Friday, March 11, 2022

David Bowie The Hunky Geordie Tapes Volume 25(revised text)

HUG209CD  ACE INVADER

DAVID BOWIE - Chicago 1972-10-07

Auditorium, Chicago, IL, USA

Audience recording
Lineage: TDK SA90 (Arcorman) > Denon DRM-500 tape deck > direct wire > iZotope RX2 denoiser to remove hiss > Goldwave for track splits > FLAC 4
Number of discs: 1 (90 minute disc)
Artwork: included
Total running time: 80:18

Tracks:

1. Ode to Joy
2. Hang On To Yourself
3. Ziggy Stardust
4. The Supermen
5. Queen Bitch
6. Changes
7. Life On Mars?
8. Five Years
9. Space Oddity
10. Andy Warhol
11. My Death
12. The Width Of A Circle
13. John, I'm Only Dancing
14. Moonage Daydream
15. Starman
16. Waiting For The Man
17. White Light/White Heat
18. Suffragette City
19. The Jean Genie

Notes

iZotope RX2 denoiser to remove hiss.
Running too fast - speed correction with factor of 96%

Gap in The Supermen @ 1:39.  Simply removed.
Bit of volume reprofiling to the middle of Five Years.
Gap at 2:36 in Space Oddity, with small clip inserted from another artist.  Removed with fades.
Gap clipping the start of Andy Warhol - simply removed.  Just before three pops from fiddling with the tape recorder - volume suppressed.
Tape flip between My Death and The Width Of A Circle in crowd noise (5:32) - removed, with light fade-in.
Gap at 3:21 in Moonage Daydream that cuts the start of the instrumental break.  Removed with fades.
Two small gaps in crowd noise between Starman and Waiting For The Man (at 3:51 and 3:53) both removed with minimal impact.
Another small gap immediately before the start of Suffragette City.  Removed.
Gap in crowd noise between Suffragette City and The Jean Genie (at 3:24) simply removed.
Three gaps in crowd noise at 3:57-3:58 in The Jean Genie, all removed.
Sector boundary errors resolved using TLH.

Torrent History:
Originally seeded to MWP by steve23yh as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 25 on 15th August 2014
Uploaded to Bowie Station as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 25 by steve23yh on 2nd July 2015





HUG211CD  ANY WAY YOU WANNA LET IT ROLL

DAVID BOWIE - Linz 1990-08-29

Linz-Stadion, Linz, Austria

Audience recording
TDK SF90 x 2 (lo gen)
           Transfer (100PCB): Nakamichi CR7 > Benchmark ADC1 > Marantz digital recorder to SD card > FLAC
           Processing (steve23yh): Goldwave for track splits etc > FLAC 4
Number of discs: 2
Artwork: included
Total running time: Disc 1: 50:49; Disc 2: 48:58

Tracks:

Disc 1

1. Ode To Joy
2. Space Oddity
3. Rebel Rebel
4. Ashes To Ashes
5. band introductions
6. Life On Mars?
7. Stay
8. Pretty Pink Rose
9. Blue Jean
10. Let's Dance
11. Sound + Vision
12. Ziggy Stardust
13. China Girl

Disc 2

1. Station To Station
2. Young Americans
3. Suffragette City
4. Fame '90
5. Heroes
6. Changes
7. Panic In Detroit
8. White Light/White Heat
9. Baby What You Want Me To Do?
10. The Jean Genie
11. Gloria


Notes

Gap in Rebel Rebel at 54 seconds, removed with fade (just over a second missing).  For two or three seconds on each side of this, the left channel was a bit of a mess, so right channel copied to replace.
Tape flip between Ziggy Stardust and China Girl - crowd noise, pretty clean join.
Tape flip between Heroes and Changes - crowd noise (encore break), clean join.
Sector Boundary Errors removed with TLH.  No hiss removal.

Torrent History:
Originally seeded to MWP by steve23yh as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 25 on 15th August 2014
Uploaded to Bowie Station as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 25 by steve23yh on 2nd July 2015





HUG212CD  DRAIN YOUR GLASS

DAVID BOWIE - Copenhagen 1976-04-29

Falkoner Teatret, Copenhagen

Audience recording
Lineage: TDK MA90 (nicmac)
           Transfer (100PCB): Nakamichi CR7 > Benchmark ADC1 > Marantz digital recorder to SD card > FLAC
           Processing (steve23yh): iZotope RX2 denoiser tool for light hiss removal > Goldwave for track splits etc > FLAC 4
Number of discs: 1 (90 minute)
Artwork: included
Total running time: 83:47

Tracks:

1. Station To Station
2. Suffragette City
3. Fame
4. Word On A Wing
5. Stay
6. Waiting For The Man
7. Queen Bitch
8. Life On Mars?
9. Five Years
10. Panic In Detroit
11. band introductions
12. Changes
13. TVC 15
14. Diamond Dogs
15. The Jean Genie
16. Rebel Rebel

Notes

iZotope RX2 to remove hiss
Running slow, speed correction with a factor of 104%

Volume reshaping on first half of Station To Station.
Gap with loud start sound after @ 3:37 in Stay, removed cleanly.
Acceleration and deceleration in Five Years between 3:32 and 3:50.  Done speed correction as best as I can, but quite a fight!
Five Years cuts out @ 4:12 - ending taken from Noggin version of tape.
The Noggin Five Years still ends abruptly and start of Panic In Detroit is clipped - join tidied with fades.
Gap in Rebel Rebel @ 3:30.  Removed with little impact.
Sector boundary errors tidied with TLH.


Torrent History:
Originally seeded to MWP by steve23yh as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 25 on 15th August 2014
Uploaded to Bowie Station as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 25 by steve23yh on 2nd July 2015





HUG213CD  FOR BRIXTON

DAVID BOWIE - Hammersmith 1983-06-30

Hammersmith Odeon, London

Audience recording
Lineage: TDK D60 x 2 (Noggin)
       Transfer (100PCB): Nakamichi CR7 > Benchmark ADC1 > Marantz digital recorder to SD card > FLAC
           Processing (steve23yh): iZotope RX2 denoiser tool for light hiss removal > Goldwave for track splits etc > FLAC 4
Number of discs: 2
Artwork: included
Total running time: Disc 1: 44:30; Disc 2: 50:45

Tracks:

Disc 1

1. Look Back In Anger
2. Breaking Glass
3. announcement
4. Scary Monster
5. Rebel Rebel
6. Heroes
7. What In The World
8. Life On Mars?
9. Golden Years
10. Fashion
11. Let's Dance
12. Red Sails
13. China Girl

Disc 2

1. Station To Station
2. Cracked Actor
3. band introductions
4. Young Americans
5. Space Oddity
6. TVC 15
7. Fame
8. Stay
9. The Jean Genie
10. Modern Love

Notes

Lightweight hiss reduction using iZotope RX2 denoiser tool.

Some volume reprofiling required from the end of Scary Monsters and during Rebel Rebel.
Tape flip between Golden Years and Fashion - fade-out/in.
Tape flip between Station To Station and Cracked Actor during crowd noise - seamless.
Tape flip between Fame and Stay during crowd noise - seamless.
Sector Boundary Errors fixed with TLH.

Torrent History:
Originally seeded to MWP by steve23yh as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 25 on 15th August 2014
Uploaded to Bowie Station as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 25 by steve23yh on 2nd July 2015





HUG214CD  HE HAS NO EYES

DAVID BOWIE - Kokura 1996-06-11

Kyusyu-Kousei-Nenkin Kaikan, Kokura, Japan

Audience recording
BASF Ferro C90 x 1½ (probably straight from DAT master)
           Transfer (100PCB): Nakamichi CR7 > Benchmark ADC1 > Marantz digital recorder to SD card > FLAC
           Processing (steve23yh): iZotope RX2 denoiser > Goldwave for track splits etc > FLAC 4
Number of discs: 2
Artwork: included
Total running time: Disc 1: 48:03; Disc 2: 79:25

Tracks:

Disc 1

1. The Motel
2. Look Back In Anger
3. The Heart's Filthy Lesson
4. Scary Monsters
5. Diamond Dogs
6. Outside
7. Aladdin Sane
8. Andy Warhol
9. The Voyeur Of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)

Disc 2

1. The Man Who Sold The World
2. A Small Plot Of Land
3. Strangers When We Meet
4. Telling Lies
5. Hallo Spaceboy
6. Breaking Glass
7. We Prick You
8. Jump They Say
9. Lust For Life
10. Under Pressure
11. Heroes
12. My Death
13. band introductions
14. All The Young Dudes
15. White Light/White Heat
16. Moonage Daydream


Notes

Minor hiss removal using iZotope RX2 denoiser.
Quote a lot of volume reshaping.

