JETHRO TULL

The Theakston Music Festival
Nostell Priory
Wakefield
UK

28th August, 1982

Quality: A-
Source: Audience - Central Arena
Lineage: JVC RC656LB biphonic>TDK CrO Master Cassette>NAD6050C>
SB Audigy 2>Audacity>WAV>CDRCue>MediaCoder>FLAC Level 8

Disc One

01 Something's on the Move (5.50)
02 Hunting Girl (5.40)
03 Fallen on Hard Times (3.52)
04 Broadsword (5.31)
05 Pussy Willow (4.58)
06 A Song for Jeffrey (3.39)
07 Piano/Drums Improvisation (5.50)
08 Fat Man (3.23)
09 Jack in the Green (2.39)
10 The Clasp (4.30)
11 Too Many Too (3.27)
12 Watching Me, Watching You (3.53)
13 Barre's Folly (5.02)

Total Time: 58.16


Disc Two

01 Beastie (6.59)
02 The Swirling Pit (2.20)
03 Weathercock/Fires at Midnight (4.26)
04 Seal-Driver (5.29)
05 Sweet Dream (4.37)
06 Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll (4.20)
07 A New Day Yesterday (5.04)
08 Aqualung (7.59)
09 Minstrel in the Gallery (3.10)
10 Locomotive Breath/Black Sunday (5.58)
11 Cheerio (1.08)

Total Time: 51.30

Personnel:

Ian Anderson - vocals, flute, guitar
Martin Barre - guitar
Dave Pegg - bass guitar
Paul Burgess - drums
Peter Vitesse - keyboards


Notes:

This concert may be familiar from a number of silver-pressed boots, but the tape source here
is the original master cassette itself (thanks to G & K St Audrey for the loan).

Share and Enjoy!

Mr Fibuli

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remastering notes:
this is the original info file with this torrent #189205
posted by mrfibuli on March 22, 2008.
a comment in the original post noted the date listed is incorrect and the
correct date of this concert is the 28th. I have corrected that here. The
original post also came in one lump sum, so I've put the flacs into 2 folders.
This is a very nice recording, maybe the best quality 1982 Tull aud I've
heard yet. (Nassau Coliseum N.Y. is also pretty nice) I noticed some flaws
in "fallen on hard times" in the original recording, which unfortunately
also remain here. Not real bad, but noticable. sounds like a mike chord connection
problem and it lasts about a minute or so. The rest of it sounds quite nice,
recorded from a good seat location pretty close up. I would call this
a "you are there" production (fyi, that doesn't mean "from glasnostrd19",
sometimes it does, but not just me by any means and not mine this time.
What it means is the recording sounds like you're there, not just sortakinda,
and that's what this one sounds like). All instruments and vocals come through
clearly, the sound mixing at this was quite good and this sounds like not a very
big venue, or else very close to stage recording. there's some crowd talk and
moderate clap volume, but not overbearing, even less after ICPVR treatment.
(I explain what that is in the remastering notes below.)
Thanks to mrfibuli for posting it and to G & K St. Audrey for providing
the master recording for the original digitizing.
There are basically 5 reasons why I'm posting my remaster of this,
the last 3 being the most significant ones:
1: it needed DC offsetting (not alot, but noticably)
2: it needed some level balancing (not alot, but noticably)
3: the disc break was an awkward one including a fadeout
and fade in overlap to avoid missing anything
4: the band introductions come after Beastie, in the same track
as Beastie, and I always prefer to have a seperate band
introductions track for convenience.
(unless it's during a song, and it's not here)
5: it needed a little TLICPVR between some songs.
(tender loving individual clap peak volume reduction.) fortunately
not nearly as much as the Worcester 82 show did but enough to
spend over 2 hours reducing the loudest claps to a more tolerable volume.
(I do this with alot of auds that are otherwise of nice quality)
So I have adjusted all the above, including splicing Barre's Folly and Beastie
seamlessly, removing the overlap. I have NOT done any EQ/ noise reduction
or speed adjusting, don't think it needs any of that at all. Now a very
nice Tull recording sounds even nicer and is seamless, with no overlap/
fadeout ending disc 1 (it previously goes into Beastie and fades out) and the disc
break point just after Beastie and before the band introductions. this seems to be
the best place in this show for starting disc 2, disc one ends with thank you and
applause, disc 2 starts with a moment of applause, then Ian says "thank you very much"
and introduces the band. if you put this all together on DAT it will be continuous and
smooth. Since this is a remaster, I'm including a sample of how the new disc transition
will sound, and the editing done to patch together Barre's Folly and Beastie, as well
as a sample of how the music sounds.
As I always do with a remaster, I've included all the original art and info that
came with the source post. one of the 2 art pieces included has the setlisting/track times,
that has been changed some in this posting, the other (front cover) still fits with this
just fine. I also spliced a short gap at end of "seal driver" (after the song ends)
to maintain the seamless continuity. I have found that the best remasters (by myself
and others) come from "raw- from- master" posts, which this appears to be and sounds
like, a good master in this case, and I like both the original and remastered results
here alot. I don't think this needs anything else done to it, and believe the result of
this is comparable to the result I would have had if I did this same thing to the master
tape itself (as I have with several of my own master posts). the only difference between
doing that and this, in terms of sound quality, is the additional lineage listed below,
which did not add any loss of quality that I could notice, and even added some quality
to the recording with the above explained adjusts. The balance between discs isn't as
evenly distributed here as the original, but the continuity of the whole recording is
alot better now. It has no fade-ins anywhere, and the only fadeout is the one already
there at the very end in the original post. There is still some fairly loud "clappiness"
in parts here, I didn't reduce the entire applause sections, just the loudest of the claps
but it's alot less overwhelming than it was, making it a bit more enjoyable listen. I
love Jethro Tull, and will do stuff like this for nice Tull shows/recordings. This is
a nice show, and one I'd never heard until posted by mrfibuli so thank you again for
sharing this Tull show with everyone here on dime. It was and is a fine share.
additional lineage after the above for this remaster:
dime download (FLAC) > WAV (remastering) > FLAC > dime (torrent).
the arrangement and times are now as follows:

disc 1: 62:12
01 something's on the move (5:50)
02 hunting girl (5:40)
03 fallen on hard times (3:52)
04 broad sword (5:31)
05 Pussy Willow (4:58)
06 a song for Jeffrey (3:39)
07 piano & drums improvisation (5.50)
08 fat man (3:23)
09 Jack in the green (2:39)
10 the clasp (4:30)
11 too many too (3:27)
12 watching me, watching you (3:53)
13 Barre's folly (4:54)
14 beastie (4:05)

Disc 2: 47:07

15: band introductions (2:44)
16: the swirling pit (2:20)
17: weathercock/fires at midnight (4:25)
18: seal driver (5:27)
19: sweet dream (4:36)
20: too old to rock 'n' roll (4:20)
21: a new day yesterday (5:03)
22: aqualung (7:59)
23: minstrel in the gallery (3:10)
24: locomotive breath/black sunday (5:57)
25: cheerio (1:04)
do not sell this recording.
Trade freely, losslessly and gaplessly.
Always share the Tull.


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