1990-06-26 Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA/Source 2

Notes

A good audience recording. The first five tracks were not recorded. There is some distortion present, and some talkers are around the taper. Clean and Black Celebration are missing the first few seconds of the intro noise.

Revision A notes: This is a fresh transfer from the master cassette. Compared to the prior transfer, playback speed is correct, frequency response is improved, and channel balance is more even at the expense of slightly increased hiss in the right channel. In addition, a scan of the tape's J-card with Dave's autograph and of the filmstrip are now included.

Some background information from the taper:

I am not the world’s biggest DM fan, but that summer I was working backstage at the venue. One or two of my co-workers and I went out onto the lawn to watch the show. I took my Sony cassette recorder with me, and I taped most of the show. I don’t remember why but we missed the first few songs. There were lots of people around us hooting and hollering and dancing as to be expected. Depending on the number of people who were partying around us, the quality ranges from poor to average. I’ve been sitting on this tape for years obviously.

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I also have a strip of the film that was used to project the flower image onto the screen behind the stage (I found that in the trash after the concert). I also have what may be Dave Gahan’s autograph on the j-card for the audio cassette. The story is I worked backstage at the venue. After the show the band was having a wild, loud party in the dressing room. We were peon maintenance workers, and of course, not allowed in the party. But we dared one of my co-workers to go into the dressing room and get an autograph. He took my j-card and a sharpie and disappeared into the dressing room. A minute later he emerged with an autograph. He said it was Dave’s but I have no way to confirm that.

Thanks to Pictureshow Radio for mailing the master cassette to transfer - sorry about the delay!

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

The tape's J-card, said to be autographed by Dave Gahan.

1. [4:04] Play Master And Servant
2. [6:53] Play Never Let Me Down Again
3. [5:53] Play Waiting For The Night
4. [3:22] Play I Want You Now (*)
5. [3:19] Play World Full Of Nothing (*)
6. [6:12] Play Clean
7. [6:26] Play Stripped
8. [5:04] Play Policy Of Truth
9. [7:39] Play Enjoy The Silence
10. [5:00] Play Strangelove
11. [5:48] Play Personal Jesus
12. [4:33] Play Black Celebration
13. [5:06] Play A Question Of Time
14. [5:24] Play Behind The Wheel
15. [4:28] Play Route 66

• Total time: 1:19:11

Lineage

The master tape.

• 1980s Sony handheld cassette "corder" (unknown model) -> Sony UX Type II 90-minute cassette, 1988 stock -> 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 3.1.3 using WASAPI input; hard limited loud screaming, 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 v1.6.11, FLAC 1.3.4 64-bit, and foobar2000's Resampler (RetroArch) component at "Highest" quality, dithering enabled
• Taper: Pictureshow Radio
• Generation: master
• Transfer: DMLiveWiki on June 26, 2022
• Cassette photo, J-card scan with Dave's autograph, filmstrip scan, and auCDTectTaskManager log included

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