Billy Joel and Elton John Live face 2 Face
March 19, 2009
The Center
Houston Texas

Recorder: UNIVONC
Seat: Floor section A Row 17

Lineage:
Core Sound Dual DPA 4061 merged into 3 pin XLR into
Mic2496 V2 Portable Mic Pre-amp/A-to-D Converter (coax out) into
Digtial RCA male to RCA male cable into
M-Audio's MicroTrack II Professional 2-Channel Mobile Digital Recorder
(into PDIF)
ScanDisk Extreme III 32 GB compact Falshcard

Recorded in 96khz/24 bit 2 channel stereo
Minimal editing via Audacity 1.3 (beta) only to make individual songs.
Conversion will be from 96k to 48k/16 to 44.1k/16 in that order with Audacity 1.3 (beta)
Remastering was done through Adobe Audition 3.0 (version 3.0.1)
Most editing was done with Bass reduciton (Kill the MIC rumble)
Spline filtering to bring out more vocals within the Songs
WAV files converted to FLAC 6 via Traders Little Helper
Files torrented will be done thru traders little helper onto uTorrent.

Comments:

This concert was a last minute idea.
My son wanted to see Rice University and the family went to houston on spring break after a long weekend of baseball in florida.
We ate at some great places of Houston, and got the chance to see the show.
Kudos to my youngest who had NO clue of any of the music.
the concert lasted about 210 minutes and he did not complain at all.
He knew I was recording and asked at the beginning if i need him to hold my coat.
(that was where i was hiding my rig for recording).

This wonderful show is recorded entirely with digital audio equipment.
Show was incredible! However, the people around me were plain idiots.
I feel the quality is very very good and i hope u also think so as well.
The young beautiful girl that had a big mouth and talked frequently behind me ended up trashed! (I hope she puked all night long)
There is one problem with recording. during "Don't let the Sun..." there is a brief technical problem that will affect the entire song.
Had to minimize noise there.... Sorry!

Also, this is a remaster to the original posted in March of 2009.
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?returnto=%2Faccount-cp.php&id=241961

As far as I know, this is the only US recording of the face to face concert that continues.
The key difference is that I had to reduce the bass rolloff that was affecting Elton John's vocals.

My gift to you all thru dimeadozen.org
......Bill




Set List:

DISC 1

(Elton & Billy together)

0101 Introduction (04:42)
0102 Your Song (04:11)
0103 Just the Way You Are (04:15)
0104 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (INCOMPLETE) (05:33)
0105 Yellow Rose of Texas (snippet) and My Life (05:00)

(Elton alone)

0106 Funeral for a Friend (05:47)
0107 Love Lies Bleeding (Funeral) (05:58)
0108 Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting (05:30)
0109 Burn Down the Mission (06:11)
0110 Madman Across the Water (09:47)
0111 Tiny Dancer (07:24)
0112 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (03:34)


DISC 2


0201 Daniel (04:02)
0202 Rocket Man (12:57)
0203 Levon (07:00)
0204 I'm Still Standing (03:30)
0205 Crocodile Rock (05:30)

(Billy alone)

0206 Prelude/Angry Young Man (05:54)
0207 Welcome Talk (01:40)
0208 Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) (04:24)
0209 Allentown (04:41)
0210 Zanzibar (07:23)
0211 Don't Ask Me Why (03:24)
0213 She's Always a Woman (03:47)


DISC 3


0301 Scenes from an Italian Restaurant (08:09)
0302 River of Dreams and Deep in the Heart of Texas (snippet) (06:18)
0303 We Didn't Start the Fire (05:04)
0304 It's Still Rock and Roll to Me (04:10)
0305 Only the Good Die Young (04:26)

(Elton & Billy)
0306 I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues (05:14)
0307 Uptown Girl (03:27)
0308 The Bitch is Back (04:21)
0309 You May Be Right (05:08)
0310 Bennie & The Jets (06:53)
0311 Birthday and Back in the USSR (05:32)
0312 Candle in the Wind (04:08)
0313 Piano Man (06:52)