The Ramones: CBGB 1977 2 Sets! (VG+ Aud) FLAC

by request!

DATE: June 10th, 1977
VENUE: CBGB
LOCATION: New York City, NY
SOURCE: AUD
QUALITY: A-
ARTWORK: N/A

TRACKLISTING:
1st Set
01 I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement
02 Beat On The Bush
03 Good Boy
04 Swallow My Pride
05 Glad To See You Go
06 Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
07 I Don't Care
08 Now I Wanna Sniff Your Glue
09 Sheena Is My Punk Rocker
10 You Should Never Have Opened That Door
11 I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
12 Suzy Is A Headbanger
13 Listen To My Heart
14 California Sun
15 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
16 I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
17 Today Your Love Tomorrow The World

2nd set
01 Loudmouth
02 Do You Wanna Dance
03 Blitzkrieg Bop
04 I Remember You
05 Glad To See You Go
06 Teenage Lobotomy
07 You're Gonna Kill That Girl
08 Carbona Not Glue
09 Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
10 Commando
11 Babysitter
12 Oh Oh I Love Her So
13 Let's Dance
14 Judy Is A Punk
15 I Don't Wanna F^ck Around With You
16 Pinhead
17 Suzy Is A Headbanger
18 Chainsaw
19 California Sun

TOTAL RUNTIME: 1hr 14mins 9secs
LINEAGE: MASTER SOURCE>?>WAV>FLAC>Data DVD Trade>FLAC>WAV>Cool Edit Pro v2.1>FLAC 8
TRANSFER/EDITING NOTES:
Only could the Ramones play two full sets that clock in at less than an hour and 15 minutes! It's a pleasure to listen to music that doesn't take ten minutes plus to get the idea of the songs. This audience recording, made at the 2nd home of the Ramones, CBGBs, is really a wonderful document of what the Ramones were like during this blisteringly effective and creative period. My main purpose in this remaster is to do justice to the original performance and recording by making some minor adjustments to bring out the sound of the band and limit the resonating frequencies and tape noise that get in the way of the music contained within. Since CBGBs was a relatively small venue, it was an ideal location for a superior audience recording such as this one. I'd actually rate it on par with some Ramones SBD's I've heard. I made adjustments to the frequency spectrum such as cutting out low mids plaging the recording, boosting low high frequencies dulled since the original recording was made up to the source we have here and also making some other slight adjustments to specific frequencies all across the board causing unnecessary noise. I then properly balanced the levels of the tracks in accordence with each other. There were also minor cuts (no larger than 0.5 dB) to small sections of less than a second each where it sounds like the taper encountered spikes in recording perhaps from bumping the recording device or a low range resonating frequency reaching the device. This is common in audience recordings as they are typically at the mercy of the resonating properties of the venue size, proportions and materials. As a result of these edits, what is left is a clearer, brighter and ultimately more accurate and powerful recording. The 2nd set recording sounds excellent as well although there is a downgrade in sound quality from track 2 to track 11. The main detraction from this set is the abrupt shift in tonal characteristics and noise that occurs at approximately 1:15 of track 2. Do You Wanna Dance? until approximately 2:07 of track 11. Babysitter where there is a dropout of sorts and then a return without the noise of the previous tracks. I have compensated for this shift as best as I could but there is a slight decrease in sound quality during this noisy section of the recording. No noise reduction or compression of any kind was used for this adjustment. The majority of the noise exists in the higher frequency range which was probably out of the recording devices audible recording range. I have thus eliminated a lot of these frequencies that did not contain any musical content anyways. After this point until the end of the recording you could argue that the sound quality is slightly better than that of the 1st set. I think the edits worked out well in the end. This one is for Ramones fans everywhere and for those Ramones who have left us with a legacy of great musical performances. Thank you Joey, Johnny & DeeDee, I hope wherever you are, you would be happy with my attempt to get a little closer to you guys on this specific summer day of '77. RIP & Enjoy!

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