Olympia Theatre, Paris

Lineage: AM Broadcast -> (?) -> CDR -> FLAC files seeded by Josedequeso at the Genesis Movement in 2007 -> WAV -> SF10 (fixing clicks, creating true mono, speed corrected -30 cents, edited, retracked) -> WAV -> SBE check (TLH) -> FLAC -> SF12 (more clicks eliminated, annoying high-pitched frequency removed)

Torrent Notes:

This is a fixed seed of a torrent that can be found here: http://torrent.genesis-movement.org/torrents-details.php?id=2511 . The original seed was not bad sounding, but was in need of a fix. This recording is from AM radio and was very likely made by placing a microphone near the speakers (sometimes you can hear thumps caused by this). The original seed had a weird stereo image, with an almost inexistent left channel. Since the original recording was in true mono, I only used the right channel here. I also fixed some of the loudest thumps: I couldn't eliminate them without losing sonic information, but they will not make your ears bleed with headphones now. The original seed also had "Get 'Em Out By Friday" split in two tracks with a cut in the middle and an overlap. Since no music was missing between the two segments, I was able to edit it into one track. I also retracked the whole seed, placing the French announcer on standalone tracks, in case you want to skip him. Finally, the whole seed ran slightly faster and I speed corrected it using the "Genesis Live" album as a refence. All in all, I think this is the best sounding version of this show you'll be able to find for a while, unless the original masters will be located and rebroadcast.

The French speaker is not much of an annoyance, except for the very beginning of the broadcast: he talks over half of the "Watcher of the Skies" mellotron introduction. For the rest of the program, he just explains and gives titles between songs. He says that "Supper's Ready" was originally performed between "Get 'Em Out by Friday" and "The Return of the Giant Hogweed", but couldn't be broadcast for time constraints. Interestingly, he mentions that a version of the epic can be found on a "live album that was released in England and whose performance is exactly the same as the one here". As we all know, the track was originally on test pressings, but was excluded from the final version of the album. In case the master tapes of this Parisian concert are still existing, let's hope they survive uncut: as far as it is known, with no audience versions of this show available, this version of "Supper's Ready" sadly remains unheard.

Beware: this is an AM radio recording, not an FM one, so don't expect hi-fi sound. However, it doesn't sound worse than most of the audience recordings of the era and it's a great performance so you will like this if you are a fan of the Gabriel years. It's a great performance with everyone in fine form and Gabriel in good voice. "The Knife" ends just before the "we have won" section.

With French Announcer Between Songs

Beware. This AM radio, not FM. The "DJ" talks over the song intro's. [wbeens]

also released as SR03 [therealovo]