Seeing my own notes I saw I reseeded this already in 2009 and 2011. There are takers for it again, so here goes :) This is one of those unique moments in music history, imo.

I saw the "Charge of the Light Brigade" be reseeded again ... here is the complete "Birthday" show, parts of which feature in that torrent. This seems to be where the nucleus of early Journey (i.e. Schon and Rolie) is reunited after leaving Santana.

Thanks to Don Amick, taperpat and the uploader on D.a.D...

Created missing FFP (in 2009), checked for sbe and lossless.. check out just fine!

There is another version of this that was kindly shared by mr_mags a while ago, but this is by far the better sounding of the two.

As far as I am able to tell, Gregg Rolie is not on all of the tracks here, but definitely on the last two tracks. Any more info on that is welcome!

enjoy the goosebumps, share the gigs, support the artists

Alien

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Original notes:



Journey - Diamond Head Crater, Hawaii 1/1/73 - 1st GEN - COMPLETE!!

Journey (billed as Sears, Schon & Errico w/ Rolie guesting)
Sunshine Festival
Diamond Head Crater
Honolulu, HI
1/1/73

Pete Sears-bass
Neal Schon-guitar
Greg Errico-drums
+Gregg Rolie- keys

1) You're My Girl
2) Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
3) Tonight
4) Storm
5) Pirates of the Caribbean
6) Black Magic Woman

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This show comes from taperpat�s 1st Gen. reel copy of this amazing performance!

Note that there was no 'remastering' done to this recording apart from a 6.9 gain boost, cleaning up the cut from original tape flip and adding beginning and ending fades. There was no re-encoding or compression added.

There is some light tape crackle in the left channel on tracks 4, 5 and 6 that was on taperpat's original reel. This, to me, does not affect the overall quality of the recording, which again is excellent!

I personally feel the sound quality is superior to all other complete and incomplete versions of this show out there (I have 5 different copies � 3 from Dime!). It is a nice, warm mix with excellent stereo separation. Neal is on FIRE and the rest of the band ain't too bad, either ;)

Lineage:
Mastercassette (recorded by Don Amick with Sony 126 casssette deck and two mics on poles, usually 20 feet apart FOB)>(taperpat)1st. Gen. Reel (Revox A77)>Phillips 785 Standalone-CDR>PC>Sony Vegas>EAC>FLAC Frontend>Dime

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Comments from taperpat regarding this version of the tape:

I can't comment on the band title but can help a bit on the original taper. My version of this show came labeled as Birthday 1/1/73 and I have had it since mid '73 at the latest. Same personnel and set list.

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