Eric Clapton 1990-04-15 The Palace Auburn Hills, MI

Eric Clapton
The Palace
Auburn Hills, Michigan
April 15, 1990

Lineage:  Audience master => cassette => cassette => Stand-alone Pioneer CD burner => EAC => Magix Audio Cleaning Lab => WAV => FLAC Front-end (level 8)

Disc one (76:12):
(1)  Layla (taped orchestral intro) (0:41)
(2)  Pretending (6:53)
(3)  No Alibis (6:29)
(4)  Running on Faith (7:26)
(5)  I Shot The Sheriff (8:42)
(6)  White Room (5:55)
(7)  Can't Find My Way Home (6:47)
(8)  Bad Love (6:00)
(9)  Before You Accuse Me (9:28) *
(10)  After Midnight (5:34) *
(11)  Old Love (12:12)

Disc two (67:27):
(1)  Tearing Us Apart (8:09)
(2)  Wonderful Tonight (9:43)
(3)  Band Introductions (4:19) =>
(4)  Cocaine (7:43)
(5)  A Remark You Made (4:36)
(6)  Layla (8:12)
(7)  Encore break (4:04)
(8)  Crossroads (9:31)
(9)  Sunshine Of Your Love (11:07)


* w/Stevie Ray Vaughan

Fingerprint file is included.  Sorry, no artwork.

Comments:  A commercial boot of this concert ("Journeyman Meets SRV") was recently posted on DIME; I would consider my version an upgrade because it probably comes from a cleaner (2nd generation) source.  I traded for it back in 1991; the person I got it from obtained a copy from the taper.  Overall, the performance is typical of the early "Journeyman" shows (I think his playing was better in the early part of the tour than when he played larger venues later in the summer).  Of course, the stand-out moment is the guest appearance by Stevie Ray Vaughan.  The jam alone (I always thought it was just on "Before You Accuse Me," but Geetarz says that SRV stayed for "After Midnight") is worth the download.

I listened to enough of the boot to decide that I like this one better; it sounds like it comes from the same tape source, but on this 2nd gen. version the sound is crisper and fuller here.  

I used Audigy Cleaning Lab to split tracks, bump up the high end slightly (it falls off dramatically at about +5 kHz), lower the overwhelmingly loud bass (below 200 Hz), and slightly reduce +1 kHz to offset some of the boominess of the arena.  

The result is not by any means a great recording, but it's very listenable -- and better (I think, anyway) than the commercial boots of this show that are rated "3" on the Geetarz site.  

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