Boston / Cleveland 1976 / 1CD

Boston / Cleveland 1976 / 1CD / Zion
Live at Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH, USA 27th September 1976

Play sample :

BOSTON in 1976 appeared in the world along with the historical masterpiece “Genso Hikou”. The finest sound board that symbolizes the early days has been brushed up. Appeared on a press CD that permanently preserves high-precision natural sound by “GRAF ZEPPELIN”.
“Performance in Cleveland on September 27, 1976” is engraved on this work. It is the best stereo sound board recording. Along with Philadelphia performances and Long Beach performances, it is a large standard that is also called “the three major sound boards in the debut era”, but this work is the earliest among them. In order to make you realize the meaning, let’s first look back at the schedule at the time of debut when history changed.

●1976
・ August 10: North America #1a (1 performance)
《August 25th, “Genso Hikou” will be released》
・ August 27 + 28: North America #1b (2 performances)
・September 26-December 18: North America #2 (55 performances) ← Coco
●1977
・ February 1-May 25: North America # 3 (90 performances)

This is BOSTON in 1976/1977. The Cleveland performance of this work was the second concert of “North America # 2” about one month after the album was released … 1” is not a tour, but a promotional one-shot performance. The full-scale tour is from “North America # 2”, and this work is the second performance. In other words, it was also a super-very early show for BOSTON himself, the fifth performance.
This work, which conveys such a historical stage, is exactly the finest sound board with “super”. It is the highest peak master excavated more than 10 years ago, and was once loved as part of the 3-disc set “MOTHERSHIP”. Of course, this work is not a copy or remaster of “MOTHERSHIP”. It goes back to the original reel master’s natural transfer, and from there, detailed mastering is performed by “GRAF ZEPPELIN”. We are renewing the highest peak in history.
As you may know if you have read this article, the method of “GRAF ZEPPELIN” is “super natural” and “the band’s sound output principle”. In the world, there are still flashy remasters that just raise the sound pressure, but although it is easy and flashy, the subtleties of the performance are lost and the sound deteriorates. “GRAF ZEPPELIN” is the exact opposite, repairing the sound that has been degraded in each process such as recording, storage, and digitization, and returning it to the original source. It will be reprinted from the viewpoint of “sound output at the site”. In other words, it is a sound source version of “Repair work of paintings and cultural properties”.
Speaking of specific work, it’s actually faithful to the basics. Adjust the pitch accurately, correct the phase shift and tape running distortion, and cleanly remove the noise. The important thing here is “not to change the performance sound”. If you’ve ever tried mastering, I’m sure you’ve used automatic noise reduction to distort your performance. is important. Hiss if this work is an example. If you perform automatic processing all at once, the performance sound will be distorted, but this work analyzes the band and adjusts it for each band. Even then, I follow the waveform with my eyes, and make fine adjustments while checking with headphones to determine the size of the “here!” Moreover, “Coco!” changes as the performance progresses, so I will continue to follow it throughout the piece. I think you can imagine the work that seems to be daunting just by writing it down, but that is why the beautiful performance sound is realized as if there was no hiss from the beginning.
Another point is the “range of range”. It is sometimes misunderstood that increasing the sound pressure by applying compression expands the range, but in fact the opposite is true. The overpeaked strong sounds are only crushed, and the weak sounds are also raised, so the range becomes narrower. Of course, there is no need to worry about this in this work. Weak sounds remain soft, leaving every detail clean, and a finish that does not overstretch even strong sounds. You may feel that the volume is small when you listen to it, but it has a wide range and high resolution sound.
Reimei BOSTON is depicted on such a supernatural soundboard, so it’s irresistible. Let’s organize the set unique to the very early stage here.

● Illusory flight (6 songs)
・Rock & Roll Band/Peace Of Mind/Something About You/Smokin’/Foreplay/Long Time/More Than A Feeling
● Others (4 songs)
・Don’t Look Back: A Man I’ll Never Be / Don’t Be Afraid
・Unreleased track: Shattered Images (Help Me) / Television Politician

… and it looks like this. Of course, the axis is “Fantasy Flight”, and all songs other than “Hitch A Ride” and “Let Me Take You Home Tonight” are played on a large scale. New songs are also scattered there, but the unreleased songs “Shattered Images (Help Me)” and “Television Politician” are particularly delicious. After all, you can enjoy the repertoire that was not included in “Don’t Look Back” with a completely official-class sound. Moreover, at this time, there was only the very early stage, and the performance was precise and polite without play. It is the best take to imagine “if it was recorded in the studio …”.
A super-superb soundboard that can be called a “live performance version of fantasy flight”. It is the highest peak update board. That is the cultural heritage album that should be placed next to the historic studio masterpiece. Please enjoy the press CD that never loses its shine anytime, forever.

★ Superb stereo sound board recording of “September 27, 1976 Cleveland Performance”. The highest peak update board that “GRAF ZEPPELIN” refined the natural transfer of Omoto reel master. Without any wasteful sound pressure gaining, the pitch is strictly adjusted, the phase shift and tape running distortion are corrected, and the noise is removed cleanly. The “sound of the time” is reprinted with precision and aesthetics that are similar to repairing cultural properties. It is a cultural heritage album where you can enjoy the stage performance of the very early days, such as the large-scale behavior of the “Gensou Hikou” song and the unreleased songs “Shattered Images (Help Me)” and “Television Politician”.

★ ★ The decision board of the sound board sound source that represents Boston! ! A great achievement in 2022! ! !

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REMASATERED BY GRAF ZEPPELIN

(remastered memo)

* Phase correction

★Adjusted to the entire band. Hiss is less than the previous one.

★The focus is on the range, and no compression is applied.

The sound volume is lower than the previous release, but the sound has a wide range.

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