Eric Clapton
The Palace
Auburn Hills, Michigan
April 15, 1990

Lineage: Audience master => cassette => cassette => Stand-alone Pioneer CD burner => EAC => Magix Audio Cleaning Lab => WAV => FLAC Front-end (level 8)

Disc one (76:12):
(1) Layla (taped orchestral intro) (0:41)
(2) Pretending (6:53)
(3) No Alibis (6:29)
(4) Running on Faith (7:26)
(5) I Shot The Sheriff (8:42)
(6) White Room (5:55)
(7) Can't Find My Way Home (6:47)
(8) Bad Love (6:00)
(9) Before You Accuse Me (9:28) *
(10) After Midnight (5:34) *
(11) Old Love (12:12)

Disc two (67:27):
(1) Tearing Us Apart (8:09)
(2) Wonderful Tonight (9:43)
(3) Band Introductions (4:19) =>
(4) Cocaine (7:43)
(5) A Remark You Made (4:36)
(6) Layla (8:12)
(7) Encore break (4:04)
(8) Crossroads (9:31)
(9) Sunshine Of Your Love (11:07)


* w/Stevie Ray Vaughan

Fingerprint file is included. Sorry, no artwork.

Comments: This is a reseed of a torrent I posted to DIME in July 2006; I was inspired by the posting of a commercial boot of this show ("Journeyman Meets SRV") that came from an unknown-lineage, inferior-sounding source. I think this version is an upgrade due to its known lineage (2nd generation). I traded for it back in 1991; the person I got it from obtained a copy from the taper. I think the recording itself is from the same source used for the "Journeyman Meets SRV" boot, but this has cleaner sound and better dynamics.

Overall, the performance is typical of the early "Journeyman" shows (I think his playing was better in the early part of the tour than when he played larger venues later in the summer). Of course, the stand-out moment is the guest appearance by Stevie Ray Vaughan. The jam alone (I always thought it was just on "Before You Accuse Me," but Geetarz says that SRV stayed for "After Midnight") is worth the download.

I used Audigy Cleaning Lab to split tracks, bump up the high end slightly (it falls off dramatically at about +5 kHz), lower the overwhelmingly loud bass (below 200 Hz), and slightly reduce +1 kHz to offset some of the boominess of the arena.

The result is not by any means a great recording, but it's very listenable -- and better (I think, anyway) than the commercial boots of this show that are rated "3" on the Geetarz site.