Tape flip between Andy Warhol and The Voyeur Of Utter Destruction - crowd noise, clean join.
Small gap (faded) between The Voyeur Of Utter Destruction and The Man Who Sold The World - used as break between discs.
Tape flip between Jump They Say and Lust For Life - crowd noise, tidied with fades.
Gap between Heroes and My Death - removed cleanly.
Sector Boundary Errors removed with TLH.

Torrent History:
Originally seeded to MWP by steve23yh as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 25 on 15th August 2014
Uploaded to Bowie Station as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 25 by steve23yh on 2nd July 2015





HUG215CD  GROW ON YOU

DAVID BOWIE - Earl's Court 1978-06-30

Earl's Court, London

Audience recording
Lineage: Sony CHF60 x 2 (Mike Jewell) > Denon DRM-500 deck > direct wire > iZotope RX2 denoiser tool for light hiss removal > Goldwave for track splits etc > FLAC 4
Number of discs: 2
Artwork: included
Total running time: Disc 1: 48:49; Disc 2: 54:48

Tracks:

Disc One

1. Warszawa
2. Heroes
3. What In The World
4. Be My Wife
5. The Jean Genie
6. Blackout
7. Sense Of Doubt
8. Speed Of Life
9. Breaking Glass
10. Fame
11. Beauty And The Beast

Disc Two

1. band introductions
2. Five Years
3. Soul Love
4. Star
5. Hang On To Yourself
6. Ziggy Stardust
7. Suffragette City
8. Art Decade
9. Alabama Song
10. Station To Station
11. TVC 15
12. Stay
13. Rebel Rebel

Original Track

4. Original version of Star (see below)


Notes

Running rather slow.  Speed correction with a factor of 107% (side 1 up to 2:26 in Heroes) then 105% for remainder of side 1; 104% (side 2-4).

First 1:06 of Heroes still running too slow.  Speed corrected with a factor of 102.5%.
Small speed fluctuation during Be My Wife @ 1:25.  Speed corrected from there to end of track with a factor of 99%.
Tape flip between The Jean Genie and Blackout.  Fade-in on Blackout on source tape, The Jean Genie applause faded to join.

Tape flip during Star, and unfortunately the middle of the song is missing.  
To address this, I've created a composite version of Star, featuring the middle (from 0:27 to 1:45) from an alternative version of the gig (Noggin).  
For any purists, however, the original is included in the separate folder, simply tidied with a fade-out/in.

Tape flip between Station To Station and TVC 15 (encore break, crowd noise) - clean join.
Another gap in the crowd noise between TVC 15 and Stay - clean join.
TLH to address sector boundary errors.

Torrent History:
Originally seeded to MWP by steve23yh as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 25 on 15th August 2014
Uploaded to Bowie Station as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 25 by steve23yh on 2nd July 2015





HUG216CD  RED LIKE JUNGLE

DAVID BOWIE - Wembley 1983-06-04

Wembley Arena, London

Audience recording (soundboard/mixer desk?)
Lineage: TDK D60 x 2 (Noggin)
       Transfer (100PCB): Nakamichi CR7 > Benchmark ADC1 > Marantz digital recorder to SD card > FLAC
           Processing (steve23yh): iZotope RX2 denoiser tool for light hiss removal > Goldwave for track splits etc > FLAC 4
Number of discs: 2
Artwork: included
Total running time: Disc 1: 55:36; Disc 2: 51:38

Tracks:

Disc 1

1. introduction
2. The Jean Genie
3. Star
4. Heroes
5. What In The World
6. Golden Years
7. Fashion
8. Let's Dance
9. Red Sails
10. Breaking Glass
11. Life On Mars?
12. Sorrow
13. Cat People
14. China Girl
15. Scary Monsters
16. Rebel Rebel
17. White Light/White Heat

Disc 2

1. Station To Station
2. Cracked Actor
3. Ashes To Ashes
4. Space Oddity
5. band introductions
6. Young Americans
7. Hang On To Yourself
8. Fame
9. Stay
10. The Jean Genie
11. Modern Love

Notes

Lightweight iZotope RX2 denoiser for hiss removal.

Tape flip in crowd noise between Breaking Glass and Life On Mars? - seamless.
Little bit of distortion (only two or three seconds) halfway through Rebel Rebel is on the source.
Tape flip between Hang On To Yourself and Fame - seamless.
Gap in crowd noise (encore break) between Fame and Stay - removed cleanly.
Sector Boundary Errors fixed with TLH.

Torrent History:
Originally seeded to MWP by steve23yh as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 25 on 15th August 2014
Uploaded to Bowie Station as part of The Hunky Geordie Tapes, Vol 25 by steve23yh on 2nd July 2015

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