1990-06-29 Pine Knob Music Theatre, Detroit, MI, USA/Source 1

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Notes

A decent sounding audience recording. The right channel has occasional distortion and the recording is hissy overall. There is a tape flip about a minute in to Clean resulting in about 40 seconds of missing music, but otherwise this seems to be a complete recording.

This recording is sourced from bootleg cassettes from the Pud Records label, and in particular these are the "original" tapes which originally sold on an eBay auction for over $400.

Ryan at NINLive had previously shared a one-generation higher cassette copy he purchased from the same eBay seller earlier this year, but a couple of weeks ago, Grace at the Rush Archives reached out with this transfer from the presumed first-generation tapes from the eBay auction.

Compared to Ryan's higher-generation copy, this recording has more clarity and perhaps a bit less distortion.

A recording of the opening act Nitzer Ebb is also on these tapes, and the lower-generation audio will be shared on DIME.

Many thanks to Grace and By-Tor X-1 at the Rush Archives for acquiring, transferring, and sharing these tapes with care and excellent high-end equipment.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

  1. [3:38] Play Kaleid
  2. [5:17] Play World In My Eyes
  3. [4:40] Play Halo
  4. [5:15] Play Shake The Disease
  5. [6:04] Play Everything Counts
  6. [3:58] Play Master And Servant
  7. [6:57] Play Never Let Me Down Again
  8. [6:02] Play Waiting For The Night
  9. [4:19] Play Here Is The House (*)
  10. [3:36] Play Sweetest Perfection (*)
  11. [5:27] Play Clean
  12. [6:28] Play Stripped
  13. [5:04] Play Policy Of Truth
  14. [7:49] Play Enjoy The Silence
  15. [4:51] Play Strangelove
  16. [9:17] Play Personal Jesus
  17. [4:42] Play Black Celebration
  18. [7:52] Play A Question Of Time
  19. [5:26] Play Behind The Wheel
  20. [6:08] Play Route 66
  • Total time: 1:52:50

Lineage

  • unknown taper and equipment -> master cassettes? -> 1st gen? TDK SA 100 & SA 90 type II cassettes -> Nakamichi DR-1 (with manual azimuth adjustment) -> Roland RCA cables -> Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi HD -> Dark Audacity -> FLAC level 6 24-bit 96khz stereo -> in Audacity 3.5.1: speed correction, stereo channel phase alignment, trims, level adjustments, normalization, track splits -> WAV files (24/96) -> FLAC level 8 (16/44) using foobar2000 v2.1.5, FLAC 1.4.3 64-bit, and foobar2000's Resampler (SoX) component at "Best" quality, dithering enabled
  • Transfer: By-Tor X-1 (Rush Archives)
  • Cassette photos and auCDtectTaskManager log included

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