Renaissance
Annie Haslam- lead vocals
Jon Camp- bass, vocals
John Tout- piano
Michael Dunford- guitar
Terrance Sullivan- drums
An afternoon at
the Music Inn,
Lenox, Mass. U.S.A.
July 24, 1977
(Jean Luc Ponty opened)
runtime: 65:13
source: audience tape (1st gen.)
performance quality: B+ (both bands)
recording quality: B (some variation,
general admission outdoor show.)
setlist:
1: can you understand?
2: carpet of the sun
3: running hard
4: can you hear me?
5: midas man
6: touching once is so hard to keep
7: encore: prologue
lineage: unknown mismatched microphones >
JVC KD-2 stereo cassette deck, dolby off
(these used for most of this recording) >
master cassette (brand? who knows, it's long gone) >
Maxell UD 7" reel at 3 3/4 ips > soundforge 4.5 >
CD > CD extractor (all files verified OK in extraction >
FLAC 6 > torrentially yours.
comments:
Back in these days cassettes were close to $4 a tape, alot of money
in 1977 since tickets to shows weren't much more than that, so I
often transferred cassette masters to reels, especially when I had use
of a nearly brand new Teac reel to reel deck to do the copying. The mikes
I've used to record shows vary widely. This one had 1 vocal mike, and one
cardoid electret. A strange combo, but it worked out fairly well this
time, especially picking up Annie's wonderful singing. This is one torrent
where an EQ expert could probably make this sound alot better, so I've
refrained from doing any EQ'ing of this recording, because I'm not an EQ
expert- at least not yet, I didn't think it needed it anyway, and a bad EQ
job is alot worse than none at all. The mikes may be mismatched, but they
were both good mikes, better than I've had for many shows that still came
out pretty good. There was a nice mood for both sets at this concert, and
the crowd enjoyed both, a sunny hot but not unbearable summer afternoon show,
I think it was a weekend gig. No screaming for the headliner during the
opening set. A good time was had by all and the sound was pretty good at
this show for both bands. for me it was a concert with 2 headline acts and
no opener, but I believe Ponty was the opener. This was my 1st Renaissance
concert, and there would be four more, so I guess you could rightly say they
made a nice first impression on me (and second, and third... and so on it
goes.) Both sets were very good shows on this afternoon. A rather odd
combination it was, but I didn't mind a bit, odd in a good way, the crowd
seemed to like both too, just my second time seeing Ponty and 1st recording
for two artists I liked alot at this time and still do (from this time).
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely, losslessly and gaplessly.