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Introducing Billy Cobham seems to be like
bringing owls to Athens - the one in Greece.

Here we have a completely untraded rare trio recording
with his German friends Peter and Stefan...enjoy the music !
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BILLY COBHAM & Band (artist's name)

'Opening of the Cobra' (motto of the evening)

Soziokulturelles Zentrum "Cobra" (the venue)
Solingen (the city)
Germany (the country)

October 08, 1994 (the date)



"SOLINGEN - Rock City No. 1"

Solingen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the northern edge of the region called Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr area, and with a 2005 population of 162,685 is the second largest city in the Bergisches Land. It is a member of the regional authority of the Rhineland.

Solingen is called the "City of Blades", since it has long been renowned for the manufacturing of fine swords, knives, scissors and razors made by famous firms such as DOVO Solingen, Wüsthof, J. A. Henckels, Boker, and numerous other manufacturers. Wilkinson is also based here.

In Medieval times, the swordsmiths of Solingen coined the town's image, which is preserved to this date. Some 90% of German knives are produced in Solingen.


http://www.cobra-solingen.de/





DAT soundboard master tape,
here downsampled to 16 Bit/44.1 kHz:
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total: 116:46.41 minutes
WAV - files: 1,15 GB total size
FLAC - files: 720 MB total size
FLAC - ratio: 0.6116 (18 files)


*** Original DAT master recording was done in 16 Bit/48 kHz format ***




as far as we know NONE of this torrent was used commercially...




the complete recording:
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All songs by Billy Cobham unless otherwise specified.


CD 1 (60:47.11)

1-01. intro & tuning 1:30.40
1-02. Alfa Waves 11:48.12
1-03. -> Fragolino 10:33.42
1-04. good evening & band introduction 1:30.21
1-05. Street Urchin 8:26.44
1-06. -> WEWP, WP one % 7:23.70
1-07. -> Mushu Creole Blues 10:26.37
1-08. danke & intro next song 1:41.07
1-09. Hop The Bop [Peter Wölpl] 7:26.38

CD 2 (55:59.30)

2-01. story: experiences in Brazil 1:26.23
2-02. Eggshells Still On My Head [Dave Samuels] 10:18.04
2-03. -> drums & bass 3:33.36
2-04. -> WEWP, WP two 8:33.66
2-05. -> WEWP, WP three 5:06.17
2-06. Mozaik 12:14.55
2-07. thank you very much -> crowd noise 2:21.63

encore:
2-08. WEWP, WP four 10:28.36
2-09. -> crowd gets mad 1:56.30


total time: 116:46.41 minutes



the notes:

[] - indicates the original writer/composer

% - Billy introduced this song (after 'Mushu Creole Blues' 1-07) like this:
"cannot remember what we played before...'WhatEver We Played, We Played'..."
and i think this is an extremely cool song title..."WEWP, WP"...as the Canadian
poet Neil Percival Young once said: "It's all ONE song..."
If you know the correct song title (also for 'WEWP, WP' two to four), share
them in the comment section and maybe i'll find the time to change the artwork...


You can join this one also seamlessly, as there are no useless fades at
the end of #1-09. and the beginning of #2-01. Nothing was lost @ this cut.



the musicians:

Billy Cobham - drums, percussion
Peter Wölpl - guitar
Stefan Rademacher - bass





THE COMPLETE LINEAGE (as far as we know...):
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mixed & recorded by deafmusic, soundboard DAT master


the recording & transfer 1 (all deafmusic):

SBD desk: Soundcraft Venue II Theatre 24>8>2 recorded from subgroup > adapter XLRs to
XLRs > Tascam DA-30markII with 16 Bit/48 kHz > Maxell 90m/2GB data catridge master >
> stored away carefully & safe, completely untraded...

PLAYBACK: Maxell DAT master > Fostex D-5 studio recorder > high end digital cable >
> Studio PC pro soundcard with 16 Bit/48 kHz > Creative Wave Studio > dropbox


transfer 2 -or- what lonetaper did (nearly nothing, as usual...):

dropbox "download" via fast VDSL2 Annex B connection > FRITZ!Box 7390 (what else ?) > LAN >
> self customised studio PC, Motherboard with new watercooled AMD Phenom™ II X6
six-core processor 1090T, clock speed 3,2 GHz, Serial ATA Interface >
> actually 1TB Western Digital Harddisc with Thermaltake HD Cooler (EVER had a HardDisc burnout ??) >
> WAV 16bit/48Khz > Ozone5 & a few additional programms: complete mastering, normalizing etc.pp. >
> iZotope Ozone5 SRC & MBIT+ Dither: exceptionally transparent conversion to different bit depths >
> WAV 16bit/44.1 Khz > Exact Audio Copy (WAV files check) > Traders Little Helper 2.7.0 (Build 172):
Sector Boundaries aligned, level 6 encoding > FLAC 16bit/44.1 > Traders Little Helper (test encoded
audio files, check audio for SBE, show audio file details -> included in a separate subfolder!) > DIME


