Moody Blues
Nassau Coliseum
Uniondale, NY
October 28, 1973

Recording Gear: Unknown mono recorder

JEMS Transfer: Memorex 90 Minute Master Cassette > Nakamichi RX-505 azimuth-adjusted playback > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity 3.1 capture > iZotope RX10 Advanced and Ozone 9 > FLAC

01 Higher and Higher
02 Out and In
03 The Story in Your Eyes
04 One More Time to Live
05 Tuesday Afternoon
06 Legend of a Mind
07 Watching and Waiting
08 Eternity Road
09 Melancholy Man
10 Are You Sitting Comfortably?
11 The Dream
12 Have You Heard (Part 1)
13 The Voyage
14 Have You Heard (Part 2)
15 Nights in White Satin
16 I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)
17 Question
18 Ride My See-Saw

Known Faults:
-None

There must be a name for the condition where you have many more of a thing than you can possibly need for the rest of your life but you keep on acquiring. When presented with the opportunity to add a small cache of uncirculated audience recordings circa 1971-73, JEMS simply couldn't say no.

Master cassette tapes from this era are not common. The format was still in its early stage and far fewer folks were even attempting to covertly record concerts in 1971 and 1972 compared to just a couple of years later.

The cassettes passed along to JEMS were all made by the same NY/NJ-area taper and this is his second recording of the Moody Blues, playing Nassau Coliseum one year after the band's MSG show that started the series. Turns out 1973 Moodys tapes are almost as rare as 1972 recordings though ostensibly they are still on the same tour supporting Seventh Sojourn released in October 1972. There are a couple of setlist changes from the 1972 set, as they play "Watching And Waiting" and "Eternity Road" from 1969's To Our Children's Children's Children.

Like its series predecessors, the recording itself bears all the hallmarks of an early, non-professional cassette recorder, with narrow fidelity and limited body. But it is still fairly clear, steady and undistorted with a notable lack of close audience noise or hiss. I'd call it fairly comparable to the MSG recording. Samples provided.

Thanks as always to our key JEMS collaborators including Professor Goody who made sure the pitch was correct and mjk5510 who handled post production and setlist confirmation.

There are still a few more early '70s masters to come from this cache.

BK for JEMS