February 15, 1974 (Friday)
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Jon Anderson - vocals & percussion & stuff
Steve Howe - guitars & vocals
Chris Squire - bass & timpani
Alan White - drums & percussion
Rick Wakeman - keyboards
3rd Gen > standalone CDR recorder > CDR > xACT (extraction) > Sound Studio (retrack, amplify slightly) > xACT (FLAC level 5) > Dime > You
This is not my cassette extraction, it comes from the vast library of Bill Brown.
One of the overlooked gems of the tour, likely because it was recorded with less-than-stellar equipment on a single 120min cassette. (For those going back that far this means Low Bias)
There are some rough spots near the leader as the tape flips in RSOG and the whole thing cuts off shortly into Ritual, but everything else is there and clear enough for the tales aficionado to enjoy. Certainly the performance of the Remembering tonight will indeed make it worth your time.
No speed-tampering or audio tweaking has been done to the original product here. This is not a high-fidelity tape. What you get is what's in the box. Take it or leave it.
Total Time (118:16)
01 Firebird Suite 02:48
02 Siberian Khatru 09:33
03 intro 00:31
04 And You And I 10:04
05 intro 00:44
06 Close to The Edge 19:07
07 tales intro 01:45
08 The Revealing Science Of God Pt1 14:13
09 The Revealing Science Of God Pt2 06:01
10 intro 00:39
11 The Remembering 23:14
12 intro 01:27
13 The Ancient 19:39
14 intro 00:33
15 Ritual 07:51
This fits nicely on discs if you put CTTE on one and Tales on the other.
http://www.forgottenyesterdays.com/date.asp?s=5&tname=5&tdate=165&navb=10
Support the Band. Buy their stuff. Trade the live audience recordings freely & turn your friends on to this kind of music.
Please try to remember:
A) The lifespan of a cassette tape is not forever. In the grand scheme of things, magnetic media does not last long at all, and cassette tape life is from ten to thirty years, depending on storage. Remember, it is simply a plastic tape that carries a thin coating of magnetic material, usually iron oxide, on which a varying magnetic pattern is imposed during recording.
B) Like this show, a lot of tapes were traded to other collectors, thus receiving generational lineage beyond the Master Cassette. So a tape of a tape of a tape and all, may mean that some collectors have better-preserved or longer-lasting copies, even if the generation is unknown. Hence, CASSETTE tape copies, not CDRs of some of the shows may need to be examined to try to preserve some of this material.
C) The time is NOW! information is being lost, shedding away in boxes in basements. Please make a concerted effort to make clean digital transfers (hopefully better than this one) of some of these tapes. Discus among yourselves.
Enjoy the show!