Category Archives: Music News

10.5 GB Bootleg upload

I am currently in the process of crab_radio_01sending a huge upload of concert bootlegs to the server.  See what happens when I get a day off from work?  😉  This should include everything that I have broadcasted on Happy Hour – CRAB Radio Live since the beginning of the year and more.  Within the next day or two, these concerts ought to appear in the playlist after the playlist gets automatically rewritten.  Here are the bootlegs that are being added:

4 Non Blondes – 1993-11-11 – Milano, Italy
ACDC – 1978-10-30 – Nijemgen, Holland FM
ACDC – 1979-09-08 – Warnors Theatre, Fresno
ACDC – 1979-11-12 – No Stop Signs – Amsterdam
Bad Company – 1976 – Live Albuquerque
Bad Company – 1979-06-29 -Capital Centre, Landover
Black Sabbath – 1974-02-21 – Providence
Black Sabbath 1980-11-16 Tokyo – Evil in the Evening
Black Sabbath 1980.11.18 The Day Of Tony’s Illness – Tokyo
Blue Oyster Cult – 1980-09-08 – KSAN FM Live Broadcast
Blue Oyster Cult – 1981-12-15 – Country Club Reseda
Boston – 1976-09-27 – Agora Ballroom
BTO – 1984-07-01- Harpo’s, Detroit, MI
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – 1969-12-14 – Detroit 12.14.1969
Deep Purple – 1991-08-21 – Sao Paulo, Brazil (Slaves And Kings – BFOC)
Deep Purple.- 1991-08-21 – Sao Paulo Brasil
Delta Moon – 2005-08-27 – Live Smith’s Old Bar, Atlanta Ga, August 27, 2005
Delta Moon – 2011-05-04 – Live Wendelstein Germany 2011-05-04
Foghat – 1974 – WPLR FM Dallas, TX
Foghat – 1976 – KBFH
Foghat – 1980-07-18 – Chicago
Foghat – 1981 – International Amphitheater, Chicago
Girlschool – 1982-05-06 – Glasgow
Girlschool – 1984-01-12 – King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents
Grand Funk – 1982-09-06 – What_s_Funk_Lives
Grand Funk Railroad – 1971-12-07 – Live at University of Hawaii (12.07.1971)
Grand Funk Railroad – 1972 -12-23 – Madison Square Garden 110K
Grand Funk Railroad – 1972-12-23 – Madison Square Garden 320K
Grand Funk Railroad – 1972-12-23 – In Concert Madison Square Garden (1972.12.23)
Grand Funk Railroad – 1972-12-23 – In Concert MSG 224K
Heart – 1978-03-18 – California Jam II
Heart – 1979-01-26 Burn to the Wick – Passaic NJ
Heart – 1979-08-04-05 Heart & Soul – Kanagawa
Jimi Hendrix – Hilton Hotel, Washington, 10 March 1968 (CD & Covers)
Judas Priest – 1981-06-21 – Breaking The Law
Judas Priest – 1983-12-17 – Dortmund Germany
Kiss – 1976-09-06 – Toronto, Canada 1976
Led Zeppelin – 1970-03-21 – Pure Blues
Led Zeppelin – 1973-01-22 – Live At Southampton University
Led Zeppelin – 1980-06-22 – Conquer Europe
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Pat Travers Band – 1980-04-30 – Detroit, Michigan 04.30.1980
Pat Travers Band – 1980-05-25 – San Francisco
Pat Travers Band – 1982 – Nassau Coliseum
Pink Floyd – 1968.06.25 – My Uncle Is Sick Because The Highway Is Green
Pink Floyd – 1971.10.17 – Wind And Seabirds – San Diego
Pink Floyd – 1972 – The Complete Rainbow Tapes 8CD set
Pink Floyd – 1977.07.06 – Roar Ends – Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Quebec
Pink Floyd – 1981.02.18 – The Sixth German Show – Dortmund – The Wall Live
Rainbow.- 1982 – Live Between The Eyes
Rush – 1978-11-20 – Brainwaves
Rush – 1980-02-11_13 – Saint Louis ’80 Remaster
Rush – 1992-06-14 – Because It Happens
Scorpions – 1993-10-16 – Munich (FM Broadcast Master)
The Runaways – 1976 – ForeverLost – Palladium NY
The Runaways – 1976-07-16 – Live at The Agora 1976
The Runaways – 1978-01-07 – Wasted – The Palladium New York 1978
The Who – 1989-06-27 – Tommy at Radio City Music Hall
Triumph – 1979-08-19 – Chicago 79
Triumph – 1982 – Ottawa82
Triumph – 1984-04-10 – Precious Metal Virtuoso (Dallas84)
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Wolfmother – 2005-10-15 – Rising Sun – Auckland, New Zealand
Wolfmother – 2011-06-03 – Nurburgring Germany
ZZ Top – 2008-07-18 – Rot Hod Twingo

