Steve Hillage – Live At Deeply Vale Festival '78

I assume this is an audience recording because it sounds like utter garbage. An unlistenable shame.

This is an interesting one for me, as I was actually at the gig! I went to all 3 Deeply Vale festivals, aged 16 to 18. This was in the middle and I remember how magical the whole experience was. I was a Gong/ Hillage fan at the time. It was the perfect hallucinatory trip for so many of us.
The recording is pants, but captures the essence of what was going down at the time.Beautifully packaged and signed by Chris Hewitt. For me, it’s a treasure.

Excellent music, mediocre bootleg quality recording, hissy pressing. With a dbx 3BX-DS I can tweak it into a solid listen. Only for completeists and hardcore fans. And to think that I paid $40 for this new. Yeah, I'm hardcore. ;)

I had looked forward to hearing this wonderful looking product with great anticipation, since clicking the 'Buy' button a couple of weeks before.
A colleague of mine was 'oohing' and 'ahhing' at the pretty vinyl as I eagerly unpacked the delivery, saying how she'd want to hang it on her wall. I'm afraid to say I looked at her rather sideways.
This evening I eagerly placed the first of the psychedelically coloured vinyls onto my turntable, but before I had the chance to sit back and immerse myself in a trip to 1977, I was back up again, examining my stylus to see if I had the remains of an old cardigan clinging to it. When it appeared all was well there, I then turned to my amplifier settings to see if I had inadvertently connected it to my next door neighbour's speakers instead of my own.
Then it struck me. It was my imagined scenario that was at fault.
It WAS in fact, just as though I was there in Deeply Vale, listening to the set from the safety of my tent two fields away with my sleeping bag wrapped round my head.
Or perhaps it could be just that the vinyl has been mastered from some badly degraded old tape recording, found festering in the back of someone's garage since 1977.
As it turns out, my colleague may well have a good point in hanging the vinyl on the wall. It certainly won't be a frequent visitor to my turntable.
In short, pretty but useless.
The vinyl that is, not my colleague.

I almost paid out good money for this dog shit, but fortunately a friend beat me to it and clued me in that it was an OZit release! 'Nuff said. How that label has gotten away with the amount of dog shit cash-ins they release is anyone's guess. I haven't heard all their releases so I'm sure there must be at least one that sounds decent but so far I haven't heard it. I don't know much about Chris Hewitt but judging by the crap he releases he doesn't give a shit about sound quality. Avoid like the plague.

I read the reviews but still had to have it. Reviews are right. This sounds bad. It's like they put time into everything about this release except for the sound. Great packaging, awesome looking vinyl, PHENOMENAL performance, and yet terrible mix, eq, production, etc. I dig me some serious Hillage so I don't regret the purchase, just super bummed it sounds soooo bad....

Splatter vinyl, ltd. edition, 180 g. vinyl. Looks perfekt but sound like shit. To be avoided.

Very disappointing album because of the very bad quality of recordings. There exists far better sounding bootlegs than this one.