Van Halen
Selland Arena
Fresno, CA
March 25, 1979

Lineage: AUD>1st gen cass>Sony tape deck>TDK standalone burner>CDR(2)>EAC(secure/offset)>WAV>FLAC(level 5)
Quality: A

Total Time: 76:55

1. Light Up The Sky 4:00
2. Somebody Get Me A Doctor 2:55
3. Drum Solo / Runnin' With The Devil 4:00
4. Dance The Night Away 4:15
5. Beautiful Girls 3:22
6. On Fire 4:35
7. Bass Solo / You're No Good 4:49
8. Feel Your Love Tonight 8:26
9. Outta Love Again 3:55
10. Ice Cream Man 5:58
11. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love 6:25
12. Guitar Solo 3:32
13. D.O.A. 4:31
14. You Really Got Me 9:20
15. Bottoms Up! 6:49

Notes:
This is the same kind of deal as Fresno 9/5/82. Different transfer of the same first gen tape I torrented in 2004. Like the first Fresno '82 there were a couple of errors, and the transfer was done by a different person. This one is digital error free, done with a standalone and tracked with a standalone. It also sounds a little better in my opinion. There are two tiny gaps. The first is at the very beginning of "Outta Love Again" (track 9) which is on the tape, and runs from about 0.30 seconds to 1.70 seconds in that track. The second is between tracks 10 and 11 for a tape flip. This is how it came out on the standalone, and you only have one chance to get things right or else you have to do the whole tape over again on a standalone. I just don't feel like playing around with it on Soundforge and having to re-shift all the sector boundaries on all the tracks to make things still error-free.

This is a verified 1st generation copy, and one of the best quality 1979 recordings. The only thing better than this copy would be the master tape, which I've never seen on anyone's list. Please THROW OUT every other copy of this, including my 2004 torrent. Please THROW OUT your tapes unless you have a different source. Please, once and for all, THROW OUT "Live and Loud" and "On Fire in Fresno" and never mention them again. Sorry about the confusion to the trading pool, but this is now the standard for this show, and there shouldn't be any more confusion.

Thanks to M.P. for the tape transfer.

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