Date:
7 June 1979
Venue:
Riverfront Coliseum
Cincinnati, OH
United States
Tracks:
01. Knocking On Heavens Door
02. Tulsa Times
03. Early In The Morning
04. Watch Out For Lucy
05. Setting Me Up
06. Ramblin' On My Mind
07. Double Trouble
08. Lay Down Sally
09. Wonderful Tonight
10. Cocaine
11. Layla
Please note that all tracks are cut. Some are very short.
Lineup:
Eric Clapton - guitar / vocals
Albert Lee - guitar / vocals
Dick Sims - keyboards
Carl Radle - bass
Jamie Oldaker - drums
Notes:
This show has never before been in ciculation among collectors, neither in film or audio format. As of May 2024, this release is the rarest recording by SAP so far. Located in Ohio a few years ago, the magnetic tapes were very damaged and had to undergo serious restoration (see below notes). The audio track was especially damaged, with drops, clicks and levels flunctuating all over the place.
This is what it is all about! Time is passing, and some EC recordings might already be lost forever. Our goal is to ensure rare and unique recordings and films with Eric Clapton, are unearthed and shared for free with fellow EC music fans, before they are used as landfill by people not knowing the archival value these recordings possess.
If you have once recorded an Eric Clapton show and have a tape/reel/vhs, etc. stored away, please reach out to this email address: contact@slowhandguide.com. We can even help digitize, remaster and share with respect for your work and efforts recording.
This is a true global fan project, made by EC fans for EC fans.
The video has received a revolving text-logo in the lower right corner making life for bootleggers and dishonest copycats, as hard as possible.
Credits: Thanks to the original unknown taper, the various people who helped locate the 8mm reels, Leonid for feedback during the remastering process, Dwight for sharing his original photo and Christian, for locating the photo.
The Slowhand Archive Project
Email: contact@slowhandarchive.com
Notes about the extensive audio restoration process:
Adjusted volumes
Denoised every track, manual combined with AI
Separating frequency bands, reshaping the general space of instruments (EQ, volume, compression)
Redoing manual denoising, as the previous steps further accentuates the noise in the recordings
First stereo imaging session
Multiband compression, trying to recover bass, which is almost 1/8th compared to the drums or guitar
A separate session enhancing vocals, trying to pull them out from the mix and place them more upfront - hard to pull off, as everything is already together in the mix
Removing reverberation from the room, to help the clarity of the music
Checking guitar solos, at this point they become way louder, so needed to recheck those and do some finetuning
Overall EQing
Cutting out low mids, which create a muddy sound, especially when there is such a great distance between the mic and the musicians
Using Ozone's Master Rebalance to pull out the drums a bit more in front
Using Ozone Low End focus - at this point worried about the low end and that there is practically no bass, so tried to extract some more, then equalized only that bass extraction, as it brings up a lot of background noise
Final stereo imaging session, this is done in parallel with overal compression and loudness settings
Very slight Equalizer adjustments overall for the tracks, this time only going for feel and vibes, so this is more like a small aesthetic shaping for the audience's enjoyment, trying to respect the feel of the concert
4 окт 2024
