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Title: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: hunter on July 13, 2021, 10:34:48 PM
Which recording from the OES tour do you feel is the best, or, strikes the best balance between performance and audio quality?


I'm listening to an audience recording from Rotterdam right now, and the audio quality is awful.
Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: Jules on July 14, 2021, 10:37:58 AM
Which recording from the OES tour do you feel is the best, or, strikes the best balance between performance and audio quality?


I'm listening to an audience recording from Rotterdam right now, and the audio quality is awful.

There are some from the US leg that sounds very good and has a good set, but cant remember if it was Seattle, Dallas or which city was... check that leg of the tour.
Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: dustyvalentino on July 14, 2021, 11:26:12 AM
Basel would be the first one I went for.
Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: dmg on July 14, 2021, 12:00:16 PM
Basel would be the first one I went for.

I'd second that, however it has a standard set.  Look to the N American leg for good sounding interesting shows.  Toronto, New York, East Rutherford, LA (2nd night) and Oakland (2nd night) are all good shows IMHO.
Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: rmarques821 on July 14, 2021, 01:28:09 PM
Soundwise, Basel 1992, of course. However, Seattle 1992 has a very balanced audio quality, taking into account it's a bootleg. Contains songs played less often, such as Fade to Black and Planet of New Orleans. Tunnel of Love is also present.
Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: Robson on July 14, 2021, 02:29:09 PM
Oh yes! First thought: Basel on June 28. A great Sunday evening. I was sitting in front of the TV mesmerized.
Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: dmg on July 14, 2021, 03:20:48 PM
Oh yes! First thought: Basel on June 28. A great Sunday evening. I was sitting in front of the TV mesmerized.

Here in the UK Channel 4 cut it to bits, even editing out Danny's moment in CE!
Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: hunter on July 14, 2021, 07:49:17 PM
Yes, Basel is good, but I know it too well. I'll check out some of your other suggestions.
Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: NicoMK on July 14, 2021, 09:01:30 PM
I've always felt that Nîmes (29th September) was better played than Basel. Back in the days I used to listen to Nîmes very often but Basel, no...
Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: dmg on July 14, 2021, 10:04:07 PM
I've always felt that Nîmes (29th September) was better played than Basel. Back in the days I used to listen to Nîmes very often but Basel, no...

Always felt that show sounded quite tired and too rehearsed myself, akin to the Sydney '86 show in some respects.
Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: dustyvalentino on July 15, 2021, 12:50:18 AM
Oh yes! First thought: Basel on June 28. A great Sunday evening. I was sitting in front of the TV mesmerized.

Here in the UK Channel 4 cut it to bits, even editing out Danny's moment in CE!
It was on Sky here live and in full.

I didn’t have Sky but my friend who did taped it for me. I even bought him a special fancy vhs tape.

Played it to death.


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Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: skydiver on July 15, 2021, 08:08:41 AM
It was on Sky here live and in full.

I didn’t have Sky but my friend who did taped it for me. I even bought him a special fancy vhs tape.

Played it to death.


Exactly the same with me!
Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: dmg on July 15, 2021, 12:22:04 PM
Oh yes! First thought: Basel on June 28. A great Sunday evening. I was sitting in front of the TV mesmerized.

Here in the UK Channel 4 cut it to bits, even editing out Danny's moment in CE!
It was on Sky here live and in full.

I didn’t have Sky but my friend who did taped it for me. I even bought him a special fancy vhs tape.

Played it to death.


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I didn't have Sky at that time either...or posh friends!  :lol
Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: Jules on July 15, 2021, 12:27:35 PM
Oh yes! First thought: Basel on June 28. A great Sunday evening. I was sitting in front of the TV mesmerized.

Here in the UK Channel 4 cut it to bits, even editing out Danny's moment in CE!
It was on Sky here live and in full.

I didn’t have Sky but my friend who did taped it for me. I even bought him a special fancy vhs tape.

Played it to death.


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I didn't have Sky at that time either...or posh friends!  :lol

I received it in a trade.
Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: Banjo99uk on July 15, 2021, 08:01:29 PM
Their is a soundboard on Amazon music. It doesn’t say where it’s from and it’s not complete but it does have Sultans and Telegraph. They both sound fantastic. The album is called Across The Forbidden Path for some reason. I’m not on the tracker but I’m sure it’s well known and most of you will have heard it before.
Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: NicoMK on July 15, 2021, 10:00:54 PM
The recording you mentioned is from Basel 1992  ;)
Title: Re: Best recording from the OES tour?
Post by: dmg on July 16, 2021, 12:25:45 PM
Their is a soundboard on Amazon music. It doesn’t say where it’s from and it’s not complete but it does have Sultans and Telegraph. They both sound fantastic. The album is called Across The Forbidden Path for some reason. I’m not on the tracker but I’m sure it’s well known and most of you will have heard it before.

Some amusing titles.  There should have a competition for the most amusing/obscure bootleg title!

Don't Talk to Strangers.
Jesus Saves Dire Straits.