Gentle Giant
Derek Shulman- vocals
Gary Green- guitar
Kerry Minnear- keyboards
Ray Shulman- bass
John T. Weathers- drums
Toad's Place
New Haven, Ct.
May 18, 1980
performance quality: B+
recording quality: A-
source: 1st generation FM broadcast tape
runtime: 88:29
setlist:
1: convenience 5:02
2: all through the night 4:21
3: free hand 7:46
4: memories 9:09
5: knots > playing the game 9:10
6: giant for a day > 3:50
7: inside out 7:39
8: it's not imagination > 5:24
9: underground > drums 11:16
10: for nobody 8:48
11: the advent of panurge 8:58
12: number one 7:04
lineage: WPLR-FM live stereo broadcast (not pre-recorded) >
1st gen. cassette (TDK-SA 90 min. same as the the master tape, both recorded w/ no dolby >
played on Nak. 125 into soundforge (wav) > flac > upload (2009)
reseeded in 2010 with song times, band member info. and a
flac > wav > flac (sb's aligned) reconversion to remove the sbe's.
Do not sell this recording.
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comments:
This was Gentle Giant as broadcast live on WPLR. Giant thanks to Dave in Ct. for my copy of this which
is a 1st generation copy of his master tape. A pretty good recording, not as clear in the first couple
of songs due to the sound mix (this happened a few times on this tour) but the recording is consistent,
no static or hiss that I could notice and the tapes have survived the 27 years well. It's the full show,
tape flipped just after inside out ended. Unlike some 1980 GG shows (including the only one I saw), this
one closes with "number one", the other songs are the standard setlist for this tour. Someone may have a
better recording of this but not much better, this one sounds good enough to be my personal copy of this
show. I believe both master and my copy
are without dolby. I wouldn't call it the best show I've heard of this tour but it was a good performance.
There is a fadeout after track 7 and a fadein to track 8 for disc burning convenience. it was all about
convenience on this, the last formal Gentle Giant tour, or anything like one until the 2008 "Three Friends" tour.