Have a Merry Cheap Christmas
with
Cheap Trick
Robin Zander: Guitar, Vocals
Tom Petersson: Bass, Vocals
Rick Nielsen: Guitar, Vocals
Bun E. Carlos: Drums
Orpheum Theater
Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
December 15, 1978
performance quality: A-
recording quality: B+
source: 1st generation audience tape
runtime: 79:09
setlist:
1: hello there
2: come on, come on
3: stiff competition
4: on top of the world
5: Robin Zander guitar solo > big eyes
6: fixing the bass amp (it blew)
7: ain't that a shame
8: southern girls
9: need your love
10: I want you to want me
11: California man
12: surrender
13: goodnight
14: encore: heaven tonight
15: auf weidersehen
16: clock strikes ten
lineage: AKG D190E microphones >
Sony 158 cassette deck (I think with dolby B on) b>
Maxell XLI 90 min. cassettes (normal bias/EQ >
Maxell UD 7" reel (3 & 3/4 ips) > soundforge 4.5 (wav) >
CD > CD extractor (wav) > FLAC 6 > torrentially yours.
A this and that, you're (almost) there production.
comments:
This is a full show (no tape flip cuts) from the peak of Cheap Trick's
popularity, fresh on the heels of "Live at Budokan" and Heaven Tonight
studio release. The band and crowd is full of energy this night and even
when the bass amp blows out they fix it and carry on with the many big hits
they had at this time. This recording comes from the front row of the balcony.
It has been circulated on tape before, but this is the 1st time I have uploaded it.
I do not know if the fellow with the master cassettes has ever uploaded anything.
I have used some EQ on this to boost the high and low end a little, and some ICPVR
(individual clap peak volume reduction) to help with the crowd noise, and being
in the balcony helped keep the screaming crowd noise bearable. I think anyone who
likes Cheap Trick will enjoy hearing this recording. Alot of the songs heard in
the live album from Japan are heard here from Boston before a packed house.
I wanted to get this thing up as one of my 1st uploads (since I became an "uploader"
on dime in Dec. 2006) but port issues prevented that and everything else for
almost a year. Hopefully that nightmare is all over now and everyone can hear
just how exciting a little cheapness (of the right kind) can be around Christmas
time. I cut out some of the encore break applause to make sure this fit on
1 CD but nothing else was cut out and nothing has been speed adjusted. From walkon
to walkoff, you hear every note and word of a classic concert, said by a
contact of mine many years ago with over 200 Cheap Trick shows that this is
one of the best shows they've done. It's the only Cheap Trick show I've ever seen,
and I've only heard a few others on disc or tape, but considering I used to think
this band was the epitome of trash rock, but didn't think so after seeing this,
it must have been a pretty good concert. The guy with the master tapes bought me
tickets to the show in exchange for helping him get a tape so I wasn't expecting
to have much fun at all at the show, but I enjoyed it, the crowd enjoyed it and
were patient during the bass problem being fixed, and Cheap Trick seemed to enjoy
it alot. I hope you all enjoy it too.
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly. (and gaplessly)