The Fabulous Roches
Live at the Country Club
Reseda (Los Angeles), California
February 24, 1984


The Roches (Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy Roche) are a vocal group of three songwriting Irish-American sisters from Park Ridge, New Jersey.
They have been active as performers and recording artists since the mid-1970s, at various times performing as a trio and in pairs.
Known mainly for their "unusual" and "rich" harmonies, quirky lyrics, and casually comedic stage performances.
Their first album as a trio "The Roches" (1979) was produced by Robert Fripp.
Maggie's "The Married Men" from this album was eventually to become the biggest hit of the songwriting trio � not for them, but for Phoebe Snow.
After Snow and Linda Ronstadt performed the song in a duet on Saturday Night Live, the Roches were invited themselves to perform on the show a few months later in 1979 at the behest of Paul Simon.
They did two songs, both unreleased at the time, "Bobby's Song" and "The Hallelujah Chorus".
Throughout the 1980s, The Roches continued to release their music to small audiences, little or no air play, and only modest record sales.
In 1997, the sisters formally put their group on long-term hold.
They continued to work on solo projects and often collaborated on albums and performances.
At the end of 2005, the three Roches (with brother Dave) reunited for a short but highly successful holiday tour.
Several more appearances in the U.S. and Canada took place in 2006�07, and in March 2007, after a 12-year hiatus, The Roches released a new studio album, Moonswept.
Following the tour for Moonswept, the Roches announced that they would no longer be touring, although they have made isolated appearances individually and as a group, mostly in and around New York City.
(Wikipedia)


Disc one

01. Introduction
02. Summertime
03. The Train
04. One Season
05. Sight For Sore Eyes
06. Waterfall
07. Hammond Song
08. The Product Manager story
09. Mr. Sellack
10. The Over 40 story
11. Older Girls
12. The Laundry
13. Weeded Out
[44:29]


Disc two
01. The Troubles (tape flip-some music lost-spliced)
02. I Don�t Have You
03. Pretty and High
04. The Hallelujah Chorus
05. Angry Angry Man
06. West Virginia
07. Want Not Want Not
08. Listen to the Rhythm of the Falling Rain
09. The Married Men
10. Thanking the crowd
11. Keep On Doing What You Do [or Jerks on the Luge]
12. We (tape runs out)
[48:00]
(applause tacked on to "We" smoothing out the abrupt ending)


Another Los Angeles tape eXchange (LAX) recording - by John Musgrave, Ron Goldshine & Mark (the B-Man)

Source: 2 Sennheiser MKH406-tu microphones > Sony D5-M using 1 TDK SA C-90
Transfer: Nakamichi CR3A (w/Dolby, bias @ 70uSec) > Audigy 4 Pro @ 24-44
Mastering: NERO > Audacity > iZotope RX4 advanced & Har-Bal 3.0 > CD Wav > iZotope (16-44) > TLH
Song information embedded with stamp ID3 tag editor

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This is a description of what happened during post production on this recording.
If you hear anything that sounds a little odd this might explain why.

One of those shows where the band is ON, it sounds great and you�re set up is perfect.
Except for Murphy's curse something always seems to go wrong and spoil it all.

The right channel had noises that made the first side of the cassette un-listenable.
When the tape was turned over the problem almost went away completely.

Fast forward about 30 years and this cassette master gets digitized.
Spent hours with Audacity trying to remove these noises but the results were not good.
Nothing could be done at that time without turning the first half into dual left channel.
That lost so much of the charm of this recording and I could never bring myself to finish this.

Fast forward another five years� worth of using different wave editors and there comes experience and tricks for fixing problems.
Add some powerful software, a lot of spare time and a miracle of audio restoration has been achieved.

Much of the applause and other random spots mandated dual left channel-no way around it.
Some odd sounds are still in the right channel but at least this is in stereo and still has its depth.
Believe me that you could barely listen to the raw tape.

Har-Bal did some spectral adjustments and some dynamic adjustments.
Additional adjustments of the amplitude were done-lowered during the applause and increased during the stories.
Used a low cut filter at 90 Hz during the quiet segments to reduce a low frequency rumble.
The same filter was applied at 52 Hz to the entire concert to combat that same sound.

Now you might think "yuk" that's a lot of stuff but that work has made this concert beyond listenable.
In fact this sounds totally amazing and if you had not read this you would never guess.
But now you will understand why the applause sounds weird in the first half of the show.

The alternate title "Jerks on the Luge" refers to the winter Olympics - in case you didn't catch it.

For historical reference and not intended for resale or any commercial use.

enjoy!
-M- (April 2016)
A FLYING -M- PRODUCTION

FAN RECORDINGS FOR COLLECTORS
TRADE FREELY BUT PLEASE DO NOT SELL



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