Category: 1980s

Aerosmith 1988/09/15 Pacific Amphitheater, Costa Mesa, CA (Mr. Sifter remix & remaster)

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Aerosmith

9/14/88 
Pacific Ampitheater, Costa Mesa, CA

Remastered by Mr. Sifter, Feb. 2024.


Source: "Come Together" soundboard bootleg https://www.discogs.com/master/722471-Aerosmith-Come-Together > Remastered via DeMix Pro & Isotope Ozone

Remaster notes:

A VERY clean (digital?) soundboard from 1988. Unfortunately along with that crispness came a frustrating lack of bass. "And Justice For All" had come out mere weeks before...coincidence? Isolated Tom's bass as much as possible via DeMix Pro, separated the vocal track to get a better balance, but left the rest alone. Boosted the overall low end in mastering to help boost Tom's presence and compensate for the thinness of the original sources as well, and attempted to minimize an annoying high frequency in the high hat a bit. 

The overproduced Permanent Vacation tracks like "Dude" and "Rag Doll" that have a lot of processed drums and tracks/keyboard samples don't fare as well, they're much more blatant in this mix than presumably were in the house that night, but overall this is still a solid document of their early MTV era. 



01. Rats In The Cellar                           06:36
02. Same Old Song And Dance                      05:45
03. Heart's Done Time                            04:14
04. Let The Music Do The Talking                 05:17
05. Permanent Vacation                           04:40
06. Lord Of The Thighs                           06:21
07. Rag Doll                                     04:48
08. My Fist Your Face                            04:28
09. Come Together                                04:57
10. Milk Cow Blues                               06:08
11. Draw The Line                                08:41
12. Dream On                                     06:52
13. Dude (Looks Like A Lady)                     04:52
14. Sweet Emotion                                07:25
15. Mama Kin                                     04:12 
                                              ________
                                              01:28:16

(Recording is missing "Hangman Jury", "Back In The Saddle," "Last Child," and "Lick And A Promise". If someone has a more complete version of this show, please share!)


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Rush – Power Windows Demos (Mr. Sifter Remaster)

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Rush
Power Windows Demos

Remastered by Mr. Sifter, Feb. 2024

Middletown Dreams
The Big Money
Mystic Rhythms
Marathon
Emotion Detector
Grand Designs
Territories
Manhattan Project

So, who knows if the story below that came with the original distribution is true, but there’s so little unreleased Rush studio material out there that this tape seemed worth the time to work on and see what could be done. The quality and sonics varied from track to track, and overall it (understandably) bears all the hallmarks of a 2nd or 3rd gen dub or poor quality cassettes/decks used in making this source tape. 

Don’t expect miracles, but I have tried to draw a bit more detail and depth out of what was on the cassettes, as always it may or may not be to a listener’s particular tastes. I reduced some of the tape noise, rebalanced the sound to bring Geddy’s vocals out a bit more, and did some overall EQ. 

Source: (see below) > iZotope RX > iZotope spectral de-noise > mastering via Ozone

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Original notes: 

RUSH

Power Windows Demo Tape
Original Version (No Noise Reduction)
UltimoGuitarist’s cassette tape of the Power Windows Demos
Encoded with Tag&Rename

“Alright guys. I think i’ve stumbled across a rare gem that no one out there has or has heard.

Our drummer showed played me a cassette tape of Power Windows in its entirety before it was even taken to the recording studio. That’s right, sort of like a pre power windows personal recording of Alex’s.

Now, he says that he’s probably the only one who has it, and here’s why.

Apparently a friend of his was walking downtown in Toronto, and Alex Lifeson’s son had this tape, and was shouting out, “listen to my dads new album power windows!!” etc. And this friend of my drummers was given the tape by lifesons son, and then gave it to our drummer since he knew he was a hardcore Rush fan.

So now our drummer has this tape, and he’s certain that no one else has it, so I wanted to check in with you guys to see if anyone else out there has it, and whether or not its worth it to make it public.

For the record, he played the tape for me, and I listened to manhattan project, and he wasnt lying. Completely different arrangements and a nice home made sound to recording. It’s like sitting in the house with them while they jam. Quite amazing.

So he’s going to back it up to CD, and give me a copy, and i’ll make it public for you all to hear if this is something that no one knows of. So let me know.

This isnt one of those lame threads of someone just making up BS for something to do. I wouldn’t yank your chains. This thing is real, and im willing to share it with you guys if you wanna hear it. I’m gonna stay on him and make sure he puts it to CD for me.”

Elton John – 1989/08/02 Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts, Mansfield, MA (Mr. Sifter Remaster)

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Elton John
8/2/1989
Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts, Mansfield, MA
Sleeping With The Past Tour

Lineage: soundboard > ? > Maxell XLII cassette copy (probably 2nd or 3rd gen.) > played on tascam 112 with pitch adjustment into soundforge (wav) > flac (sb’s aligned) 

Remixed & remastered by Mr. Sifter, Jan. 2024.

