Bob Marley and The Wailers
July 18, 1978 - Late Show
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Santa Cruz, California

Audience cassette master.
Lineage: ElectroVoice RE10 microphones > Dolby B encoded Maxell UDXLI C90 tape > Nakamichi 350 cassette master.
Transfer [grner1 - circa 2005]: Nakamichi Dragon (Dolby B decoded) > Pro Tools (normalization, minor "nip and tuck" edits & tracking - no EQ or DNR) > AIFF files > xACT (FLAC level 8 files, tagged with sector boundaries verified). The disc change is seamless.

The show is only 14 seconds over 80 minutes but no editing was done to get this to fit on one CDR. There really wasn't any extra space because the master had already been paused during the encore applause break. Transitions have been smoothed out to be as seamless as possible.

CD1 - 38:37
101 intro 0:21
102 Positive Vibration 5:06
103 Them Belly Full 3:54
104 Lively Up Yourself 6:50
105 Rebel Music 5:14
106 Heathen 5:19
107 War 3:07
108 > No More Trouble 1:44
109 Running Away 3:39
110 > Crazy Baldhead 3:23

CD2 - 41:37
201 Crisis 4:43
202 I Shot The Sheriff 4:32
203 No Woman No Cry 7:57
204 Jammin' 7:16
205 encore break 0:20
206 Easy Skanking 3:19
207 > Get Up Stand Up 4:10
208 > Exodus 9:20

Notes [grner1 - 2021-01-31]: The Sound quality is fairly decent, though there are some rough spots in the first couple of songs. Part of track 2 had a bad channel so the good channel was pasted into the other with the differences made less noticeable by panning gradually from stereo to mono and back. There is also someone playing some stupid whistle in the audience that gets picked up for some of the first two songs until I could move away from that idiot. While moving the stereo image remained OK by keeping the mics pointed correctly, but by the time I stopped moving forward the bass and midrange sound pressure levels were a bit overloaded so the rest of the show sounds good but not great. Audience noise was no longer a problem with the music so loud and there are no cut songs so overall this probably rates as better than average for Bob Marley audience recordings. Please check the samples to judge the sound quality for yourself.

By the way, the Nakamichi 350 was a rather large deck to sneak into a show and I was caught trying to enter the early show with it. Luckily a friendly female friend helped tosuccessfully get it into the late show! A soundboard recording of the early show was subsequently shared here. Now that I have gotten a chance to remaster the late show, I will post it separately.

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