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).

Friday, 15 November 2024

Show 213 - Ray Charles - Live At Palais des Sports Paris - 22 Oct 1961

 

A quick request. If you plan on downloading this and putting it on your YouTube channel or your own bootleg page - I don't mind. But a credit to this website where you found it and a link back to this page would be really appreciated. It helps me gauge which artists are popular - ie more chance of other restorations coming. Don't just steal it, cut out the intro and outro and take the credit. Thanks.

The Show
The source for this was a 2017 French radio broadcast of the original 1961 mono recording. It sounded like many old radio shows sound - old and not crystal clear like recordings today, with a lot of mid range and not much bottom or top end - but basically in good condition apart from a few clicks and the occasional bit of saturation where the recording levels were a little high - but this is pretty minor and you may not even notice it. 

The audience noise (especially at the end) is a little loud and overbearing - it was mixed in pretty high on the original recording. I’ve tried to tame that a little but yeah - the original engineer went a bit crazy with that, drowning out the band, rather The recording itself is of the afternoon performance on the last day of Ray Charles' residency at the venue - his last gig was that very evening, a few hours after this one.

What Was Done
I fixed most of the clicks that I could and then I got to work with EQ and my usual studio toys to reduce the mid range, and increase the lows and highs a little - all of which helped make it a little clearer, and then mastered to make it clearer still, a little more powerful overall, and wider. The result is a really cool, nice and clear, laidback listen; I hope you'll enjoy it.

The All Important Download/Stream Link

As always, the restored and remastered show is available to download or stream for free as a single 320kbps MP3. Just hit the link:


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Setlist
Hallelujah I Love Her So
Georgia On My Mind
Margie
I've Got News For You
Moanin'
I Believe To My Soul
My Bonnie
I Wonder
Yes Indeed!!
My Baby
Hit The Road Jack
I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
What'd I Say


Supporting The Site 

If you want to support the work I do on these recordings, and the site, and (if you wish to) obtain separate, fully tagged 320kbps MP3s of this restoration for less than the price of a coffee in return, or lossless FLACs or even a lossless copy on CDR, head on over to the Rewards For Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site. There is NO OBLIGATION to do so of course - you can take the file on this page absolutely for free - but every single donation does go towards this site and helps me do more shows and update some of the software I use as time goes by. Either way, enjoy the show.

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