Zebra ??/??/1979
Set I
The La La Song
Bears
My Life Has Changed (in many ways)
To Find Your Dreams
Last Time
Drive Me Crazy
Free (Original version)
Wait Until The Summer's Gone
Who's Behind The Door?
One More Chance
Take Your Fingers (From My Hair)
Bears
My Life Has Changed (in many ways)
To Find Your Dreams
Last Time
Drive Me Crazy
Free (Original version)
Wait Until The Summer's Gone
Who's Behind The Door?
One More Chance
Take Your Fingers (From My Hair)
Set II
Set III
Comment
WFUV broadcast. Also circulates as 11/29/79. Date is suspect because several of these songs are from Zebra's second album and were more typically played circa 1984. There is mention that this is the bands first "New York" appearance, which would mean New York City since the band performed extensively on Long Island. If true, Zebra played in at the Ritz and the Palladium in Manhattan in 1983, which would date this performance prior to March 1983.
Collectors With This Show
| User (active/rating) | Media / # | Show | Sound | Details | DB Source | User Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John H | flac / 1 | A | A | View | audience | |
| Notes: | Zebra 1979 Fordham University, New York - The Bronx, New York, USA broadcast: 90.7 FM WFUV (65:03) 1. The La La Song (9:06) 2. The Bears Are Hibernating (5:48) 3. My Life Has Changed In Many Ways (5:26) 4. To Find Your Dreams (4:39) 5. Last Time (5:07) 6. You Drive Me Crazy (4:49) 7. Free (3:45) 8. Wait Until The Summer's Gone (4:38) 9. Who's Behind The Door? (6:41) 10. One More Chance (3:55) 11. Take Your Fingers From My Hair (8:28) lineage: WFUV broadcast > unknown tapes and generations > unknown transfer > FLAC 16/44.1 > Audacity (normalisation, remove dropout, fades, edits, track indices) > FLAC 16/44.1 Official Zebra site: http://www.thedoor.com/ The place Fordham University and the fact that it's a radio show are confirmed a few times during the recording. The exact date is a bit of a problem. The entry on setlist.fm says 1979-11-29 but there is no proof of that. The source in the comments refers to an e-tree entry which has no full date. setlist.fm: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/zebra/1979/fordham-university-the-bronx-ny-63fbcab7.html e-tree: http://db.etree.org/lookup_show.php?shows_key=362969 I guess we have no option that to stick to 1979 until someone comes up with some proof. Archives from WFUV would be nice! The track index for Last Time was set a little too late, so it started within the track before. I wanted to correct that but then I noticed some other things that were quite easy to fix. Now I changed some things on the recording as I received it. Some of you might not like what I so let me explain the details. My main goal is to have a nice listening experience, and for me that means a continuous recording. So I removed a few drop-outs. In all, you're missing about 0.1 seconds of music, 1.4 seconds of audience noise, and a few minutes of silence when compared to the original upload. When I opened the recording in Audacity I saw a lot of clipping (too loud). The right channel had clipping throughout the recording, the left channel some clipping after 45 minutes. Normalisation fixed that. The first seconds of the first track are missing. Clearly a case of starting the recording too late. I added a very short fade-in (0.1 seconds or something), removing the noise from starting the tape, but nothing I could do here. Maybe someone very clever can add the first "la la" from a different part of the recording? There was also a dropout in that first track (a few seconds from the start) of a few milliseconds. I was able to remove that, making it a bit more smooth, although you still hear a slight glitch, like a noise over the recording, which was a noise at the start of the drop-out. No music seemed to be missing, though. On the original tape there's a cut during the last minute of Last Time. This is at around 29 minutes, so a tape flip makes sense. Some different music was audible, which makes me think it was not a blank tape that was used for the recording or copying. It made removing the drop-out a bit harder, but I am happy with the results, I don't hear anything distracting anymore. There might be about 0.1 seconds of music missing because of this. I mean 0.1 seconds from the recording I started with, I can't say anything about the off-air recording let alone the original broadcast. During the applause after the "Thank you" following Wait Until The Summer's Gone, there was another drop-out. I cut that out (0.5 seconds) in such a way you won't hear a thing. Maybe 0.05 seconds of audience noise has been cut here. Then there is a cut shortly after this, about 2 seconds before the announcement "This song is called Who's Behind The Door?". This would make sense, as this is at 43 minutes into the recording and would mean a tape flip. Having tape flips at 30 and at 45 minutes, it means the original recording made from the