Disc One: 1. Intro & Tuning, 2. An Eye For An Eye, 3. Band Introduction #1, 4. Oh Pretty Woman, 5. Have You Heard, 6. Black Cat Moan, 7. Rock It In The Pocket, 8. My Time After Awhile.

Disc Two: 1. Walking On Sunset, 2. Road Show, 3. Room To Move, 4. Band Introduction #2 And Encore Break, 5. Rock Me Baby, 6. Band Introduction #3 And Another Encore break, 7. Ridin’ On The Santa Fé.

John Mayall and his Bluesbreakers moved to Australia at the end of January 1982 and the subject of Volume 8 of this series is the Sydney concert. All versions were coming from the same source but not the same transfer. One was running at the correct speed (+3,5% compared to mine) but until Road Show it was in mono, while another had the left channel a little different from the right (the sound was a little more spacious).

So it was decided to use the second version until Road Show after a speed correction (with exception of the 15 last seconds in My Time After Awhile). For these tracks a bit more trebles were added, the sound amplified, both channels rebalanced and some micro-gaps deleted as well as reworked the transitions between tracks that now start with the song.

From Road Show the two versions were identical except for the speed so the first one was used. For these tracks only the sound was amplified and reworked the tracks’ transitions.

Note that My Time After Awhile is here a little more complete (15 seconds) than on the other versions but remains incomplete. This is a weird recording consisting of 2 separate sources, interesting is Room To Move which is a bit longer than usual, notably some guitar improvisations would inspire Mick Taylor for his solos on long instrumentals like Goin’ South.