Date | Location | CDR | Rating | Timing |
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11/7/95 | Dallas, Texas | 2 | B+ | 56min+70min |
Merged by V4TX: Disc 1: June 2005/Disc 2: May 2009, Three Source merge., 1.) LB-2883, 2.) V4TX master, 3.) Cracked Bells In A Busted Barn, Thinman Bootleg, I did this for myself and decided to share. I was at this show and I always thought I had the best recording until someone shared LB-2883 here a few years ago. Unfortunately I do not know who shared it, or I would thank them. Also unfortunately it was incomplete. Whoever shared it used a multi generational cassette copy of my tape to add the last two songs to the incomplete version. I had always assumed that whoever taped LB-2883 brought a two hour tape to the show. I was wrong. I purchased the Thinman boot, a half-assed label if there ever was one, Cracked Bells, hoping to find the complete show in the upgraded tape. It was complete, sorta, more on that later, it was the same source, but it sounded as if it had a cassette in the lineage as it had hiss, something that was lacking from LB-2883. So I set out to combine the sources to complete what I felt was a great show and what some consider a top 1995 show. I spliced the Cracked Bells version of IAMB, onto the LB-2883 version. The splice is at the 7:39 point. You can clearly hear the drop in quality and the slight drop in speed. This to me proves the cassette lineage. It is beyond my ability to speed correct. If anyone else wants to fix it you will not insult me in the least. I also noticed that RDW had the first few seconds sliced off. I used my recording to patch this, along with the encore wait before that song. I also used my recording to add 14 seconds to the beginning of disc one. This really isn't that big of a deal, but I was used to hearing this show with that bit of drum and guitar, so I wanted it there. If you just want to start with the LB-2883 version leave off track 101. The edit isn't so great there anyway. Again, this was done by me, for me. I don't say it's perfect, but it's as complete and in the best quality as is out there. I did nothing to the sound of any version used.
(a bittorrent from 09/16 has matching flac fingerprints except on d2t8 with same digital flaws plus a discontinuity at end of d2t8; described as "*** This is the same recording as LB-7475 ***, Taper: unidentified, Source/Lineage: no info, Merged by V4TX: Disc 1: June 2005/Disc 2: May 2009, Three Source merge:, 1.) LB-2883, 2.) V4TX master, 3.) Cracked Bells In A Busted Barn, ThinMan Bootleg" with filenames like "CD1\00 (warm up).flac"; xref-01754)