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This reseed is posted as a tribute to my dear Father who was taken very
abruptly from me and my family very recently.

We loved and love him very very much and miss him very very much.

There is now a hole in our lives that can never and will never be filled again.
We miss him dearly and we will never ever forget him!

He always said that when his time would come, he, his soul, would become star up in
the sky, and his body would be an empty vessel now that his soul would become a star.
I sincerely do believe this has happened.
So everytime we look up and see a star, we still see him and have him with us.

He was not only my father, he was also my best friend.
We all still feel he is with us on another level of existense,
but we wanted it to be different, having him here, still here with us.

One of his favourite songs was "The Meeting" by ABWH, so everytime that song is played,
i break out in tears and i feel it is played for him, my father, my hero.

My avatar here on Dime is now an image of my Father, that avatar will never ever change!

Thank you very much to those who sent a message of support.

A VERY big extra thank you goes out to Lestat, Balrog and JoeDestroyer for their
support in this so very difficult time.
I could not wish for better friends (eventhough we never ever met each other in person,
i really do feel there is a special bond between us, now especially).

Thanks you very much from the bottom of our hearts.
If ever there is anything.........

Be careful with and cherish what you have.

All the best to all (love this life and those with you);

Gromek, 2009.
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The only things changed are the track titles, some text in the info file and the md5 checksums.
Nothing has been changed to the audio files since the original seed except for SBE`s now fixed.
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ARTIST: STEVE HOWE
TITLE: PARADISO, AMSTERDAM, SEPTEMBER 14, 2000 "ANNIVERSARY EDITION"
DATE: SEPTEMBER 14, 2000
LOCATION: AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND
VENUE: PARADISO
RECORDING TYPE: AUDIENCE ("AR")


A NOTE FROM THE PRODUCERS-
This was the first time I attended a Steve Howe solo show, as luck would have it in my hometown
and in a nice venue. Paradiso is an old, small, church-like building that lends itself perfectly to this
type of performance. I went to this show with my eldest brother Henk. We always were very well
connected through music, and it was a very nice, calm and relaxed night (a well needed one too!).

Many unknown faces (to me) where waiting outside the venue but also some known ones, among
them some of the Dutch fan club staff. When we all entered from the cold (it was a little cold, after
all September), they immediately stormed the front with us although not exactly in harmony ;-).
We all managed to find some good front row seats in the end, a good position almost in the middle
for a good stereo effect! Not something I would normally do, as the sound at a full band show is
much better from a few rows back. 

The show started with “Beginnings” - the perfect opener. What followed showed Mr. Howe in top
form and please be your own judge but I’m sure you will agree.

Some nice conversations were had that night. One during the first break was with a guy from the
US who was unbelievably enthusiastic about the city of Amsterdam and Steve Howe. He liked the
relaxed people of Amsterdam and played guitar too. This conversation was nothing special, but it
contributed to a nice, gentle experience. He was very relaxed himself, and there seemed to be a
certain smell surrounding him. I think you will know what I mean ;-) I think I’d recognize him again
today, if I ever saw him again.

The few negatives included a noisy venue staff when it came to collecting and cleaning drinking
glasses (there was a bar at the rear). You can hear them rattle from time to time.
To me they showed a total lack of consideration for Steve’s performance.

There were people who sometimes coughed or sang along as they no doubt heard Jon’s voice
in their heads when Steve did an instrumental of a Yes song, and although most of us would rather
not hear that in a recording – especially in September when many people had colds - it can’t be
helped. These feelings are unavoidable, and the singing along just shows they were having a
good time.

After the show was over I spent some money on CD`s;
a tour book I’d already gotten before the show started.

It was all like a dream, a dream that I awoke from when returning home, and only then did what was
played really begin to sink in. After this I was committed to getting a recorded copy of the show
(but it took about a year until I found one)!

I posted my review of this show on the reviews part of Steve’s (then) tour page, and got an e-mail
from someone from Switzerland who liked my positive approach and enthusiastic review (I always
try to get that across, but sometimes it’s impossible to do).
As it turned out he had a recording of it, so we traded something and I was now in the possession
of this, my beloved show. I can’t remember his name now, it is after all more than seven years ago.

I got the recording on two TDK audio CD-r`s (for standalone CD-recorders), copied from the master
recording, and kept them locked away immediately after I made a back-up copy of it for my own
use (that was seeded a while ago on a few torrent sites). The only sad thing was the absence of two
encore tracks. I don’t know if they were ever recorded, but the Swiss guy did not have them.

There seems to be an alternate version, of the same show, doing the rounds, but that alternate
version is even more incomplete than this one as Clap is missing from that recording too!

After seeding it on several torrent sites I found that this recording needed some work done,
but I did not have the skill to do it. Then once upon a time on Dime, I got a PM from someone.
I did not know who he was, but his enthusiasm was a positive thing that came across very
clearly in his message. 

This fellow Dime member used the name Lestat and asked my permission to do a remaster and
new seed of something I’d posted on Dime before, which I gave. I liked the result very much,
others did too, and when he later presented some original sources his talents really showed.
Reader, most likely you know the recordings I’m speaking of. Since that time they have become
a part of history, not only my humble opinion, but also that of many other music lovers.

Naturally, Lestat was the man for this job! You only have to search for the "BLG", or "Lestat Audio
Projects" labels on the cover art, and you can be certain that you have something special to listen
to (don’t let anyone tell you otherwise!). What you are listening to now or will be soon is yet
another example of what the man can do, given the chance and the right recordings!
His comments are stated below.

I sincerely do hope you will enjoy this very special show, I’m sure you will.

So thank you very much to "Swiss guy", "Lestat", and all that supported us in the past.

This is dedicated to you!

- Gromek, October 2008


I've had the pleasure of hearing many an outstanding Steve Howe solo show AR from 1993 forward,
and while many of them compare to this one for SQ none surpass it.
While working on it I've enjoyed it immensely. Recording quality, Steve's virtuosity and his creative
genius are on full display, and I’m totally honored by Gromek’s request I help ready it for a proper
Dime debut.

I was also fortunate to have seen one of Steve Howe’s first solo concerts, in 1993. Naturally it was
magnificent, enough said. What makes this one even better – he doesn’t try to sing ;} The ’93
concerts also featured more electric work, which was just fine of course, but the mostly acoustic
nature of this one I find no less pleasing. About the only disappointment I can think of here is the
absence of “Sketches in the Sun”, one of Steve’s finest solo pieces either on acoustic or the
Steinberger – an unearthly beautiful-sounding instrument for that piece among others he’d played
them on originally in ’93.

Gromek’s experience with the bar staff brings back a similar memory from ’93 as well.
Whoever Steve’s booking agent was then either had a shoestring budget or was entirely unsuited
to the job – in my town they put him in a real dive. What had once been a movie theater turned into
the lowest form of bar club and pool hall, in a seedy neighborhood. Any one of several small and
perfectly suited theaters dedicated to jazz and/or classical performances were available, maybe
even no more expensive to rent. So in short Steve and we who were there to see him had to put
up not just with noise but frequent heckling by the knuckle-walker regulars. Gromek’s fellow patrons
by comparison sound like models of appreciation and good behavior.   

So in sum you have here an absolutely outstanding recording of a superb Steve Howe concert.
Though we don’t know the exact source or lineage prior to Gromek’s acquisition, you can take it
from me it’s exceptional and top shelf all the way. It not only remastered beautifully, it came out
sounding much like a 1981 Weather Report project among my very favorite work products.
If you’re looking for a very special Steve Howe solo recording – even for the year 2000 when
exceptional ARs had become common-place – you have found it. 

Please enjoy.

- Lestat, October 2008


LINEUP: 
Steve Howe - guitars and various effects


SETLIST: 
(Disc 1)
a01 - Intro Cue/Beginnings
a02 Heritage
a03 Vivaldi's Concerto in D, 2nd Movement
a04 Corkscrew
a05 Surface Tension
a06 The Ancient ("Leaves of Green")
a07 All's a Chord
a08 The Little Galliard
a09 Mood for a Day
a10 Gates of Delirium ("Soon")

(Disc 2)
b01 Dorothy
b02 Riviera
b03 Sweet Thunder
b04 Ram
b05 Windy and Warm
b06 Country Mix
b07 Masquerade
b08 Valley of Rocks
b09 From the Balcony
b10 Cactus Boogie
b11 Clap

The absent encore tracks are "Night Train" & "Rhythm Of The Road".
If you know someone who did record these tracks, then please contact us via PM.


TAPER:
"Swiss guy"

SOURCE:
Master recording (most probably a DAT recording) copied to a standalone CD-recorder.

LINEAGE:
(although the exact recording lineage is unknown, the following is from the remastering process)
?...> Gromek > Waves compressed with SHN > Lestat > Izotope Ozone/Izotope RX
(EQ and shelf filtering) > Syntrillium version CEP 2.0 (retracking) > flac > Gromek > Dime >

ORIGINAL ART: Gromek Cover Design

SOURCE AND AUDIO WORK SUMMARY -
An outstanding Steve Howe solo concert by any measure.
The playing and stealth capture alike are impeccable – the SH solo show I actually attended in 1993
is matched by this in every way for both realism and excitement, and the recording captures it as
well as any could.

Every effort was made to reveal all possible detail in each tone of each instrument as far as it
occurred in the PA mix, and we're pleased with the result overall. 

EQ work designed to reveal - not mix - extant AR detail as the audience heard and felt it.
No attempts to alter artist-crowd-venue sound balance except where applause and a few ‘woops’
overmodulate between performance numbers.

If crowd sound as real and detailed as artist sound isn't desired, please pass this by and stick
to boards or industry releases.

No compression or noise reduction applied.

FFT filtering at 19.0KHz renders any dedicated NR destructive if not unneeded.

Many thanks to Steve Howe, then and now.

Special thanks also to the “guy from Switzerland”, who attended and risked much to tape the concert.

Special thanks to Gromek for artwork so perfectly evocative of the show's energy and this effort.

Please share freely but losslessly, and never, EVER even THINK of selling for any sum anywhere.

Reseed or redistribute this recording in its complete and original form only (and just for the sake
of etiquette, let the original producers know if you do and were you will do it).
Should we become aware of an incomplete reseed or distribution, we will publicly discredit the
party responsible!

- Gromek & Lestat, October 2008.

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