MBIT+: This is a proprietary iZotope word length reduction technology that reduces quantization distortion with minimal perceived noise. While this might sound like a paradox, MBIT+ is a very smooth, quiet and almost "analog sounding" technology.
http://www.izotope.com/support/help/ozone/pages/modules_dithering.htm
http://izotope.fileburst.com/guides/Dithering_With_Ozone.pdf

CHECK OZONE & TEST/COMPARE IT WITH THE REAL TRUE
QUALITY OF YOUR OWN SRC (sample rate converter):
http://src.infinitewave.ca/



NO additional EQ'ing was used here, and none of those compressors, Sonic Maximizer or other psychoacoustic processors - it's stunning enough...

I balanced just the stereo channels a tad - leaving the rest untouched. The only further addition was a short fade-in @ the beginning and another short fade-out @ the end, so truly NO MUSIC was harmed or lost.



THE SOUND HERE ?

It's a deafmusic concert mix/recording/transfer & lonetaper mastering - 'NUFF SAID !

or, as our buddy "realomind" usually claims:

"It ain't perfect, but it ain't bad"


if you're still beset BY DOUBTS,
please check the sample...or better:

LEAVE IT, GRAB SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT !!




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-> the second in a brandnew series called:

"MUSIC from the DEAF ARCHIVE"
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You all might remember the countless stunning contributions of our dear friend & fellow DIMEr "deafmusic" - doubtless one of
the best German live sound & mixing desk engineers...

For a long time we talked about how to handle & preserve all his "old" recordings (countless cassettes, reels, DATs, multitracks...) - over 95 % completely untraded. Finally he started to transfer them (whenever there was a "free" time slot...)
carefully with his best studio gear (analog recs in high resolution), and allowed me to share all the stuff over here (and maybe later @ the LMA etc.). COLLECT THEM ALL...

MDA-001 http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=437700
MDA-002 this one here...
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ABOUT THIS CONCERT HERE:
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If you're interested in the whole story of "Cobra", please read (in German):

http://home.wtal.de/tacheles-Solingen/archiv/ausg13/Seite21.html
http://home.wtal.de/tacheles-Solingen/archiv/ausg15/seite12.html
http://home.wtal.de/tacheles-Solingen/archiv/ausg17/seite06.html


It took more than six years, lots of money and a big amount of hard work to restore & renovate the former movie theater into Solingen's top concert venue.

Opening weekend finally was in October 1994, starting Friday the 7th with local bands, and Saturday was planned with Billy Cobham & Band...

But then Billy's whole German fall tour 1994 was suddenly cancelled - so it was quite hard work to organize this very special, matchless concert in time.

Here's the stunning result...ENJOY THE TRUE STEREO AURAL EXPERIENCE !



And if there's some interest, maybe there is MORE TO COME...
it just depends on YOUR demeanor, and lotta useful comments ;-)




PLEASE support the artists, visit their concerts (some are down in the comment section!) and buy all their available CDs & merchandise...
Check out the following websites:

http://www.billycobham.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cobham

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_W%C3%B6lpl
http://www.crossroads-hamburg.de/news-leser/items/peter-woelpl-als-neuer-dozent-beim-robert-johnson-guitar-award.html

http://www.stefanrademacher.de/deutsch/Home.html
http://www.stefanrademacher.com/english/home.html


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DE FACTO THIS ONE IS "MUSIC from the DEAF ARCHIVE" MDA-002



!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dime allows alternative versions, I don't own the music, so I can't stop you, but
the correct thing to do amongst tapers/editors is TO ASK FIRST...(C. by scdegraaf)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


This torrent includes just a few photos of the venue & the band - they are ALL amateur shots from the taper/sound engineer (close friend of the musicians - with their permission) or from the promoters/club owners (also with their permission), pictures just made by fans for fans...
FURTHERMORE the uploader of this torrent is fully aware that professionally shot photographs are copyrighted material and therefore cannot be shared on DIME without the express permission of the copyright holder.
THIS TORRENT INCLUDES NONE OF THIS MATERIAL...

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mixed, recorded, stored & transferred, dropbox-ed by deafmusic (all thanks go to him...), torrent completely prepared & first uploaded by Frizze & Leo on DIME, February 08, 2013.
This is "MWM 00301"


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