B-52's: Ventura 2012 (Ex- Aud) FLAC

Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura, CA - January 12, 2012

Source info: AT853 sub-cards>CA-9100(hpf on)>Sony PCM-M10(24/96)>Adobe Audition(normalize, resample/dither to 16/44.1)>CDWaveEditor 1.96>TLH>Flac
Taper: David Sell
Location: 30' from stage, DFC
Sound Quality: Excellent
As always, NEVER for sale, trade freely, and always support the artist' commercial endeavors. Enjoy, David

01. Pump
02. Private Idaho
03. Mesopotamia
04. Ultraviolet
05. Dancing Now
06. Give Me Back My Man
07. Funplex
08. Roam
09. 52 Girls
10. Party Out of Bounds
11. Love in the Year 3000
12. The Cosmic Thing
13. Hot Corner
14. Whammy Kiss
15. ~band intros~
16. Love Shack
17. ~encore applause~
18. Planet Claire
19. Rock Lobster
81:19

OU: An amazing show by one of the most entertaining bands of all time! Packed house and enthusiastic crowd at the Ventura Theater. The taping Gods were smiling on me once again. I found a great spot about 30' from the stage with a cool bunch of people who were well mannered, and loved this band! Crank it UP!! Omit track 17 and it will fit on single CD-R, otherwise split where you please.

Band:
Kate Pierson – organs, guitar, synthesizers, keyboards, bass guitar, vocals
Fred Schneider – vocals, cowbell, toy piano, glockenspiel, keyboards
Keith Strickland – guitar, drums, bass guitar, synthesizers, marimba, piano, keyboards, programming, backing vocals
Cindy Wilson – guitar, bongos, tambourine, vocals

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The B-52s: Boston and New Haven 1979 (FM and Aud) FLAC

Berklee Performance Center
Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
August 24, 1979 (opener for Talking Heads!)
+++
Agora
New Haven, CT U.S.A.
July 22, 1983 (1st 7 songs only)

Fred Schneider: lead vocals
Cindy Wilson: lead vocals
Kate Pierson: lead vocals, bass
Ricky Wilson: guitar
Keith Strickland: drums

total runtime: 75:59
performance quality: A (Both Very strong shows)
setlist: Boston (complete WBCN recorded broadcast)
1: 52 Girls 4:00
2: 6060842 2:44
3: Lava 5:16
4: Private Idaho 4:02
5: The Devil's In My Car 5:44
6: Dance This Mess Around 5:04
7: Running Around 3:26
8: Rock Lobster 5:20
9: Encore: Strobe Light 4:36
Agora, New Haven Ct. July 22, 1983 (Incomplete Audience Recording)
10: Song For A Future Generation 4:35
11: Strobe Light 4:39
12: Give Me Back My Man 6:26
13: Planet Claire 4:13
14: Butterbean 5:18
15: Queen Of Las Vegas 5:40
16: Whammy Kiss 4:50

recording quality/source: Boston A (master FM tape Maxell XLII-S) New Haven B (1st gen. aud tape Maxell XLII) each of these played on Naka. 125 into soundforge 4.5 (WAV) > FLAC 6
reseeded in 2011 with a flac > wav > flac reconversion to remove the sbe's, add band line up, track times and date/venue correction for New Haven songs.
an eternal party production. Do not sell this recording. share freely, losslessly and gaplessly.

OU comments: Both these sets were posted once before in 2008. These are 2 of my earliest recordings of the B-52's in concert. They're a fun live band and never better than in the late 70's and early 80's, so I've put together these 2 short
sets into one download, even though one is an FM and the other is an aud. The 79 is a complete broadcast, don't know if it was a complete set. Probably was, since it was an opener set for Talking Heads.
It was a very good show, from a clean FM master cassette of the second re-broadcast
which was not hacked up like the 1st one with untimely abrupt commercial interruptions. This is from the same FLAC files as the 1st post, only the titles have been changed now that the setlist is complete for both these sets, and the sb's have been aligned. thus the info. file, fpts and md5 are different.

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The B-52s: Boston 1989 (VG+ Aud) FLAC

Citi Club, Boston, Mass. August 14, 1989
touring "cosmic thing"
1st gen. audience recording
Lineage: Unknown Microphones > Sony WMD-6 cassette deck (Dolby B on) > master cassette (Maxell XLII-90 min) > copy (same, copied with dolby off) > played on Nak. 300 into soundforge (wav) > flac (sb's aligned)
a this and that, eternal party production. Do not sell this recording. Share freely, losslessly and gaplessly.

