HW: Complete 79 sound quality

[eddie jobson]

I remember asking Harvey that same question backstage at Hammersmith on the
Sonic Attack tour and he said only some vocals were redone, which can be
verified if you liten to the St Albans '79 bootleg.

Eddie.


>From: Colm McWilliams <mr_bt at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK>
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>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
>Subject: Re: HW: Complete 79 sound quality
>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:56:31 -0000
>
>does anyone know if live 79 had a lot of overdubbing done to it in the
>studio or is it completely live?
>
>cheers
>
>colm
>
>
> > Hi Craig,
> >
> > The complete 79 recording was a "collectors item", Ie expect it to be
> > rough & ready. Must admit that it was a disapointment to me when I first
> > heard it, and now sits gathering dust.
> >
> > That said, it seems the best complete document from that tour ( the
> > first that I saw) and from that point it is worth it alone to me.
> >
> > 79 is still a cracking LP and is played in southville towers.
> >
> > regards
> > Iain
> >
> > But from a
> >
> > Craig Shipley wrote:
> >
> >  > Sorry if this is an old subject, but I got the COMPLETE CD set last
>night
> >  > and, at first listen, the sound quality seems much worse than the old
> >  > single
> >  > LIVE IN (initial thought is that there is a lot of tape mis-tracking
>and
> >  > that the sound is not as clean). Must admit that the initial listen
> >  > was done on
> >  > a boom-box (but it is a high-quality boom-box, bi-amped speakers
>all).
>I
> >  > haven done an A-B comparison yet, but my recollection was that Li79
> >  > was one of
> >  > the best sounding live recordings. Does anyone have any insight about
> >  > this? Or
> >  > are my ears just fulla crap? SYMBOL 74 \f "Wingdings" \s 10
> >  >
> >  > Regards,
> >  >
> >  > Craig Shipley
> >  > mr_ship at bellsouth.net (personal)
> >  > cshipley at veritas.com (work)
> >  >
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