Rush 1982-12-06 Boston Garden, Boston, MASS (Audience Recording - 2 Source Matrix)

Rush
Boston Garden, Boston, MASS
1982-12-06

1: beginning of spirit of radio :19
2: spirit of radio 4:12
3: Tom Sawyer 4:51
4: free will 6:08
5: digital man 6:59
6: subdivisions 5:37
7: vital signs (incomplete) 1:54
7: vital signs 5:21 (complete, 2)
8: the camera eye 7:15 (spliced, 2)
9: closer to the heart 3:42 (2)
10: chemistry 5:09 (patched)
11: the analog kid 5:01 (patched)
12: (guitar solo) Broon's Bane > the trees 5:46 (patched)
13: red barchetta 6:51 (patched)
14: the weapon 7:55
15: new world man 4:01 (cuts in)
16: limelight 4:42
17: countdown 6:56
18: 2112: Overture > the temples of Syrinx > Xanadu > La Villa Strangiato medley 11:36
19: in the mood 2:51
20: YYZ with drum solo 9:49

remastered by glasnostrd19 Jan. 24, 2009.
comments:
this recording had several cuts in it, and some
mike chord connection problems in one channel in
parts of it, but after some work to fix that as
best I could by monoizing some sections of it, and
supplementing a second source for 3 tracks, (tracks 7-9)
now this sounds like a pretty enjoyable Rush recording.
Tracks 10-13 had to be patched (monoized) in several places
when the right channel just cut out or had intermittent
static for a few seconds. It took alot of work for a couple
of (cold and boring) days, but I think I have removed all
of that from here so the only "signals" heard are live
songs from one of Rush's albums. I think the only 2
songs cut here are spirit of radio and new world man.
NWM is missing just a few seconds at the start of it.
I have seen alot of Rush posts (most with no sound
sample or info about the recorder used for it)
and haven't heard alot of Rush in nice quality
even from the early 80's.

Source 1 is a 1st gen. copy from master tape recorded
with a Realistic twinhead stereo mike. not sure about
the deck, maybe a Sony D-6 or a Technics model of
comparable quality.

source 2 is an unknown gen. source, not as close up,
and not as crisp but still not too bad either, a
rather average quality early 80's Rush audience
recording.
Between the two sources I still didn't get it all
in here, but most of the show is in here and most of
the cuts are not very jarring at all, since the better
source misses most of vital signs, I included both the
partial good one and a complete one from source 2.
You can use either one, but remember, don't use both,
if you want to maintain the continuity in your recording.
unless you want to make a matrix out of that one track.
I thought about trying it but leave that option to you.
The edit at the beginning of either track 7 will work fine,
obviously the end of the incomplete and better version
will not be a smooth transition into the next track.
the cut in spirit is a rude one and missing a bit of
it so rather than try to do a patchjob with it, that's
why I put it into the 1st 2 tracks here.
it took quite a bit of work to get this thing postable,
but I think it was worth it, even though a rather
average performance, all but 3 of the songs are
recorded up close and have only a little quality variation,
mostly from some passage in front of the mikes (not alot of it).
this recording has seen some circulation on tape but I
don't believe anyone else has posted it. I digitized this
when I was just learning how to remaster recordings and
decided rather than extract that one, just do it again.
new transfer. So I did, and this is the 1st one I've
posted of this show. The 1st one came out okay, I think
this one is better. thanks to Chris from Ct. (who knows
where now?) for making this recording and sharing it with
me some 26 years or so ago. most of it sounds quite nice.
it sounds better than it ever has now. the bass is not
real strong in the mix but it's there, and the guitar and
drums and vocals are right there. No dolby, EQ or noise
reduction processing was done to this recording, only level
balancing and some individual loud clap reduction. It didn't
need much clap reduction at all.