Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick In Muenster - 1973-03-08 Exc.Aud. from Master- new transfer! (azimuth!) With samples contra clause: this is the same show as http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=165901 but this is a different transfer and with azimuth but without equalizing, hiss reduction etc. Type: audience mono Venue: Halle Münsterland, Münster, Germany Date: 1973-03-08 Lineage of recording: magnetic micro > BASF-Tape-Recorder CC-9200 > Karstadt-Cassette C-90 “HiFi Low Noise” Transfer: 2007-09-27 Master tapes > NAD Deck 602 > azimuth alignement (each side > Soundcard /Audacity 1.3 Beta (stereo, 32 bit, 44100 Hz) > wav > flac8 (dBpoweramp) > Dime SQ: Very good, a bit far from the stage, full dynamics in the music, a little bit hiss in the quiet parts I was lucky to see and record this great show, when I was 17 year old, and it was one of my first recordings of not so many live shows. I can't contribute any details of the show - all forgotten. But these tapes have always been a treasure for me, never played for most of the years and first digitized in 2003 - but without azimuth! So I'm happy having discovered a way to share it and finished it finally. Unfortunately the transfer for the remaster "Welcome to Münsterland!" was done without azimuth control. The difference is obvious! See: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=96904 oder auf deutsch: file:///C:/Daten/Musik/technisches/Der%20Cassettenrecorder%20Gedanken%20zum%2025-j%C3%A4hrigen%20Geb.htm Transfer date: 27.9.2007. Azimuth alignement done for every side of the tapes. Transfer with the same volume for each side - very few balance correction. There seem to be some distortion beginning at 5:19 (first tape) - perhaps it came already out of the speakers, because the volume wasn't at maximum. Tape flips are at 45:02 and 42:50 (2nd) - after speed correction. The transfer was nearly a halftone slow, or say: the running time was plus 4 per cent compared to Laufi's remaster. My tape-deck on the other hand rans perfect measured with original tapes. So I decided not only to give you the raw files by request per PM (they're up on the FTP-server) but to use my own fine transfer to offer the best possible sound quality for your delight - without any equalizing which I'm not skillful enough to do. I thought about speed and pitch and compared live recordings for weeks but I was not certain about it. So: A big THANK YOU goes to Laufi, who checked the right speed comparing his transfer with various sources, tracked the recording, contributed photos of this show, made artwork and uploaded it. I followed his work mostly - same speed, similar volume and tracking. I missed 4,3 seconds at the beginning of Aqualung, so I patched it in as Laufi did from another source he could get. I changed the tracking a little bit. Further details in the info file. Volume: In the first half of TAAB I didn't amplify itto leave the dynamics in the music. Otherwise I amplified the same spoken parts: 1/10 +2dB at 0:00-5:58; 2/1 +2,5 dB; 2/7 +2 dB for 0:00-0:18,7 - 0:30,75-0:43,6 - 0:54,5-0:57,2; 2/10 +3dB 0:45,7-1:04; 2/14 +3dB 1:38-2:07,5. I put together track 1/9 at 8:53,6 (tape flip). I patched Aqualung (tape flip) at 0:05,32 and 0:09,59. I must have given a copy to a friend in that time - but it didn't really surface til now. Laufi had got a copy and someone has the Muenster-Show on his trade list, perhaps from the other, inferior recording. Wonder who got the copy from me? DISC 1: Total Time: 76:19 - complete "Thick As A Brick" 1 Thick As A Brick pt.1 4:47 2 Thick As A Brick pt.2 2:44 3 Thick As A Brick pt.3 6:53 4 Thick As A Brick pt.4 2:03 5 Organ Solo 5:26 6 Thick As A Brick pt.5 2:59 7 Flute Solo (incl. Quartet/God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Bourée) 9:09 8 Thick As A Brick pt.5 contd. 1:37 9 Thick As A Brick pt.6 9:07 10 Six O' Clock News 6:02 11 Thick As A Brick pt.7 2:19 12 Drum Solo 13:24 13 Thick As A Brick pt.8 2:17 14 218 Babies And A Cat 0:50 15 Thick As A Brick pt.9 3:58 16 Thick As A Brick pt.10 2:36 DISC 2: Total Time: 52:10 1 intro cross-eyed mary 1:18 2 Cross-Eyed Mary 3:20 3 Left/Right 3:25 4 Audition 2:31 5 Aqualung 7:16 6 encore 1:11 7 intro wind-up 1:03 8 Wind-Up 2:18 9 Rehearsal 6:15 10 No Rehearsal 2:36 11 Guitar Solo 8:46 12 Locomotive Breath 6:10 13 Hard-Headed English General 3:23 14 Wind-Up Reprise 2:27 total running time: 2:08:29 Line-Up: IAN ANDERSON: vocals, flute, guitar MARTIN BARRE: Guitar JEFFREY HAMMOND-HAMMOND: bass JOHN EVANS: keyboards, organ BARRIEMORE BARLOW: drums recorded, transfered and uploaded on Dime 2007-10-20 by Erwin (aka trapper) feel free to create artwork enjoy!!! Trade/share freely, do not sell. Do not encode as MP3 or any other lossy format and redistribute. Do not remaster with evil Noise Reduction (NR) or alter the text if you want to share. Include the original text/lineage if you remaster. One word to the Japanese bootleggers: Please don't give it a title as "Thick As Mein Kampf" or any nazi-based name (how you did with ELP in Münster) - that drives me sick as steel... - better just leave it.