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bv
Nothing wrong with my memory.
Tin can sound in the 70's.
Not to be compared with the sound they have now.
That is why the shows are so great these days.
Same band, but the sound is crystal clear and strong.
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bv
Well if you were front stage then may be you got a great sound in the 70's, but we did not end up there always, and for 75% of the venue, to be honest, it was tin can sound like a big echo. The past few years it has been the other way around, crystal sharp guitars and sound for more than 75% of the crowd.
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Palace Revolution 2000
But next year at MSG the Barbarians were just a rambling mess; performance wise and sound wise. Yes memories get hazy, but the one fact that remains crystal clear is that Stanley Clarke stole the show, pure and simple.
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Silver Dagger
1973 - Wembley Empire Pool - Fairly muddy sound but the recording I got on Sept 8 early show was quite bright.
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Aquamarine
To be honest, if you were at shows back in the 60s and 70s, you probably have no memory of the comparative sound quality. I don’t, anyway, though I remember a bunch of other stuff!
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bv
Nothing wrong with my memory.
Tin can sound in the 70's.
Not to be compared with the sound they have now.
That is why the shows are so great these days.
Same band, but the sound is crystal clear and strong.
Most of the time, bv. But it depends sometimes on the location.
The Amsterdam Arena in 1998 1st concert .... horrible, both at the back and in the front (every hit of Charlie came out twice, and I had a very hard time to figure out what the first songs were which they were playing ... and I was front of stage!). I had tears in my eyes from sadness. The soundboard is perfectly fine, though.
2014 Dusseldorf .... way too loud. When Ronnie did his, way too load, solo on YCAGWYW for instance, the choire totally disappeared ... soundboard again, fine.
All in all, the sound of course has improved incredibly over the decades. No comparison really between the 70s and today.