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LDB Vintage Series #085

Hi there! After closing both my Master and Special series I took a break from seeding, enjoying life and most of all
preparing for a new series! This is not going to be as frequent as my previous ones, I'll be seeding shows from time
to time so don't expect massive volumes here.

Why a "vintage" series? Because music in the 70's and 80's was really something...so different, so special with "that" kind
of sound which you don't find anymore. That was the era of real music without the internet, of long tours and enjoyable live
shows spanning from metal to new wave, progressive, jazz, fusion, pop. So many bands were born and disappeared during those
two decades.

I am then celebrating the 70's and the 80's and their unmistakeable sound in this LDB Vintage Series. You will find many bands
I have never seeded in the past but that I still enjoy listening to. Most of these come from low generation tapes that were traded
around that period, many radio broadcasts and overall lots of surprises.

ARK
Puteaux, Theatre du Navire
May 20, 1989

01 Black Day
02 Calling You Now (1st time live)
03 Lark (incl. Band Introduction)
04 Unknown Track
05 Nowhere's Ark 
06 Through the Night
07 Boudicca's Chariot 
08 Instrumental (fades out)

TT: 50'24"

Lineage: Soundboard > 2nd generation tape > Aiwa Tape Deck TC-WE475 > Audiophile 2496 Soundblaster > HD > 
SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6)

Anthony Short  - vocals, flute
Steve Harris  - synth-guitars
Pete Wheatley - lead guitar
Richard Deane - drums
John Jowitt - bass 

This will be a mini-series of shows from some famous and more obscure bands from the "new wave of progressive rock", also called
"new prog". This came from the early 80's from bands that took as a model the progressive rock movement of the 1970's in the likes
of Genesis, Jethro Tull, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, VDGG and many more. These bands had a complete rejection towards punk rock but
were somehow influenced by the upcoming new wave movement with the advent of new technologies and visual look which seemed to come
together very well with "art rock" movement of the 70's. For many of them, symphonic rock was the reference (Genesis) with lots of
keyboards and mellotrons, but others were more influenced by New Wave, others were more metal-oriented. You will hear some of them
in this series:

Marillion
IQ
Pendragon
Pallas
Twelfth Night
Solstice
Quasar
and a few others

This is uncirculated. A nice soundboard show from Ark's first show outside UK. Puteaux is a little town just outside Paris and since
the organiser lived there, he found a venue where the band could play. John Jowitt left the band shortly after to join IQ and later 
Jadis and Arena. The band opened for IQ in June 89. This show was in support of their debut album "The Dreams of Mr Jones". I believe
that is not the entire show but this is all I have unfortunately.

Enjoy!

ldb