poolie wrote:Hi Andrew
As I suspected more questions than answers in trying to solve the riddle?
Hi Pooplie, to be honest, you puzzled me more than clarified the things, but thank you anyway!
This is one amazing riddle to be solved!
poolie wrote:Certainly Set Me Free is not included as a track on Aberdeen Realist or Working On It Paris bootlegs
Was Set Me Free recorded then in Aberdeen, I wonder? As I saw from the link given above, there are some parallel soundboard or audience recordings, which were used for Aberdeen weeds, along with BBC tapes, but they do not include Set Me Free either.
<update> (I have checked and found out Working on It Album is fully recorded in Paris on Apr, 3, not Aberdeen)
By the way, which Aberdeen recording issue do you consider best? 'Scotland 1993 live album' has a lound and rather clear sound, but there are some audience and tape noises. 'Josepihne live album' has lower sound but lower noise as well, thanks to Dolby NR, I think. "God's Great Realist live ablum' - never heard it.
poolie wrote: though I do have it included on a bootleg from Saarbrucken in Germany where it is a final encoure number following Let's Dance.
I have no Saarbrücken audince video, but I have full gig audience recording from Birmingham 1993-01-21, which includes Set Me Free and an early live version of Nothing to Fear with all verses, however, the sound is rather poor, regrettably...
poolie wrote:Just to clarify the Shepherds Bush bootleg. I recorded the full concert and it was "weeded" on a Chris site but not sure how far it got and that was the concert in true set list order. Maybe at some time the tracks that the BBC did not air might have been combined with their output to give a better reproduction ( even I concede that the BBC can record concerts better than me !!! )
Thank you so much for your recording of that gig! I have 2 version of this gig, one is 50 min. non-tracked tuner record of BBC broadcast with spoken intro between On the Beach and Shadows of the Big Man, and the other is 10-track weed without spoken intro and it includes Thinking of You. As far as I see, BBC disc is a compilation of recordings from 2 shows, Jan, 29 & 30, so no surprise they changed the order of the songs from the original setlist.
<update> I have found out your post on this issue here:
http://www.chrisrea.nl/community/viewto ... isc#p10564
poolie wrote:Other than that I can't really shed any more light on the other recordings that you mention save to agree with your incination on the 1986 live output.
One more time you prove that your collection and enthusiasm for CR records is absolutely incredible!
I have already heard from you about at least 5 gig records that I do not have (oh how I wish I did!) and hardly ever heard of.
I will try learn more on BBC tapes and if I find I would post here.
best regards
Andrey