Jethro Tull 1973-03-08 Münster (Trap 06) "Tull Felsen der Munsters" - Master aud - RESEED


For this reseed I've included the artwork by honcho which he contributed some weeks after the first upload, then changed the info a bit, tagged the flacs and gave the download folder a name better to sort with other shows. The flac files are otherwise unaltered.

This show was on Dime before from 20.10.2007 until July 2010 with 536 downloads.
This recording has also been on the tracker since Oct 2007 a week before my own upload under the title "Welcome to Munsterland", but that was from a transfer without azimuth alignment, and afterwards remastered by Laufi. (Many thanks to him again!) For me that treatment by Laufi was a huge help so I could just copy the speed correction, tracking and naming of the tracks.

This is a very impressive, energetic full-length Thick-as-a-Brick performance of Tull and the whole rest of the show, part of the second german leg of the TAAB tour after Jethro Tull had already toured with A Passion Play in the States before . There are a few other complete and very good to excellent recordings of full TAAB this being one of them.

So here it goes again, 2nd round:


Jethro Tull
Halle Münsterland, Münster, Germany
1973-03-08


Type: audience mono

Venue: Halle Münsterland, Münster, Germany
Date: 1973-03-08


Lineage of recording:
magnetic micro > BASF-Tape-Recorder CC-9200 > Karstadt-Cassette C-90 “HiFi Low Noise”

Transfer: 2007-09-27
Master tapes > NAD Deck 602 > azimuth alignement (each side > Soundcard /Audacity 1.3 Beta (stereo, 32 bit, 44100 Hz) > wav > flac8 (dBpoweramp) > Dime

SQ: Very good, a bit far from the stage, full dynamics in the music, a little bit hiss in the quiet parts


I was lucky to see and record this great show, when I was 17 year old, and it was one of my first recordings of not so many live shows. I can't contribute any details of the show - all forgotten. But these tapes have always been a treasure for me, never played for most of the years and first digitized in 2003 - but without azimuth! So I'm happy having discovered a way to share it and finished it finally.

Unfortunately the transfer for the remaster "Welcome to Münsterland!" was done without azimuth control. The difference is obvious! See: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=96904
oder auf deutsch:
file:///C:/Daten/Musik/technisches/Der%20Cassettenrecorder%20Gedanken%20zum%2025-j%C3%A4hrigen%20Geb.htm

Transfer date: 27.9.2007. Azimuth alignement done for every side of the tapes. Transfer with the same volume for each side - very few balance correction. There seem to be some distortion beginning at 5:19 (first tape) - perhaps it came already out of the speakers, because the volume wasn't at maximum.
Tape flips are at 45:02 and 42:50 (2nd) - after speed correction. The transfer was nearly a halftone slow, or say: the running time was plus 4 per cent compared to Laufi's remaster. My tape-deck on the other hand rans perfect measured with original tapes.

So I decided not only to give you the raw files by request per PM (they're up on the FTP-server) but to use my own fine transfer to offer the best possible sound quality for your delight - without any equalizing which I'm not skillful enough to do.
I thought about speed and pitch and compared live recordings for weeks but I was not certain about it. So:
A big THANK YOU goes to Laufi, who checked the right speed comparing his transfer with various sources, tracked the recording, contributed photos of this show, made artwork and uploaded it.
I followed his work mostly - same speed, similar volume and tracking. I missed 4,3 seconds at the beginning of Aqualung, so I patched it in as Laufi did from another source he could get.
I changed the tracking a little bit. Further details in the info file.

Volume: In the first half of TAAB I didn't amplify itto leave the dynamics in the music. Otherwise I amplified the same spoken parts: 1/10 +2dB at 0:00-5:58; 2/1 +2,5 dB; 2/7 +2 dB for 0:00-0:18,7 - 0:30,75-0:43,6 - 0:54,5-0:57,2; 2/10 +3dB 0:45,7-1:04; 2/14 +3dB 1:38-2:07,5.
I put together track 1/9 at 8:53,6 (tape flip). I patched Aqualung (tape flip) at 0:05,32 and 0:09,59.

I must have given a copy to a friend in that time - but it didn't really surface til now. Laufi had got a copy and someone has the Muenster-Show on his trade list, perhaps from the other, inferior recording. Wonder who got the copy from me?


DISC 1: Total Time: 76:19 - complete "Thick As A Brick" (totally netto 73:35)

1 Thick As A Brick pt.1 4:47
2 Thick As A Brick pt.2 2:44
3 Thick As A Brick pt.3 6:53
4 Thick As A Brick pt.4 2:03
5 Organ Solo 5:26
6 Thick As A Brick pt.5 2:59
7 Flute Solo (incl. Quartet/God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Bourée) 9:09
8 Thick As A Brick pt.5 contd. 1:37
9 Thick As A Brick pt.6 9:07 (tape flip 1 @ 8:53)
10 Six O' Clock News 6:02
11 Thick As A Brick pt.7 2:19
12 Drum Solo 13:24
13 Thick As A Brick pt.8 2:17
14 218 Babies And A Cat 0:50
15 Thick As A Brick pt.9 3:58
16 Thick As A Brick pt.10 2:36

DISC 2: Total Time: 52:10

1 intro cross-eyed mary 1:18
2 Cross-Eyed Mary 3:20
3 Left/Right 3:25
4 Audition 2:31
5 Aqualung 7:16 (tape flip 2 @ 0:05 - patched)
6 encore 1:11
7 intro wind-up 1:03
8 Wind-Up 2:18
9 Rehearsal 6:15
10 No Rehearsal 2:36
11 Guitar Solo 8:46
12 Locomotive Breath 6:10
13 Hard-Headed English General 3:23
14 Wind-Up Reprise 2:27

total running time: 2:08:29

Line-Up:
IAN ANDERSON: vocals, flute, guitar
MARTIN BARRE: Guitar
JEFFREY HAMMOND-HAMMOND: bass
JOHN EVANS: keyboards, organ
BARRIEMORE BARLOW: drums


recorded, transfered and uploaded on Dime 2007-10-20 by trapper
Reseed on Dime in Sep 2010 by trapper


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