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Return to Forever 04/09/1975

SHOWID 113648

Set I

Dayride
Beyond The Seventh Galaxy
Sophistifunk
The Shadow Of Lo
Song To The Pharaoh Kngs
The Game Maker

Set II

 

Set III

 

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User (active/rating) Media / # Show Sound Details DB Source User Source
John H (5/5) Flac / 1 8.5 8.5 View   FM Broadcast
Notes: WXFT-FM "unconcert" broadcasts 2026 Speed corrected source mix (Ross/ledwhofloyd Jan 2026) This has been remastered
Joe (5/5) FLAC / 0 View   Lineage: FM => cassette => HHB CDR830/CD-R/W => EAC => Nero Wave Editor (track splits and fade...
hazel1183 (5/5) cdr / 1 View  
selma snow (5/5) cdr / 1 a- a- View  
como (5/0) cdr / 1 View  
Daniel (4/0) / View   WXFT-FM "unconcert" broadcasts 2026 Speed corrected source mix (Ross/ledwhofloyd Jan 2026)...
Notes: Show dating notes (2026): Source 3 was originally dated as April 18; however, I have found no evidence of an April 18 show in Elgin. I looked up the Chicago Tribute archives and it mentions an April 9 show. Also, there is a promotional poster for the April 9 show. It seems highly unlikely Return to Forever would play both on April 9 and 18. Sources 3-5 are almost certainly from a different broadcast just playing a different part of the same April 9 show in Elgin. Both broadcast parts have a radio announcer saying that it's WXRT. tmat44 notes (2015): This may or may not be a companion piece to another torrent posted on Dime-a-Dozen, with the same venue (but dated as April 18, 1975). Since I taped this direct from WXRT in June of 1975, I checked the dates at that time for accuracy. This is a good recording, which I'd rate a solid A-. It has some FM hiss which has not been corrected here, but it improves greatly with just a little noise reduction. It has a rawer sound than the other piece, with a sibilant sound to the cymbals, but otherwise all of the instruments are balanced in the mix; everything is driven a little high, however. There is no doubt that this venue is the Blue Moon Ballroom, since one of the band members [Lenny White] mentions it during the set. Editing notes (2026): Source 1 (tmat44) was running slow, so speed corrected -tracks 1-3 were 2.25% slow, track 4 was 2.9% slow, track 5 started 2.3% slow then 7 minutes in it started getting gradually slower and reached 3.6% slow by the end of track 6 -automatically balanced levels (the left channel was originally much louder) -Audacity: manually repaired one click and lowered a 100 ms burst on the right channel during track 5 Source 2 (glasnostrd19): glasnostrd19 circulated this as part of the "fresh" archives in 2016. -This was just used for the last 17 sec of track 6 (the final note) -Speed adjusted by +0.4% because it was slightly slow Source 3: If my reading of dime's history is correct, this was shared on dime by radhika in 2007; however, they say they got it from a different tracker. Maybe STG? It is a very good quality source - the best of all the sources here - with frequency detail up to 15 kHz, and fully intact tape hiss from 15-22 kHz (no ATRAC compression). The unfortunate thing about source 3 is that between the songs, somebody cut out the speaking portions (radio broadcast and Lenny White), lowered the levels and also crossfaded over some parts between the cuts to disguise them. The worst consequence of this is that the first couple of seconds of Celebration Suite on source 3 has a slight amount of chatter crossfaded onto it. Fortunately, the 3 songs on this broadcast are all here and the music is uncut. -I worked very diligently on the 3.5 sec before the first note in Vulcan Worlds and the 25 sec after the last note in Vulcan Worlds to undo the fading so that I could keep these parts from this source. It sounds