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1994-05-14 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountainview, San Francisco, CA, USA/Source 2

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Notes

A good audience recording. It's clearly cassette sourced due to some minor hiss and some speed variation between tape flips. There's some overall distortion, but it's not the worst audience recording in the world.

During Behind The Wheel, Dave directs his words specifically at someone in the audience, expressing, "That's alright, you can just sit there. It's not a fucking movie, man! ... I'm not giving up! ... Ah, fuck off." As Everything Counts concludes, he says "Yeah, I knew you wouldn't let me down". Moreover, this concert also 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". The 2xCD-R bootleg of the soundboard recording, 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 as apart of the soundboard recording, available on the wiki as Source 1.

Interestingly, this audience recording also captures the burst of static, which shows that the issue was audible to the audience and was not a result of the soundboard recording's master DAT itself. Therefore, it can be considered an accurate representation of the performance.

In Your Room and Never Let Me Down Again were swapped on the CD-Rs. I put them in the right order, but Never Let Me Down Again is missing a few seconds of the beginning probably due to tape flip. Other than that, I believe this is a complete audience recording. Some different speed correction values were necessary for some tracks, plus cassette speed varies slightly between the beginning and end of a tape on the vast majority of recorders, so the speed isn't dead on - if you want to matrix this audience recording with the soundboard (looking at you, Bias!), it may be a bit difficult due to the speed variation.

This recording was ripped by Slickmode, but the waveform is squashed. A few others of Slick's rips are similarly affected, compared to exact copies of CD-Rs that other traders received which ripped without the waveform problem. I think Slickmode had the "Normalize" option on in EAC when he ripped this disc, and that permanently adjusted the audio to have a plateaued waveform. I applied automatic phase correction to this recording to improve dynamic range a little bit; this being a cassette recording, it probably didn't have much dynamic range to begin with anyway.

To Craig (the taper): if you're reading this, please contact me so I can transfer your master cassettes (and your 1993-11-24 Los Angeles tapes, and any other DM you've taped) properly! I'd really appreciate it.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

  1. [7:02] Play Rush
  2. [4:48] Play Halo
  3. [5:23] Play Behind The Wheel
  4. [4:47] Play Everything Counts
  5. [6:19] Play World In My Eyes
  6. [6:49] Play Walking In My Shoes
  7. [5:25] Play Stripped
  8. [4:02] Play Condemnation (*)
  9. [4:38] Play I Want You Now (*)
  10. [6:58] Play In Your Room
  11. [4:53] Play Never Let Me Down Again
  12. [7:24] Play I Feel You
  13. [7:52] Play Personal Jesus
  14. [4:12] Play Somebody (*)
  15. [9:12] Play Enjoy The Silence
  16. [5:02] Play A Question Of Time
  • Total time: 1:34:46

Lineage

  • unknown equipment -> master cassettes -> unknown transfer -> 2xCD-R -> Exact Audio Copy (unknown settings) -> in Adobe Audition CC 2015: normalized to -3.0dB and any DC bias removed, auto phase correction, slowed down 5.0% up through Personal Jesus, Somebody sped up 2.0%, Enjoy The Silence forward sped up by 1.0%, normalized to -0.1dB -> FLAC level 8
  • Taper: Craig
  • Generation: master

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