LDB Special Series #03

Hello! As mentioned, here is a new series from my collection. After the Master Series, here is the Special Series. Out of my 6,000+ shows and radio broadcasts, I have many concerts that were special for some reasons: the setlist, the musicians, the venue or unexpected events. These are the ones I'd like to propose you. Most of these come from my cassettes collection, so
they will be released at a slower pace than my Master Series! But you won't be disappointed! I will try to gather the most unusual things I have in my collection and, as always, your feedback and comments will be my reward for all the work involved in this project. The Black Crowes show featuring Jimmy Page was a kind of 'release 00', so here we start...enjoy!

RICK WAKEMAN
Milano, Teatro Smeraldo
20 September 1990

01. Intro: Romeo & Juliet / Catherine Parr
02. Elizabethan rock
03. make me a woman
04. Catherine of Aragon
05. Jane Seymour
06. Catherine Howard
07. A cry from the heart
08. Anne Boleyn
09. Bass & drums duet
10. The spaceman
11. The realization
12. the realization (reprise)
13. Excerpt from 'The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table':
- Arthur
- Sir lancelot and the black knight
- The last battle
14. Sea horses
15. The journey
16. Recollection
17. The battle
18. The forest
19. Merlin the magician

Lineage: SONY DAT device > tape > Aiwa Tape Deck AD-WX828 > Audigy Soundblaster > HD > SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave >
FLAC Frontend (level 6)

Rick Wakeman - all sorts of keyboards, synths, pianos and other ditties...
Tony Hernandez - drums
David Paton - bass, backing vocals
Ashley Holt - vocals, percussions

This is special for various reasons:
1) it is one of the earliest recordings done with a DAT machine. If you think that it's almost 17 years ago, it's a century ago from a digital point of view. The guy who recorded this aquired one of the very first portable DAT recorders one year before and started taping shows. I will probably seed one day the very first recording he did with his DAT, which dates back of November 1989. We were all amazed by the fact that you could use DAT and avoid all these nasty tape flips that resulted in cutting the music most of the times. Infact, we asked this friend the 'DAT-man'.
2) the show is amazing and haven't circulated widely. Rick Wakeman was touring Italy after at least 15 years and he managed to put together a 'best of' setlist with all his best tracks. The theatre was absolutely packed that night.
3) the sound quality is amazing. My tape comes from the master DAT.