1972-March-17

Yes

Swing Auditorium	San Bernardino, CA


Disc 1  -  48.13
1	Firebird Suite			 1.58
2	Roundabout			 8.01
3	Heart Of The Sunrise		11.24
4	Clap				 4.28
5	Perpetual Change		14.51
6	All Good People			 7.27


You can hear the tapers' conversations.  They are somewhat interesting 
and not all that intrusive.  They obviously know and enjoy the band's 
music.  PC has first Steve and then Chris noodling around with Bill 
towards the end of his drum solo, something I've never heard them do.  
Very nice.



Notes that came with this recording:

Opener for Black Sabbath

Here then finally is the final portion of this incredible evening.
The hype about this show on ForgottenYesterdays.com is true... 

This show is to die for.

I want to personally thank the following Dime members for help in 
reconstructing this tape: Five for supplying samples of another show 
for comparison The Toole Man for additional help.

As indicated in previous torrents, the Yes portion lay in two unrelated 
pieces.  Although the music itself seemed to overlap, something was wrong 
with the performance in both. At first I wasn't even sure they were the same 
show. The problem ended up being that there was a master and a copy. The 
master was pitched 29 cents too slow, and the copy was pitched about twice 
that too fast. One of the properties of speeding up music is that the recording 
will sound better, up to a point. All the frequencies move up; the recording 
sounds crisper. So, the copy initially sounded better than the original.

Once the speed was corrected on the original, it sounded almost as good as 
the copy.  But, once the copy was corrected, the original was much better. 
I hope that makes sense, we are talking cents of change here, not semitones 
(100 cents = 1 semitone). SoundForge 6.0 was used for all processes.

The 48 minutes here are I have of this show. The rumors are that they played 
for 90 min, but there don't appear to be any missing portions.  An anti-alias 
filter was applied during speed correction (Google "Nyquist Frequency" if you 
are curious as to why). Multiple EQ passes were also used to bring out the finer 
details of the music. No noise reduction was used. Over 8 hours of work went 
into this torrent over the course of about five weeks, I hope you enjoy it.

Yes played the "Fragile" portions of this show very close to the vest.
It's much more of an extended album feast than present day shows are.
The performance is *wonderful*, with some drug-related taper talk thrown into 
the mix.

Lineage: master reel-to-reel AUD tape (first time in circulation) > 
Flac (6) sectors aligned and verified

Enjoy!

A DoinkerTape