Judas Priest July 31, 1980 Stanley Theatre Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States British Steel Tour
1. Hell Bent for Leather 2. The Ripper 3. Running Wild 4. Living After Midnight 5. Sinner 6. Beyond the Realms of Death 7. You Don't Have to Be Old to Be Wise 8. Grinder 9. Victim of Changes 10. Steeler 11. Genocide (incomplete) 12. Tyrant 13. The Green Manalishi
Total length: 77:44
Lineage: low-gen cassette tape -> Denon DRM44HX dual capstan tape deck -> Audacity 2.1.1 for recording -> FLAC -> Sent to me via WeTransfer -> Audacity 2.1.1 for track splitting, channel balancing and other edits -> WAV -> Trader's Little Helper -> FLAC level 8 (align on sector boundaries with fix) -> DimeADozen
From the collection of Ericfg; track splitting and other edits by Nuppiz (aka The Finnish Ripper/The Priest's Boot).
LINEUP:
Rob Halford (vocals) Glenn Tipton (guitars) K. K. Downing (guitars) Ian Hill (bass) Dave Holland (drums)
I was recently contacted by a bootleg trader called Ericfg who has a sizeable collection of Judas Priest bootleg tapes he's collected since the 1980s and now wants to share them with the rest of the world. The deal is that instead of sending tapes or CDs back and forth, he digitizes the tapes at home and then sends the raw, unedited recordings to me by WeTransfer to which I apply whatever edits I see fit and then get them out to the rest of the bootleg world. No EQing by the way, I've learned my lesson from some previous uploads. Just track splitting, volume balancing and tape speed corrections if needed.
The third show in this series is an excellent quality audience recording from the British Steel US Tour. The audio is very clean and all instruments and vocals are clearly audible, and the audio balance feels very good even without any EQing applied. This is obviously a very low-gen copy given the high fidelity of the recording, there's very little hiss (if any) and none of the "boominess" which is characteristic to higher-gen copies of audience bootlegs. Unfortunately the recording is incomplete, as a pretty sizeable chunk of Genocide is missing. The audio cuts in the middle of the extended solos and only returns for the very ending of the track. I patched a tape flip during Victim of Changes, which obviously wasn't there in the master recording as the exact same audio was repeated in the fade-out and fade-in, so I simply had to cut and splice the audio at the correct spot and boost the volume a bit to make one continous track. Besides this the only edits I made were splitting the show into individual tracks and balancing the audio channels.
My bootleg list is here, if you want something else uploaded or can share something I don't have yet: http://nuppiz.webs.com/lossless-bootleg-list. I'm especially interested in any audio and pro-shot video from the 1970s to 1991.
British Steeler
1 CD 1 Audience low-gen cassette tape -> Denon DRM44HX dual capstan tape deck -> Audacity 2.1.1 for recording -> FLAC -> Sent to me via WeTransfer -> Audacity 2.1.1 for track splitting, channel balancing and other edits -> WAV -> Trader's Little Helper -> FLAC level 8 (align on sector boundaries with fix) -> DimeADozen FLAC 1:17:46 EX
