Knights of Space review on amazon.com

[John Majka]

The Reading 1992 and Minneapolis 1989 shows are treasures among bootlegs, 
for those who have tapes close to the source.  What surprises me is that no 
one in charge of these releases made any effort to use the actual masters or 
at least a low-generation bootleg.  It's well known who has the soundboard 
masters for all the shows of the 1989 and 1990 USA tours, yet apparently no 
phone calls were made to acquire these tapes and use them.  I can say 
definitively that my own tape copies from many years back sound much, much 
better than the ones released by Voiceprint.  Nevertheless, I applaud the 
release of these "official bootlegs," though, and hope to witness the 
release of many more, though hopefully in a more cleaned up version, akin to 
what the Grateful Dead have been doing for ages with their Dick's Picks 
series.  If I didn't have better quality tapes than those that Voiceprint 
released, I would consider these CDs pure gold!
John Majka


It also is a possibility that maybe Dave is losing his hearing a bit also
. If he did mix Knights of Space , Reading  92 ,Glastonbury 90 ,etc in the
home studio ,maybe he really does think that they sound good . After all ,he
is 60+  years old. His age plus the fact he is a musician maybe is affecting
his hearing. And after all ,who would actually tell him if they didn't like
the mixing job if he did in fact do it? Mr Dibbs? Tim Blake?