1987-1988 Music For The Masses tour backing tapes
Notes
A cassette tape of the backing tapes from the 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour as well as the light-show cue / tour rehearsal tape from the 1986 Black Celebration Tour were sold on eBay in 2011 by a New Zealand eBay seller. He purchased a leather jacket from the lighting director of the 1990 World Violation Tour and the tapes were included with the jacket. View the original listing here.
The complete track listing is unknown - presumably it includes Pipeline and Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth. Short snippets of several tracks were uploaded to DM_Best_Bits' Soundcloud (now an empty account) and are available to listen to below. Short excerpts of several tracks from tour rehearsals of the 1986 Black Celebration Tour were also uploaded along with these snippets, and you can listen to those at 1986-03-00 Black Celebration Tour Rehearsals. The rehearsals are probably from March 1986 given that "Here Is The House" is part of the rehearsal.
Excerpts
- Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth:
- The legitimacy of this backing tape is questionable. If it's a fake, it's a very good one. The clicks & pops during the middle synth pad sequence likely result from the transfer process of the original sample ZIP disks - it's definitely possible the magnetic media degraded somewhat over time and caused the pops & clicks to be present in the samples, which were then used to recreate this backing tape audio. Please note that this is the only full track that circulates (legitimate or otherwise), do not email me about any other backing tracks from this tour because I don't have them. I also do not have a lossless version of this track - the file below is the original 192kbps AAC file I received.
