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

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Notes

Credit to Keith.

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 recording was described by James K. to have been recorded by Tom Weibrecht. In August 2024, DMLiveWiki attained contact via eBay with Keith, the taper of this concert. He provided the following anecdotes regarding the concert and recording, as well as a photo of his ticket stub:

... and yah they went on at 2am or something and it was really late so I had to skip the encores now I remember. I believe it was around 2am not 3 am as I would of missed the last train. I use[d] to write the times bands [went] on, on my tapes. Of course I was [a] 19 year old kid when I went to this show. I remember it being pretty good but I was also pretty tired. Only knew the song Just Can't Get Enough. I was very close to the stage and the speakers hence good sound I suppose.

... maybe I traded it to Tom Weibrecht. For sure I must of taped it. I think I remember the screamer he was irritating me and for sure I left early to catch the last train as I lived in CT. Anyone else who might of taped it most likely lived closer. I was 2 hours from NYC.

I just remember rushing over to the Ritz from just seeing the Human League and Blue Angel show at the NY Palladium.

Than went to the Ritz and waited a couple hours because they went on late. I remember being near whomever plays keyboards or synth maybe on the left of stage. Honestly I did not know much about DM. I went to a lot of shows even if I was unfamiliar with the band. I thought it was important to tape shows and archive them and of course now today any recording is priceless because it captured a moment in time you can’t get back but at least can listen to it or perhaps view it.

It was long hypothesized that the two encores of "I Like It" and "Television Set" heard at most of the previous gigs during the "See You" tour were not performed since this is the only available recording from the US leg of this tour, but since the taper left the show early, they could have still been performed.

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: Keith. Taper was previously attributed to Tom Weibrecht.
  • Transfer: DMLiveWiki on January 1, 2023
  • Cassette tape photo & auCDTectTaskManager log included

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