Jethro Tull
Long Beach Arena
Long Beach, CA
November 15, 1979
Barry Goldstein Master Series Volume 18 via JEMS

Recording Gear: Sony TC-55 portable cassette recorder

JEMS Transfer: Barry Goldstein Master Cassettes > Nakamichi RX-505 azimuth-adjusted playback > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity 3.1 capture > iZotope RX10 Advanced and Ozone 9 > FLAC

01 Introduction
02 Dark Ages
03 Home
04 Orion
05 Dun Ringill
06 Flying Dutchman
07 Elegy
08 Something's On The Move
09 Aqualung
10 King Henry's Madrigal > Drum Solo
11 Heavy Horses
12 Flute Solo
13 Songs From The Wood
14 Charity Announcement and Band Introduction
15 Jams O'Donnell's Jig
16 Thick As A Brick
17 Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll, Too Young to Die
18 Cross-Eyed Mary
19 Guitar Solo
20 Minstrel in the Gallery
21 Locomotive Breath

Known Faults: "Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll, Too Young to Die" (start cut); rest of "Locomotive Breath" and end of the show with "Dambusters March" and "Minstrel In The Gallery" unrecorded

JEMS is proud to extend our partnership with longtime Southern California taper Barry Goldstein. Barry began taping in the early '70s and remained active until just a few years ago, though his later work focused more on video than audio. In his heyday, Barry was a dual threat, recording the shows he attended and photographing, too, with impressive results.

His master tapes circa 1973-83 include previously uncirculated shows and recordings of David Bowie, Genesis, Roxy Music, Fleetwood Mac, Rory Gallagher, Eric Clapton, Supertramp, The Who and others.

Beyond his own captures, Barry was a close friend of the late, great Mike "The Mike" Millard, attending many concerts with him as well as recording nights and shows Mike didn't cover. Like Jim R, Barry shared Mike the Mike tapes with JEMS that are not in general circulation for our Lost and Found series.

Vol. 18 in the Barry Goldstein Master Series is a return to Jethro Tull, on tour in support of their 1979 album Stormwatch. This is the second Tull master from Barry's tapes, the first being his fine Forum recording from the Passion Play tour in 1973 (Vol. 14). Tull toured extensively EVERY SINGLE YEAR of the 1970s, peaking somewhere circa 1975-76. But even in 1979, they were still playing three arena nights in Long Beach.

For whatever reason, 1979 appears to be one of the least-recorded years of the band's career, which makes the addition of Barry's tape welcome. The album Stormwatch dropped in September 1979 and the album tour started in early October. The Long Beach run came during the last week of the tour.

While not at the fidelity level of Millard's work, the recording is emblematic of Barry's best, with up-close, steady sound, no annoying close audience distractions and solid musicality. Samples provided.

JEMS thanks our friend Barry for trusting us with his incredible archive of audio, video and photography. He was one of the pioneers and its an honor to get his work out into the world 50 year later. We should note that Barry is again battling serious health issues and could use all the positive energy you can send. Thanks this week to Professor Goody who handled pitch work, and to mjk5510 for taking care of post production.

We look forward to sharing more of Barry's master recordings in 2025.

BK for JEMS