1.01 Firebird Suite (1.50) 1.02 Going For The One (5.37) 1.03 Sweet Dreams (6.49) 1.04 I've Seen All Good People (6.58) 1.05 Mind Drive (7.44) 1.06 South Side Of The Sky (10.32) 1.07 Turn Of The Century (7.58) 1.08 Foot Prints (1.17) 1.09 Mind Drive (Reprise) (6.47) 1.10 Yours Is No Disgrace (12.49) 1.11 The Meeting (2.56) 1.12. Long Distance Runaround (4.15) 1.13 Wonderous Stories (4.14) ============================== 2.01 Roundabout (7.47) 2.02 Show Me (4.16) 2.03 Second Initial (4.11) 2.04 Nine Voices (with High School Choir) (3.54) 2.05 Rhythm of Love (6.41) 2.06 And You And I (12.44) 2.07 Ritual (27.33) 2.08 Every Little Thing (5.26) 2.09 Soon (6.37) ==============================
Yes "Rosemont '04 - Remaster"
Allstate Arena Rosemont, IL May 4, 2004
Lineup:
Jon Anderson (Vocals) Steve Howe (Guitars) Chris Squire (Bass) Rick Wakeman (Keyboards) Alan White (Drums)
1.01 Firebird Suite (1.50) 1.02 Going For The One (5.37) 1.03 Sweet Dreams (6.49) 1.04 I've Seen All Good People (6.58) 1.05 Mind Drive (7.44) 1.06 South Side Of The Sky (10.32) 1.07 Turn Of The Century (7.58) 1.08 Foot Prints (1.17) 1.09 Mind Drive (Reprise) (6.47) 1.10 Yours Is No Disgrace (12.49)
Set II:
1.11 The Meeting (2.56) 1.12. Long Distance Runaround (4.15) 1.13 Wonderous Stories (4.14)
1.01 Roundabout (7.47) 1.02 Show Me (4.16) 1.03 Second Initial (4.11) 1.04 Nine Voices (with High School Choir) (3.54) 1.05 Rhythm of Love (6.41) 1.06 And You And I (12.44) 1.07 Ritual (27.33) 1.08 Every Little Thing (5.26) 1.09 Soon (6.37)
With the taper's permission, I remastered this show. Original FLAC files from Sharingthegroove.org ("STG") were decoded to .wav and remastered. My initial assessment of this recording was not that good. The recording lacked fidelity, most of the bass region was nonexistent and the crowd was deafening between songs. However with a bit of EQ tweaking, the recording sounded much better. According to the taper, the mix was very weak and the volume extremely low. Also, the original recording peaked and clipped in many places. I did my best to remedy the clipping, but some clipping noise remains after the remastering process. For the thunderous crowd noise, I used some liberal hardlimiting to quiet some loud handclap sounds.
I debated on using compression (Dynamic Processing on CEP) and decided against it. The dynamics in the original recording is great, and I wanted to preserve as much of it as possible rather than compressing the audio. To achieve some minor manual compression, I limited the original .wav slightly and normalized it to 0dB achieving a fuller sound. Other fixes include, channel balancing, amplitude adjustments and cross-fading. In order to fit this show onto 2cdrs, I cut some of the encore crowd and cross-faded for a smooth transitions.
Overall the recording initially had great midrange punch and now, it has the needed low end for that classic Yes sound. Hope you enjoy the recording.
PER THE TAPER'S REQUEST, PLEASE DO NOT TORRENT ANY REMASTERED VERSIONS OF HIS RECORDING.
Please bare with me on the uploading. This is my first torrent upload and I'm trying to work out the bugs on my end to max out the speed. Right now I'm on a DSL connection and running Burst software to run the torrent. If someone can be of assistance to help speed this up, please email me directly, don't post it here.
Since I am new to this, and was hoping to get this up ASAP, I did make an error on the setlist which will need to be corrected. The second song after "Going for the One" was indeed "Sweet Dreams". I taped this show in it's entire with only the first few seconds of the second set starting abruptly as Rick Wakeman came on stage and immediately started playing piano which caught me off guard.
As far as the quality, it's a DAT recording made with Core Sound Cards. Considering the fact that the venue has non-existing acoustics and that the show was poorly mixed at a very low volume level, the tape is clear and listenable. Remember, this is an arena show, not a theatre. I was sitting about ten rows off the main floor on the left side of the stage directly in line with the left PA stack about 25 feet away.