Comments on: News and new releases

By: ale67

ale67 — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:21:28 +0000

Stay away from the DAC release “Think you like it”… Never heard a piece of filth like that: muffled, distant, unbalanced, flowing sound; a real shame, really stealed money, watchout!

By: aleebee

aleebee — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:13:32 +0000

Right. Some 5 years ago Darker Than Blue released ‘Fire’ (DTB 009), a soundboard from Rainbow’s July 27 1981 show at london’s Hammersmith Odeon. Now they’ve released what they’ve termed an upgrade as ‘Outrage’ (DTB 090). Unlike Chambeau, I liked ‘Fire’ BUT ‘Outrage’ IS an upgrade; the sound is brighter, fuller, and with less hiss (indeed, very little hiss, even with headphones). I suspect a lower-generation tape, and perhaps better mastering.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:06:49 +0000

The Dylan release in a fantastic soundboard that must rate up there with the Scorpio releases from 1988. I think this release is going to be THE release of the year. A full review will appear shortly.

By: eric99

eric99 — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:53:06 +0000

Wow! A handful of good releases here.

By: LedMan

LedMan — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:45:07 +0000

For Dylan fans I’ve heard several samples of the release mentioned above and it’s either a very clean soundboard or possibly a multi track source. Either way I jumped on this and my copy ships on Monday!!!

By: aleebee

aleebee — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:27:56 +0000

Mine is on its way, Cham, so I’ll be able to let you know. Certainly the ‘Fire’ tape, whilst clearly soundboard, was not of a low generation, I agree.

By: chambau

chambau — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:09:37 +0000

Has anyone gotten this new Rainbow Outrage? I used to own the previous release of the same show (FIRE). Though it’s a SBD, I didn’t like its sound. Would like to know if the sound improvement made it’s worth it.

By: aleebee

aleebee — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:11:49 +0000

PS (sorry!). The Mar 14th show was also released on video in Japan, and some of the soundtracks likely come from that, rather than the LD.

By: aleebee

aleebee — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:09:07 +0000

The 4CD Rainbow set ‘The End’ (Darker Than Blue 082/083/084/085) had Tokyo Mar 13th 1984 as the first 2 CDs. SQ is what I’d grade as Ex- (vocals and guitar fine, bass a little low), and I wonder if this is new DTB title is a straight reissue of those two discs.

The second 2 CDs of ‘The End’ are from the following night, in slightly lesser SQ, which is largely redundant to most of us as it was a Japanese laserdisc and the soundtrack has appeared on STTP’s ‘Japan Tour 1984′ (and several CDRs, which are not copies of STTP).