  1. Bennie And The Jets
  2. Island Girl
  3. Harmony
  4. Tiny Dancer
  5. Sleeping With The Past
  6. The Bitch Is Back/Brown Sugar
  7. I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues
  8. Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters
  9. Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters Part Two
  10. Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
  11. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
  12. Daniel
  13. Candle In The Wind
  14. Sacrifice
  15. Blue Eyes
  16. Philadelphia Freedom
  17. Burn Down The Mission
  18. Healing Hands
  19. Kiss The Bride
  20. Stones Throw From Hurtin’
  21. Sad Songs (Say So Much)
  22. Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me
  23. I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That
  24. Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)
  25. I’m Still Standing
  26. Rocket Man
Elton John: piano and lead vocals 
Davey Johnstone: guitar and vocals 
Fred Mandel: guitar, keyboards 
Guy Babylon: keyboards
Romeo Williams: bass 
Jonathan “Sugarfoot” Moffett: drums 
Mortonette Jenkins: backing vocals 
Marlena Jeter: backing vocals 
Natalie Jackson: backing vocals 

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Yazoo 11/22/1982 Dominion Theatre, London, England (Mr. Sifter Remaster)

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Yazoo

11/22/1982

Dominion Theatre

London, UK

Speed corrected & remastered by Mr. Sifter, Dec. 2023

Thanks to Oldtorrenttrader on TTD for uploading this. I’d heard several captures of this show and this was the clearest sounding one I’d heard, however it ran about a half-step slow and was missing “Chinese Detectives” and the first couple seconds of “In My Room.” I speed corrected in Audacity, edited the missing track and beginning of “In My Room” back in from a different source, and applied some light EQ and noise removal using Izotope RX10. 

Original source notes:

Alison Moyet: Vocals

Vince Clarke: Synthesizers

Lineage/ Transfer: FM Broadcast>Cassettetape>Audacity>Wav>TLH Flac 8

01 Situation

02 Too Pieces

03 Goodbye 70’s

04 Winter Kills

05 Bad Connection

06 Tuesday

07 Bring Your Love Down

08 Midnight

09 Chinese Detectives

10 In My Room

11 Don’t Go

12 The Other Side Of Love

13 Ode To Boy

14 Only You

15 Situation (12″ mix)

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R.E.M. – Opera House, Lawrence, KS 11/16/1982 (“Listen Harder”) Remix & Remaster

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 R.E.M.
Opera House, Lawrence KS
November 16, 1982

lineage: “Listen Harder” silver CD bootleg

Remixed & remastered by Mr. Sifter, December 2023 using htdemucs v4, Logic Pro, and Izotope Ozone.

The original bootleg had guitars/bass and drums/vocals awkwardly hard panned left and right, respectively. Rebalanced the stereo image to address this, and tried to bring out the vocals a bit more. Given the amount of tape noise, the source tape was at least a generation or two removed from the master, so toned that down a bit as well, affecting the tonality of the music as little as possible. As always, the sound caters to my own personal preferences, but I hope some REM fans will enjoy this revamped, excellent early show, about seven weeks before they’d begin recording “Murmur.”

(The original silver disc bootleg included bonus tracks from Toronto 1983, as that show circulates in its complete form, those are not included here)

01. Gardening At Night
02. 9-9
03. Moral Kiosk
04. Pilgrimage
05. Shaking Through
06. 7 Chinese Brothers
07. Wolves, Lower
08. Romance
09. Sitting Still
10. Pretty Persuasion
11. Catapult
12. 1,000,000
13. Radio Free Europe

Kiss – “Shit Fits At The Ritz” (Mr. Sifter Remaster) 8/12/88 The Ritz, New York, NY

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Kiss
The Ritz, New York, NY, USA
1988-08-12
Source: “Shit Fits At The Ritz” bootleg
Remastered by Mr. Sifter, November 2023.
This was the better sounding of the multiple FM sources I had of this show, however it ran a half step slow (Kiss was in standard tuning for this tour). Speed corrected, a few ~15 second missing sections from this boot were patched with another source, awkward radio DJ banter and station ID’s cut. Drums/bass processed to beef them up a bit, overall EQ tweaked. It’s still an FM broadcast, with the reduced dynamic and frequency range that involves, but hopefully this is an improvement on the raw cassette capture. Great show, with Kiss returning to their NY club roots, but with 15 years of additional experience and material.
Deuce
Love Gun
Fits Like A Glove
Heaven’s On Fire
Cold Gin
Black Diamond
Bang Bang You
No No No
Firehouse
Crazy Crazy Nights
Calling Dr. Love
War Machine
Reason To Live
Tears Are Falling
I Love It Loud
Strutter
Shout It Out Loud
Lick It Up
Rock And Roll All Nite
Detroit Rock City