Audience

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DVD 2705; lineage: Audience recording. "Happy Birthday Charlie" (RSVP 004 - Ruthless Rhymes labels) - (vinyl rip) Technics SL-1210MK2 with Shure M97 x E (MM) - DENON PMA-710 - direct source, no equalizing - capture with CoolEdit Pro 2.0 - de-crackle with Soundforge 9.0 - normalizing, fade-in and fade-out, track-splitting again with CE Pro 2.0 - flac with flac-frontend on a VM-machine with Windows XP as flac isn't running under Windows 7 (at least not on my PC) - correction of SBE's with Trader's Little Helper

COMMENTS:
This vinyl rip, kindly shared by Silkcut1978 on IORR ( http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?2,1459039,page=1 ) , features the 2nd Cologne show of 1976. Quality is quite a lot better than the VGP 2CD release, with the same title. But the VGP release includes "Jumpin Jack Flash" and "Street Fighting Man", so if one is a completist, one better have both the vinyl and the CD.

PERFORMANCE:
While the 1st Cologne show is one of the best concerts of 1976, this 2nd show is.....well; it's one of the worst, IMO. And it's mostly due to Jagger. Sounds like he would have liked to be anywhere in the world, apart from being on the stage, singing Rolling Stones songs. Especially in the 1st half of the show. "If You Can't Rock Me" for instance; used to be one of the highlights of 1975 and 1976. But this must be the worst version they ever delivered.....before 2002, that is.
But, the fact that Jagger is extremely bored also makes it a very interesting listen

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