Thursday, 6 December 1973
Apollo Theatre
126 Renfield Street
Glasgow, Scotland
UK
FLAC master, 6 December 2017:
Analog audience recording (mono): unknown analog generations > probably Maxell XLII 90 (Type II CrO2) analog audio cassette (c. late 1980's/early 1990's) > Sony TC-WE435 (azimuth adjustment) > Sony PCM-R500 > Sony DGP 90 DAT tape {SBM} > HHB BurnIt CDR830 > two Kodak Gold Ultima (w/ Infoguard) 74-minute CDRs {transferred c. 1999-2000} > EAC (WAV extraction, secure mode) > SHNtool (joined all WAVs) > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 (audio cleanup) > SHNtool (fixed SBE) > CD Wave (track splits) > TLH (WAV > FLAC8).
Created this text file.
Total running time [2:16:44]
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01 Firebird Suite [2:16] >
02 Siberian Khatru [10:04]
03 And You and I [10:30]
04 Close to the Edge [21:22]
05 The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn) [20:54]
06 The Remembering (High the Memory) [20:41]
07 The Ancient (Giants Under the Sun) [19:15]
08 Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil) [22:33]
-- encore --
09 Roundabout [9:07]
Band line-up:
Jon Anderson - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
Steve Howe - guitars, backing vocals, percussion
Chris Squire - bass guitar, backing vocals, percussion
Rick Wakeman - keyboards
Alan White - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Notes:
Here is a show which took place the day before "Tales of Topographic Oceans" was released in the UK, with the band performing the album in its entirety, after playing through the whole of their prior album. The Apollo was only about three months old at this point, and this recording sounds like it was recorded somewhere in the balcony. Sound is clear, but there is what is best described as a sheet or cascade of light hiss -- nothing terrible, but if you weren't raised with ears in the analog age, this can be a bothersome artifact.
"The Remembering" is cut and there is a tape flip cut in "The Ancient" at 8:44 into the track.
This show has made the rounds on EZT/dime before: at least once prior to 2007 from Relayerman's remaster of a tape he received in trade circa 1980, then a posting of a boot CD source entitled "Ancient Tales." Both versions were then reseeded twice in 2010. It would be great to see either of those up here again, as it appears I never obtained either.
So... this mastering might run a tad shorter than those, and I suspect it's because "The Remembering" gets whacked a bit near its conclusion. The tale of this tapeographic notion is that I had borrowed a case of cassette tapes from a long-time Yes collector friend of mine in the pre-EZT days. My guess is that most of those tapes were sourced around the late 80s/early 90's so it doesn't stretch as far back as Relayerman's tape. My friend was close to some members of the band and had some assorted material in need of transfering which really didn't interest me all that much, but getting to borrow some early Yes shows helped sweeten the deal, and this was part of that batch. Haven't a clue how this compares to that version or "Ancient Tales," but if Relayerman spent hours on his remaster, that's probably the best one to get. If you're looking for a transfer closer to the way the original audience recording sounds, this one is probably not a bad alternate. No EQ'ing was done -- just some light fades to make the cuts a little less pronounced. I put this on DAT back in the day and then to CDR, and had this ripped and incubating on an HD for about a year or two, figured it was an ideal time to properly catalog this one.
Over the years on dime, EZT, the Archival Group, and through all the various and assorted other trading groups online preceding that, and the CDR, DAT, and analog cassette traders which came before, I've gathered a moderate collection of items to share. I've helped with transfers (the Cactus and related uploads from over a decade ago here, and currently a bite out of the massive Stonecutter Archives), contributed setlists and corrections to many a torrent -- all the sort of things that don't raise one's share ratio. I've shared some of my masters back in the old snail mail days, but it's high time to give back more here from where I've received so much. I had meant to do a roll-out with something grand and possibly a series (Elegymart #1, #2, etc.), but that's been done countless times before.
At this point not only have we've all aged along with dime's existence, but our media and the equipment that can play it back has as well. So rather than any fanfare or concern over share ratio, consider this upload another step in a more diligent attempt to beat the time and to circulate the collection.
Enjoy,
elegymart
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