1997 - 27 Years: Three Lossless Shows

[frantik2k3]

Link here: http://www.metpage.org/index.php?option ... =66&id=427


Shows included in this torrent are...

1) 1997.02.01 - Memphis, TN - Audience - Complete
2) 1997.03.25 - Buffalo, NY - 2nd Source - FULL SHOW
3) 1997.05.10 - Ft. Worth, TX - Audience - Incomplete


Information is as follows...

Date: 01 February 1997
Venue: The Pyramid
Location: Memphis, TN
Tour: Poor Touring Me

Source: Audience
Format: APE
Discs: 2
Length: 130 minutes
Grade: B+

Taper: Unknown
Equipment: Unknown
Lineage: Unknown

Setlist:
Ronnie & Bad Seed Jams
So What
Creeping Death
Sad But True
Ain't My Bitch
Whiplash
King Nothing
One
Wasting My Hate
Bass / Guitar Solo
Nothing Else Matters
Until It Sleeps
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Wherever I May Roam
Fade to Black
Seek And Destroy / Fight Fire With Fire
Leper Messiah Jam
Last Caress
Master of Puppets
Enter Sandman
Am I Evil?
Battery

Comments:
This rare recording is a pretty good one, but has one major flaw... It must be played REALLY LOUD!


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Metallica
Marine Midland Arena
Buffalo, NY
March 25, 1997

Lineage: Realistic and Shure stage mics>Tascam mixer>DAT(M)>Cassette(1)>Adobe Audition>Flac

This was the first Time I was ALLOWED to record a concert. Metallica decided to allow bootlegging that year, I had taper tickets. There was me and 3 guys with video cameras. The difference is that they brought the same gear they would use during a clandestine recording gig, and I brought a whole bunch of shit...because I could. I recorded this with 4 mics on stands through a mixing board into a DAT. I set up behind the seats along the back of the walkway, put up my mic stands, plugged the mixer into a convenient outlet, threw on some headphones and let it rip. I balanced the mics in the headphones during COC's set and basically left it alone for Metallica. These were not tiny little condenser mics. They were stage mics my band used. 2 were Radio Shack vocal mics. They were based on Shure SM58 technology, but had a much better low end response. That's why I brought them. The other 2 were condensers we used for overheads on the drums. These got all the high end and ambience. Strangely there were 2 security guys assigned to protect the tapers, but no one else that worked there seemed to have any idea what I was up to. I was asked if I worked for MTV, the band and a bunch of other things. My stock reply was "National Hearing Institute. Sound pressure level testing". Hehe

The reason this is from a cassette is that my DAT went missing a few years ago. Damn tiny things they are, easy to lose. Luckily I made a cassette copy to listen to. The tape was de-hissed once digitized, then EQ'd a bit (the DAT was really bright). Other than that this is what the DAT sounded like, though a bit less dynamic.

101 Intro Jam
102 So What
103 Creeping Death
104 Sad But True
105 Ain't My Bitch
106 Hero Of The Day
107 King Nothing
108 One
109 Wasting My Hate
110 Bass Solo (incl. My Friend Of Misery)
111 Sanitarium tease
112 Nothing Else Matters
201 Until It Sleeps
202 For Whom the Bell Tolls
203 Wherever I May Roam
204 Fade To Black
205 Seek And Destroy
206 Fight Fire With Fire
207 noodling
208 Last Caress
209 Master Of Puppets
210 Enter Sandman
211 noodling
212 Am I Evil
213 Motorbreath

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Metallica
May 10, 1997
Tarrant Center
Fort Worth, TX

SOURCE: Unknown Mic > Unknown DAT
SOURCE LINEAGE: 2nd gen cassette > Goldwave (Eq'd) > WAV > CDR

Received the cds in a trade then I ripped them using CDWave to WAV then converted them to FLAC.

TIME: 130 minutes

FLAWS: Incomplete.

Lars'speech
So What
Creeping Death
Sad But True
Ain't My Bitch
Ain't My Bitch
Hero of the Day
Hero of the Day
King Nothing
One
Fuel
Jason/Kirk's solo
Nothing Else Matters
Until it Sleeps
Until it Sleeps
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Wherever I May Roam
Wherever I May Roam
Fade to Black

QUALITY: Nice quality, though a little distant typical of the '97 recordings because the stage was in the "round". Really this is a nice recording, too bad it's incomplete. There is a slight distortion that is on the recording, but it's not bad. Not sure if the mics caused this, or the levels were set to high on the DAT. The taper did both 5/9 and 5/10. He sent copies to a guy that Jeff S. got his copies from. Somewhere along the lines this show got really screwed up. Both nights got sent to Jeff S. and were incomplete. They were so screwed up it's not even worth describing. At any rate, he was able to salvage 130 minutes from night 2, and 90 minutes from night 1. He tried to get a redo from the 1st gen trader, but his ended up being screwed up too. He made a half hearted attempt to contact the taper, but the taper never responded and both he and the 1st gen trader were never heard from again.

At any rate, I tell you all of this to say basically this is it for these shows. I'll be surprised if anyone has complete copies of both shows. There is a video for night 2, I have it, but it's pretty rough.

BAND PERFORMANCE: This is night two in Fort Worth, both nights were filmed by the band which turned into Cunning Stunts. This show starts off with Lars speaking to the crowd telling them that the cameras last night were messed up, so they need to play somes songs twice. That explains the messed up setlist, and certainly acts as a unique show on an otherwise pretty uneventful tour. Performance is good of course, need to look good for the cameras

[ashiies]

thank you i'm taking only memphis since i've the 2 others

the taper for buffalo is }{eywood btw

[frantik2k3]

Sorry I was offline from seeding for a few hours there. I should be able to keep my utorrent open for the remainder of the time.