like there is a cut about 20 sec after the last note in Vulcan Worlds, but that "cut" is also on source 4 so it might be broadcast related. -track 7 was 0.9% fast, track 8 was close enough to the right speed, track 9 was 4.1% for the first 19 seconds, then became 3.85% fast for the remainder -high-pass filtered with a cutoff of 2 Hz to eliminate gradual DC drift -automatically balanced levels -Somehow the left channel was leading the right by about 62 ms for first ~17 sec of Vulcan Worlds on the original source 3. I fixed the channel alignment here during the source mixing stage of my edits. I had to monoize a few ms to cover the part that was missing from the left channel. Source 4+5: glasnostrd19 circulated source 4+5 as a single file set in 2015. Source 4 is the majority of that file set and 5 is the last 8 minutes. They sound almost the same. I only used these sources here for the non-music parts in-between songs and like 3 sec at the start of Celebration Suite. -the part between Space Circus and Vulcan Worlds was 1.4% fast -the non-music part between Vulcan Worlds and Celebration Suite was 1.29% fast -the part from the first few sec of Celebration Suite was 1.4% fast -the part after Celebration Suite required no speed adjustment Source mixing: I used ~1 sec crossfades to join these sources together, except for the last 17 sec of track 6 from source 2, which I just spliced directly in.
Jeff Hagen (4/5) Flac / 1 View   WXRT "unconcert" FM broadcast > unknown reciever > Tandberg reel deck, unknown model > TDK...
Joshdust Torture (4/5) CDR / 1 A+ View  
Notes: SBD
Grotesque Jason (4/5) cd flac data FM / 1 View  
Notes: *date maybe wrong info came with this version saying it was on the 9th in the text *** Return to Forever Chick Corea: keyboards Al DiMeola: guitar Stanley Clarke: bass Lenny White: drums Blue Moon Ballroom Elgin, Illinois, USA April 9, 1975 FM broadcast on WXRT "the unconcert" series runtime: 62:22 (minutes/ seconds) setlist: 1: space circus 17:34 2: Vulcan worlds 22:17 3: celebration suite 22:18 4: radio announcer comments :13 lineage: FM broadcast > ? > TDK-AD 90 min. cassette (probably 1st gen. copy) > (last 8:04 part spliced in from FM broadcast reel > Maxell XLII cassette copy) played on Tascam 112 into soundforge (wav) > flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours. do not sell this recording. share freely, losslessly and gaplessly.
goodwin (4/5) cdr / 1 A View  
Dan Cook (4/5) Aud / 1 View  
john zicconi (3/5) Flac / 0 View   FM
Notes: 1. dayride 5:21 2. beyond the seventh galaxy 3:42 3. sophistifunk 10:37 4. the shadow of Lo 11:09 5. song to the Pharaoh kings 23:28 6. the game maker 8:21
Chilihead (3/5) / 1 A View   SBD>WXRT FM>CAS>MD>Cool Edit 2000>CD
Notes: One Tape Flip
Gabacho (3/4.7) / 1 B+ View   SBD
Notes: 105
Mikel Norris (3/5) cdr / 1 View  
nick22 (2/5) CDR / 1 A View   FM
Bluesthinker (2/4.9) Flac / 1 View   WXFT-FM "unconcert" broadcasts
OBIE (2/5) FLAC / 1 View  
john s (2/5) cd / 1 View  
kevin boland (1/4.8) CDR / 2 View  
thegreatdivide6 (1/0) flac / 0 View  
Notes: FM
Boedi-taper (1/4.8) CDR / 1 A A View   FM Broadcast
Notes: FM Broadcast
quimbo (1/5) FLAC / 0 View  
quimbo (1/5) FLAC / View  
LongLiveBoots (1/4.8) cd / 2 A- View   fm
Janaja (1/5) CD / 1 A- View  
Jim O'Brien (1/4.9) CD / 1 View   FM>CASSETTE>??>CD
Notes: I don't believe this date to be accurate.. Joe Farrell (Sax) left RTF in 73 and returned in 77.. Tinsley on Trumpet?? not until 1977. But it is still a great listen.
Mike (1/5) CDR / 1 A- View   FM
Notes: WXRT broadcast
HEDSPACE (1/5) cdr / 1 View   FMB
Dave (1/5) CDR / 1 View  
Notes: SBD>FM>C>MD>CDR
Bill Warner (1/5) CDR / 1 View   ?
Mike (1/0) CDR / 1 A- View   FM
Notes: WXRT broadcast
Selman Snow (0/0) Flac / 1 View  
Calvin (0/0) / View  
snow (0/3) cdr / 1 View