Peter Gabriel @ Montreal, Quebec 1978-10-15 (SB)

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Peter Gabriel
Le Forum
Montreal, Quebec
October 15, 1978
Soundboard Recording

JEMS Transfer: (likely) First-Generation Cassette > Nakamichi RX-505 azimuth-adjusted playback > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity 3.1 capture > iZotope RX10 Advanced and Ozone 9 > FLAC

01 On The Air
02 Moribund The Burgermeister
03 Perspective
04 Humdrum
05 A Wonderful Day In A One-Way World
06 White Shadow
07 D.I.Y.
08 Waiting For The Big One
09 Mother Of Violence
10 Flotsam And Jetsam
11 Slowburn
12 I Don't Remember
13 Solsbury Hill
14 Modern Love
15 The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
16 Here Comes The Flood

Known Faults: Missing first two songs "Me And My Teddy Bear" (sung in French) and "On Pressing To Be Modern," as well as "Exposure" and start of "Flotsam and Jetsam" cut due tape flip.

For those of us obsessed with tracking down rare live recordings, there's nothing quite like receiving a message that reads: "There's a guy in Northern California who used to tape shows with X and he was also friends with a sound engineer Y who used to do sound for Z, and he's got this box of cassettes he's been sitting on for 25 years."

Such was the case last year when JEMS learned of Michael "Beerman" and agreed to drive to his home in Northern California where a cache of rare tapes of Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel and others awaited.

Having made similar drives many times before, I knew not to get my hopes up too high. Sometimes it turns out to be exactly what was advertised, a collection of audience masters or otherwise lost recordings, but just as often if not more, what you hoped was there turns out to be something lesser: not master tapes, recordings of bootlegs, inferior copies, etc. But based on information Michael shared ahead of time, his box sounded promising and it has more than delivered on that promise.

This is the second previously unreleased Peter Gabriel soundboard recording from the Beerman collection. It seems Michael became friendly with someone who did FOH mixing for Gabriel and was able to copy several master tapes the engineer made from the board. They span 1977-82 and none appear to have turned up in collector's circles before.

The Montreal show falls near the halfway point of Gabriel's tour in support of his second solo album released in June 1978 and known colloquially as Scratch, reflecting the record's cover art. Like the first new soundboard tape in this series (Cardiff 1977 http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=803995), this is a very good recording that starts a bit uneven and smoothes out over time. The flat transfer didn't have a lot of low end, so we've attempted to rebalance in mastering. Samples provided. There is at least one audience tape of the full show in circulation to complement this capture.

The Montreal setlist runs deep with songs from Gabriel's first two solo records, along with "I Don't Remember," which would wind up on his third, and one cut from the Genesis years, "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway."

Special thanks to Michael "Beerman" for saving these tapes for so many years and graciously sharing them to us to transfer, as well as to Nuff & The Pink Floyd Research Group, Walrus and everyone who helped connect with Michael and liberate the tapes. Professor Goody handled pitch optimization and mjk5510 took care of post production.

BK for JEMS