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Royal Exeter Bournemouth, UK |
 Glimpse of a Raging Performance April 29, 2006
Written by Mr_Dapto
I just sat down to listen to the first track off this before going to bed. 50 minutes later the second wild performance of Inductive Resonance comes to a screaming conclusion and bed seems even more distant.
The songs here have much more energy than the Thrang bootleg, and are of course fairly different beasts to the nice and tidy LOG studio album, especially the overpolished 1985 remixes.
I would specially elevate "Christian Children...". This has never made much of an impression on me before, but here it kicks big time! Eye Needles also sticks out (sounds painful) with Fripp taking the lead in a few new directions - and they’re all good.
The reason I’m giving this only 4 stars is the sound quality, which is pretty dire. Before listening to this tonight I spent nearly 3 hours remastering it to bring it up to snuff. The original FLACs lack any sensible bass below 110Hz. The treble is lost, especially above 8kHz. The whole program is compressed to blazes and I suspect it has also been a little over-zealously denoised. There are subtle channel drop outs (more audible if you lift the treble and decompress as I did), and a hint of wow & flutter on some of the longer notes. To cap off the list of woes, the sound from the band is nearly in mono (only noises closer to the mike reveal it is a stero recording). All this is completely understandable given the source, but unless you don’t care about sound quality, the untreated FLACs really need a pounding volume to engage.In short - a fantastic performance and I wish I could have been there!
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