Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh PA

I think the B+ rating is mainly because the recording is a little distant, but I was surprised by the clarity of the show captured on tape! It definitely sounds better than the rating implies...and as mentioned above, the performance may be the highlight of the Abacab tour (along with Cincinnati), and provided much of the final takes for the 3SL album. Throw in the singular performance of \"The Knife\" on the tour and you have a show well worth getting your hands on. [rkipp]

A-???? Come on people... this is a bad recording. [speedy]

Strange...I don't know where my original comment for this show went, it's been replaced by my comment for NEC Birmingam 12-23-81! Having said that, I think the high rating for the show is b/c of the fact that this show (even with its problems - the missing left channel most glaring) is the now the earliest good-sounding show from the "Lamb" tour. As I mentioned before, another plus point in the rating is that the performance is pretty good, and the audience reactions are surprisingly on the enthusiastic side, you actually hear full and steady applause between each track! [rkipp]

Torrent notes:

Continuing with my Lamb tour review, I came across this show which is again a pain to listen to, especially if, like me, you listen with headphones.
The main problem is that the left channel is a mass of hiss, hum, static and very little music.
So I set out to turn a rather poor stereo recording into a very listenable mono recording - discarding the right channel completely. This didn't seem to be a loss, since the stereo image doesn't seem at all wide; we can hear everything on the channel that was used.
Other corrections include some EQ, and this time I edited most of the beginnings and endings; almost all tracks had at the end the first bars of the one that followed.
The only patch is "no need to sell" from The chamber of 32 doors, missing in the original file. The piece came from Colston Hall, Bristol 1975-04-30 (since it was just 1" I didn't mind the 5-month time span, and sonically it is so similar, it's barely noticeable. The pitch was minimally adjusted to fit).
The story of Rael part 2 has a cut in the middle, as the end of The musical box, which was faded out.
I would rate the end result as a B. Samples of "before and after" are included.

I don't think anyone burns CDs anymore (I don't), but just in case I put together some artwork with actual pics of the venue.

Hope you enjoy it.