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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Tom Waits - Rockpalast (1977)

Tom Waits - Rockpalast (1977)
English | 01:20:19 | FLV 294x240 | audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 44100Hz mono 96Kbps)
AVI | XVID 640x480 | 932Kbps| Dolby AC3 44100Hz stereo 191Kbps) | 264 & 647 MB
Performed by Tom Waits (vocal & piano), with Frank Vicari (tenor saxophone), Fitzgerald Jenkins (bass) & Chip White (drums).


This one's for estragon1, as promised & with thanks!

I got this one off of dailymotion some time back, as a 270 MB flash video, probably ripped from a VHS of the original broadcast. Although some parts have appeared at youtube by now as well, this full one seems to be gone for some time now, so that'll make a good excuse for dropping it here. Low quality, low fps, monaural .flv, and even out of sync a second or so, so what to do?
I tried various scenarios. In the end, I decided to stream the container content to avi, convert the video to 640x480 xvid, rip the mono audio, edit it in Audition as a wave (on dynamics and stereo channel mixing), and then join the new a/v in Premiere, this time in sync, and make a xvid/ac3 out of it, mostly because both xvid and ac3 have excellent rendition options through ffdshow: just fine-tune or adjust it the way you like it, even if it's a low quality vid. To be on the safe side, I'll post the original .flv alongside the edited .avi. You may want to check 'em out both.
As far as the performance is concerned: absolutely fascinating, great line up. The fact that the German audience doesn't seem to be very responsive to Waits' lyrics (probably due to language problems) just gives it all an extra edge.
Anyway, I hope you'll all appreciate the effort and enjoy this one. And remember: 'for fans by fans, and never for sale'.


Setlist:
1. Step right up
2. Invitation to the blues
3. Eggs and sausage
4. Depot depot
5. Jitterbug boy
6. Pasties and a G-string
7. Wish I was in New Orleans
8. Fumblin' with the blues
9. Semi suite
10. Emotional weather report
11. Bad liver and a broken heart
12. New coat of pain
13. Can't wait to get off work
14. The one that got away
15. Small change
16. Introduction of the band
17. Waltzing Matilda
18. Band exit

Performed by Tom Waits (vocal & piano), with Frank Vicari (tenor saxophone), Fitzgerald Jenkins (bass) & Chip White (drums).
Recorded live for the Rockpalast TV-show, at the WDR Studios in Köln, Germany, at April 18, 1977.

Packed each as a contiguous zip inside a multi-part 7z (access by default pass), limited at 100M, served by RS, redirected through tinyurl.

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