radio broadcast was copied at least once and onto tapes of different lengths. A pity. But it also means there might be a lower generation around. To solve this drop-out caused by tape flip, I faded out the audience noise following Until The Summer's Gone, faded in the audience noise before Who's Behind The Door?, and then mixed the fades by overlapping them. Nothing is missing, no music and no announcements, only about 0.9 seconds of audience noise is overlapping. Finally, after the last track there were 5 minutes of silence and static noise. I removed that. The fade-out is on the recording as I got it. Right before Wait Until The Summer's Gone you hear someone calling someone (Joe Clogg?) a dick. Pretty funny to have that immortalised on a recording of course. The same voice mentions that name a few more times later on, and someone else is asking him who the hell that is. There is still one suspicious drop-out, in To Find Your Dreams. If it is a drop-out it's really well-edited, like it is supposed to be this way. So it could have been the way they played it. I didn't change anything there. The recording is not perfect. There are a few short bits with varying tape speed, I suspect caused by copying the tape. But there's not a lot of that and they are certainly not distracting. All you who prefer a continuous recording as much as possible, you'll like it. Purists who want the original as much as possible may not like what I did here. I didn't keep the originally shared recording so I cannot go back. And I don't want to. I am pretty pleased with the result. So much that I am will definitely be listening to this recording more often. An early Zebra show, some interesting, different arrangements than the eventual album versions, and in good quality. What's not to like? Enjoy! Jerry(19)70 shared on Dime April 2020 ----- original info file (May 2006 or earlier) ----- Zebra Fordham University WFUV broadcast 01 - The La La Song 02 - Bears 03 - My Life Has Changed (in many ways) 04 - To Find Your Dreams 05 - Last Time 06 - Drive Me Crazy 07 - Free (Original version) 08 - Wait Until The Summer's Gone 09 - Who's Behind The Door? 10 - One More Chance 11 - Take Your Fingers (from my hair) I really cannot tell you much about this one. I don't even remember where I got it from. I do know that there have been requests, both on here and at the Zebra shows for older (1980 and before) Zebra recordings. I have a few of them, but most have been given to me with a Do Not Trade restriction. The paperwork I do have on this and the writign on the CD being in my own handwriting leads me to believe that it was sourced from a commercial boot, so I am releasing it here and hoping that everyone enjoys it. I am missing my copy of the show from the Mad Hatter of Stony Brook from the night that Zebra got signed by Atlantic Records that was broadcast on WBAB. If someone could seed that I would appreciate it. Zebra fans, come join the chat on http://www.thedoor.com/vbulletin RT | |||||
| John H | flac / 1 | A | A | View | audience | |
| Notes: | Zebra 1979 Fordham University, New York - The Bronx, New York, USA broadcast: 90.7 FM WFUV (65:03) 1. The La La Song (9:06) 2. The Bears Are Hibernating (5:48) 3. My Life Has Changed In Many Ways (5:26) 4. To Find Your Dreams (4:39) 5. Last Time (5:07) 6. You Drive Me Crazy (4:49) 7. Free (3:45) 8. Wait Until The Summer's Gone (4:38) 9. Who's Behind The Door? (6:41) 10. One More Chance (3:55) 11. Take Your Fingers From My Hair (8:28) lineage: WFUV broadcast > unknown tapes and generations > unknown transfer > FLAC 16/44.1 > Audacity (normalisation, remove dropout, fades, edits, track indices) > FLAC 16/44.1 Official Zebra site: http://www.thedoor.com/ The place Fordham University and the fact that it's a radio show are confirmed a few times during the recording. The exact date is a bit of a problem. The entry on setlist.fm says 1979-11-29 but there is no proof of that. The source in the comments refers to an e-tree entry which has no full date. setlist.fm: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/zebra/1979/fordham-university-the-bronx-ny-63fbcab7.html e-tree: http://db.etree.org/lookup_show.php?shows_key=362969 I guess we have no option that to stick to 1979 until someone comes up with some proof. Archives from WFUV would be nice! The track index for Last Time was set a little too late, so it started within the track before. I wanted to correct that but then I noticed some other things that were quite easy to fix. Now I changed some things on the recording as I received it. Some of you might not like what I so let me explain the details. My main goal is to have a nice listening experience, and for me that means a continuous recording. So I removed a few drop-outs. In all, you're missing about 0.1 seconds of music, 1.4 seconds of audience noise, and a few minutes of silence when compared to the original upload. When I opened the recording in Audacity I saw a lot