ORIGINAL COMMENTS:

Band: Lou Reed (w/ the Tots)
Venue: Manchester Polytechnic, UK
Date: 27 July 1972

Lineage: AUD reel-2-reel -> ? -> CD-R -> .aiff -> xACT .flac conversion

Tracklist:

1. White Light/White Heat
2. Lonesome Cowboy Bill
3. I'm Waiting For The Man
4. Pale Blue Eyes
5. Candy Says
6. Sweet Jane
7. Heroin
8. Berlin
9. Wild Side
10. Can't Stand It
11. Wild Child
12. Rock & Roll
13. Head Held High

Lou Reed - vocals/guitar
Vinny LaPorta - guitar
Eddie Reynolds - guitar
Bobby Resigno - bass
Scottie Clark - drums

Surprise! I bet you thought another '74 show was coming!! Well, I know I said I am going in order, but I am also gonna backtrack every once in a while and put up early stuff.

Now, the Tots are either right on the money, or they suck. This happens to be a great example of them at their best. Very similar arrangements to the "American Poet" performance. Lou was in full singer/songwriter mode, talking to the crowd, giving introductions to several songs, announcing when choruses come in...

As for the recording quality, it isn't great. At the beginning of the recording you hear the taper adjusting mic levels and the sound is a bit muffled. The muffled sound clears up quickly, but there is significant tape hiss. I did not attempt to filter the hiss at all. I don't suggest you do, either.

I would grade this as a "B-". It's the Tots, so for me to say "For Completists Only" would be redundant! It is well worth being in your collection, completist or not, because it shows solo Lou at a very early stage before coming into his own as a solo performer.

(I love the pic of chubby Lou on the cover - obviously before the amphetamines started working their magic!)

Enjoy!!!!


MY COMMENTS:

Did a few searches and as a result I haven't seen this One here.The sound is as to be expected for a Nothern English students' recording equipment circa 1972!!! To me it truly does sound like a velvets 60s recording with a polite but quietly restrained audience and Lous' gentle vocals over [sometimes] the top of the Tots audio mayhem. I have added an ffp file, md5 file and st5 file to the original torrent I downloaded and also renamed the tracks by adding a 0 before the numbers 1 to 9 in order to make the ffp,, md5 and st5 print outs to look more coherent I got this from DC++ and when I find the generous traders' name who shared this with me I'll post it in this torrents' thread.
Please enjoy, seed, share but DON'T sell
Cheers

ffp Prints:

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02 Audio Track.flac:58b623e6f6fd868211dd237308fab89c
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06 Audio Track.flac:41ad167e7916d64df253583a0075cc39
07 Audio Track.flac:750d0e7a44c8c5e31b0e418adc285472
08 Audio Track.flac:97c7d5b2e35555e3437aa95bab5fbedb
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10 Audio Track.flac:3f749bb1238efbbfadaccfe1b586c243
11 Audio Track.flac:169da1f6b858a589eb0bf995180044f8
12 Audio Track.flac:3f7e30b07000142306d8b4d9d22b14a4
13 Audio Track.flac:656fd50018c3fc7a4c26879685cd23df

st5 Prints;

6dd0d0ea80f2ff06d522878f67db3d5d [shntool] 01 Audio Track.flac
58b623e6f6fd868211dd237308fab89c [shntool] 02 Audio Track.flac
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3557c438c05b8d0cacffb7ce6d7b1829 [shntool] 04 Audio Track.flac
1174028e989a9424efb0cd37856bb808 [shntool] 05 Audio Track.flac
41ad167e7916d64df253583a0075cc39 [shntool] 06 Audio Track.flac
750d0e7a44c8c5e31b0e418adc285472 [shntool] 07 Audio Track.flac
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5389b0a163780c55c3db636d67cafb5f [shntool] 09 Audio Track.flac
3f749bb1238efbbfadaccfe1b586c243 [shntool] 10 Audio Track.flac
169da1f6b858a589eb0bf995180044f8 [shntool] 11 Audio Track.flac
3f7e30b07000142306d8b4d9d22b14a4 [shntool] 12 Audio Track.flac
656fd50018c3fc7a4c26879685cd23df [shntool] 13 Audio Track.flac