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Camel 03/03/2014

SHOWID 717375

Set I

Set 1: Music from The Snow Goose
The Great Marsh
Rhayader
Rhayader Goes to Town
Santuary
Fritha
The Snow Goose
Friendship
Migration
Rhayader Alone
Flight Of The Snow Goose
Preparation
Dunkirk
Epitaph
Fritha Alone
La Princesse Perdue
The Great Marsh (reprise)

Set II

Never Let Go
Song Within A Song
Echoes (Andrew has amp problems in the beginning)
The Hour Candle (dedicated to Guy LeBlanc)
Drafted
Watching The Bobbins
Fox Hill
For Today
Reprise: Lady Fantasy

Set III

 

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Andrew Latimer – guitar, vocals, flute, recorder, keyboards, bass guitar
Colin Bass – bass guitar, vocals, keyboard, acoustic guitar
Ton Scherpenzeel (replacing Guy LeBlanc due to ill health) – keyboards, vocals
Denis Clement – drums, percussion, bass guitar
Jason Hart – keyboards, acoustic guitar, vocals

Collectors With This Show

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John H (5/5) flac / 2 A+ A+ View   audience
Notes: CD-buring notes: To burn the 2 sets onto 2 CD's, I have proposed to burn set and and the first 2 tracks of set 2 onto CD 1, and the rest onto CD 2. Please feel free to do it otherwise if you like. Recorder's notes: I arrived early in Carnaval-celebrating Eindhoven and found myself surrounded by thousands of partying people dressed in the most outraged outfits before I could make my way to the Eindhoven Muziekgebouw Fritz Philips for the 2nd Camel concert in The Netherlands, after their Sunday gig in Amsterdam’s Paradiso. This Monday, March 3rd, 2014, Camel played in De Lage Landen Zaal, for an audience of about 1,000 fans. Despite the many warnings not to make photographs or recordings, I managed to smuggle my kit into the hall and found myself a “sweet spot” in the middle of row 7 (seat 30) and managed to get away with this recording. The crowd was very quiet during the songs but compensated for this by a very enthusiastic applauding after each song, and the acoustics of De Lage Landen Zaal is pretty good. The sound was not overly loud and the sound-engineers had done an excellent job in finding a good sound balance in the PA-system, with two stacks each at the far side of the stage. So my recording ended up with a very decent impression of the actual sound of this concert. About the concert… Camel played with Dutch keyboard player Ton Scherpenzeel, instead of Guy LeBlanc due to Guy’s ill health, and boy they played! Without a word the band came on stage and started with the Snow Goose suit, which was played without any comments all the way to the end. If they played this music already for the umpteenth time, none of the band-members showed any sign of fatigue and put their whole soul into the music. It was 45 minutes of Camel-magic. The second set consisted of a selection of Camel songs, starting with a highlight (Never let Go) and ending with a highlight (Lady Fantasy), and in between Andrew, Colin, Ton and Denis brought every other track to another high level. Not that Jason did not contribute, but his role as second keyboard player seems more supportive, nevertheless indismissible. Andrew had some amplifier problems at the start of Echoes, which was adequately compensated by Ton and Colin repeating the chorus until an engineer had sorted out the issue and Andrew could continue: a concert without a glitch is just listening to a CD! The band seemed to enjoy themselves as much as the audience did and the second set took well over one and a quarter hour, with Ton’s lively keyboard playing in the reprise, Lady Fantasy, as a sound which will last for a long time. I was still whistling Lady Fantasy when I walked back through Eindhoven’s partying Carnaval crowd to my car, an unforgettable experience and a DVD (from the London concert in 2013) richer. If you like this recording, please support the band who made this possible, by buying their albums and enjoy the sound of Camel. This audience recording is for personal use only and please do not sell this - we are all fans and not business people! For personal use you may do whatever remastering/encoding you would like to do, but please do not re-distribute in any lossy format. If you do redistribute, please leave this info.txt file in the package.