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rubycatgirl
[...] as a "bonus", I will also upload my speed corrections of these two songs [...]
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vancouver
i bought this album in copenhagen i the 70's
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rubycatgirl
I am, of course, happy to fill your request and running the risk of losing the legendary status
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rubycatgirl
My tape recording of the two LP's has its origin somewhere in the eighties.
A friend of my parents - a huge Elvis collector - borrowed this box from an
aquintance of his and for me to tape it while I was over for the weekend.
I had five tapes and some 10 or 12 LP's to record (e.g., 'Nasty Music', 'JD
On Tour', a.o.) so I had to make some choises. One of them was to tape only
the second and third Black-box' LP and skip the first ('Beautiful Delilah').
Recently I was intrigued by the Black-box 3LP vinyl rip (mp3) (see, [www.iorr.org] )
but I was, to be honest, a bit disapointed by the quality of those mp3's. It seemed that,
to my taste, way too much was "declicked" and noise "reducted", thus resulting in all
kinds of digital high-pitched sounds making it sound way too "mechanic".
Not that my tapes are so great but at least they have that old bootleg "feel".
Anyway, I transfered my tapes with the second and third LP of the Black-box to
digital, and here they are. Actually I made two versions: one is just the "raw"
transfer, the other has been (manually - not "generic" ) noise reducted, slightly
eq'ed and adjusted to more or less equal volume levels all over (no clipping!).
This to provide this vinyl transfer in a more "natural" way.
There is, for instance, the tape itself which has "obscured" the vinyl - which wasn't
actually pristine to begin with - with some extra crackles and tiny drop-outs.
Obviously,the tape has generated a lot of extra noise. Other issues that justify eq'ing
are needle pressure (too little or too much) and the overall decay. Again, I did
my best to provide the orignal bootleg in its own sound. This also means that for
'best versions' of the presented outtakes one has to look for other sources!
One final warning (wow, that sounds if it is all really bad while it is pretty much fun
actually!): I have not speed-corrected any of the tracks. In most cases it isn't
actually needed and it would destroy the original bootleg idea from which it all
started. Also, any speed-correcting would simply be my best guess based on
quarters, thirds and halfs of semitones and listning to what I think sounds right.
However, 'Cherry Oh Baby' and 'Parachute Woman' are quite terrible... (that was
the warning!). (But, as a "bonus", I will also upload my speed corrections of these
two songs). And CS Blues sounds as if it is running ellipses... Hard to correct anyway.
(And this is how I first came to know this song: with an even more sinister sounding...).
Files (in seperate tracks) are converted to FLAC and "upped" to Megaupload.
Black Box - vinyl "raw" : [www.megaupload.com]
Black Box - "cooked" (or "processed", if you like) : [www.megaupload.com]
Perhaps I have mixed the titles 'Gravestones' and 'Rape Of The Vaults'; spelling of
the titles is according to the Black-box insert.
'Gravestones':
01- Ain’t That Loving You Baby?
02- Mona (I Need You Baby)
03- Don’t Lie To Me
04- If You Need Me
05- Oh Baby, We Got A Good Thing Goin’
06- It’s All Over Now
07- Little Red Rooster
08- The Last Time
09- It Should Be You
10- Play With Fire
11- Everybody Need Somebody
12- You’d Better Move On
13- Bye Bye Johnny
14- Beautiful Delilah
15- Hey Crawdaddy
'Rape Of The Vaults'
01- All Down The Line
02- Melody
03- C.cksucker Blues
04- Black & Blue Jam
05- Brown Sugar
06- Too Many Cooks
07- Exile On Main St. Blues
08- Silver Train
09- Parachute Woman
10- You Can’t Always Get What You Want
11- Cherry Oh Baby
12- Ruby Tuesday
13- Sure The One You Need
RCG
PS: I did not "declick" any of the files... (it just "crackles" as it does!)
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vancouver
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about the r&r circus trax..1968
are they on other boots in better quality ?
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vancouver
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about the r&r circus trax..1968
are they on other boots in better quality ?
I have both tracks in better quality from the Chapter One 'Rock & Roll Circus' [CO 25123]
Flacs are here: [www.megaupload.com]