Fred Schneider: vocals and percussion
Cindy Wilson: vocals and bongos
Kate Pierson: vocals, keyboards
Pat Irwin: keyboards and guitar
Keith Strickland: guitar
Sara Lee: bass
Jack Albert: drums

1: Cosmic Thing 4:23
2: Bushfire 5:22
3: Give Me Back My Man 4:05
4: Private Idaho 4:12
5: Dry County 4:51
6: Dance This Mess Around 5:16
7: Mesopotamia 5:53
8: Whammy Kiss 3:38
9: Strobe Light 4:16
10: Roam (End Cuts) 4:37
11: Summer Of Love 5:14
12: Junebug 4:59
13: Band Introductions > Love Shack 6:46
14: Planet Claire 4:45
15: Rock Lobster 5:39
16: Channel Z 4:36
Runtime: 78:40

OU comments: The B-52s played three nights in a row in this little club on their
"cosmic thing" tour, which was probably the height of the band's popularity in Boston. America's favorite party band had 3 hits (at least) from this record, roam, channel Z and love shack. they were in a very upbeat mood for this show (aren't they always ready for a party in their concerts?) and so was the crowd. the taper must have had a pretty good spot since the crowd is pretty loud but the crowd noise on the recording is not very loud. I only had to do a little bit of clap reduction to this one. it's missing maybe about the last 30 seconds or so of "roam", because
the 1st side of tape ran out, otherwise this seems to be the full show.
Everybody likes to party with the B-52's, and nobody doesn't like Sara Lee. "Citi" used to be "Metro" and later became "Avalon", one of the endless series of clubs on Landsdowne Street, right behind the most famous tin structure in all of Boston- Fenway Park's "Green Monstah" (the left field wall, which after injuring Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Rice, Mike Greenwell, Johnny Damon, and Manny Ramirez, still has the steel spikes sticking out of it that did all that damage, so it's only a matter of time before another Carl Crawford is added to that dubius list)

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The B-52s: Mashantucket 2011 (VG+ Aud) FLAC

MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods,
Mashantucket, CT
January 21, 2011

Source info: Sennheiser ME-104's>Tascam DR-07 (16/44.1, 40hz bass rolloff)>USB> PC> GoldWave v5.56 (normalize)> CDWaveEditor v1.96> TLH> Flac (6)
Taper: Ringfedder
Location: Mezzanine Ctr Right, 1st row
Sound Quality: Excellent (well VG+ anyway)

01. Wig
02. Private Idaho
03. Mesopotamia
04. Ultraviolet
05. Dancing Now
06. Give Me Back My Man
07. Funplex
08. Whammy Kiss
09. Deadbeat Club
10. Roam
11. Party Out Of Bounds
12. Love In The Year 3000
13. Cosmic Thing
14. Hot Corner
15. Band Intro> Love Shack
~ Encore ~
16. Planet Claire
17. Rock Lobster

The Band:
Kate Pierson - keyboards, vocals
Fred Schneider - vocals, cowbell, toy piano, glockenspiel, keyboards
Keith Strickland - guitar, vocals
Cindy Wilson - bongos, tambourine, vocals
Sterling Campbell - drums
Tracy Wormworth - bass
Paul Gordon - keyboards, guitar

OU: How can you not like The B-52s? Granted only a handful of songs really make regular air play but they truly are great songs. This was a tight set covering all of the hits and new material as well. The balcony is my favorite place to record from and I think this recording is an excellent capture. Enjoy!

