Lou Reed - 1976-12-01 LA Edited version - at DaD

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Lou Reed 1976-12-01 Los Angeles KMET FM broadcast cassette source

This is a partly monoright version of lurid_uk's transfer of his tape.
See more detailed explanations below.


The Roxy Theatre
Los Angeles
01 December 1976

01: Intro 8:49 (9.24)
02: Sweet Jane 4:33 (4.54)
03: I Believe In Love 3:50 (3.50)
04: Lisa Says 7:10 (7.10)
05: Kicks 11.40 (11.40)
06: She's My Best Friend 5:45 (5.46)
07: I'm Waiting For The Man 12:48 (12.48)
08: Sheltered Life 9:19 (10.29)
09: You Wear It So Well 4:54 (5.01)
10: Claim To Fame 2:51 (3.02)
11: Vicious Circle 4:28 (4.30)
12: Walk On The Wild Side 11:13 (11.23)
13: Coney Island Baby 8:45 (9.02)

Track lengths in brackets are from lurid_uk's original tape transfer.

Total time: 96:11

Lou Reed: guitar, vocals
Micael Fonfara: keyboards
Bruce Yaw: bass
Marty Fogel: sax
Michael Suchorsky: drums
Don Cherry: trumpet

lineage: unknown generation TDK SA90 cassette(s) - CDR - EAC (secure) - wav processing - flac(level 8) - you

original recording engineer unknown
transfer to CDR by Garry
post-transfer processing by lurid_uk
uploaded to Dime July 2009 by lurid_uk

Sound quality isn't quite as good as on the "Claim To Fame" CD - it starts off fine, but goes downhill mid-way through "Kicks".
There's a fair level of hiss but I didn't try to remove it. My cassettes did run slow so I sped everything up by 3%

share the music!

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Rework notes:

First 4 and a half tracks sound very good with a bit hiss and just a few reception problems sometimes.

In the rest of the tracks the weaker left channel was replaced by the right channel making this monoright. Quality is a bit worse than on the
first tracks and at times there are quite a few reception problems. In some tracks (08; 11; 12) the levels of the left channel were pretty close
to their right counterparts but it seemed like this channel still had some more reception problems. At least some of these tracks seem to
have been recorded in mono already.

This version is announcer free. A few times rather fast fade ins/outs were needed to get rid of the talk. In the 'Intro' and in 'A Sheltered Life'
some seconds of music had to be deleted, unfortunately. The 'Intro' has 2 cuts now and 'A Sheltered Life' misses some seconds in the
beginning but I saved 6 seconds in which the DJ didn't talk. The bootleg doesn't have them. It misses those parts which were cut in the
'Intro', also. Looks like it is sourced from the broadcast, too. But even more was cut from these tracks: Track 1 is 1:42 longer on this
version here, and Track 9 2:45, even.

Sometimes reception problems resulted in a deep level drop. Pushed levels to smooth this a bit out. Usually, only a few seconds sounded
really bad but levels needed a while to recover to full strength again.

In 'Walk on the Wild Side' there was a cut and some words of Lou were missing. Patched this part in from 'Claim2Fame'. (It's from 7:04 -
7:10). Cut away 9:23 to 9:39. This was a copy of 9:07 - 9:23 (this was done after the patch, so it's around 6 seconds earlier on the original
transfer). Only found out because there was a strange cut two times.

Cut away small parts in a few audience intros/outros and faded in/out. Sometimes there was a cut, sometimes it just sounded bad.

Sound quality of the FM is a bit different than on the boot. The bootleggers did a quite good job and the sound is very well balanced. But
the FM sounds a little clearer and even this cut version is running for close to 19 minutes longer than 'Claim2Fame' although it has these
other problems already mentioned above.

I didn't do anything like EQ'ing which would have changed the sound. Monoright'ing was done by Gold Wave, the other editing by
audacity. Re-encoding to flac (8) by TLH.

And another thanks to lurid_uk who liked the idea of replacing the left channel.

Done by procella, May 2010