Unfortunately the audience recording is incomplete & doesn’t include My Generation - it ends after My Way.
Factoring in sales tax, the vinyl is currently $15.50 less shipped from the UK as compared to amazon US to my address.
For those that missed when I posted it before in this thread, here's the info text that came with the audience recording 01. Substitute (2'09) 02. Pictures Of Lily (2'37) 03. Relax (10'53) 04. I'm A Boy (3'30) 05. C'mon Everybody (2'59) 06. A Quick One While He's Away (11'19) 07. My Way (2'18)
Although of course I'd prefer improved sound, but with all the extra and unheard tracks I'd make do with the same sound as the bootleg tbh
There is a Showco Facebook page. They posted a pic of the single tape machine on there and a story of the shows on it from the sound man by the machine.
Yep, I think that now we have more details, the most important thing is that all those incomplete tracks on an already great-sounding boot seem to be complete on this release. Any sonic improvements will certainly be a bonus but it's no longer a deal-breaker for me.
This his post. Here's a great photo of Michael Garvey (SHOWCO electronic/recording engineer) with the SHOWCO 24 track Studer A80 that was used on The Who's 1979 tour. Michael remembers "Bob Pridden (The Who's principal sound engineer) hired Showco’s 24-track mobile recording Studer A80 for the infamous “Cincinnati” show in late 1979. I was the recording engineer on that tour and not only recorded the 24-track, 2″ tapes on the Studer, but used a Showco Superboard, a Crown DC-300 and a pair of JBL 4311s to mix down an unequalized/no-effects two track straight from the read heads to a half-tracked TEAC 3340 using 10″ reels running at 15ips. The reason being that Pete and/or Roger would often come in after a show and ask to hear certain songs from the night’s performance. Because of the horrible event in Cincinnati on Monday, December 3, 1979, I believe the group thought it prudent NOT to use the recordings and can only assume that Bob Pridden has them in a vault somewhere."
The shows that almost weren't. John Morris (director, Fillmore East) : I was with Pete Townshend the night Martin Luther King was killed. We had a Who concert the next night at Fillmore East and we had to make the decision whether or not to go ahead with it. We went back and forth and back and forth. Being supposedly the politically aware one back then, I said "look there are to be thousands of people out on the street waiting to get in. We've got to play." And Pete agreed. He was sitting in the office, talking about violence and how he hated it. How he didn't understand what was going on in the world. I mean, we literally talked for two or three hours. Even then, he was one of the most eloquent, itelligent human beings. He was a pleasure. We decided to go ahead and do it. A lot of people were against it. But we did it. They could of use this photo for the cover as it was shot earlier in the day on April 5th, but as we know it was famously used for something else. And supposedly they actually were asleep, exhausted from their drummers activities the previous night and apparently had to be awakened at the end of the shoot.
The first time I saw this image, it was in The Movie Channel guide that the cable company sent my parents every month. I thought, "Look at the kids sleeping outside waiting for the concert to start." I didn't know this was the band. I had heard the Who on the radio and really liked them right away and was just getting familiar with their whole thing. When I saw the movie, I was blown away. I think I was 13 yrs. old.
So I guess these 24 track recordings are the recordings that John Atkins aka “Oates” saw in the log book when he was lucky enough to enter the Who’s audio “vault”.
That's about my story also. And then I saw the booklet for The Kids Are Alright and dreamed about having those drums.
I was 12 in 1979 and it was also my intro to the band. It was love at first sight (and sound!) I wonder just how many second generation Who fans did that movie spawn? It had to be a ton.
Yes, but the accompanying photo of the console only has 1 tape recorder...........so how can they be complete?
Imagine seeing that movie for the first time when it came out in 1979 and at the same time having tickets in hand to see The Who that year for the first time! Imagine the anticipation (it was almost that way for me, but didn’t get to see them until 1980).