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John H's Collection

Yes   06/16/1979

Civic Center, New Haven, CT
Source audience
Media flac   2 discs
Notes * Low-circulation recording **
** A TooleMan Remaster **

Lineage: unknown gear & tape -> mastering process of some sort -> first-generation tape? -> audio CD -> EAC -> TheTooleMan remaster (2011) -> FLAC

Anyone who can identify the taper of this show should let us know so we can give full credit for a good job.

This is a very good recording of a fine Saturday night performance. It's a nearly-complete show, the first of two Yes gave in New Haven in 1979. I think the finale of Steve Howe's solo set is missing and was patched with applause where it ends prematurely, and there's a cut in "And You And I" that I've mixed to make it a bit less jarring.

The recording sounds great after some careful TooleMan tweaking. There were a few cuts in applause and some fades applied by a previous basement engineer. I cleaned those up, adjusted the track boundaries, balanced the levels of the left and right channels, and equalized the whole shootin' match. No noise reduction was used; there's a slight high-frequency hiss throughout the tape.

Jon seems to think he is in Hartford at first, but gets it straight pretty fast. And an explosive sound gets a big reaction just before Jon sings the opening lines of "Heart of the Sunrise."

Thanks again to Alec B. and Paulie for another great, rare recording.

TheTooleMan
June, 2011
Trades Allowed Yes   Traded from: Forgotten Yesterdays
Ratings Show: A    Sound: A
Lists Yes
Owned by John H · Last Updated May 23, 2023