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B-52s: Montego Bay 1982 (Soundboard) FLAC

VENUE: World Music Festival, Montego Bay
CITY: Freeport Zone, Jamaica
DATE: 1982-11-26
SET(S): Entire
A-SBD
SSSB Audio Rating: AR1a

LINEAGE: SBD > Festival Master Cassette > D > D > SSSB > SHN > Flac level 6
encore missing; any/all editing, fades, NR, hiss elimination, phase shifting/"time smear" correction, jitter elimination, EQ were performed using 100% digital processing (24-bit/96 kHz) at Serafin Station Studio B

DISC ONE
01: Party (02:22.510) initial 01:18 removed from my DAT master
02: Give Me Back My Man (05:58.805)
03: Planet Claire (04:02.523)
04: Throw That Beat In The Garbage Can (04:01.242)
05: Lava (04:11.949)
06: Messopotamia (04:02.535)
07: 6060842 (03:41.558)
08: 52 Girl (03:03.142)
09: Dance This Mess Around (04:24.218)
10: Rock Lobster (04:57.641)

OU Credit: Originally seeded at gdlive.com by: John "Jay" Serafin, owner/audio engineer @ Serafin Station Studio B

Notes from initial source:
Aw hell, just get up and dance! This is what the B-52s are all about! The engineers who made this master were using multiple professional studio cassette decks running at twice the usual speed (7.5 i.p.s.), so the initial hiss was minimal to begin with. Just a very slight "tweak" with the editing software, and the result: the hiss is almost inaudible (-62 dB), and the music was not affected by the noise reduction.
It's great to hear artists and groups who really like to have the "REAL" sound to their equipment. Between songs, you hear the typical Fender "buzz" coming from the amps, which disappears once the music starts. The energy level has in the ozone, the vocals were on the money (although I have to admit I HATE the "screech" during Rock Lobster... reminds me of Donna Jean on a REAL bad day! Dont flame me...), the mix is a little on the mono side, but nonetheless, it's great from start to finish. My master didn't have the final song on it at all, and the first song, "Party", was edited out, due to diginoise. I haven't been able to find another copy of this show as clean as the copy I has, and it would be unfair to try to "match" two different versions. And rather than cut the song altogether, I chose to leave the clean part intact, and work from there.
If you love "Dance Music" in the strict sense, the B-52s knew how to do it right. Even on their "slower" songs, they had the ability to make people want to get out of their seats and onto the dance floor. If you're ever in a doldrum mood, give this show a listen to. I think it will snap you out of it.
Most of the "smaller" acts had less stage time, with Peter Tosh, Weir, and the Dead having the bulk of the stage time. The Fest went on much longer than planned, ending up somewhere around 3 AM rather than the planned midnight end. But because the crowd was very cool overall, there wasn't any real hassles from the authorities about shutting the show down on time. It just went on and on.
Pass this show around to others.

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The B-52s: Amsterdam 1979 (VG+ Aud) FLAC

Amsterdam, Paradiso July 13, 1979
AUD - Remastered & Speedcorrected Version
TAPE>CDwave>WAVE>FlacFrontend Level 8>TradersLittleHelper>Wave>MagixMusicCleaningLab2007(Speedcorrection, Pitch = -0,52800 )>Wave>TradersLittleHelper>FLAC

01.Planet Claire
02.52 Girls
03.6060-842
04.The Devil´s In My Car
05.Lava
06.Hero Worship
07.There´s A Moon In The Sky
08.Dance This Mess Around
09.Runnin´Around
10.Rock Lobster
11.Private Idaho
12.Strobe Light

I got this one in a trade in the middle 80´s. Now I found it on an old hd, but recognized that the speed is a little too fast (in my ears) and the whole thing should have a remaster. The result is pretty good. Hope ya like it.

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The B-52s: Live On KCRW April 2, 2008 (FLAC)

AIRED: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2008
KCRW Radio FM Broadcast
Santa Monica, California.
Live In Studio Session @ Time Of Broadcast
STEREO CAPTURE
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Gurus of dance-rock, The B-52s showcase songs new and old for Morning Becomes Eclectic. The B-52’s were the first band to emerge from Athens, Georgia in the mid-seventies… laying the groundwork for many alternative bands. Their distinctive dance-oriented and fun-loving music is as timeless as it is infectious. After a 16 year hiatus from recordings, this quartet return with a powerful new CD titled Funplex…

01.(=Intro=)
02.Hot Corner
03.Ultraviolet
04.Funplex
05.(=Live Interview=)
06.Juliet Of The Spirits
07.Love Shack
08.Rock Lobster
09.(=Outro=)

The Band:
Kate Pierson (Vox)
Fred Schneider (Vox)
Cindy Wilson (Vox)
Keith Strickland (Guitar)
Paul Gordon (Keys)
Tracy Wormwood (Bass)

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