** I know that I’ve added a few Grand Funk MSG bootlegs.  They are all the same date, but have different coverart and bitrates. **

(Stay tuned for more additions)  😉

Massive New Year bootleg upload

Happy New Year!  What better way to ring in the new year, but with even more bootlegs.  I just uploaded these to the server:

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38 Special – 1981 – Muzzle Flash
38 Special – 1984 – Dallas
Alice Cooper – 1973-05-11 – Forum, Los Angeles, CA
Alice Cooper – 1975-06-17 – KBFH – Los Angeles Forum
Alice Cooper – 1975-06-17 – KBFH – Los Angeles Forum cut
Alice Cooper – 1980-06-04 El Paso
April Wine – 1982.09.24 – Power Play In Cedar Rapids
Black Sabbath – 1974.04.06 – Live at the California Jam
Blue Oyster Cult – 1981-06-18 – The Thing – NY
Blue Oyster Cult – 1988-03-26 – The Cabaret
Blue Oyster Cult – 2008-06-07 – Sweden Rock Festival
Blue Oyster Cult – 2012-12-17 – iHeart RadioNY
Boston – 1977-03-19 – King Biscuit Flower Hour
Boston – 1987-08-24 – The Journey Into Centrum
Canned Heat – 1972 – WBCN Studios Boston Disc 1
Canned Heat – 1972 – WBCN Studios Boston Disc 2
Dokken-Girlschool – 1984-02-26 – King Biscuit Flower Hour
Foreigner – 1978 – Philadelphia
Free – 1970 – Isle of Wight & Stockholm
Free – 1971-01-22 – Rock Me Stealer – Santa Monica
Golden Earring – 1989 – Den Haag Netherlands
Helloween – 1992 – Live In Koln 1992
Joan Jett – 1980.12.27 – Live at the Bottom Line NYC
Joan Jett – 1981.05.01 – Jett Lagg – Long Island, NY
Krokus – 1980-05-21 – In Session
Krokus – 1982-05 – My Fathers Place
Krokus – 1984 – Cobo Hall Detroit
Molly Hatchet – 1981 – Los Angeles
Ted Nugent – 1978.12.03 – Omaha NE
Ted Nugent – 1981 – Nugent Nuggets LA
The Runaways – 1976-07-19 – Live at The Agora
The Runaways – 1976.xx.xx – ForeverLost – Palladium NY and Oslo NO
The Runaways – 1978.01.07 – Wasted – The Palladium New York

And, don’t forget to tune in to Happy Hour – CRAB Radio Live Saturdays at 8 PM Eastern (ending around midnight)

 

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Direct URL:  http://204.45.126.170:8175/stream

Podcast Page;  CRAB Radio Live

Testing for upcoming Happy Hour broadcast.

Here is a screenshot of what I shall be using to broadcast to the Quackhouse Radio server starting Jan 2015 after a four-year hiatus.  The old Saturday Night Trifecta shall be resurrected as Happy Hour.  The new show will be broadcast on Saturday evening from 8PM – 12AM Eastern time starting with 3 Jan. 2015.

RadioBossplugins0This is the RadioBoss main window, running through a test run of the beginning of what will be the first return broadcast.

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Here, you see the RadioBOSS main window, which is mostly obscured except for the two main output plugins that I am using: Izotope Ozone 4 and ToneBoosters ReelBus.  They give excellent control over the broadcasted signal, including adding some analog tape effects to counteract the harshness of digital mp3s.  😉

One real problem that I noticed was with keying up the dynamic voice mic that I’m using for ‘voiceovers’.  There seemed to be a great deal of hiss and background noise.

RadioBossplugins2.jpgHere, you can see me setting up the VST plugins that I inserted into the mic chain.  On the top, is ToneBoosters De-esser, and below that is ToneBoosters Gate.  Not shown is the built in compressor that I set to -6dB.  To the left is the output plugin Ozone that you can see is 15dB down since the mic is keyed.  I think this is a winning combination, and after another test or two, I shall try to set up the podcast blog.

 

 

New bitrate and new radio show

crab_radio_01It seems that CRAB is always about one step behind our sister station, QUACKHOUSE Radio.  I have decided to push the bitrate and sampling frequency from 32/16 to 64/22.  This is all in preparation of the Saturday night radio show resuming.  This should happen just after New Year’s day.  The format will be similar to the Saturday Night Trifectas that ended in Jan 2010.  I shall try to set up a podcast blog page to allow you to listen to the shows ‘after the fact’.