Jethro Tull
"London Blitz"
Rainbow Theatre, London, UK
16-Nov-1974

01. Wind-Up / Passion Play (Critique Oblique)
02. Thick As A Brick
03. My God
04. Flute Solo (incl. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen & Bouree)
05. Piano Solo / My God (reprise)
06. Cross-Eyed Mary
07. How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?
08. Skating Away
09. Wond'ring Aloud / Again
10. Ladies
11. Drum Solo
12. WarChild

Total Time - 74:45

This is an incomplete but decent sounding show from the UK leg of the 1974 "WarChild" tour.

From NRT's original notes:
"This recording is seemingly brand new to trading circulation -
presumably London's usual bootleggers were all on the other side of
town, taping Pink Floyd at Wembley.... Unfortunately, the taper's
batteries died, so the final ~10 minutes of the show and the encore
were recorded badly, and discarded long ago; the 75 minutes remaining
give an excellent impression of the 1974 Tull concert experience in
their (professional) home town - it's worth it for Ian's comments
alone!
Although covertly recorded by an audience member, ambient audience
noise is minimal, and sound quality is limited only by the acoustics
of the hall; in that respect, it's better than some audience DATs
from a quarter of a century later! The recording has
been 'remastered' directly from the original master tape, avoiding
the degradation of multiple-generation copying, but it must be
remembered that it has been stored on magnetic tape for a matter of
decades - it's extraordinarily good, but one has to be realistic....

Sourced directly from the audience master tape, with further
processing:
* Dehissed, though some tape hiss was left, rather than distort the
recording itself.
* The recording was subtly too slow, so the pitch was raised by 25
cents (quarter of a semitone).
* Whilst the right channel was rather quiet, the left channel was
recorded too loudly, so the recording was rebalanced and normalised.
* Gratuitous audience noise and extended silences were omitted.

From the artwork notes:
"It was a good week to be in London - whilst Pink Floyd played Wembley, Tull spent four nights at the legendary Rainbow, accompanied by the Top Of The Pops dancers, Pan's People. This recording from the Saturday show was 'remastered' directly from an audience tape previously unknown for over 27 years."

Audio processing & cover design by NRT.

Band line up:
Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, Barriemore Barlow, John Evans.

Lineage:
Trade CDR > EAC > FLAC (Level 8) > DIME

Artwork included

Enjoy ;-)

DWL (Oct 2008)