Jeff Beck: Amherst 1980 (VG+ Aud) FLAC

Jeff Beck (who else)- guitar
Tony Hymas- keyboards
Simon Phillips-drums

The Cage "Beck in a Cage"
Amherst, Mass. U.S.A.
October 9, 1980

performance quality: A (hot show!)
recording quality: B to mostly B+ (the first 51 seconds are too loud/bassy and distorted in master tape, it gets alot better after that)
source: 1st generation audience tape (recording equipment unknown)
recorded by fzmoi69

1: Star Cycle 5:50
2: El Becko 4:20
3: Too Much To Lose 5:00
4: The Pump 6:46
5: Cuz We've Ended As Lovers 6:55
6: Space Boogie 6:11
7: Freeway Jam 6:50
8: Led Boots (Cuts In) 4:09
9: Diamond Dust 7:31
10: Scatterbrain 14:01
11: Blue Wind 8:00
12: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat > You Never Know 6:53
runtime: 82:32

lineage: master > my copy (the master and my copy are both Maxell XLII cassettes with no dolby) > soundforge 4.5 (WAV) > FLAC 6
OU comments:
I've never heard of "the cage" except for this one and only concert. I was first told years ago it's a a small theater, actually it's a basketball court (home of Umass Minutemen before they built the Mullins Center in the early 90's) so the acoustics aren't very good, but this sounds pretty good considering that. I first got a very inferior quality tape of this concert before getting this one, and this is the 1st time I've seeded it. If you haven't heard this and you like Jeff Beck at all, you will enjoy this. It burns! I believe it is the whole concert except for just a few seconds of track 8 for a quick tape flip. There was time for a clean flip but the taper got caught napping for a moment. The 1st 51 seconds are
overmodulated in the original recording, but not in this one. Once the levels get set right the rest of it is consistent and quite good. Sounds like the taper was fairly close to the stage and not too far over to either side of it. Not sure what was used to record it, but the mics sound like they're decent ones (not great). The fidelity is not the greatest, but enough to appreciate a very fine show from Jeff and Simon Phillips especially. It's better than you'd get with a Sony 310 and the built in mikes. The guitar and drum playing is very strong. Hymas was good too, and Beck and Phillips had a great night in Western Mass. thanks to fzmoi69 for making this fine Beck recording.

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