Boston Music Hall - April 26, 1974

[crobarbie]

Wow, what did I found on The Traders' Den

www.thetradersden.org/index.php?

(first you have to sign up!)

after you log in go to

www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=48982&highlight=stevens

and you'll be able to download torrent for April 26, 1974 Boston Music Hall concert... good quality, 80 minutes (20 songs)

There is also info about this concert on Majicat

majicat.com/recordings/boston1974.htm

Great discovery! (but only for those with high speed internet, because you'll have to download cca 500 Mb !!!

[Vivian]

Sounds like a GEM of a find, but DARN, I can't download!!! I am really curious about "SUNNYSIDE"!!!

Peace,Vivian

[crobarbie]

Well, first you'll have to download a small torrent file, but aftre that you also need some P2P programme installed on your computer (like Azureus for example) and download the music file with it... and one more thing, this is not a MP3 download but much more quality format called "flac", so you'll also need one player which can reproduce flac music files

[crobarbie]

"SUNNYSIDE" is a part of Foreigner suite ;D ... those who have "Saturnight" concert from Japan maybe could imagine what this set sounds like (arrangements etc), but form me this one from Boston is much better... more energy... even better sound

[Deleted]

Wow, I already got both "Boston Music Hall" shows on CDs, this one and the Majikat one (02/27/76). These are VERY VERY rare, or at least this one was, up to now. Sound quality is amazing on both but especially the Majikat show. I highly recommend them!!

[ladyluvssummer]

Ok...I signed up but can't figure out how to download it. Help Glaucus!!

[Deleted]

As Crobarbie said, it's a torrent file. You basically need two programs here. First a "peer to peer" program. Try downloading and installing utorrent:

download.utorrent.com/1.7.5/utorrent.exe

Once installed, go back to the Trader's Den and click on the attached file which reads:

cat stevens 1974-04-26 boston flacTD.torrent

and save the file on your desktop. Double click on it, it will open in utorrent with a dialog box, click OK and it will start downloading the concert.

You will also need a program to convert the files from flac to wav, may I suggest "Trader's litlle Helper" which you can download here:

tlh.easytree.org/files/tralih11190.exe

I'll leave it at that for now, it's a lot to absorb for someone who never used peer2peer. I'll try to post more later.

[ladyluvssummer]

Thank you, Glaucus. I appreciate all the time you spent on responding to my plea for help. I feel like such a dork!

[ladyluvssummer]

I did it!!!!! All I needed was the right tools. Thanks, Glaucus.

Took me a while to figure it out but I just guessed & picked convert. Then I couldn't find the converted files but then did a Windows search for files created today & bingo. Then all I did was right click on each one & added to my Windows Media library.

Now I'm ready to go Christmas shopping with my new CD in hand. ;D I'm just as pleased as punch.

Thanks again!!!
Phyl

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ladyluvssummer said:

I did it!!!!! All I needed was the right tools. Thanks, Glaucus.

You're welcomed! and congratulations, that's pretty good with only partial and general info on torrent/peer2peer.

Enjoy the concert!

[ladyluvssummer]

Did I detect an electric guitar on Bitterblue?

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ladyluvssummer said:

Did I detect an electric guitar on Bitterblue?

The electric guitar of Mr Jim Creegan! Well he's the one playing it on the Saturnight concert (Tokyo 74), as introduced by Cat.

[ladyluvssummer]

wonders if there's anything "Cat" Glaucus doesn't know

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I know half.... Vivian knows the other half!

Oh and Daddy-O knows the third half !!

[m@kansascity]

great concert

[Vivian]

glaucus said:

I know half.... Vivian knows the other half!

Oh and Daddy-O knows the third half !!

LOL, Who knows the forth half?

Peace,Vivian

[ladyluvssummer]

I'm thinking Christine or maybe Suzie Q?