of clipping (too loud). The right channel had clipping throughout the recording, the left channel some clipping after 45 minutes. Normalisation fixed that. The first seconds of the first track are missing. Clearly a case of starting the recording too late. I added a very short fade-in (0.1 seconds or something), removing the noise from starting the tape, but nothing I could do here. Maybe someone very clever can add the first "la la" from a different part of the recording? There was also a dropout in that first track (a few seconds from the start) of a few milliseconds. I was able to remove that, making it a bit more smooth, although you still hear a slight glitch, like a noise over the recording, which was a noise at the start of the drop-out. No music seemed to be missing, though. On the original tape there's a cut during the last minute of Last Time. This is at around 29 minutes, so a tape flip makes sense. Some different music was audible, which makes me think it was not a blank tape that was used for the recording or copying. It made removing the drop-out a bit harder, but I am happy with the results, I don't hear anything distracting anymore. There might be about 0.1 seconds of music missing because of this. I mean 0.1 seconds from the recording I started with, I can't say anything about the off-air recording let alone the original broadcast. During the applause after the "Thank you" following Wait Until The Summer's Gone, there was another drop-out. I cut that out (0.5 seconds) in such a way you won't hear a thing. Maybe 0.05 seconds of audience noise has been cut here. Then there is a cut shortly after this, about 2 seconds before the announcement "This song is called Who's Behind The Door?". This would make sense, as this is at 43 minutes into the recording and would mean a tape flip. Having tape flips at 30 and at 45 minutes, it means the original recording made from the radio broadcast was copied at least once and onto tapes of different lengths. A pity. But it also means there might be a lower generation around. To solve this drop-out caused by tape flip, I faded out the audience noise following Until The Summer's Gone, faded in the audience noise before Who's Behind The Door?, and then mixed the fades by overlapping them. Nothing is missing, no music and no announcements, only about 0.9 seconds of audience noise is overlapping. Finally, after the last track there were 5 minutes of silence and static noise. I removed that. The fade-out is on the recording as I got it. Right before Wait Until The Summer's Gone you hear someone calling someone (Joe Clogg?) a dick. Pretty funny to have that immortalised on a recording of course. The same voice mentions that name a few more times later on, and someone else is asking him who the hell that is. There is still one suspicious drop-out, in To Find Your Dreams. If it is a drop-out it's really well-edited, like it is supposed to be this way. So it could have been the way they played it. I didn't change anything there. The recording is not perfect. There are a few short bits with varying tape speed, I suspect caused by copying the tape. But there's not a lot of that and they are certainly not distracting. All you who prefer a continuous recording as much as possible, you'll like it. Purists who want the original as much as possible may not like what I did here. I didn't keep the originally shared recording so I cannot go back. And I don't want to. I am pretty pleased with the result. So much that I am will definitely be listening to this recording more often. An early Zebra show, some interesting, different arrangements than the eventual album versions, and in good quality. What's not to like? Enjoy! Jerry(19)70 shared on Dime April 2020 ----- original info file (May 2006 or earlier) ----- Zebra Fordham University WFUV broadcast 01 - The La La Song 02 - Bears 03 - My Life Has Changed (in many ways) 04 - To Find Your Dreams 05 - Last Time 06 - Drive Me Crazy 07 - Free (Original version) 08 - Wait Until The Summer's Gone 09 - Who's Behind The Door? 10 - One More Chance 11 - Take Your Fingers (from my hair) I really cannot tell you much about this one. I don't even remember where I got it from. I do know that there have been requests, both on here and at the Zebra shows for older (1980 and before) Zebra recordings. I have a few of them, but most have been given to me with a Do Not Trade restriction. The paperwork I do have on this and the writign on the CD being in my own handwriting leads me to believe that it was sourced from a commercial boot, so I am releasing it here and hoping that everyone enjoys it. I am missing my copy of the show from the Mad Hatter of Stony Brook from the night that Zebra got signed by Atlantic Records that was broadcast on WBAB. If someone could seed that I would appreciate it. Zebra fans, come join the chat on http://www.thedoor.com/vbulletin RT | |||||
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