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1987-10-23 Blaugrana Sports Palas, Barcelona, Spain/Source 1

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Notes

A very good audience recording of the second concert of the 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour. Similar to the previous night's concert in Madrid, the crowd is very excited and lively.

Pimpf is missing the a bit from the beginning (like many recordings from this tour), and approximately 4 seconds near the end of Shake The Disease were seamlessly patched using the previously available transfer of a low-generation tape. Otherwise, this is a complete recording.

The last three tracks suffer from loud low-frequency hum, and it appears that Elly's Sony WM-D6C was consistently running about 2.5% fast. This conclusion is based on my experience slowing down the 1987-10-22 Madrid recording, which was also captured by Elly. This likely accounts for why many of the better recordings from the tour seem to be playing at a faster speed - all of them were Elly's recordings!

Note that an extended version of People Are People was performed, adding an extended middle break. This version was performed for the first seven concerts of the tour through 1987-10-30 Milan, after which the "regular" shorter version is played for the entire tour, with one exception. This extended version is played only once more on the second of three nights in Paris on 1987-11-17.

Many thanks to Falko for generously lending me another batch of low-generation tapes to transfer.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

The tape's inlay card.
  1. [3:56] Play Pimpf
  2. [5:36] Play Behind The Wheel
  3. [4:54] Play Strangelove
  4. [5:19] Play Sacred
  5. [3:56] Play Something To Do
  6. [5:12] Play Blasphemous Rumours
  7. [6:22] Play Stripped
  8. [4:04] Play Pipeline (*)
  9. [4:13] Play The Things You Said (*)
  10. [4:38] Play Black Celebration
  11. [5:11] Play Shake The Disease
  12. [4:39] Play Nothing
  13. [4:36] Play Pleasure, Little Treasure
  14. [5:25] Play People Are People
  15. [4:14] Play A Question Of Time
  16. [9:18] Play Never Let Me Down Again
  17. [4:13] Play A Question Of Lust (*)
  18. [7:57] Play Master And Servant
  19. [6:43] Play Everything Counts
  • Total time: 1:40:24

Lineage

The first generation tape.
  • Incomplete audience recording
  • Sony WM-D6C + unknown mics -> unknown master cassette(s) -> unknown deck(s) used for copy -> first generation TDK SA100 high position cassette, 1990 - 1991 stock -> Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck, serviced and upgraded (details) -> Blue Jeans Cable LC-1 8-foot RCA cable -> Creative Sound Blaster ZxR (RCA Line In) -> Adobe Audition CC 2015 (32-bit / 88.2 khz) -> slowed down 2.5%, normalized to -0.1dB and any DC bias removed -> downsampled to WAV (16/44) using foobar2000 v1.3.10 with its Resampler (SoX) component v0.8.3 (best quality), dithering enabled -> ending of Shake The Disease seamlessly patched in Adobe Audition using prior low-gen tape source -> tracked using Audacity 2.1.2 -> WAV (16/44) tracks -> FLAC using FLAC 1.3.1 64-bit (level 8 compression) and foobar2000 v1.3.10
  • Generation: first
  • Taper: Elly Apfel
  • Transfer: DMLiveWiki
  • Cassette tape photos, tape inlay scan, and auCDtectTaskManager log included

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