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Artist: | IQ |
Title: | Leap Of Faith |
Date: | February 19th 1994 |
Venue: | The Cabaret, San Jose, California, USA |
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Personnel | |
| Paul Cook | Drums & Percussion |
| Mike Holmes | Guitars |
| John Jowitt | Bass Guitars & Backing Vocals |
| Peter Nicholls | Lead Vocals |
| Martin Orford | Keyboards & Backing Vocals |
To anyone who did not know better, the evening of 19th February 1994 was just another date on the calendar, just another band playing at The Cabaret in San Jose, CA. But to progressive music fans, this was a feast, a not-to-be-missed event. IQ were in town, making only their second appearance on North American soil in their 12-year history. Despite signing to Phonogram in the mid-1980s, IQ had never really been given the necessary promotion and financial backing to enable them to take their music around the world. But thanks to a great deal of hard work, they were now starting to attract many new fans on this side of the Atlantic.
Radio stations such as KOME-FM in San Jose, California, and local record stores in the Bay area and other regions were helping European progressive rock bands like IQ by promoting their imported albums. The result was the slow but steady development of a growing fan base here in North America.
It was on the strength of IQ's recorded musical output and their solid reputation as a great live act that they were invited to headline the Progfest event in Los Angeles in 1993. So impressive was the band's performance that, less than a year later, they found themselves returning to the USA. The Cabaret in San Jose was the venue for their second American concert. Fans travelled from all over the country to see IQ live. Let us get a flavour of the evening through the words of a fan who was there:
From someone who wasn't there - You're dead on target, Hank !
PRRP Staff
This show has an excellent 1st generation source. It came from a member of our PRRP yahoo group who was actually at the performance. The recording was made with excellent equipments too. The interview segment was recorded off of the radio when it was broadcast the day after the concert. This segment was also 1st generation as a source.
Viable music signal and harmonics were detected all the way up to 15,000 Hz. Hiss was reduced throughout the show as it was distracting during the quiet sections of the show. The performance was given in a “cocktail lounge” as IQ's lead singer Peter Nicholls points out. This results in some wonderful acoustics but also caused substantial excess bass which needed to be reduced. A channel volume asymmetry was detected with the left channel always lagging the right. This was fixed. A few clicks, crackles and pops were filtered as well.
The radio broadcast sections also had hiss that needed reduced and some excess bass that needed adjustment. Also, there was a high pitched flutter during the interview that needed to be removed by a selective filter. Since this section consists of both interview and songs we decided to track each segment separately for easy reference.