Lou Reed
Live at the State Theatre, Sydney Festival, 20th January 2007

Author: Downunder Discs
Audio Source: Audience Recording
Lineage: SP-CMC-8 > Edirol R-09 > 24-bit/48kHz WAV > Sound Studio > FLAC 8 > MWP
2013 Lineage: xACT (decode to wav) > Sound Studio (convert 16/48 to 16/44) > xACT (eliminate SBEs, encode to FLAC, create md5 and ffp files)

Number of Discs: Set up as continuous experience, can be split into 2 discs
Total Running Time: 99m 17s / If split – Disc One tracks 1-12 70m 30s / Disc Two tracks 13-16 28m 47s

Title: "Berlin to Bondi"
Artwork: included, also available (search for "Berlin to Bondi") at
http://www.mindwarppavilion.org/cpg/

Info: Lou Reed's 1973 album presented in full for the 2007 Sydney Festival, featuring Lou Reed, Antony, Sharon Jones, Steve Hunter, Fernando Saunders, Rob Wasserman, Tony Smith, The Australian Youth Choir and a string and brass section. This show was performed over three sold out nights at the State Theatre and I was fortunate to catch both the Friday and Saturday shows, an awesome experience.

Recorded from the dress circle, about dead centre. Fade in on track 1, fade out on track 12, some audience applause deleted, fade in on track 13 and fade out on track 16 then fade in and out on track 17. Some small amount of gain applied but no other filtering. Track 17 recorded the previous night, Friday the 19th January in similar position.

Tracklisting:
01 Sad Song/Berlin
02 Lady Day
03 Men Of Good Fortune
04 Caroline Says I
05 How Do You Think It Feels
06 Oh, Jim
07 Interlude
08 Caroline Says II
09 The Kids
10 The Bed
11 Sad Song
12 Thank You
Encores
13 Sweet Jane
14 Candy Says
15 Rock Minuet
16 Goodbye
17 Sad Song/Berlin (Friday)


Torrent History:
Uploaded to Mind-Warp PaVilion by downunder2 on 02 February 2007
A different 16/48 to 16/44 conversion was uploaded to Dime by horzalaet on 12 February 2007, who said "I would say it's one of the best bootlegs I had the chance to listen from Lou Reed. Even if you don't like his latest work, jump on this, i would be surprised if you doesn't like it !!! "
This file set uploaded to Dime by gjfatty on 31 October 2013, in tribute to Lou Reed, who recently departed this world.

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I wish I could have been at the State Theatre for one of these performances. Thankfully, Downunder Discs was there and made this excellent recording. Thanks for all your Bowie and Lou recordings, mate!

There were other performances of "Berlin" around the world but this must surely be one of the best recordings to appear. Samples below should convince you. Enjoy this one! And thanks to all who have shared their recordings since the sad news of Lou's passing. I still can't quite believe he has gone ...

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