Paul Simon
performing solo acoustic
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Saratoga Springs, New York
August 20, 1984
equipments: unknown clip-on mic > Sony WM-D6
lineage: master cassettes>editing cassettes>wav>EAC>TLH>FLAC
Tracklist:
01 Mother and Child Reunion
02 Kodachrome
03 One Trick Pony
04 Slip Slidin' Away
05 Jonah
06 Homeward Bound
07 Something So Right
08 Hearts and Bones
09 Midas commercial demo
10 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
11 Duncan
12 Rene and Georgette Magritte with their Dog after the War
13 America
-tape flip-
14 The Boxer
15 Allergies
16 St. Judy's Comet
17 Train in the Distance
18 Was a Sunny Day
19 Kathy's Song
20 I Do It For Your Love
21 American Tune
22 Late in the Evening
23 Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
24 Bridge Over Troubled Water
25 The Late Great Johnny Ace
26 Still Crazy After All These Years
from the taper harwilmer:
I am very excited to be able to offer the earliest generation recording in existence for this special show!
As far as has been seen/heard, this is the only recording in circulation. And, this has been freshly digitized
from the cassette source for previous circulating digital versions.
I was very lucky to have the parents of a girlfriend of a friend (who wasn't even going to go with me to the
concert) order these tickets during the SPAC member's advance order period. Even still, I was dumbfounded to
have ended up with 4th row center Orchestra Pit(!) seats. These seats were in front of the regular Orchestra
seat section. The Orchestra pit was filled with folding chairs for concerts that didn't use an orchestra (at
least an orchestra in the pit). I am sure that a few of the shows sold out the inside seating (general admission
lawn seats would always still be available).
Though I was sure that the seating for this show wouldn't sell out early, I still assumed that seats would go
relatively quickly, which is why I personally went to the lengths I did to get my tickets. This was just a year
after the first Simon & Garfunkel tour (a few years after the Central Park concert). But, remember that this was
a couple of years before Graceland and Simon's further catapulting to even higher levels of superstardom. This was
toward the end of a quiet period of time (about 10 years since Still Crazy After All These Years) that had only
seen a couple of new songs on a greatest hits package, One Trick Pony, and Hearts and Bones...granted not the most
accessible nor best of Simon's output by almost anyone's measure. But, no explanations are necessary for those
interested in an artist's whole oeuvre.
OK, back to the technical:
In those younger days, I used to rerecord my concerts for tidiness' sake, and tape over my masters (usually using
them to record records from/for friends). I would never have cut music or talk, but I am sure I cut out encore
applause, and of course I would have eliminated the space from tape flips and such. Not something I would dream of
doing now, but what can you do now, also.
So, the final point is just simply that the cassette that these digital files came from, although technically a 1st
generation recording, is the LOWEST GENERATION RECORDING AVAILABLE.
Enjoy!
Please!
harwilmer
**THANK YOU, harwilmer, for providing me with his 1st GENERATION MASTERS for this show. I used
his cassettes in my Sony TC-WE405 stereo cassette player (no noise reduction), recorded by my Pioneer
PDR-555RW stand alone recorder. I then took these newly created wav files and extracted them (using
EAC) to my computer, where I tracked them with CD Wav. FLAC files were created, using Traders Little
Helper, with the setting at '8'.
This a straight transfer from the cassettes - no mastering, volume adjusting (recording level 6, no
redlining) or editing. As harwilmer had previously edited his tapes, there are no notable gaps or
tape pauses in the recording - this is a very nice (probably the best of tour) recording of this show.**
dyermakeup
01 Mother and Child Reunion.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
02 Kodachrome.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
03 One Trick Pony.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
04 Slip Slidin' Away.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
05 Jonah.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
06 Homeward Bound.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
07 Something So Right.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
08 Hearts and Bones.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
09 Midas commercial demo.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
10 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
11 Duncan.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
12 Rene and Georgette Magritte with their Dog after the War.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
13 America.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
14 The Boxer.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
15 Allergies.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
16 St Judy's Comet.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
17 Train in the Distance.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
18 Was a Sunny Day.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
19 Kathy's Song.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
20 I Do It For Your Love.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
21 American Tune.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
22 Late in the Evening.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
23 Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
24 Bridge Over Troubled Water.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
25 The Late Great Johnny Ace.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
26 Still Crazy After All These Years.flac: tested ok (file is decodable without error).
No errors occured.
01 Mother and Child Reunion.flac:cc5ddb81d0d14f1fa3489857cef449e4
02 Kodachrome.flac:ca05226e7b4cb1b07d2547165a686121
03 One Trick Pony.flac:c2510b78ba924a7958bf6218b4a2ed4c
04 Slip Slidin' Away.flac:8c27b1da6a97fb9dcf2a298f7fd074b3
05 Jonah.flac:ebda1a2ed6456da4af304f9b29adcdec
06 Homeward Bound.flac:eb423bb9d98db03032530659601136d8
07 Something So Right.flac:ffa2bf0961d33880faa8adcaff76ca98
08 Hearts and Bones.flac:3e499ce33c50616f3442b38368d53ef9
09 Midas commercial demo.flac:e8f7fd37b3a460efad40bec3240abc94
10 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.flac:6ff2d9d4da5a716ff54b6804f2ce34ab
11 Duncan.flac:5e261bf1dfe71d0042dc44321440e41a
12 Rene and Georgette Magritte with their Dog after the War.flac:32030f488510c933bca909d16a9cebb8
13 America.flac:571aa90290369ba88e2f3ab95a448491
14 The Boxer.flac:f6a186494b320dedeff88ef729fdc914
15 Allergies.flac:c74010e07e1a033e70ab50a7994e47df
16 St Judy's Comet.flac:430c00c60d251000e2eafd54c36996ea
17 Train in the Distance.flac:b3dc8aa6655589606bc221d54557e3e8
18 Was a Sunny Day.flac:2b2dadf5b210a3ae99a77bf8b9ddffd0
19 Kathy's Song.flac:e22fe2b70c7cfcbf090818046b876896
20 I Do It For Your Love.flac:148a495d64f9936ec9a3b16c4920c8b9
21 American Tune.flac:ae5b40e7927b0ee7771b823446d23fc2
22 Late in the Evening.flac:6a018f7594efe0d228f8cf2b6da0bc30
23 Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard.flac:977d41a24481d71bc487b97e0f64a71d
24 Bridge Over Troubled Water.flac:3c22a403d11b978242c7055c7e724da2
25 The Late Great Johnny Ace.flac:23a6c1fb5b627d5d4c9aa7890551c4cd
26 Still Crazy After All These Years.flac:439d2d768c773b9766bfb06fda815f92
Checksum file saved to disk.
No errors occured.