1982-05-07 The Ritz, New York City, NY, USA/Source 1

Notes

An excellent audience recording, and currently the only circulating audience recording of a concert from the US & Canada leg of Depeche Mode's 1982 "See You" Tour. There is an occasional screamer from time to time.

Compared to the previous version of this recording, this source has correct playback speed, less objectionable hiss, lower distortion, no annoying ringing noise throughout, and has a significantly clearer lineage. The prior source also seems to have had significant equalization applied to artificially boost high frequencies, causing shrill treble. This source is a flat transfer.

Dave makes lyrical mistakes during several songs (See You, Ice Machine, New Life, What's Your Name?). Dave dedicates Just Can't Get Enough to "Marilyn, for her birthday". Fletch introduces Dreaming Of Me.

This concert omits the two encores of "I Like It" and "Television Set" typically performed at many of the previous gigs during the "See You" tour. This may have been the case at the other concerts during this short final leg of the tour, but there is no way to confirm that hypothesis without further audience recordings available to listen to.

Many thanks to James K. for providing this cassette for archival.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

The first generation tape.

1. [4:29] Play Shout
2. [2:12] Play I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
3. [2:50] Play Boys Say Go!
4. [3:38] Play Puppets
5. [4:05] Play See You
6. [4:10] Play Big Muff
7. [3:20] Play Now, This Is Fun
8. [3:50] Play Ice Machine
9. [4:03] Play New Life
10. [3:09] Play Tora! Tora! Tora!
11. [3:07] Play The Meaning Of Love
12. [3:44] Play Just Can't Get Enough
13. [2:59] Play What's Your Name?
14. [3:29] Play Photographic
15. [4:00] Play Dreaming Of Me

• Total time: 53:05

Lineage

• unknown mics (probably some sort of Sony) + Sony Walkman WM-D6 cassette recorder -> master cassette (unknown type) -> first-generation Maxell XLII-S 90 high position cassette -> Nakamichi MR-1 professional discrete head cassette deck (playback azimuth optimized) -> Mogami 2534 XLR to TRS cables -> Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd gen USB audio interface -> WAV (32/88.2) -> recorded in Audacity 3.2.3 using WASAPI input; stereo channel phase alignment, channels independently normalized to -0.1dB and any DC offset removed, track splits -> WAV (32/88.2) tracks -> downsampled to FLAC level 8 (16/44) using foobar2000 v1.6.14, FLAC 1.4.2 64-bit, and foobar2000's Resampler (RetroArch) component at "Highest" quality, dithering enabled
• Generation: first
• Taper: Tom Weibrecht
• Transfer: DMLiveWiki on January 1, 2023
• Cassette tape photo & auCDTectTaskManager log included

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