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johnfowles · 11-19-2012, 04:12 PM

Al all very interesting
Having found the requisite link
"Listen to Eric Clapton, ‘Looking at the Rain’"
at the bottom of the song review web page I clicked it with considerable trepidation because this is one of my most favourite Gordsongs and one with a personal and sad connotation from my pivotal year 1972. Frankly I was afraid of what Clapton would do to it because he is not one of my favourite singers by a long way (most of his output I find bland and monotonous with the notable exception of "Layla" by Eric's group Derek and the Dominoes of which one member was Jim Gordon Gord's pre Barry Keane session drummer who played on several albums)
However I found that Eric's cover was very acceptable and decided I would like to save it for possible future use on a "covers" CD project.In the past I have used the line in recording function of MusicMatch JukeBox for such a task (including ripping/digitising from audio cassette tapes or vinyl LPs). but my current netbook setup does not yet have MusicMatch installed
I initially toyed with following the steps used by Ron Meason's son to record the streaming Wolfgang's Vault Fillmore West recording from 1968 see
the web page at::-
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/gordon...r-05-1968.html
　
and the two related corfid threads at
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread...light=wolfgang
and
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread...light=wolfgang
that thread included a tutorial by Ron's son in which he had advocated the program mp3mymp3,but instead of downloading that program I decided to ask Mr Google for advice and found there was a most suitable item listed on a web page on the "Tech Support Alert" website of one of my favourite internet benefactors (Gizmo Edwards) at:-
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...a-recorder.htm
That page helpfully states:-
Just as you can record streaming videos playing on your PC, you can also record audio streams playing through your PC speakers.
In fact there are several free and shareware programs designed specifically for this task but my favorite way of doing this is to use the record option which is available in the Audacity audio editor.
that page held a link to Audacity details on
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...r.htm#Audacity
"By using Audacity you not only can record streaming audio but edit it as well"
This suited me fine as I had already been successfully using Audacity to clean up the 1983 San Francisco bootleg, but I had not realised that it also had this built in recording function
that page had a download link to
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows
audacity-win-2.0.2.exe 20.8MB
and soon I had saved the Clapton track as a 33.9MB wav format file
Now I will be using Audacity to save that 1986 Fillmore West recording
(the original set of files that Ron posted the download links to have long since expired from the short term fileden file storage web site

Tracks: 18
Total Time: 58:06

I'm Not Saying 2:40
If I Could 4:05
Softly 3:09
Boss Man 2:24
Black Day in July 4:12
Cold Hands From New York 5:23
Walls 2:20
Affair on 8th Avenue 3:32
Steel Rail Blues 3:10
Long Thin Dawn 2:45
Rosanna 2:39
Mountain and Marian 4:01
Early Morning Rain 3:05
The Auctioneer 2:28
Unsettled Ways 2:13
Unknown 0:33
Pussywillows, Cat-Tails 2:50
Canadian Railroad Trilogy 6:37

11-19-2012, 04:12 PM	#5
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,847	Re: Clapton's 1977 cover of "LOOKING AT THE RAIN" is released Al all very interesting Having found the requisite link "Listen to Eric Clapton, ‘Looking at the Rain’" at the bottom of the song review web page I clicked it with considerable trepidation because this is one of my most favourite Gordsongs and one with a personal and sad connotation from my pivotal year 1972. Frankly I was afraid of what Clapton would do to it because he is not one of my favourite singers by a long way (most of his output I find bland and monotonous with the notable exception of "Layla" by Eric's group Derek and the Dominoes of which one member was Jim Gordon Gord's pre Barry Keane session drummer who played on several albums) However I found that Eric's cover was very acceptable and decided I would like to save it for possible future use on a "covers" CD project.In the past I have used the line in recording function of MusicMatch JukeBox for such a task (including ripping/digitising from audio cassette tapes or vinyl LPs). but my current netbook setup does not yet have MusicMatch installed I initially toyed with following the steps used by Ron Meason's son to record the streaming Wolfgang's Vault Fillmore West recording from 1968 see the web page at::- http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/gordon...r-05-1968.html 　 and the two related corfid threads at http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread...light=wolfgang and http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread...light=wolfgang that thread included a tutorial by Ron's son in which he had advocated the program mp3mymp3,but instead of downloading that program I decided to ask Mr Google for advice and found there was a most suitable item listed on a web page on the "Tech Support Alert" website of one of my favourite internet benefactors (Gizmo Edwards) at:- http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...a-recorder.htm That page helpfully states:- Just as you can record streaming videos playing on your PC, you can also record audio streams playing through your PC speakers. In fact there are several free and shareware programs designed specifically for this task but my favorite way of doing this is to use the record option which is available in the Audacity audio editor. that page held a link to Audacity details on http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...r.htm#Audacity "By using Audacity you not only can record streaming audio but edit it as well" This suited me fine as I had already been successfully using Audacity to clean up the 1983 San Francisco bootleg, but I had not realised that it also had this built in recording function that page had a download link to http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows audacity-win-2.0.2.exe 20.8MB and soon I had saved the Clapton track as a 33.9MB wav format file Now I will be using Audacity to save that 1986 Fillmore West recording (the original set of files that Ron posted the download links to have long since expired from the short term fileden file storage web site Tracks: 18 Total Time: 58:06 I'm Not Saying 2:40 If I Could 4:05 Softly 3:09 Boss Man 2:24 Black Day in July 4:12 Cold Hands From New York 5:23 Walls 2:20 Affair on 8th Avenue 3:32 Steel Rail Blues 3:10 Long Thin Dawn 2:45 Rosanna 2:39 Mountain and Marian 4:01 Early Morning Rain 3:05 The Auctioneer 2:28 Unsettled Ways 2:13 Unknown 0:33 Pussywillows, Cat-Tails 2:50 Canadian Railroad Trilogy 6:37 Last edited by johnfowles; 11-19-2012 at 04:19 PM.