Heartland

Got Athens 1997 in a trade and thought I'd attempt to patch up the recording. For those who don't have it, this was probably recorded at the end of a field with the sound skewed to the right and the left channel basically consisting of tape-hiss. No idea how far up thefoodchain my copy was. There is a tape flip in Alice and a lot of enthousiastic Greeks.

I applied a mutitude of filters and this is the result. Far from perfect and it still sounds as if someone is recording this through a telephone. Still, let me know what you lot think of it and if there is a sufficient positive response I might FLAC it up and vine it. Unless someone has a better copy?

Come Togehter - old
http://download.yousendit.com/509057D95AF69130

Come Together - new
http://download.yousendit.com/5C38ED6817306E05

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i'm afraid but the sound is horrible

It is improved, though, not really what i'd class as listenable.

i'll still maintain hopes of a decent recording emerging, or at least knowledge of such. Somewhere over the rainbow...

This recording was made with a dictaphone, that's why the sound is not comparable with proper MD recordings. Yes, the sound is bad but I still appreciate the try. In the end the gig was documented somehow. And the girl from Athens who made the recording... whow...

i m trying for years to find a proper recording or video as i saw many people with cameras but no luck yet...

If i'm not mistaken i might have seen a VHS of this show on ebay a couple of years ago. Actually if i'm not further mistaken i bid on it and won it, but was unable to pay cause the seller couldn't accept ordinary PayPal payments. She, if i remember correctly it was a she, was from Greece.

Thanks for the feedback everyone. The dictaphone explains a lot. There is no lower or higher range on it at all. Lucien and PiB have the gig in their lists I noticed, so I'm wondering if theirs is a different one?

Karst wrote:Thanks for the feedback everyone. The dictaphone explains a lot. There is no lower or higher range on it at all. Lucien and PiB have the gig in their lists I noticed, so I'm wondering if theirs is a different one?

I think I got my copy from Paul & Donna.

Dictaphone? If it is what the name evokes, then i don't wonder about the results.

Gives a very limited scope to work with. The only thing I basically did was move the sound to a split stereo perspective - there wasn't much else I could do with it. I'll keep it for my own archives. If anybody wants a copy drop me a PM.

itnAklipse wrote:Dictaphone? If it is what the name evokes, then i don't wonder about the results.

itnAklipse wrote:If i'm not mistaken i might have seen a VHS of this show on ebay a couple of years ago. Actually if i'm not further mistaken i bid on it and won it, but was unable to pay cause the seller couldn't accept ordinary PayPal payments. She, if i remember correctly it was a she, was from Greece.

Sounds like Kostis Evangelos to me and she is a he!

Nope it was not Kostis. It was a girl from Athens. She made two copies of her recording (without using a proper cable when transfering from dictaphone to audio tape which did not make the recording any better). She sent one copy to me and one to another friend. I gave a copy to s.o. in Belgium who copied it for other people. That's how the tape found it's way to collectors circles.

Christian wrote:Nope it was not Kostis. It was a girl from Athens. She made two copies of her recording (without using a proper cable when transfering from dictaphone to audio tape which did not make the recording any better). She sent one copy to me and one to another friend. I gave a copy to s.o. in Belgium who copied it for other people. That's how the tape found it's way to collectors circles.

Yes, that´s right - the other friend was me.

Thomas

So does anybody have the VHS recording? Is it complete? Btw. I can hear quite a few english speaking people in the background - I'm surprised that no-one else has recorded this?

I only heard that the gig was filmed by at least one person (apart from the usual film shot by the Sisters crew). Unfortunately I never managed to obtain a copy...

the-happening: Probably you're correct The name does have a familiar ring to it.

Kostis dosen t have it as i ve asked him in the past , and occasionally when we meet he always asks if i found any other source or video.

In the light of that i resubmit the idea of the seller being a 'she' and only point to the general difficulty of remember Greek names

She (believe it or not) did not sell it. She give the tape to Thomas and me just for free.