Patti Lupone At Les Mouches - Distortion

I just downloaded this from iTunes. Does everyone else have distortion (pops and skips) during Because the Night and Everything I Am?

Updated On: 11/11/08 at 08:59 PM

I think that's why he's asking, and not just assuming that it's a defective download.

Besides which, it's not a studio album, or even a live concert recording, from 1980. It's a soundboard capture. There's no telling what the "master" really sounds like..........

Mine has all kinds of skips and jumps from "Downtown" (just one there) through "Everything I Am". I even got a replacement CD from Sh-K-Boom and it seems to have the same problems.

Sheesh, sorry.

Still worth it, but the sound defects should be disclosed prior to purchase.

my CD is fine. I didn't notice any distortions of any kind.


oh, and the CD booklet ALONE is worth the price of the CD.

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Updated On: 11/11/08 at 10:11 PM

ok, so its better to get the cd itself vs itunes??!
whats in the booklet?!
im so excited now!

The pops can be heard on the iTunes 30-second sample -- Track 12: Everything I Am (Live).

It sounds exactly like a dirty/scratched CD. If this transfer was made from a messed-up CD, they should have gone to the original tape source... which I'm sure doesn't have this issue.

I'd be more thankful if they released Krtizter's version. Her voice is DEVINE.

>Keep in mind that there probably isn't a master in existence or no one can trace it.<

This CD was made possible due to Patti's Les Mouches musical director, David Lewis, who kept masters of the cabaret act. I think he's listed as co-producer or something like that on this release. Anyway, I did see Patti at Les Mouches the night before she won her "Evita" Tony. Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice were in the audience that night as well. I'm really looking forward to reliving some terrific memories.

I don't love all of her song choices. "Heaven is a Disco" is sort of like a bad acid trip. Has a critic already said that already? Sorry. HOWEVER...The energy, the feeling, the youthfulness and the orgasmic verison of "Rainbow High" more than make up for that. Would it be hyperbolic to call this the Judy at Carnegie Hall of the Me generaiton?
I do have to say that on my bootleg that I've had for sometime, she takes "Rainbow High" in a higher key, but why carp that it wasn't picked for this release? Both versions are thrilling.
I love her little tribute to Sondheim at the end. Little did she know her wish would come true.

My Cd sounds fine. Anything out of the ordinary (at one point you can hear the tape "bend") I attribute to it being basically a souped up bootleg.

Patti is amazing. The fact that about an hour+ after she sang one of the most demanding musical theatre roles, that she'd go out and sing that show is an amazing accomplishment. It's so raw and she holds NOTHING back. The piano sounds like crap (not the playing - the actual piano) and the arrangements are unusual, but what a show. You can see some of her Patti-isms are already fully formed by this point. The broad Garlandesque slides down from higher pitches, the occassional loss of diction when belting really high - but she is totally committed to the material and is really going for it.

This album may not be to everyone's taste, but it's pretty thrilling to have captured this moment for all time. so brash, brave, bold. Our current roster of stars don't get to be this free anymore (with a few execeptions).

enjoy the disc!

How cute are the pictures in the booklet? I love the one of Patti's mom and The Merm.

Updated On: 11/12/08 at 06:21 PM