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1984-12-09 Alsterdorf Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany/Source 2

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Notes

A very good FM broadcast recording, presumably sourced from a low-generation cassette tape. Unfortunately, it was encoded at 128kbps AAC after being transferred from the cassette. Despite this, the sound quality is quite good, though it is affected by lossiness and constant hiss throughout.

The song See You is slightly incomplete, likely due to a tape flip halfway through the track.

WLIR 92.7 FM in Garden City, NY, USA, broadcast part of this concert on Tuesday, March 19, 1985, at 21:00 during their "Tuesday Night Radio Concerts" program. The music was presented by radio host "Larry The Duck" and concluded by Malibu Sue. Both announcers claimed the show was recorded live specifically for WLIR 92.7 FM. However, this is not accurate, as other radio stations, such as WXXP FM in Pennsylvania, also had access to this recording.

This radio broadcast is the only source for the track Ice Machine from this concert, which has not been included in any official video or audio release.

Please note that a superior-sounding and complete pre-FM reel-to-reel tape recording is available as Source 1. This version is retained for collectors, as it includes the intros and outros from the radio hosts.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

  1. [0:27] Play Larry The Duck Radio Intro
  2. [0:58] Play Intro
  3. [4:13] Play People Are People
  4. [4:54] Play Leave In Silence
  5. [4:18] Play New Life
  6. [5:03] Play Somebody (*)
  7. [3:48] Play Ice Machine
  8. [5:24] Play Blasphemous Rumours
  9. [4:47] Play Told You So
  10. [5:23] Play Master And Servant
  11. [5:35] Play Everything Counts
  12. [3:57] Play See You
  13. [4:57] Play Just Can't Get Enough
  14. [1:09] Play Malibu Sue Radio Outro
  • Total time: 54:52

Lineage

  • unknown equipment -> master cassette -> unknown generation -> unknown transfer -> AAC / LC 128kbps 44.1khz -> in Audacity 2.0.5: slowed down 3.5% -> WAV -> in Adobe Audition CC: automatic phase correction (most accurate settings), normalized to -0.1dB and any DC bias removed -> FLAC level 8
  • Taper: Marv

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