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).

Sunday, 8 January 2017

Show 88: Gary Numan - Live At The Ritz Theatre New York - 26 Oct 1982


***PLEASE NOTE THAT AFTER OVER 2200 DOWNLOADS, THIS SHOW HAS BEEN REPLACED BY SHOW 159 HERE***


This is a remaster of a recording by someone from the audience on the night. As such it might not be as clear as most of the gigs on the archive. However, recordings of this tour are few and far between and all are poor quality, and some songs were never played live again, so I've done what I can to make this one listenable.

I could write a book on all the work involved in fixing this one. Of 3 sources, I started work on one only to find that 1 track in particular had lots of noises I couldn't remove on it, so I started from scratch on the next best source. Hours of editing, volume balancing, selectively EQing different parts to reduce the effect of distortion, reducing large amounts of tape hiss without killing the recording altogether, as well as the usual EQ to bring out the instruments and voice...well, I'm glad to see this one done, put it that way! I hope you think its worth it.

***PLEASE NOTE THIS SHOW HAS BEEN REPLACED BY SHOW 159 HERE***


Setlist
This is My House
I, Assassin
Remind Me to Smile
Films
Crash
Music for Chameleons
She's Got Claws
Every Day I Die
Down in the Park
White Boys and Heroes
Cars
War Songs
We Take Mystery (To Bed)
This Wreckage
We Are Glass
Tracks

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10 comments:

  1. djgriff0038 January 2017 at 10:41

    thanx phil for "cleaning this up"great birthday present for me

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  2. genepool8 January 2017 at 13:26

    Another great post. I was at this show, nice to have a recording of it, thanks!!

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    1. Flip Martian8 January 2017 at 15:00

      How cool, sounds a great band, wish I'd seen them. Cheers!

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  3. Anonymous9 January 2017 at 08:24

    Brilliant cheers for this! have had this recording for ages now so good to see it cleaned up.

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  4. Anonymous15 January 2017 at 08:55

    Great work ! Thank you very much .

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  5. Crash The Driver16 January 2017 at 13:01

    Thanks for this, Flip! I was, as you can imagine, thrilled to bit to hear a live version of "Crash." But the real stand out here is the extend jazz keyboard solo on "We Take Mystery (To Bed). Nothing else quite like it in the Numan catalogue, methinks!

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    1. Flip Martian17 January 2017 at 06:36

      Yeah its quite different, this gig. Glad you enjoyed, cheers!

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