Welcome - About Live and Loud!

Live and Loud! began as a fortnightly internet radio show in 2012 taking old unreleased live concert recordings I could find and working to repair and improve them - fixing tape hiss, noise, tape drop out, clicks, speed variations, defects - before improving the sound quality by EQing the sound to bring out the instruments as clearly as possible. These are now made directly available to download for free to reach as many fans of the music as possible.

Depending on the quality of the original recording, these can often be made to sound almost like commercial recordings - but of course I can't guarantee that for every show. What I can guarantee is it will sound far better than the original files available which have been floating around the internet and on bootleg recordings for many years.

Almost all are either "soundboard" recordings (taken directly from the mixing desk used at the gig on the night) or old FM radio recordings. A few gigs, if they are of special historical importance, make an appearance even if they were recorded from the audience - these can also be made to sound better than ever.

Do your ears a favour and listen on headphones or good speakers to get most benefit - laptop speakers will always sound pretty poor by comparison.

All shows still available are listed, including a link to download the remastered show for free. If you want to support the site with a small donation, you can receive the shows as either separate MP3s or FLACs (your choice) - head over to the Rewards for Donations page and see how you can get a lot for very little!

If you want to email me, an email link is in my profile in a link in the side panel.

And finally... These are great fun to listen to but DO NOT replace original releases - support these artists and buy their music. There is nothing you can go and buy in a regular record store here. If a gig is made available as a regular release, then it will be removed (as a couple have been already).

Monday, 19 September 2016

Show 79: Tangerine Dream - Live at The Reichstag, Berlin - 1 August 1987


Another debut on Live and Loud! for a band requested by 1 of my listeners - in this case, 1 who has been good enough to even supply me with a recording to remaster.

As many Tangerine Dream fans will know, for a long time there was a central hub for the trading and swapping of live bootleg recordings called the Tangerine Tree (which you can read about here). I know little about it personally, but I have had 1 particular listener bending my ear a bit to feature Tangerine Dream on Live and Loud! for a while, so I challenged him to send me something suitable and eventually he sent me this show, a free event celebrating the 750th anniversary of Berlin, held outside the Reichstag. This gig was especially notable as the last gig featuring Christoph Franke, who had been with Edgar Froese in the band since 1971. So a bit of a landmark recording in some respects.

The recording, I am informed, was originally remastered for the Tangerine Tree release by Wouter Bessels. It was basically clean, although a bit flat and I did find a small drop in volume at one point, so after fixing that I spent a lot of time EQ'ing - its a long show, lasting over 2 hours so it took a while! But I think its been worth it.

I'm reliably informed as a result, this now has more of a balance between the backing tracks and the live playing. Either way, it sounds pretty spectacular I think. Even if you have this recording from the Tangerine Tree originally, I hope you'll give this a listen and enjoy it.

The show is now available to download exclusively for free here as 1 MP3 file.

Or, if you would like to have separate tagged MP3s, or even lossless files in FLAC format, head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site costs.

Setlist
Caspian Sea
Dolphin Smile
Civilized Illusions
Betrayal
Diamond Diary
Love On A Real Train
Canyon Voices
Zen Garden (Variation)
Samba Motel/Scuba Scuba
Coloured Rain
Quadriga
Dolphin Dance
Sunnyvale
Smile
Ride On The Ray
Going West
Yellowstone Park
Tyger
Tiergarten
21st Century Common Man (Part 1)
A Time For Heroes


And my special thanks to Graham for the source recording (and the occasional nagging).

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10 comments:

  1. Crash The Driver20 September 2016 at 20:36

    The late 80 were not an especially great time for T-Dream, all those new digital synths sounding kinda harsh and glassy compared to the deep ambient bliss of their seventies output. But this actually sounds pretty terrific.

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    1. Flip Martian21 September 2016 at 03:30

      Cheers. I've been promised a Baumann era recording to do at some point later this year, so hopefully that will be a good contrast.

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  2. Jason Panelli21 September 2016 at 23:06

    I have the entire Tangerine Tree series if you are interested.

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    1. Flip Martian22 September 2016 at 00:46

      Thanks for the offer but I already have someone supplying me with TD material. Thanks anyway, appreciated. Hope you enjoy what I've done with it.

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  3. BRITISHROCK2 March 2017 at 06:28

    This is just superb. I cannot believe just how good a recording this is.

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  4. Lee Baker (Legion)17 April 2017 at 05:58

    Great stuff. Thank you. Keep them coming!

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  5. mwilson8 November 2020 at 05:27

    Thanks for the TD

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    1. Flip Martian13 November 2020 at 06:29

      You're welcome - hope you enjoyed. Hoping to do another earlier show by early next year. Cheers!

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