Emerson, Lake & Powell
Syria Mosque
Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
1986/09/21 (September 21, 1986)


Setlist & Fingerprints:

Track 01 - Fanfare and The Score
Track 02 - Learning To Fly
Track 03 - Pirates
Track 04 - Knife Edge
Track 05 - Tarkus
Track 06 - Still...You Turn Me On
Track 07 - Watching Over You
Track 08 - Best Revenge
Track 09 - Creole Dance
Track 10 - From The Beginning
Track 11 - Lucky Man
Track 12 - Fanfare For The Common Man
Track 13 - Touch And Go
Track 14 - Mars, The Bringer Of War
Track 15 - only applause
Track 16 - Karn Evil 9 and America and Rondo
Track 17 - Recessional and crowd

CD 1 = Tracks 01 - 07, 51:13
CD 2 = Tracks 08 - 17, 50:14
TT: 101:27 This IS the entire concert, to the best
of my knowledge. Track 15 is only applause and is
58 seconds long. It can be omitted if you desire.

I copied the song titles from the J-card that came
with the cassette. If there are any errors, please
post corrections.


Lineage -

Maxell XLII 100 high bias cassette tape, 2nd gen >
JVC TD-W505 stereo double cassette deck >
Aiwa XC-RW700 CD/CD recorder (tracking done here) >
Memorex Black Music CD-Rs 80 min. >
Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (wav files onto HD here) >
Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (retracking or editing of tracks done here) >
Trader's Little Helper (encode level 8, aligned on sector boundaries)

Quality - 9.0-9.5/10 excellent to excellent minus audience recording.
Listen to this show on headphones to fully appreciate the sound quality.
SQ is, as always, IMHO so if you disagree with my assessment, please
don't post comments as to how much of an asshole I am, how deaf I am,
how much this recording sucks, etc. Thank you !

I wasn't present at this show, so I'll give you a brief rundown
of the recording, good points and bad...

First, the good points:

1) There are no speed problems or any other serious faults
to prevent you from enjoying this show.

2) This is a very clear recording. The vocals & instruments
come through very clearly and distinctly. I think that the
taper was fairly close to the stage when making this recording.

3) Audience talking close to the taper is minimal. There is some
random shouting but little whistling, screaming, yelling, etc. and
the audience noise seems to be at some distance from the taper.

4) Hiss seems to be non-existent. There is also no distortion.


Second, the bad (minor) points:

1) The sound man seems to have been "getting his stuff together"
during the first song but it's pretty much smooth sailing after that.

2) As mentioned above, there is a little conversation (taper talk ?)
close to the taper but it is only intermittent and at a very low
volume.

3) It could be my imagination but rarely some piano sections sound
slightly warbly to me ; I am hypersensitive to "piano warbliness"
though, so it could just be me.

So there you have it. This show fits on 2 74 min. CDs.
The Syria Mosque was a beautiful venue that was torn
down due to the stupidity and arrogance of the University
of Pittsburgh. The Mosque was acoustically perfect and many
high-quality recordings were pulled out of there. This is one
of them. That's about all that I can think of to say, so let's
wrap this up...

Finally, please don't buy, sell or convert this show to mp3 or
any other lossy format. Please seed this as long as you can.
Please trade this freely as it probably is uncirculated.
This show will be a welcome addition to any EL & Powell fan's
collection. I think that most of you will love this show.
I will post a sample to help some of you decide whether or not to
download this. So, as Mr. Natural is so fond of saying, have fun,
don't freak out and enjoy the concert !