1988-06-18 Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA, USA

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Depeche Mode's famous 101st and final concert of the 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. A documentary and double live album, 101, was released of the concert.

A first-generation audience recording of the first half of the set (up to and including Things You Said) recorded by dmlive2k (Emmett C.) is currently circulating, but any FLAC version you currently find is a transcode of a 112kbps MP3 version of the recording. The second tape containing the rest of the recording is unfortunately missing. Any audience recording of Depeche Mode from this date cannot be shared on this wiki or DIME since it is an alternative recording of officially released content. 90 second samples of Emmett's audience recording were once provided here, but have been taken down to help avoid any legal issues. My apologies.

There was some unexpected rain during Depeche Mode's set. During the first chorus of Sacred, the taper Emmett shouts "it's starting to rain, fuck!". Emmett mentions shouting "makes it better" about one minute in to Something To Do - his comment is referring to the rain which cooled everyone off on the blazing hot day, thus "making it better". Another moment later in the song, during the refrain "I can't stand another drink ...", lightning strikes and very loud crowd uproar drowns out the music on the recording. You can even hear the crowd uproar on the official '101' releases - I always wondered what that was, personally! Emmett mentioned separately that the rain was dying down by the time Blasphemous Rumours was playing and lightning did not occur during the song.

Here are direct quotes from Emmett regarding the rain and lightning:

By the way, historical note – at 21:06 when I shout “makes it better” – that’s when it started raining which was a freak tropical storm. The whole day had been clear skies and super hot. The event started at 3 PM with a band called Wire, then a few others like Thomas Dolby and others. Clouds mysteriously came in once Depeche took the stage, and it started raining on us around that 21 minute mark, then lightning lit up the sky at 22:06 “I can’t stand another drink”… crowd goes NUTS from the lightning. Richard Blade incorrectly recalls the show as it raining during Blasphemous Rumours. It stopped raining within a minute or two of the lightning. Very crazy!


for sure it started raining during Sacred. It was a freak tropical storm that just rolled through. Lasted about 15-20 minutes. The lightning happened ONLY during Something To Do, NOT Blasphemous Rumours. Richard Blade is the culprit (and the band) for saying that it was during Blasphemous Rumours. There's a massive crowd roar during Something To Do right during the refrain "I can't stand another drink... (lightning)" - all of us were like oh shit!! I think the rain starting dying down by the time Blasphemous Rumours was on - but the lightning was most definitely during Something To Do :)

I think I yelled "makes it better" because it was a blazing hot day being out there in the sun from something like 2 PM through the evening. The rain cooled everyone off!

Additionally, Twitter user @epsquid recalls the same events as Emmett in this Twitter conversation. He also mentioned that there was an "epic trash wave" comprised of cardboard trays that made its way around the stadium at one point. He says: "[they] were being thrown like freebies all at the same time and it looked like a tornado was making its way thru the Rose Bowl".

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Set list

  1. Pimpf
  2. Behind The Wheel
  3. Strangelove
  4. Sacred
  5. Something To Do
  6. Blasphemous Rumours
  7. Stripped
  8. Somebody (*)
  9. Things You Said (*)
  10. Black Celebration
  11. Shake The Disease
  12. Nothing
  13. Pleasure, Little Treasure
  14. People Are People
  15. A Question Of Time
  16. Never Let Me Down Again
  17. A Question Of Lust (*)
  18. Master And Servant
  19. Just Can't Get Enough
  20. Everything Counts