Audience recording

CDR

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lineage: Unknown audience => low-generation cassette => Stand-alone Pioneer CD burner => CDR => EAC => Hard Drive => Magix Audio Cleaning Lab => Export to WAV => FLAC (level 8)

Nice audience recording from Eric Clapton's brief 1984 tour of Europe and North Africa. This featured a different setlist than he'd performed in his 1983 "Money and Cigarettes" tour, and some unusual rarities -- "The Sky Is Crying," "Rita Mae," and "Bottle of Red Wine" didn't show up in the set much in his '70s and '80s shows, and the versions are spot-on here. This is an extremely entertaining show, with unusual arrangements and vocal phrasing that make even the most tired, over-performed tracks seem fresh. Highly recommended for an EC fan of this era.

The recording itself is quite good; there is some hiss (which I didn't try to remove, figuring that I could do more harm than good) and a persistent low-volume buzz from the monitor during quiet points (some with more Adobe Audition skill than me could probably remove this). Neither detract from one's enjoyment of the recording. Please note that the first couple of minutes start out kind of rocky as the taper gets situated; from about the middle of track 1 through the end, this settles into a nice recording. For the time period, this is an excellent document of an unusual setlist from a very short tour bridging the "Money and Cigarettes" and "Behind The Sun" eras.

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