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Live at Music Hall, Boston, MA, USA 28th March 1978 STEREO SBD(UPGRADE)
Taken from WBCN FM Broadcast 10.5″ Reel Master
Play sample :
The daimyo board, which was highly acclaimed as “The best soundboard album of the 70’s” and “This is real LIVE! BOOTLEG”, has been brushed up. “Broadcasting station master reel / prestigious transfer / GRAF ZEPPELIN mastering” and the birth of a press CD that permanently preserves the ultimate sound that has been exhausted at each stage.
The identity of this work is the stereo sound board recording of “March 28, 1978 in Boston”. This is an upgraded version of “BOSTON 1978: FM REEL MASTER”, which has been loved as a classic and top-notch record. The biggest point of this work is the quality of “extreme”, but the show itself is also important. In order for you to realize the meaning of “Real LIVE! BOOTLEG”, let’s first look back at the schedule at that time.
●1977
“ROCKS Tour”
・ January 29-February 9: First visit to Japan (7 performances)
“DRAW THE LINE Tour”
・ June 21-July 8: North America # 1 (11 performances) ← * Official 5 songs
・ August 13-27: Europe (7 performances)
・ September 28-December 27: North America # 2 (25 performances)
● 1978
・ January 7: Jackson performance
・ March 8-April 8: North America #3 (12 performances) ← Coco (8 official songs + α)
・ May 1-26: North America # 4 (10 performances)
・ June 27-August 9: North America # 5 (21 performances) ← * Official 2 songs
“LIVE! BOOTLEG Tour”
・ September 27-December 16: North America # 6 (44 performances)
This is the 1977/1978 AEROSMITH. “North America # 1” to “North America # 5” are “DRAW THE LINE Tour”, and the takes selected from each place are recorded in “LIVE! BOOTLEG” (some 1973 takes are also mixed but). Especially “North America # 3” became the center. The Boston performance of this work was the eighth performance, and it was a concert where “Toys In The Attic” was also adopted for the official board. In other words, this work is a live album that you can listen to through the original story and stage of LIVE! BOOTLEG.
“Now, let’s get to the main topic.”
This work is one that has updated the highest peak of such a most important sound board. The factor extends to all of “source / transfer / mastering”. First of all, “source” is a 10.5-inch master reel that was sleeping in the broadcasting station “WBCN FM”. It is not even a broadcast master, let alone an air check, but it is the ultimate source that has been thoroughly investigated to the original source. Moreover, the excavation was carried out by the prestigious modern collector world “Krw_co”. It is one of the products that a long-established store that has worked on numerous analog masters has discovered and transferred. However, this is the story of the previous edition “BOSTON 1978: FM REEL MASTER”. This work refines such an ultimate source with detailed mastering of “GRAF ZEPPELIN”. We took all possible measures to the very end of the process.
In fact, the quality is the highest ever. If you have read this article, you will know that the method of “GRAF ZEPPELIN” is “faithful to the basics”, “abnormal precision”, and “reproduces the sound output of the site”. In other words, it is a concept like the restoration work of paintings and cultural properties, and it is not a deception with conspicuous sound pressure earning or flashy equalizing.
Of course, thorough (paranoid) adjustments have been made in this work as well. Even 1/1000th of a second deviation in pitch or phase is not allowed, and it also supports random changes rather than constant. Furthermore, we are particular about adjusting the stereo balance and band balance. For example, volume control. Normally, it ends with one normalization, but in this work, one song per song … No, it is adjusted according to the tape state less than that. In addition, the left and right channels are adjusted individually, not collectively, and the balance from high to heavy bass is also neatly adjusted by low-frequency analysis.
“What is that good for?” You might think that, but it’s surprisingly important. For example, if you just look at the overall impression and say, “The sound is low, let’s turn it up,” one channel will overpeak, or, “The treble won’t last,” and the sound pressure will be increased, and the bass will be crushed. The only way to prevent this is to carefully analyze each element of the sound, pinpoint the appropriate countermeasures, and prepare the whole. If you don’t, you could end up hurting even harmless sounds. Of course, this is just one task of “volume adjustment”, and other elements are also checked/compensated with this precision. Backed by that huge amount of work is “GRAF ZEPPELIN mastering”.
The sound of such an “extremity” is exactly what is depicted in the “through show LIVE! BOOTLEG”. Finally, let’s organize the set as well.
● Draw the Line (6 songs)
・I Wanna Know Why (★)/Sight For Sore Eyes/Kings And Queens (★)/Get It Up (★)/Draw The Line/Milk Cow Blues (★)
● Others (11 songs)
·fly! Aerosmith: Seasons of Wither (★)/Lord Of The Thighs/Same Old Song and Dance (★)/Train Kept a Rollin’
・Yamiyo no Heavy Rock: Big Ten Inch Record (★)/Walk This Way/Sweet Emotion/Toys in the Attic
・Others: Rats In The Cellar (★) / Get The Lead Out (★) / Chip Away the Stone
*Note: “★” marks are songs that cannot be heard on “LIVE! BOOTLEG”.
This is a supreme album that has been digitized by a prestigious excavation company from the ultimate material called “Internal Reel Master” and refined with exquisite mastering. The finish is based on the idea of ”repairing music art / reproducing the scene”, so there are no meaningless flashy modifications. It may not be “something different” because the source is too extreme, but that is the result. It is the result of pursuing “sound suitable for permanent preservation” that should be handed down to future generations. The ultimate soundboard album that must be left forever as a symbol of “Golden Age AEROSMITH”. Please enjoy the press CD anytime and forever.
★ Stereo sound board recording of “March 28, 1978 Boston performance”, which is also the original story of “LIVE! BOOTLEG”. A 10.5-inch master reel that was sleeping on the radio station WBCN FM was digitized by the prestigious “Krw_co” excavation, and “GRAF ZEPPELIN” is detailed mastering. It is a live album of “Kiwami” that has been carefully selected in all processes of “source / transfer / mastering”.
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REMASTERED BY GRAFF ZEPPELIN
(Remastered memo))
★Adjust left and right volume appropriately
*Phase correction.
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ZODIAC 528
