notes

This is a great-to-excellent recording of Boston's show 26 years ago tonight in Canada. This show comes as a 2 CD recording of the 1988-12-10 Winnipeg concert and 1 DVD-R of their 1988-12-07 Hamilton, Ontario concert in its original release. But unfortunately I was only able to get the 2 CD part of the show at the time I found it on a Japanese website (and I don't know how to read Japanese). I used a translator, which years ago did not work as well as many today do, and I believe the only thing being shared at the time was the 2 CD set.

But wait! The story doesn't end there. The locating and acquiring of the 2 CD part of the boot release long ago did not wind up being the end thankfully. Years later, I was able to come across the 1988-12-07 DVD from Hamilton too. And it is really great quality for being an audience shot video from 26 years ago. I may upload it if there is any interest in it. But I'm not uploading it with this 1988-12-10 Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 CD set today.

LINEAGE:
Japanese website > me > Audacity (to remove embedded Japanese text unreadable by TLH) > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness and align sector boundaries) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed English metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

As I mentioned, the boot label release of this show was part of a two dates, CD and DVD-R release. So the artwork has both dates listed in the setlist on the back.

This is really a great capture of both shows (the DVD and 2 CD dates). And there are some really rare songs played too. I cannot recall, other than a few nights earlier and on the DVD-R, where or when Boston may have played the song "Hitch A Ride" before? I don't think they played this one live during their 1970's touring at all. I could be wrong, but I do know for sure it is a rarely played track if it had been played at all before 1988.

I hope you enjoy the show...

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