Ok... Hi again folks. I thought that I would post this recent Adrian Belew show from a little tour he did earlier this year. I think this one was originally uploaded to the Zomb tracker (not sure where I got this from actually) and someone (Sandy) then took the files and remastered them with excellent results. You can read below the included text I have about this show and, of course, all the info pertaining to this remaster. Truly they did a real quality job on this although just sometimes the levels are just a bit "hot" but not to an overtly exaggerated or un-enjoyable point and, just so you know, this whole concert "smokes!" Let it burn. Enjoy...

Adrian Belew Power Trio
Slim's
San Francisco, CA, US
February 23, 2008

Marantz PMD620 - Internal mics - at 16 bit 44.1 KHz wav > Cooledit 2000 > WAV >
FLAC (level 8, align on sector boundaries)


Setlist:

Disc 1
01 Intro  1:35.64
02 Writing On The Wall  4:21.31
03 Dinosaur  5:28.34 [King Crimson]
04 Ampersand  5:21.08
05 Young Lions  7:34.13
06 Beat Box Guitar  14:12.36
07 Matchless Man  5:50.22
08 A Little Madness  8:58.12
09 Drive / Within You Without You  9:00.10 [The Beatles]
10 Neurotica  4:57.37

Total Disc Time: 67:19.42


Disc 2
01 Of Bow And Drum  5:23.73
02 Big Electric Cat  4:28.25
03 Frame By Frame  4:33.60 [King Crimson]
04 Three Of A Perfect Pair  4:32.74 [King Crimson]
05 Adrian Speaks / City Of Tiny Lites  2:30.39 (Tease) [Frank Zappa]
06 Elephant Talk  4:55.49 [King Crimson]
07 Thela Hun Ginjeet  7:19.19 [King Crimson]

Total Disc Time: 33:44.39


Adrian Belew - Guitar, vocals
Eric Slick - Drums
Julie Slick - Bass guitar

Source info: Recorded from balcony with Marantz PMD620 - Internal mics - at 16
bit 44.1 KHz wav. Levels were raised using Cooledit 2000.

Remaster info: This was a splendid show (I know, I was there. I even snagged Julie's setlist!) I'm thrilled this was recorded, and I must say, the source had fairly good balance and tonality and a terrific sense of ambience, but unfortunately, overall it was muddy and sounded somewhat distant. First and foremost, I used a multiband dynamics processor to compress and, mostly in the case of presence frequencies, significantly increase parts of the signal, and, finally, to keep those muddy frequencies circa 300Hz in line. I then used further dynamics processing to generally "smooth out" the signal, as well as to make it louder and give it a certain amount of "oomph" I felt that was lacking. This really brought it to life, although the way Adrian makes his guitar squeal this was occasionally a little much; to that end, I employed a nice linear-phase equalizer to attenuate the ~2kHz range (responsible for ear-splitting nasality), emphasize Adrian's voice and the bass guitar just a bit as they still sounded "back" a bit, and filter out some sub-bass sludge. That's really it. I didn't even need to perform noise reduction (hurrah!). Cheers, Sandy


No artwork available yet for this show.

Hope you enjoy the music... and until next time

Well folks... I am sorry to say that one of my two internal HD's has gone out on me. And the bad news is that of the 160 gig capacity about 3/4 of that space was music files. Ouch.... That includes these files for this torrent, so I won't be able to finish seeding this one. And, I won't be seeding the last two Dido torrents anymore either. But, I still have my two externals and the other internal one to get me by until I go get a replacement for the fried one later tonight. So... let this be a reminder to you all not to dally around, BACK UP your DL's to media as soon as you can. You never know when you might regret not doing that sooner, rather than later. As for you four already on this one... sorry about the wasted time. I'll see if I can get a replacement from a friend that also has these files soon. Maybe I could post it for a free DL at a hosting site for you guys. And, to everyone else... I'll try to get this one uploaded again, sooner or later, with some other things I had planned to post.  Cya guys, in a little while, got to install a new HD tonight.

bummer.

btw, not seeing it on zomb or dime...