Deep Purple - "A Bronx Tale"
August, 31st, 1972, Bronx, New York, Gaelic Park
Remastered Audience Recording, (A Group/Personal Project)
Lineage: Master > Flac > HD > Torrent > Utorrent, Download > TLH, Decode > WAV > Remaster > Flac (Level.8, Align On SBE'S)
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- This particular release is a fan made remaster of the bands performance in The Bronx, New York, on August, 31st, 1972 from the tapers master cassettes, the version posted below is a strictly raw transfer from the tapers masters, and HAS NOT been remastered in anyway:
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This is a Group/Personal project by "Those Puck Slapping Maple Suckers", The 7th Son,Joel, Mike, Grendel, and Acapulco Gold.
We hope that whoever picks this up will enjoy this, and will pass it along and share it with others, or just pass, the choice is yours.
This is not meant to be a "definitive" edition.
Cheers and thanks go out to:
- The taper for taping and sharing their master with everyone in the community, if you're out there and happen to pick this up, we hope that you'll enjoy the work we've done.
- The original uploader for sharing the master recording with everyone in the community, I apologize for forgetting your name, it is not intentional.
Dedicated to Craig Ferguson (of late night t.v fame) who attended this show with his cousins, it was his first rock concert.
Disc One:
1) Highway Star
2) Smoke On The Water
3) Strange Kind Of Woman
4) The Mule
Disc Two:
1) Lazy
2) Space Truckin'
3) Speed King
4) Lucille
Enjoy!
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Notes:
Continuing on with our attempts to try our hand at working on other/different recordings, we present to everyone here our first attempt at remastering a Deep Purple recording.
I don't know very much about the band or their boots (things like: what's considered to be their "peak", what's their best tour, what shows are considered to be their best concerts, etc, etc) but out of all the concerts I have picked up and heard, I like this show the most.
This concert looked interesting to me because I've never personally seen a recording that was held/comes from The Bronx area in New York.
I've seen a ton of shows from famous venues in New York (i.e: The Fillmore East, The Garden, CBGB'S, The Beacon, The Met, etc, etc), but most of those venues are located in Manhattan, to see a show from The Bronx was unique to me, so I picked it up, and rather enjoyed this recording and performance.
This concert is a hot one (in more ways than one, but I'll explain about what I mean by that later).
Everyone in the band is in fine form, and the sound quality of the tape is very good.
The taper captured the performance beautifully, capturing a decent balance in the instruments (just slightly lacking a little in low end).
It has slight echo to it (you can mostly hear it in Ian's commentary to the audience in between songs) but does sound like it was taped fairly close to the stage.
The recording has alot of punch, and what I like to call "sharpness" to it, there's a sort of snap and weight to instruments like the drum fills, and a high sharpness to instruments like the guitar and vocals.
I personally think that the sharpness found in the recording is not only due to obvious things like the bands performance, equipment, and the recording, but is also due the venues acoustics.
I've discovered this sort of sound in a few Zeppelin recordings (Hamburg, Germany, (3-10-70), and Raliegh, North Carolina, (4-8-70) are two recordings that come to mind that really illustrate what I'm talking about), and it's due to a venue having concrete floors, the music bouncing off the concrete creates this echo/sharpness effect.
I don't know what kind of venue it is at Gaelic Park though, so maybe I'm wrong about why the recording has these kind of acoustics to it.
But If I were to really try and compare this recording to a Zeppelin tape when it comes to sound quality, I would say that this tape really resembles Tucson, Arizona, (6-28-72) the most.
I say it resembles that recording the most because it has the sharpness I'm talking about, but also some very heavy distortion, which this tape has as well.
This brings me back to a point that I was making before where I said that this show was "a hot one" in more ways than one.
The only major drawback to this recording is that it suffers from periods of distortion and hotness in the left channel, this was either due the transfer, or happened during the recording progress where the taper didn't monitor their recording levels when taping.
Our main goal was to try and balance the instruments as best we could and reduce some of the hotness in this recording.
What we've done to make this project:
- We've tried to reduce as much of the hotness and distortion found in the recording as much as we've possibly can while trying to maintain the tapes sharpness.
- We've tried to give the recording a more balanced sound to it, and give it things it was missing (low end)
The reason I know how Craig Ferguson was at this show is because I saw him on t.v doing his routine at the annual comedy festival in Montreal, Quebec, "Just For Laughs" or "Juste Pour Rire".
And the whole routine was about how he took his first trip from Scotland to the U.S and during his time there he got to see Deep Purple in New York in the summer of 1972.
In regards to the title:
For those that may not know or get the title reference, the title comes from the very good (but sadly unappreciated) gangster movie "A Bronx Tale" that starred Chazz Palminteri, and Robert De Niro.
For every project we do, we always try to make reference to either the city, the state, the country, to where a gig takes place, when that doesn't pan out, we go through popular culture references to try and find any references to the area where a concert takes place, and "A Bronx Tale" fits perfectly.
Hope everyone here enjoys this.
Cheers
Downloaded from Dime 05/02/2011.