The Paris Clique
Return to Forever
Chick Corea- keyboards
Al DiMeola- electric and acoustic guitar
Stanley Clarke- bass
Lenny White- drums
Paris, France
March 7, 1976
performance quality: A! very nice hot show!
recording quality: B (pretty good, but some problems in a previous transfer)
source: audience tape (trade, I'm told it is a 2nd generation
and it does sound like a low-gen.)
setlist:
disc 1: 52:12
1; the romantic warrior 16:13
2: acoustic solo suite: Corea piano jam > 11:14
3: DiMeola guitar jam > 7:50
4: Clarke bass jam > 6:52
5: jam > White solo > 4:41
6: medevial overture 5:23
disc 2: 66:07
7: band introductions 1:53
8: vulcan worlds 22:28 (very hot one here)
9: the duel of the jester and the tyrant 13:03
10: White drum solo 5:44
11: space circus 16:18
12: encore 6:41 (from No Mystery)
comments:
Although this recording suffers from some small clicks, it had some loud ones
in the tape copy I got this from which I removed by monoizing very short segments.
I normally wouldn't post even this great show with any clicks in it but in this
case there were a few reasons to make an exception.
not in any order, including that I was requested to post this, and this is a very
good show, it's longer than I had thought and maybe the longest recording I've found yet
of a Romantic Warrior concert, and RTF is touring for the 1st time in 25 years....
I suppose I could come up with a few more too (like the vulcan worlds and the duel)
but you get the idea. I haven't seen the from master clean version up yet, and
this may be all of it with very minimal tape flip cutting. The taper of this did a nice
job, I would guess the problem in this is from either static on tape heads in previous
transfer, or diginoise from cheap or defective CD or DAT media (even though some think
DAT is higher quality than CD, I'm not sure that's always so and both can suffer the same
basic "diginoise" problem). It's not as annoying here as in another recent post of Iowa 76,
but definitely noticable enough in much of it to turn some off to grabbing this.
If you have this source recording without any diginoise/static, you're welcome to post it up.
In the meantime, I did the best I could to save this version without ruining it and it is
one of the best RTF concerts I've heard yet. they were very in the mood to play and the
acoustic jam set was all very hot too. Other than some not very loud clicks the recording
is otherwise pretty clean and done with a pretty good deck and mikes. I was able to do a CD
extraction on this, and there weren't any problems there. Good thing because there was NO WAY
I could be persuaded into a "fresh transfer" of my clicky tape of this. It was a project,
and maybe another one by an ambitious soul of the microchip could get this to sound like a
beautiful recording, but I think many of you will find this satisfactory, until that master
shows up (I would not hold your breath on that.)
Do not sell this recording.
(if you want to be "part of the clique" buy Brand X CD.
If you want to be part of the RTF Paris Clique, DL this torrent.)
Trade freely, losslessly and gaplessly.