Beck in a Cage
Jeff Beck (who else)- guitar
Tony Hymas- keyboards
Simon Phillips-drums
the Cage
Amherst, Mass. U.S.A.
October 9, 1980
performance quality: A (hot show!)
recording quality: B to mostly B+
(the first 51 seconds are too loud/bassy
and distorted in master tape,
it gets alot better after that)
source: 1st generation audience tape
(recording equipment unknown)
runtime: 82:32
lineage: master > my copy (the master and my copy
are both Maxell XLII cassettes with no dolby) >
soundforge 4.5 (WAV) >
FLAC 6 > torrentially yours.
setlist
1: star cycle
2: el Becko
3: too much to lose
4: the pump
5: cuz we've ended as lovers
6: space boogie
7: freeway jam
8: led boots
9: diamond dust
10: scatterbrain
11: blue wind
12: goodbye pork pie hat > you never know
comments:
I first posted this as one of my 1st uploads, before I knew how to correctly title torrent
files, So I have posted this with new fpts, MD5 and slightly altered info file from before,
the rest is the same as before so this is essentially a reseed. (also full set list).
I've never heard of "the cage" except for this one and only concert. I was first told years ago
it's a a small theater, actually it's a basketball court (home of Umass Minutemen before they
built the Mullins Center in the early 90's) so the acoustics aren't very good, but this sounds
pretty good considering that, and this is one of 3 very hot Jeff Beck shows I have to share with
the dime community. The other 2 are from master tapes, 89 and 95, (and in my other computer)
this is from a nice 1st generation copy from a master tape. I first got a very inferior quality
tape of this concert before getting this one, and this is the 1st time I've seeded it. If you
haven't heard this and you like Jeff Beck at all, you will enjoy this. It burns! I believe it
is the whole concert except for just a few seconds of track 8 for a quick tape flip. There was
time for a clean flip but the taper got caught napping for a moment. The 1st 51 seconds are
overmodulated in the original recording, but not in this one. Once the levels get set right
the rest of it is consistent and quite good. Sounds like the taper was fairly close to the
stage and not too far over to either side of it. Not sure what was used to record it, but the
mikes sound like they're decent ones (not great). The fidelity is not the greatest, but enough
to appreciate a very fine show from Jeff and Simon Phillips especially. It's better than you'd
get with a Sony 310 and the built in mikes. The guitar and drum playing is very strong.
Hymas was good too, and Beck and Phillips had a great night in Western Mass.
thanks to fzmoi69 for this fine Beck recording.
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly.
A BeckNbacker Production.