There is a gap from the previous show in Toronto and this one, because
Taylor played a short Spanish and European tours in June and July and a long
Japan tour in late July and August. This show appeared in different audios and
versions and also in 2 videos; for the audio some versions were lossless,
others lossy, some in stereo and others in mono, some complete and others not…
The best versions turned out to be the ones uploaded by:
- ‘Kingrue’ at The Traders Den in 2019: I call it “source #2”
- ‘hankhill’ at Dimeadozen in 2008: I call it “source #3”
These recordings are however incomplete: the beginning of Shake Your
Hips and the end of the show were missing.
“Source #1” comes from a complete video of the show. It has been claimed
to be a soundboard… but it was not: it was instead a good lossless monophonic
audience recording.
“
Source
#4” corresponds to another mono version from an incomplete video which was not
so interesting.
Therefore, it was
planned to upload 2 versions:
Vol 08a will be a mixed version to get the more complete recording with
the best quality, which is the one reviewed here.
Vol 08b will be a merged version to get a better sound.
This
version combines different sources to get a most complete recording.
The best one is “
source #3”: i
t’s now being de-clicked
and amplified. After Track 5, the channels had to be re-balanced (+20% for the
left channel).
To complement it, source #1 was used but not from a video copy (which was
lossy) but from cd-rs which had a better spectrum.
Unfortunately, in all versions the
intensity of the sound varies constantly and the result is unpleasant. In
detail on Disc One on
You Shook Me the last
12 seconds are from the source #1, on Disc Two on the Band Introduction #2
& Encore Break the last 49 seconds are from the source #1, while Teresa and
the O
utro come from source #1. We
get here another excellent recording, certainly one of the best of the whole
series.
