BLACK SABBATH
1990-10-10 - Gorki Park - Senden, Germany
// Info
// Media Files (0)
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// Setlist
01. Ave Satani + The Gates of Hell (intro) (03:16 min) 02. Neon Knights (05:20 min) 03. Iron Man (05:04 min) 04. Children of the Grave (04:46 min) 05. Guitar intro + Die Young (07:24 min) 06. Sabbath Stones (07:25 min) 07. Bass solo (02:58 min) 08. Heart Like a Wheel (02:36 min) 09. Instrumentals (04:01 min) 10. Headless Cross (06:21 min) 11. When Death Calls (06:55 min) 12. The Lawmaker (cut out) (03:18 min) 13. Anno Mundi (06:31 min) 14. Keyboard prelude, guitar intro + Black Sabbath (10:24 min) 15. Heaven and Hell (11:45 min) 16. Paranoid + Heaven and Hell (reprise) (04:10 min)
// Notes
*Nope, this show did NOT take place in Russia - "Gorki Park" is just the name of the venue, which was located in Senden, Germany. :-)
// Description
Many, many thanks to both Sascha and Rareconcerts! To my knowledge, Sascha taped three(!) German TYR shows on a Philips Walkman: 1990-10-10 Senden, 1990-10-17 Offenbach and 1990-10-18 Böblingen. Apparently he did several digital transfers of his master tapes over time, using a standalone CD recorder to create CDR clones that were usually unsplit (containing 2 or 3 long tracks for each show). The Senden transfer at hand must have been carried out sometime in 2005 or earlier (because Rareconcerts received it on trade CDRs between 2000 and 2005). In March 2017, I asked Rareconcerts if he would be willing to share it with me, and he generously fulfilled my wish. So now we actually have two transfers of this master tape: this one from Rareconcerts' collection, and another, later transfer, carried out sometime around 2014, from Wrongman's collection. Sound differences between both transfers are not huge, but notable, especially at some points of the show. A small survey among a few friends did not yield a consensus as to which transfer sounds better - so I decided to upload both and let you decide which one you like better. Please share your opinions on the matter. I noticed the following cuts in this transfer: - "The Lawmaker" cuts out, followed by a few sec of silence. - Another cut happens about 16 sec after "Black Sabbath", again followed by a few sec of silence. - While Wrongman's version has a cut (with a little duplicate part rather than anything missing) after "Die Young", there's no such cut in this (Rareconcerts') version. It is possible that there are more cuts. Originally I intended to edit the cuts and remove all the silent parts, but then I decided to leave that job to whoever would possibly attempt to remaster this recording at some point. The only part I did remove was about 7 min of silence at the end of the recording. What I also did was speed-correction. The recording ran too fast, so I decreased the speed by ~4.00% (stretching the overall running time from 88:41.646 min to 92:15.014 min) in iZotope after comparing several tracks to the original studio albums (namely the H&H, HC and TYR albums, all of which were recorded with the guitar tuned down by 1/2 step. I believe that Sabbath played with the same way tuning during the TYR tour - opinions are welcome of course, and check out this great thread <http://www.black-sabbath.com/vb/showthread.php?34829-Tuning-Down> in case you're interested in Sabbath's guitar tuning). Then I resampled and dithered to 16/44.1 again (still in iZotope), split to FLAC tracks (using Foobar), tagged and named the FLAC tracks (using MP3tag), created fingerprints (with Trader's Little Helper) and this info file. Nothing else was changed by me. IMHO this master clone sounds pretty nice the way it is. Anyway, if anyone wants to EQ and/or remaster it, please let me know before you start, so I can send you the original unsplit and non-speed-corrected files. You'll better use those and correct the speed again (rather than using this already speed-corrected version), in order to minimize the numbers of up- and downsamplings and thus avoid unnecessary quality loss.