1.01 Firebird Suite - Yours Is No Disgrace (17.55)
1.02 Rhythm Of Love (5.22)
1.03 Shock To The System (5.54)
1.04 Heart Of The Sunrise (11.58)
1.05 The Clap - Mood For A Day (7.57)
1.06 Make It Easy - Owner Of A Lonely Heart (6.47)
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2.01 And You And I (11.55)
2.02 Drums Duet (4.22)
2.03 Hold On (6.35)
2.04 I've Seen All Good People (8.20)
2.05 Tony Kaye Solo - Changes (9.03)
2.06 Solly's Beard (7.56)
2.07 Long Distance Runaround - Whitefish - Amazing Grace (13.44)
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3.01 Lift Me Up (8.51)
3.02 Rick Wakeman Solo - Awaken (24.47)
3.03 Roundabout (9.00)
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LDB Master Series #267

Hello, this is a collection of masters I would like to seed here. I've been taping shows for more than 25 years (in 2013 I will celebrate 30 years of happy recording hobby!) and have an awful lot of masters. These are in different formats, following the technological evolution: first on analogue cassettes, then MiniDisc, some DATs (I was borrowed a DAT machine to record some of the shows in late 90's / early 00's) and finally digital files using Edirol R-09.

I've taped many shows of many artists over the years (both from audience and radio broadcasts) , so don't be surprised if you will find many different artists seeded! My music spectrum is quite wide, spanning from classical to hard rock.

Some shows are already circulating, some others have not circulated through collectors yet. But most of all, enjoy! They all come from my mastertapes!

Please DO NOT share this music on mp3, just convert it for your own use. Sharing mp3's is the right way to make me stop sharing music here. PLEASE DO RESPECT THIS WISH and enjoy the music in lossless form.

Finally, some notes about your truly ldb: I have been a fan of live music since I was 9 years old (that is where I attended my very first show, a PFM/De André gig at Milano's Palalido) and my first taped show was at 11 using a crappy portable cassette player with embedded microphone. I become more serious about taping in 1983 when I started to record every show. In 1991 I acquired my first Sony Professional and in 2000 I moved to MiniDisc to finally settle on R-09 in early 2008.

I have seen nearly 500 shows in my career. Most of them were taped but for others bad luck struck and I could not record it: on top of my mind there's a Paul McCartney show in 1993 in Milano where I was caught by the security or Porcupine Tree in Roma in March 1999 when the DAT machine would seem to work but listening back to the tape there
would just be a long bunch of silence. Or during a Y.Malmsteen show where I got so annoyed that I left halfway through the show and erased the tape and finally on a PFM show in Milano in 2007 where I had to leave before the encore because the baby-sitter had to leave early that evening. Some other times I was very close not to tape or
had to do it in extremely difficult situations: for the four Peter Gabriel shows at Earls Court in 1987 security was checking tapers with metal detector; at the David Gilmour comeback show in London in 2001 at RFH I had the security guy sitting next to me but I managed to tape the show without checking one single time my MiniDisc!

There was a time I was travelling anywhere in Europe to see shows, especially if there was no touring in Italy: I remember Rush in Paris in 1992 when the trio did not even know what Italy was. I have seen shows at stadiums (Genesis at Wembley) and in places with 30 people (Porcupine Tree in Milano in 1997); bands that would later become huge (Pearl Jam in a free show for 150 people) and masters of jazz (Miles Davis or Sarah Vaughan). Shows I will never forget (Pink Floyd at Versailles castle) and some I would rather forget (no comment...).

I truly believe that live music is what keeps music alive, what make us enjoying it together, what allow us to have deep feelings and transmit it to others. Studio records are nowadays 'commodities': you can buy online as anonymous wav files and listen in your iPod or at home. Live music will always imply an effort to buy the tix, travel to the venue, see the show, think about it when coming back home.

YES
Paris, Palais des Omnisports de Paris Bercy
June 3, 1991

(0:55:53)
1.01 Firebird Suite - Yours Is No Disgrace (17.55)
1.02 Rhythm Of Love (5.22)
1.03 Shock To The System (5.54)
1.04 Heart Of The Sunrise (11.58)
1.05 The Clap - Mood For A Day (7.57)
1.06 Make It Easy - Owner Of A Lonely Heart (6.47)

(1:01:55)
2.01 And You And I (11.55)
2.02 Drums Duet (4.22)
2.03 Hold On (6.35)
2.04 I've Seen All Good People (8.20)
2.05 Tony Kaye Solo - Changes (9.03)
2.06 Solly's Beard (7.56)
2.07 Long Distance Runaround - Whitefish - Amazing Grace (13.44)

(0:42:38)
3.01 Lift Me Up (8.51)
3.02 Rick Wakeman Solo - Awaken (24.47)
3.03 Roundabout (9.00)

TT 160:33

Lineage: Philips stereo microphone > Sony Professional > master tape > Aiwa Tape Deck AD-WX828 > Creative Audigy SE > HD >
SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6)

Jon Anderson (Vocals, Guitar, Harp)
Bill Bruford (Drums, Percussions)
Steve Howe (Guitars, Vocals)
Rick Wakeman (Keyboards, Piano)
Chris Squire (Bass, Vocals)
Trevor Rabin (Guitars)
Tony Kaye (Keyboards)
Alan White (Drums)

Mixed memories on that tour. From one side it was good to hear some of the classics back in the setlist. On the other it was evident that they were doing that (only) for the money. But good show anyway. I remember I was sitting on the side, not very distant from the PA so the sound is quite close and clear. That was the first of the three concerts I attended from the Union tour and possibly the best one.

ldb