| Metallica |
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| Venue: |
@Shoreline Amphitheatre : Mountain View, CA |
| Date: |
September 15, 1989 |
| Time: |
134:55 |
| Size: |
2 CDs |
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| Sound: |
AUD |
| Notes: |
Taper: Karl Lundmark
Gear: Aiwa CM 30a mic > Sony WMD6c
Lineage: TDK SA90 cassettes (1) > Optimus SCT-57 playback deck > Adobe
Audition 1.5 (recording to .wav @ 24/96, speed correction, EQ, normalization,
splits & fades) > Xrecode II (flac 8)
Mastering notes: Karl obviously had a difficult time at this general
admission show. These were his first shows with the D6, having purchased it
for this run of Metallica concerts. He was being jostled by the crowd
frequently, and there were a ton of mic bumps throughout the show. The
soundstage moved around constantly from heads passing in front of the mics
and Karl's movements, and there were occasional dropouts in the channels.
The recording was quiet, so there's a degree of hiss. The third tape side
was particularly damaged, including blank spots where the mic was loosened
from its plug and cut out many times. Also, this tape had very little low
end. By EQing the lows back in I made the mic bumps and errors far more
noticeable, so all the flaws were either attenuated, EQd or cut out
completely. Patches were taken either from another place in the song or, in
cases of larger damage, the show Karl recorded with the same gear next day
in Sacramento.
Most of the show was not too bad. I clipped out or attenuated a bunch of mic
bumps, fixed dropouts, evened out the levels where they jumped and fixed
some of the wild panning. It went fairly smoothly until we got to Fade to
Black. The crowd must have gone berzerk during the final guitar solo,
because it sounds like Karl got sucked into the mosh pit for a minute. Most
of the latter half of the solo was lost to mic jostling and has been patched
from Sacramento. Also patched was a tapeflip that occurred just as Jason
started playing Orion after his solo.
The second tapeflip happened a split second after the last note of One, and
this is where the problems really began. The encore break and the beginning
of Creeping Death were missed, the levels went all crazy, and it sounds like
the mic was hidden. This issue lasted until the end of the second verse of
Creeping Death. I've chosen only to patch the missing start of the song and
leave as much of this performance as existed, bad sound or not.
Around the 2nd encore a speed slippage issue that I had noticed appearing
occasionally throughout the show really became prominent. There are little
slips in the speed that are so small I can't chase them out which then
become a constant wobble by the start of Am I Evil. It's not that noticeable,
but it's there. There is discussion between Karl and his friend during the
last encore break about tapes snapping, so Karl wasn't the only one with
deck issues.
Correct show : yes, "Blitzkrieg" is played, and James says "good to be
around fuckin' home man" after Justice.
3rd source |
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Disc 1:
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The Ecstasy of Gold
Blackened
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Harvester of Sorrow
The Four Horsemen
The Thing That Should Not Be
Bass Solo / To Live is to Die jam
Master of Puppets
Fade to Black
Seek And Destroy
...And Justice for All
One
Creeping Death
Guitar Solo
Battery
Frayed Ends of Sanity Jam
Last Caress
Am I Evil?
Damage Inc.
Blitzkrieg
Breadfan
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