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Elton John - 1977-05-07 - London, UK (SBD/FLAC)

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#1 · (Edited)
Elton John - 1977-05-07 - London, UK
(Soundboard FLAC)

"Rainbow Rock"
Rainbow Theatre

Lineage:
CDR> WAV (1411kbps)> FLAC (Level 8)

Disc one:
01 Your Song
02 The Greatest Discovery
03 Border Song
04 Daniel
05 Sweet Painted Lady
06 Rocket Man
07 I Heard It Through The Grapewine
08 Candle In The Wind
09 Roy Rogers
10 Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future)
11 Cage The Songbird
12 Where To Now St. Peter
13 Ticking
14 Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

Disc two:
01 Take Me To The Pilot
02 Funeral For A Friend
03 Tonight
04 Better Off Dead
05 Idol
06 I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford) (Removed Due to Official Release)
07 I Think I'm Going To Kill Myself
08 Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
09 Crazy Water
10 Bennie And The Jets
11 Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
12 Goodbye

- Some tracks feature Ray Cooper on percussion

** Officially released track has been removed and can be found on the Elton John box set titled "To Be Continued..."


Elton John did not perform many shows in 1977, but among the ones that he did, were 6 stripped down "solo" performances at the Rainbow Theatre during the first week of May. The exact details of this recording are a little hard to pinpoint online, due to the fact that there are several different dates listed; depending on what site you go to. I have seen it listed as May 2nd and May 13th, but according to a few pretty accurate Elton tour schedules that I came across, he did not play at all on the 13th. Many of what seem to be the most creditable sources that I found, state that this recording is from May 7th, 1977...which would make it the last night of the Rainbow Theatre run.

The show is ballad heavy, but pretty amazing considering that the entire performance is just Elton and his piano; with Ray Cooper accompanying him with percussion on several tracks. The sound quality is great; some very minor hiss and the occasional minor "pop" here and there...but overall superb.


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#7 ·
Thnx for this, Edge. In those parts that are not flawed (see below) this sounds great.

Unfortunately the rip seems to be incorrectly done or the discs are in terrible condition because there is some serious flaws in "Ticking," for example, that are not present on other lossy versions of this.

If you have access to the original CDs I would ask you to please rip this again using EAC or some other program of this type to make sure that the recording has been extracted at its best.
 
#9 ·
I have a personal rip of this from my 2 silver CD bootleg I bought of this concert. The boot I have is called 'Rocket Man Over The Rainbow'.

I used EAC and ripped in the secure mode to FLAC. No errors occurred.

I did the 'test encoded audio files' using Trader's Little Helper. Tested fine - no decoding errors.

I've listened through the song 'Ticking' a couple of times and I don't hear any audio problems on my personal silver CD version.

It's hard to say what's going on with this torrent since it's sourced from a CD-R - hard telling the lineage of the CD-R.
 
#10 ·
@MarsRover,
Yes. As I said before, the files uploaded here are full of errors, which are not even present in the lossy versions of this more widely available before. Some of these, the more flagrant, seem to be centered on the song "Ticking." The error shows up as a series of blank spaces inside the song producing a strange distortion.

It's a pity, because this is a great concert and the parts that somehow elude the corruption of these files do sound much better than what has been widely available before.

It would be great if someone, perhaps you, could make a better extracted rip available.