The Moody Blues
Lakeshore Ampitheater
Darien Lake
Darien Center, NY
July 5, 1987

From the collection of chopper7

Lineage: cass (1) > Technics playback deck > Adobe audition 1.5 (recording at 24/96, minor NR, speed correction, EQ, limiting, track splitting, resampling to 16/44.1, flac 8)

the NR in the lineage was used to remove the hiss of the blank tape. That is, the sound of the tape before the recording began. No content of the music was removed.

This tape had some problems with the mics. The bass overpowered the mics, so when there is a loud low spot there is distortion. There are several spots where the mics are being handled, and this handling leads to the right channel dropping out a few times. The entire beginning of The Story In Your Eyes was only the left channel, as was a 7 second spot in New Horizons. I copied the left channel into the right and spatialized it into simulated stereo, but it diesn't quite match the original because both mics sound different on the bulk of the recording and a simulation doesn't account for that. It's much better than a lengthy drop out, tho.

Beginning with The Story In Your Eyes the tape was stopped between songs. I've relocated audience from other parts of the show to smooth out these cuts, but i had to sacrifice some dialogue that was after the cuts to make it not start mid sentence.

There is a tape flip near the end of The Other Side Of Life that I could not patch because the quality is very bad after the flip for a short time. It sounds muffled, like the taper had to hide the mics for a minute. This happens thoughout th ethird tape side, and I couldn't EQ it better becuase parts return to the original quality. The low end was extremely boomy on the 3rd side, and That was attenuated, but the majority of the side is a bit more muffled than the rest.


Don't let all this stop you. The show sounds quite good for the most part, and the majority of errors have been repaired.


01 Gemini Dream
02 The Voice
03 Rock 'n' Roll Over You
04 Tuesday Afternoon
05 Your Wildest Dreams
06 Isn't Life Strange
07 The Story In Your Eyes
08 It May Be a Fire
09 Voices in The Sky
10 Dear Diary
11 Reflective Smile
12 Veteran Cosmic Rocker
13 New Horizons
14 Talking Out Of Turn
15 The Other Side Of Life
16 I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock 'n' Roll Band)
17 Nights In White Satin
18 Legend Of A Mind/band intros
19 Question
20 Ride My See-Saw