Sherwood Hall
Salinas, California
July 23, 1979
(Soundboard)
Transfer: Early 1980's tape transfer > Nakamichi DR-01 (azimuth adjusted) > Peak Pro 6 (pitch adjusted) > iZotope RX / ozone 5 (mastered) > Peak Pro 6 (post production) > xACT 2.39 > FLAC
01 When The Time Comes
02 Anything That’s Rock ‘n’ Roll
03 Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It)
04 I Need To Know
05 The Wild One, Forever
06 Listen To Her Heart
07 Here Comes My Girl
08 American Girl
09 Cry To Me
10 Even The Losers
11 Breakdown
12 Strangered In The Night
13 Too Much Ain’t Enough
14 Shout
15 Dogs On The Run
16 I Fought The Law
17 Anyway You Want It
Known Faults:
-When The Time Comes: start cut
-Breakdown: splice
Taking place three months before the LP release that would launch Tom Petty &The Heartbreakers into the top tier of popularity, this show has circulated for years from a flat, murky sounding soundboard.
IMHO this version, out of my own archives, is a nice upgrade over the multiple circulating versions.
The most common version(s) of this show suffer from a major lack of detail, sounding flat, murky with an extremely narrow stereo spectrum.
It has of course been pitch adjusted and does not suffer from the same murkiness and lack of detail, the top end is in place but, that does create a very slight touch of hiss which I have chosen to not knock down so to not affect other frequencies. Every positive creates a negative when mastering, if you change A then B is affected. The bottom has good punch to it and anchors the whole show nicely. It's not a perfect soundboard but I believe you will find a very enjoyable listening experience.
The show itself is rather loose with Petty commenting they are all drunk, if indeed that is the case, I wouldn't say it is noticeable. At least not in the mid-70's drunk Clapton way but the show is loose which in my book makes this an outstanding performance.
I hope you enjoy this new upgraded glimpse into a classic Petty era.
Samples and artwork provided...
mjk5510
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