1990 World Violation tour backing tapes

Notes

The backing tapes for the 1990 World Violation Tour have been circulating on unknown generation audio cassette since the early 90s. The webmaster had the opportunity to transfer a second-generation copy of the backing tapes, of which two minute excerpts of each track are provided below for your listening enjoyment. Many thanks to a kind collector for his generously lending his tapes to transfer.

Some info regarding what is audible on the backing tapes and how they came to circulate fairly publicly is at Shunt Q&A - LIVE - live albums / versions / performance:

• From: Peter Borg
• E-mail: [email protected]

On the 'World Violation' backing tapes, one can hear drums on 'Clean' and a guitar on 'Personal Jesus' mixed very low. Were they there for back-up or to flesh out the live sound or have I been imagining things?

Alan: The extra sounds you heard were never audible through the P.A. system. They were back-up sounds in case of breakdown.

• From: Chris Watkins
• E-mail: [email protected]

You've answered questions regarding the 'World Violation' tour backing tapes before but what has always puzzled me was how / why they made available to the public. I know they weren't officially released, so how were they 'leaked' to whoever distributes them? Even *I* have a copy! ;-)

Alan: I have absolutely no idea. It is usually necessary for a few cassettes or Dats of the backing tapes to be made for various people to listen to (same applies to demos etc.). These inevitably get left lying around before falling into the wrong hands.

From what I can guess and understand, those parts mentioned by Peter above are audible on the cassette copies of the backing tapes floating around because they are stereo mixdowns from the original multitrack backing tracks - I'm sure the "back-up" tracks were simply muted during playback during the actual live concert. Of course, someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Excellent sounding snippets have previously been shared online, but these have been created using the available partial multitracks of the songs (from the Rock Band or Guitar Hero video games) and are not genuine backing tracks. These snippets are available to listen to at the bottom of this page for comparison purposes.

The full backing tapes cannot be shared on this wiki or DIME because they are derived from studio content.

90 second excerpts of six tracks from the 1993 Devotional Tour Backing Tapes are also available for listening. The sound quality is excellent with very little hiss. Furthermore, some very short snippets of seven tracks from the 1987 - 1988 Music For The Masses Tour Backing Tapes are also available for listening.

Track list

1. Play Kaleid
2. Play World In My Eyes
3. Play Halo
4. Play Shake The Disease
5. Play Everything Counts
6. Play Master And Servant
7. Play Never Let Me Down Again
8. Play Waiting For The Night
9. Play Clean
10. Play Stripped
11. Play Policy Of Truth
12. Play Enjoy The Silence
13. Play Strangelove
14. Play Personal Jesus
15. Play Black Celebration
16. Play A Question Of Time
17. Play Behind The Wheel
18. Play Route 66

Recreations created from multitracks

• Never Let Me Down Again:

• Policy Of Truth:

• Personal Jesus: