1984-12-09 Alsterdorf Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany/Source 1
Notes
An excellent pre-FM soundboard recording sourced from a reel-to-reel tape, though it is occasionally affected by dropouts and some strange fluctuations in volume. The DMLiveWiki purchased this reel from eBay and had it professionally transferred by the exceptional Sonicraft A2DX lab.
This recording is a complete capture of what would have been broadcast, but it is not a full concert recording. The following tracks are missing: "Something To Do", "Two Minute Warning", "Puppets", "If You Want", "Shame", "Lie To Me", "Photographic", and "Shout".
Most of the audio from this concert can be found on the out-of-print home video release The World We Live In and Live In Hamburg. However, since this reel is an alternate source of the audio intended for radio broadcast, it can be presented in full.
The audio mix appears to be about the same as that found on The World We Live In and Live In Hamburg, and the quality is similar to what you would hear on the VHS or LaserDisc releases, though it may be considered worse due to the aforementioned flaws.
This concert was also broadcast at least once on WLIR FM in Garden City, NY. A generally inferior-sounding FM broadcast recording (which is lossy, with more background noise, distorted bass, ground hum, and less clarity, plus a tape flip toward the end of See You, but including radio intros and outros) is available as Source 2.
The song Ice Machine, although present on this recording, has not been released in an official capacity as part of any commercial audio or video release from this concert. This version of the song has been carefully compared with other available soundboard-quality versions of the song from 1984, and is confirmed to be unique.
The track "Puppets" from this concert has no circulating recordings to date.
Given that this audio was prepared relatively soon after the concert was filmed, it is reasonable to suggest that the entire concert was recorded, with these two tracks being excluded from the home video release for reasons such as time constraints or not working as well as the other songs visually.
This would align with an explanation given for the omission of two tracks from the original "Devotional" video release, as stated on the old Shunt Q&A:
- Why did the 'Devotional' video not include 'Policy Of truth' and 'Halo' considering you played them almost every show?
- It was probably necessary to tighten up the compilation to fit within a particular time frame, so some tracks had to be omitted. These tracks were felt to be older and didn't work as well visually as some of the others.
Listen
You can listen to this entire recording below.
Track list
- [0:58] Play Intro
- [4:10] Play People Are People
- [4:50] Play Leave In Silence
- [4:15] Play New Life
- [5:02] Play Somebody (*)
- [3:45] Play Ice Machine
- [5:21] Play Blasphemous Rumours
- [4:44] Play Told You So
- [5:19] Play Master And Servant
- [5:31] Play Everything Counts
- [4:00] Play See You
- [5:22] Play Just Can't Get Enough
- Total time: 53:17
Lineage
- 7.5ips pre-FM reel tape prepared for WXXP FM in Philadelphia, created on January 22, 1986 -> transferred by Sonicraft A2DX lab on Studer A80-JKC reel to reel player in April 2020 -> WAV (24/96) -> in Audacity: normalized to -0.1dB and any DC offset removed, track splits -> WAV (32/96) -> downsampled to FLAC level 8 (16/44) using foobar2000 v1.5.5, FLAC 1.3.2 64-bit, and foobar2000's Resampler (SoX) component v0.8.3 (best quality), dithering enabled
- Reel photos included
Download
- Download ZIP - FLAC 16-bit 44.1KHz - 353.68MB
