Renaissance
April 13 1975
The Forum, Leverkusen, Germany
Audience Recording

Setlist:
01. Taped Music; Can You Understand?
02. Running Hard
03. Ocean Gypsy
04. Mother Russia (stops after about 7 mins as equipment fails)
05. Ashes Are Burning
06. Prologue

Running time: approx 68 minutes

The Band:
Annie Haslam - lead vocals
Jon Camp - bass, vocals
John Tout - piano, keyboards
Michael Dunford - guitar
Terence Sullivan - drums


This comes from a tape trade in the mid-90s (in fact, my very first trade!). Copied using Soundforge. EAC for the track breaks and to burn the CDR. Traders' Little Helper for the Flac Files.


Comments: Opened for Caravan.

An unusual audience recording - the audience is quiet and respectful, but the sound of the bass is very loud and sounds distorted through low quality speakers (e.g. my iPod earphones - it sounded as though they were about to explode), but reasonable quality speakers will cope.

After about 7 minutes of "Mother Russia" all the music stops (although you can just hear a couple of bars from the acoustic piano) as there appears to be some kind of power supply problem. Jon Camp announces afterwards (at the start of track 5) that it was "an Act of God" and they finish their set.

One other glitch - a very brief silence (approx 1 second) during Jon Camp's bass solo in "Ashes Are Burning" (I think there's more than 1 second missing. This could be the tape flip at the end of side 1 of a 90 minute tape - simply my suggestion.)

Please note: The recording has low volume and does suffer from tape hiss, but I think is still very enjoyable.