. Fade Out

   Disc 2 [45:28]

 1. Fade In
 2. People Get Ready ->
 3. // Mystery Train->
 4. Away In India->
 5. Cross Roads
 6. Band Intros
 7. Light My Fire->
 8. Fever->
 9. Summertime->
10. St. James Infirmary->
11. Graveyard Poem ->
12. Light My Fire
13. Been Down So Long ->
14. ??? -> power cut off
15. After The Cutoff

Notes:

Joe Maloney's first stealth concert recording.  (Actually, back then security did not stop him from entering w/recording equipment, so I really can't call it "stealth").

Disc 1 ends with a tracked fadeout & disc 2 begins with a tracked fade in:  to join the music tracks of both discs, remove d01t11 & d02t01 track.  The two "discs" will splice together.  

At Joe's request, I left in the crowd reaction to the power cutoff (mostly for Morrison's reacting to the show being stopped).  You can leave out d02t15 if you want.

The transition from tape 1 to tape 2 (during the intro to Mystery Train) involved a change of tape brands (Scotch 290 -> Sunset 600) & seemed to produce a drop in recording quality.  Tape 2 also seems to have many gain changes as part of the recording process.  Not bad for a fist attempt at recording live music, especially having to flip tape & thread a 3 in. spool of tape in the middle of a concert crowd.

Also included are Toast/Jam printouts for the CDs (so you can use the "Audio starts in Pause" timings to have a track end when the music stops and the subsequent track start when the music begins).

Recorded on a 1968 RCA portable reel to reel model YLS 15B at 3 3/4 ips, using an external microphone.  Original 3" reels were transferred to a Mac DAW using a Wollensak T-1500 reel to reel recorder (approx. 45 yrs old). The analog signal was first run through: a) a SAE 2800 parametric equalizer to bump the highs slightly; & b) a Phase Linear Autocorrelator to remove hiss.  Lo Cut filter on Mackie 1402-VLZ used to remove hum & grunge below 75 Hz (-18 db/octive).  Bias Deck used to splice tape flips & even out volume levels.  Bias Peak again used to transfer SDII files to WAV files for shn compression.  xACT used to fix SBEs & encode to SHNs.

This recording is the one of literally dozens of concerts recorded by Joe Maloney in the late '60s - late '70s to be released to the live recording community.  The bulk of the concerts recorded were in the Boston area, with some in Maine venues.

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