George Harrison with Eric Clapton and his band – Days of Speed

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here is the info file from Dime

George Harrison w/Eric Clapton and his band
Yokohama Arena
Kanagawa, Japan
December 1, 1991

Lineage: Unknown (from another tracker)

Title: “Days of Speed” (MidValley MV 137/138)

Track listing:

Disc one (69:45):
(1) I Want To Tell You (5:07)
(2) Old Brown Shoe (3:51)
(3) Taxman (4:23)
(4) Give Me Love (3:52)
(5) If I Needed Someone (4:05)
(6) Something (5:03)
(7) Fish on the Sand (3:35)
(8) Love Comes To Everyone (4:24)
(9) What Is Life (4:58)
(10) Dark Horse (4:26)
(11) Piggies (2:57)
(12) Pretending (6:35)
(13) Old Love (9:45)
(14) Badge (6:38)

Disc two (64:59):
(1) Wonderful Tonight (9:00)
(2) Got My Mind Set On You (5:08)
(3) Cloud Nine (4:43)
(4) Here Comes The Sun (3:20)
(5) My Sweet Lord (5:56)
(6) All Those Years Ago (5:05)
(7) Cheer Down (4:37)
(8) Devil’s Radio (4:49)
(9) Isn’t It A Pity (8:01)
(10) While My Guitar Gently Weeps (6:43)
(11) Roll Over Beethoven (7:33)
Checksum file and artwork are included.

Comments:

This is the first date of the brief (two-week) Japanese tour George Harrison undertook with Eric Clapton and his touring band in late 1991; as nearly everyone knows, this would mark his final series of live appearances aside from a charity gig in London a few months later. The performance is solid throughout; the band sounded well-rehearsed and professional and based on this recording one could never sense George’s well-known aversion to performing live. The setlist is identical throughout the tour, and a great mix of Beatles and solo material (with a brief EC showcase in the middle of the set). For those who have never heard one of these shows, it’s worth picking up.

The recording is pretty good — nearly all of the Japanese recordings are great — and Mid Valley did a good job with this release. The only flaw is that there is a fair amount of crowd noise evident between songs — to be honest, I don’t know if the audience mars any of the music itself, but the taper was apparently in the midst of an enthusiastic crowd that cheered a lot between songs. From what I’ve heard, the audience shouldn’t interfere with one’s enjoyment of the show.

This has been seeded at least twice on DIME and most recently on the Zomb; each has been from the same file set that unfortunately had two-second gaps between songs. I felt this set merited a cleaner copy in circulation, so removed gaps from all files. Otherwise, these files are identical to previous editions of this boot presented on DIME. (I also created a new fingerprint to match the new FLAC files.)