Jerry Lee Lewis
Ritz
New York City, NY
January 1, 1988
2 AM Show
(Two Of Us Master Series Volume 235)

Low Generation Recorder 1 upgrade with patches from Recorder 3

Transfer: Low generation tape > Nakamichi DR-01 (azimuth adjusted) > USB Sound Devices > Audacity > iZotope RX / ozone 9 (mastered/patched) > xACT 2.50 > FLAC

01 I Got A Woman
02 Roll Over Beethoven
03 Who Will The Next Fool Be
04 Before The Night Is Over
05 I'll Find It Where I Can
06 You Win Again
07 Rita May
08 Railroad To Heaven
09 Sweet Little Sixteen
10 Over That Rainbow
11 Rock 'n' Roll Is Something Special
12 Instrumental
13 Lucille
14 Big Legged Woman
15 Great Balls Of Fire
16 Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On
17 Shake, Rattle And Roll

Known Faults:
-Instrumental: last minute only

Between 1983 and 2002, no tapers were more active than "Two Of Us". For two decades they taped over 250 artists and ~2000 shows.

If you collect Springsteen you are already familiar with some of their work, "fmcleanboots" has posted a half dozen or so of their "Tunnel Of Love" tour shows but has decided to pass the baton.

What you don't know is their passion was not just for Springsteen but for music and that passion runs deep. It is astonishing how many artists they taped.

They followed tours, taping club shows, theater shows, arena shows, top-tier artists, mid-level artists, and local artists.

If they were following a tour and the tour had an off night they would see who else was playing that night to tape. Always focused on the enjoyment of the show as the priority, tickets were acquired outside of the venue as they worked to obtain the best possible seats, continually trading up until the best locations were acquired.

The results of this were the captures are uniformly excellent, the trade-off was that sometimes the start of the show was sacrificed for the better seats.

The workhorse was the Sony WM-D6C with an external Shure Mic before moving to DAT the last couple of years. None of their masters have ever been released and they have been stored safely for the past four decades in a climate controlled environment.

Though we may do some mini-releases of a series of shows in order for one portion of a tour most shows will not be released in order, there are just too many.

This will be an exciting series, we hope along the way we can upgrade existing audio and offer up shows that do not have any circulating audio, enjoy the ride, this is definitely not a dark ride.

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Jerry Lee Lewis @ The Ritz - NYC, NY January 1, 1988 (2 AM Show)

Volume 235 brings us a rocking & rolling set from the killer from a special New Year's Day early show. Joan Jett played at 10 PM on New Year's Eve followed by Jerry Lee at 2 AM.

This show was advertised as a New Year's Day Early Show not a New Year's Eve show so we are dating it appropriately.

As always, thanks to Goody for his continued support of this and all our historic releases to ensure we are running in the correct pitch.

A big thanks to "Two Of Us" for their dedication to capturing all these legendary performers and shows many heard here for the first time, the HOURS and HOURS spent waiting in line, traveling, money on tickets as well as trusting me to be the caretaker of their life's work, our little community is indebted to you both. Also, a big thank you to my friend "fmcleanboots" for putting me in touch and laying the groundwork that has resulted in all these great releases...we've barely scratched the surface. The amount of uncirculated shows they taped and continue to get into my hands for release is staggering.

Artwork and newspaper clippings are included.

mjk5510 & Two Of Us

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