1979-12-06 - Empire Theatre, Liverpool, UK - remaster (kind of)

The Real Wizard wrote:

Thistleboy1980 wrote:

I'm not convinced the taper would only tape up to Bo Rhap.

It's entirely possible. Plenty of tapers only brought 60 or 90 minute tapes to shows. Blank tapes were very expensive back then - usually about 3x the cost of your ticket.

It's possible, of course - I'm just not convinced, and that's largely because of the audio quality which just doesn't sound natural, even for a poor audience recording. There has been some editing - maybe from the taper to save space on the tape - but I think it's deliberate.

Who would have a better quality one, with more audio, that would be enough to convince Pittrek that it was, indeed, Liverpool? After all, if there's nothing to suggest it is Liverpool, how would anyone else know for sure?

Thistleboy1980 wrote:

Who would have a better quality one, with more audio, that would be enough to convince Pittrek that it was, indeed, Liverpool? After all, if there's nothing to suggest it is Liverpool, how would anyone else know for sure?

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=602080

103' 40" in better quality

Thanks!

Thanks for the heads up Luca.

bootLuca wrote:

Thistleboy1980 wrote:

Who would have a better quality one, with more audio, that would be enough to convince Pittrek that it was, indeed, Liverpool? After all, if there's nothing to suggest it is Liverpool, how would anyone else know for sure?

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=602080

103' 40" in better quality

So this version shared on Queenzone was degraded and cut on purpose

^ that's exactly how it looks. Unfortunately, it also looks like I can't download from Dime...something about rank. I don't have anything I can share (well, nothing that isn't already out) so how do you improve rank? For now, it will need to be this version ;)

Your ratio is maybe too low?

Thistleboy1980 wrote:

^ that's exactly how it looks. Unfortunately, it also looks like I can't download from Dime...something about rank. I don't have anything I can share (well, nothing that isn't already out) so how do you improve rank? For now, it will need to be this version ;)

When you first join they give you enough ratio to play with. And ideally you should seed a few torrents after you've downloaded them, and you'll be in good shape.

Here is a torrent for the file shared in Dime:

I created the torrent in utorrent using the same file. I hope it works.

Nitroboy wrote:

bootLuca wrote:

Thistleboy1980 wrote:

Who would have a better quality one, with more audio, that would be enough to convince Pittrek that it was, indeed, Liverpool? After all, if there's nothing to suggest it is Liverpool, how would anyone else know for sure?

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=602080

103' 40" in better quality

So this version shared on Queenzone was degraded and cut on purpose

Nope - 100% not true.

The person who shared that recording did it with the best of intentions. I was there every step of the way. It's also a completely different tape transfer from the one on Dime.

Thanks TCC for the torrent and also to the original sharer.

Thanks all for the advice regarding Dime ratios, and to TCC for providing a torrent here. Much appreciated :)

Thank you very much.