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Lou Reed - 1973-09-01 Lenox Aud (Re-seed) The master from the other show on 'Rock'n'Roll Mammal'

Lou Reed
Tanglewood Festival
Music Inn, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
Sept 1, 1973
Cd-r copy of AUD Master - upgrade to Disc 1 of 'Rock'n'Roll Mammal'

85 minutes, 485 MB FLAC (level 8/Verify/align on sector boundaries)

01. Intro
02. Prelude
03. Sweet Jane
04. How Do You Think It Feels?
05. Caroline Says I
06. I'm Waiting For The Man
07. Satellite Of Love
08. Walk On The Wild Side
09. Oh Jim
10. I'll Be Your Mirror
11. Pale Blue Eyes
12. Heroin

13. White Light/White Heat
14. Vicious
15. Rock And Roll

(encore)
16. Sister Ray

The opening night of the "Berlin" aka the "Rock and Roll Animal" tour, as captured by an excellent audience recording (certainly for its time).
To boot, this particular transfer comes straight from the master tape, making this a huge upgrade compared to the version available on discs
1 & 2 of the "Rock and Roll Mammal" bootleg (all the same, kudos to "mg196" for having seeded that one in the first place and so, indirectly,
spurring this release). You all should thank "tradetheory" for this, who generously sent me CD-R copies of the discs which he received
directly from the taper!

After ripping the tracks from the CD-Rs (EAC log-files included), a handful of clicks were removed using SoundForge's pen tool (most
notably one at the end of "Satellite Of Love" and another in "Sister Ray"). I've also smoothened the transition between "Caroline Says I" and
"I'm Waiting For The Man". Otherwise no processing of any kind was necessary. I did change the track splits slightly.

Two final notes, as reported by "tradetheory": "the reason that the sound quality changes in the middle of Sister Ray is that everyone in the
crowd was standing up at that point, so the taper got up off the ground, stood up, and held his little $25 Radio Shack tape recorder above the
crowd's heads. And that is a dog's stifled bark in the middle of Satellite of Love--a seeing eye dog belonging to a blind girl at the show."

The fade-out at the end of "Pale Blue Eyes" was already there on the copy that I received; in addition, you'll find that the last track of disc 1
and the first one on disc 2 can be joined perfectly (i.e., no fade-out or -in). Still, I have kept "Heroin" at the end of disc 1, just as it was on
the CD-Rs that I've gotten from "tradetheory", because I feel that the song makes more sense coming after the acoustic intermezzo (you
know, trying to preserve the flow of the concert). So, there are several possibilities for burning this recording on CD:
- you can keep the order in which the tracks are here being seeded;
- you can move "Heroin" to the start of disc 2 without having to perform any additional sound editing;
- you could even burn the main set on a single disc and put the encore of "Sister Ray" on a separate one.

Anyway, prepare yourself to blown away (or, at least, make sure to put a soft cushion under your jaw, as it is bound to drop when you hear
this!).

Enjoy!

Uploaded by kbst84 in early 2008.

[MJG196]

Ah...I'll have to grab this one. My upload had already been "remastered," but this looks like a general improvement. Here is the old info file:

By the seeder's own request, here's a "remastered" version of the recent "Lou Reed - Rock And Roll Mammal" torrent (http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=76658). What I did is fix all track transitions (including the removal of the digital clicks between d1t1-2 and d1t6-7 with SoundForge's pen tool, and the deletion of the short repeats between d1t7-8 and d2t2-3) and remove the tape-rewind in d1t10. Disc 1 still clocks in at 80'46", so unless you burn it on a 90-min CD-R with overburn, that concert cannot be fitted on a single disc.

I have included two versions of the fixed track 10 of disc 1. There is a significant increase in volume in the original version (a difference of 3 dB). The "unbalanced" track features the two parts in their unaltered state; in the "balanced" track, I have tried to make the transition as smooth as possible, by decreasing the volume by 3 dB. Just so you know.

EDIT: after the previous seed, it was brought to my attention that there were further errors in disc 1, track 15, so I went back to it once more.

Here's what I did:
>>> remove digital clicks at 25", between 2'10" - 2'25", at 3'32" and at 8'49";
>>> delete the annoying glitch around the 3'23"-3'25" mark.
The track should play fine now!

Please note that no filters have been used in the "remastering" process!

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Here's the original info:
(please note that the correct date for the Adelaide gig is July 17, 1975):


Band: Lou Reed
Location: Lenox, Massachusetts 1Sept1973; Adelaide, Australia 17Aug1975
Bootleg: Rock And Roll Mammal

Source: CD-R trade -> xACT -> .flac

This 2CD set is a MUST HAVE for any hardcore Lou fan. The sound and content makes it absolutely essential for your collection. It has the very first show from the Berlin tour and Lou is in 100% PERFECT form. The second show is great, but the Lenox, MA, show is what you REALLY want.

The first cd (and 1st track of the second) is a complete show from the Hunter/Wagner-era, and CD2 a show from the Star Truckin' '75 tour of Australia/Japan. The first CD's sound is probably a B/B+, but CD2 is easily A-.

If the whole Lenox, MA, show could have fit onto one CD I would have made it that way, but the total time is more than 81-minutes (with brief spaces between tracks). CD2 is the same way, but that is the way this disc has circulated for many years (I've had my copy for at least 5 years).

CD1: This must have been a really good night for Lou. Not only did he perform the standard Rock 'N' Roll Animal-era setlist, but he threw in some gems, like I'll Be Your Mirror and Pale Blue Eyes (acoustic guitars!) as well as a partially acoustic Heroin. Oh yeah...Sister Ray (CD2 actually)!! Pale Blue Eyes is a little screwed up. At 1:26 the recording loops back a verse. He seems very relaxed and in a great mood, let alone the fact that he has no trouble remembering the words to his songs, as he did often on this tour. Believe it or not, Lou is playing the acoustic - something very rare indeed over the next couple years. Hunter and Wagner are in exemplary form, but they are not quite the hard-rock double assault they would become over the next few months. They're more technical, more precise than on the official Rock 'N' Roll Animal LP.

CD2: The second show from the Australian leg of the tour, this is great quality with Doug Yule in the lineup on lead guitar and backing vocals. Other than the gaps between tracks, this is a superb set, including the rarity, "Too Late Mama."

OK, enough rambling! Here is the tracklist:

CD1:
1. intro
2. Sweet Jane
3. How Do You Think It Feels?
4. Caroline Says I
5. I'm Waiting For the Man
6. Satellite of Love
7. Walk On The Wild Side
8. Oh Jim
9. I'll Be Your Mirror
10. Pale Blue Eyes
11. Heroin
12. White Light/ White Heat
13. Vicious
14. Rock & Roll

CD2:
1. Sister Ray
2. Sweet Jane
3. Coney island Baby
4. Leave Me Alone
5. Satellite of Love
6. Ride Sally Ride
7. Charley's Girl
8. Kicks
9. WL/WH
10. Too Late Mama
11. Rock & Roll

This 2CD set is dying for some editing: spaces between tracks and the loop on CD1, track 10 @ 1:26. That would enable us to put all of the Lenox show on disc 1 and make the whole thing better. I just don't have the time right now.

As usual, there was no filtering/de-clicking at all.

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