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= About The Album =
== About The Album ==


Live in Watford, 1974. A "strictly limited edition" bootleg put out by [[Wilkinson Archives]], WILK014. If anyone has more information, please let me know.
Live in Watford, 1974. A "strictly limited edition" bootleg put out by [[Wilkinson Archives]], WILK014.
 
I heard from a guy who says he taped this show -- and his tape is likely the source of this CD:
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"I've not seen or heard the CD, but if it's from my tape, it's not going to be much good.  The recording was made on a Decca Legato portable cassette machine with a cheap moving coil microphone on a horrid Audio Magnetics C120 cassette.  It suffers from compressed dynamics, limited frequency range, some overload distortion and a fair bit of hiss, but is still quite listenable.  I think all circulating copies must come from a cassette to cassette dub I made many years ago, because I can't remember giving it to anyone else.
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"Watford Town Hall has a world-renowned acoustic and is often used for orchestral recording, but as a rock venue, it's terrible.  It's a big, aircraft hangar of a place and the further you are from the stage, the worse the sound.  The 1974 Gentle Giant show was a standing-only gig; there were no seats, so I was able to position myself in a good place, more or less stage centre, maybe twelve rows from the front.  However, the limitations in the equipment I used at the time and the shortcomings of the venue's acoustics conspired to create a less than perfect audio record.  But, as I say, it's quite listenable.
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== Track List ==
== Track List ==

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