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Posted by: Tigerman May 27 2005, 11:16 PM

SEPTEMBER 2, 1973 Midnight Show, Las vegas Hilton hotel.
Sound format: pro Audience

01 ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA
02 SEE SEE RIDER
03 I GOT A WOMAN / AMEN
04 LOVE ME
05 STEAMROLLER BLUES
06 YOU GAVE ME A MOUNTAIN
07 TROUBLE
08 LONG TALL SALLY / WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' GOIN' ON /
09 MAMA DON'T DANCE / FLIP, FLOP & FLY / HOUND DOG
10 LOVE ME TENDER
11 FEVER
12 BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
13 SUSPICIOUS MINDS
14 BAND INTRODUCTIONS
15 MY BOY
16 I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU
17 AN AMERICAN TRILOGY
18 THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE
19 MYSTERY TRAIN / TIGER MAN
20 HOW GREAT THOU ART
21 A BIG HUNK O' LOVE
22 RELEASE ME
23 WHAT NOW MY LOVE
24 CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE

Posted by: Gordon Jun 20 2005, 02:17 PM

i love this show...recording is a bit too fast but i still like it alot...some thought it was a soundboard...but it is not as you can hear the audience very clearly.

Posted by: stefan Jun 20 2005, 04:19 PM

@ Gordon, these shows (among them cd 1 of the 1st Profile Box (August 20th 1973 MS) were recorded by RCA with two microphones in the showroom connected to the soundboard. Technicaly you could call them "professional audience recording). As Ernst has stated many times that most of the shows they have from the Jan/Feb '74 engagement are "audiance recordings" I suspect they were recorded the same way.

Luckaly Elvis's own soundengineers recorded also on normal soundboard, which gave us the recording from Elvis's Closing Show.

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Back to this show. This is by far my favorite and certainly the best show I heard from this engagement. Elvis's often gave the best shows the day before he closed. This show is simply superb and could be a candidate for my next review.

Posted by: Gordon Jun 20 2005, 09:35 PM

i was thinking of reviewing this show also ...actually i thought i had already done it...but i'll leave it up to you Stefan

....and thanks for clearing that thing about the sound too!

Posted by: Brad Mar 27 2006, 02:38 AM

I got this cd like 2 days ago and I was very impressed. Great songs espically the oldies that he did, and a great "SteamRollerBlues".

Posted by: Scott Haigh 781990EP Mar 27 2006, 08:32 AM

Stefan, thanks for that interesting fact that i never knew. were there other occasions this happened?

Posted by: TheKing Apr 6 2006, 03:06 PM

Great show - speed so fast it sounds like Mickey Mouse on [img]style_emoticons/default/laughing1.gif[/img] helium

Posted by: TheKing Apr 6 2006, 03:07 PM

Of course you can re record the CD to correct the speed.

Posted by: stefan Apr 6 2006, 07:40 PM

Scott, I don't know/ I suspect they did the same with the January/February '74 shows. Perhaps they were only intended for recording audience sounds. I for one really like the sound of those recordings (disc 1 of the 1st Profile set is basically a perfect stereo audience recording), as for me they give us more of a"true" sound than regular soundboards.