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1994-05-14 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountainview, San Francisco, CA, USA/Source 1

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Notes

A superb soundboard recording sourced from a clone of the original DAT master. While this recording is a first-generation copy of the master, due to the nature of DAT recordings, it likely doesn't contain any quality differences compared to the master.

This recording originally circulated most commonly across two chrome cassette tapes and was later available on several silver CD bootleg sources, some of which were taken from DAT clones, and others from cassette tapes.

During Behind The Wheel, Dave directs his words specifically at someone in the audience, saying, "That's alright, you can just sit there. It's not a fucking movie, man! ... I'm not giving up! ... Ah, fuck off." At the end of Everything Counts, he says "Yeah, I knew you wouldn't let me down". Moreover, this concert had a backing tape issue during Stripped.

All sources, including this one, have a brief, but loud burst of static present during In Your Room before Dave sings the line "your burning eyes" (specifically at 3:54 in this particular recording). The 2xCD-R bootleg titled "Rated PG" removed the static noise by replacing the affected audio with a similar sounding segment from an earlier part of the song, resulting in an almost seamless sounding patch. A recreation of this patch is included as a bonus track in case you would prefer to use it. Interestingly, the audience recording available at Source 2 also captures the burst of static, which shows that the issue was audible to the audience and can be considered an accurate representation.

Some interesting information about the origins of this recording was answered on Shunt Q&A: (questions are italicized, Alan's answers are in bold)

  • From: Daniel 'The BRAT' Barassi

ORIGINAL TEXT FROM WWW.RECOIL.CO.UK:

  • From: Peter Philipsen

I have a soundboard recording from the USA '94 show in San Francisco. I always thought this was done without the bands knowledge/approval but when samples from the recording turned up in that god-awful new remix of 'World In My Eyes' (found on the XLCD of 'Only When I Lose Myself'), I realised that the band must have known about it. Did/do Depeche Mode record several shows of each tour in this manner, and if so, for what purpose?

Sound recordings direct from the front of house mixing desk were only ever made for personal reference reasons. I knew nothing about the above remix until I received a finished CD with it included. As you can imagine I was far from pleased.

BRAT Explanation:

The soundboard is definitely a bootleg (rumour is that someone knew one of the tour personnel and got a DAT clone). The remix you refer to (the absolutely HORRID "Safar Mix") was originally a bootleg 12" remix single.

I went to Reprise to present my proposal for a special 3rd CD to the upcoming (then) 'Singles 86>98' compilation. Craig Kostich (Product Manager at Reprise), later in the process of pressing up the bonus disc, took out 9 of the rarer tracks I wanted to see included on the Reprise release, and replaced them all with the piss-poor Safar Mix of 'World In My Eyes'. Craig is friends with the guy (Safar) therefore, you have him to blame for the track getting released.

Hope I didn't bore anyone!

Not at all Brat. Thanks for clearing it up.

Please note that this is a 16-bit 48kHz file set. If you are burning this recording to a CD, it will need to be resampled to 44.1kHz. If you need assistance with the sample rate conversion process, you can follow a useful guide here.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

  1. [6:49] Play Rush
  2. [4:45] Play Halo
  3. [5:20] Play Behind The Wheel
  4. [4:43] Play Everything Counts
  5. [6:14] Play World In My Eyes
  6. [6:45] Play Walking In My Shoes
  7. [5:21] Play Stripped
  8. [4:05] Play Condemnation (*)
  9. [4:36] Play I Want You Now (*)
  10. [6:52] Play In Your Room
  11. [5:00] Play Never Let Me Down Again
  12. [7:18] Play I Feel You
  13. [6:10] Play Personal Jesus
  14. [4:13] Play Somebody (*)
  15. [6:56] Play Enjoy The Silence
  16. [4:30] Play A Question Of Time

Bonus:

  1. [6:52] Play In Your Room (static noise patched out)
  • Total time (including bonus): 1:36:36

Lineage

  • Master DAT -> DAT clone (unknown if cloned via analog or digital connection) -> Fostex DAT tape machine -> Tascam DM24 digital mixer via AES EBU optical cable -> digital audio connection to Soundscape -> WAV -> APE (1 track) -> tracks split by cuesheet -> FLAC level 8
  • Taper: ER

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