David Gilmour Band
David Gilmour: guitars, vocals
Mick Ralphs: guitar, vocals
Raphael Ravenscroft: saxophone
Gregg Dechart: keyboards
Mickey Feat: bass, vocals
Sue Adams: percussion, vocals
Chris Slade: drums
Stabler Arena
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
July 12, 1984
performance quality: B to B+
recording quality: A- (there's 1 dropout
in master source in track 2,
the rest is pretty close to an A.)
source: FM master reel
lineage: 107.3 FM WAAF radio (Westwood one broadcast) >
unknown reel recorder and reciever >
Maxell UD 7" reel (3.3/4 ips) >
played on Teac 3300 tape deck into soundforge 4.5 (WAV) with realtek soundcard >
FLAC 6 > torrentially yours.
a this and that production.
recorded and digitized for July 12, 2009 posting by glasnostrd19.
runtime: 77:24
setlist:
1: radio announcer introduction
2: until we sleep >
3: all lovers are deranged
4: money
5: love on the air
6: short and sweet
7: you know I'm right
8: run like hell
9: blue light with bass and drums jam
10: band introductions
11: comfortably numb
comments: I don't know what kind of recorder and reciever were used for this recording,
only that they were both not mine, and the reel deck was a very good quality one.
I went to a friend's house closer to the station to record this FM broadcast, having
never seen David Gilmour on his own (just 1 time with Pink Floyd 9 years earlier) I
wanted to be sure I got as good a recording as I could of this. There is one point,
just for a second or so in track 2, the opening song, where there is a flaw in the
master reel causing a brief dropout of sound in both channels, probably from one play
on a malfunctioning machine (not the one used to record it- that one worked fine.)
WAAF had a fairly strong signal by this time (not in some earlier years) and I was
close enough to it to get a good recording. All the songs in this broadcast are complete,
although this is clearly not the full show, a little over half of it I'd guess. There's no
fluff in here, just 1 short announcer introduction, everything else is all David Gilmour
and friends doing their thing. The reel has suffered some aging over the years so it's not
perfect sound, but no static or hiss that I could hear and it still has reel fidelity sound-
just not like it was recorded last week. Other than the 1 dropout in track 2, the rest has
held up well, and because it is a reel, it has not been played alot. Now it can be heard
alot more, and any radio quality Gilmour is music to my ears. (now, yours too.)
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly.