TEN YEARS AFTER
BERLIN, DEUTSCHLANDHALLE
FEBRUARY 14, 1973

Known 2nd generation off master reel.

**Note: For the first time on Dime, little circulated and longer than commonly circulating versions (see notes below)!**

Lineage: Taper Heinz Esser's UHER Report 4000 mono reel-to-reel recorder with unknown external mike > master reel tape > 1st gen. analog cassette tape > my 2nd gen. Maxell XL II cassette tape (in 80's or 90's trade) > fresh October 2017 transfer from Sony D6C walkman (Azimuth adjusted) to Olympus LS P2 PCM recorder at 44.1kH > wav > Audacity (for slight editing and auto-boosting levels) > wav > FLAC (level 8)

Sound quality: 3 out of 6/vg+
Audio sample in comments.
Comes with full colour cover artwork using contemporary pix and memorabilia (PDF files). Comments welciome! :-)

1. YOU GIVE ME LOVING
2. GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOLGIRL
3. R & R MUSIC TO THE WORLD
4. HOBBIT (cut)
5. SILLY THING
6. STANDING AT THE STATION
7. TURNED OFF TV BLUES
8. HELP ME
9. CHOO CHOO MAMA
10. I�M GOING HOME (cut)

Tape trader's cock-and-bully story (polite corrections are always welcome): :-)
I received this show in an analog cassette swap sometime in the 80's or early 90's (IIRC) and directly from Berlin taper Heinz Esser who was very much into TYA, fortunately. He also recorded TYA's Berlin shows in 1970, 1971, 1972, Alvin Lee & Co in 1974 and TYL in 1978. I thankfully still have his long list of recorded shows filed safely.

Heinz who has long quit trading/swapping and collecting shows used to tape a lot of Berlin shows in the 70's with his UHER report 4000 portable open reel recorder. This device was definitely state-of-the-art at that time and basis for potentially excellent recordings. For more info, check cryptomuseum at: www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/rec/uher/report/index.htm

The recorder didn't come with an internal mike though and Heinz' (unknown brand) external mike obviously wasn't quite prepared for these loud rock shows and he seemingly never upgraded his equipmwent, so most of his recordings turned out only OK-ish. Most of his recordings still sound very listenable though as this show proves.

Another not so fortunate habit was that he used to take along to the shows only one 60 min. reel. I remember asking him about that when we had a chat on the phone waaaay back in the 80's or early 90's, and he replied something to the effect that "at that time most bands only used to play one hour shows, anyway". Sigh, what a pity! I'd say that may indeed have been the case in the 60's but by c. 1970 at the latest, most bands had extended their sets. Our taper though seems to have stuck to his one reel on the machine and wouldn't bother taking along a second reel and changing the reels midway through the show. That indeed sounds like a rather uncomfortable and time-consuming task among the massive crowds with a very likely loss of music. So, a large chunk of his recordings are as incomplete as this show. You can even hear him switch off the recorder between songs (and in Hobbit) to save tape.

On the other other hand, he was there when it really counted: he told me he had been staying for some time in London in 1967, and it was exactly him who recorded Fleetwood Mac's 2nd ever show that the Marquee club on August 15, 1967! Wow, eh?! So, eternal thanks to him!

My copy is only a 2nd. gen. because (AKAIK) for swaps Heinz only made copies from his backup cassette tapes; I can't tell if he really kept the original reels at all or probably overdubbed them with subsequent shows; at least I myself have never come across anyone with a direct off-the-master copy, and to my knowledge, the orig. reels themselves never got into circulation, either.

However, this recording here is obviously very little circulated! Most copies making their rounds all seem to stem from *only the first side* of a C90 min. cassette copy, cutting out midway through "Help Me" and omitting the rest of the recording. However, when Heinz copied the show, "Help Me" didn't fit on one cassette side, so he rewound this reel recorder and restarted the number for side two of the cassette which would contain the remaining tracks. Accordingly, my version has as well HELP ME complete and uncut - and this is is really an awesome version that rivals the one on "Recorded Live" - plus the remaining 10 min. of the original recording.

Real nice to hear the rarely played "Turned Off TV Blues" here, a number they did only occasionally and solely on their late 1972/early 1973 tours to back their "Rock & Roll Music to the World" album. BTW, interestingly - and sadly - the recording comes with the last known performances of this number. Too, we get to hear TYA's last known "Help Me" before the band's 1983 reunion. Alas, TYA would not return to Berlin on their next and last tour of Europe in 1974.

Please do NOT sell this show or spread it in lossy formats - otherwise: trade, share, collect � and enjoy! Always looking forward to your comments and possibly even further info...

Uploaded to Dimeadozen on November 3, 2017 by DocDondy for all fellow-TYAnatix to enjoy.

TYA ahoy!
Th:-)mas