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Part of Neil's solo tour, on its first leg in 1992. This was in fact the first date of the tour, and the first of two consecutive nights at the Paramount. It features the live debut of "You and Me," "War of Man," "Old King," "Such a Woman," and "Natural Beauty." Neil hits two false starts trying to get acclimated to this premiere night of the tour.
This show has surfaced here a number of times, but fell off the tracker about two years ago. If your version is a single disc from KTS's "Silver & Gold," then it's been hacked away at some to bring it down to a 78 minute running time. Ditto "Early Harvest" and possibly some other titles. The "Dreamin' Man" boot simply drops "Old Man" from its disc altogether.
tbugsett uploaded a version here in November 2009 from a DAT clone, and that had an 83 minute running time. Not sure if this one is the same source or some other, but it is nice and clear except for the applause and ethusiastic whoops which weigh in heavily at times here and there. The tape transport on this was somewhat wobbly, but it doesn't seem to have affected the transfer. There's a slight analog hiss, but not worth muffling the entire recording with computer noise reduction, so season to personal taste for playback with your own equalizer settings.
Sugar Mountain and a few other sources list the running time on this show as 86 minutes, and this one clocks in closer to 87 minutes, so if nothing else, at least this version appears to be the most complete to date.
Over the years on dime, EZT, the Archival Group, and through all the various and assorted other trading groups online preceding that, and the CDR, DAT, and analog cassette traders which came before, I've gathered a moderate collection of items to share. I've helped with transfers (the Cactus and related uploads from over a decade ago here, and currently a bite out of the massive Stonecutter Archives), contributed setlists and corrections to many a torrent -- all the sort of things that don't raise one's share ratio. I've shared some of my masters back in the old snail mail days, but it's high time to give back more here from where I've received so much. I had meant to do a roll-out with something grand and possibly a series (Elegymart #1, #2, etc.), but that's been done countless times before.
At this point not only have we've all aged along with dime's existence, but our media and the equipment that can play it back has as well. So rather than any fanfare or concern over share ratio, consider this upload another step in a more diligent attempt to beat the time and to circulate the collection.
Enjoy,
elegymart |