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1990 World Violation tour backing tapes

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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 is at Shunt Q&A - LIVE - live albums / versions / performance:

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 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 multitracks of the songs 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.

Track list

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

Samples

Second generation cassette tape source

Snippets created from multitracks

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