R.E.M.
Viceroy Park
Charlotte, NC
Saturday 7 November 1981
Original Lineage: Nakamichi 550 portable stereo cassette recorder, unknown microphones -> master stereo audience cassette, Dolby off -> 1st generation Maxell MX-90 cassette, Dolby B on (circa 1990 transfer - made on original deck with azimuth adjusted)
Originally uploaded to Dime by kneesfudd on 23 July 2016
Eckythump November 2020 remaster: iZotope RX8 Advanced (various adjustments) -> iZotope Ozone 9 (EQ adjustments) -> Audacity 2.4.2 (split tracks and export to FLAC Level 8) -> Traders Little Helper 2.8.4 (Fix SBE's, ffp and md5 files) -> Foobar2000 1.6.1 (Files tagged)
Set 1:
01 - Just A Touch (missing first 5 seconds)
02 - Burning Down
03 - Shaking Through
04 - (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
05 - There She Goes Again (The Velvet Underground cover)
06 - Permanent Vacation
07 - Pretty Persuasion
08 - That Beat
09 - Mystery To Me
10 - Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars)
Set 2:
11 - Ages Of You
12 - I Can't Control Myself (The Troggs cover)
13 - Us And You (aka Ha We Get Paid For It)
14 - Laughing
15 - Romance (cut)
16 - Sitting Still
17 - Wolves, Lower
18 - Gardening At Night
19 - 9-9
20 - Windout
21 - 1,000,000
22 - Radio Free Europe
Michael Stipe - Vocals
Peter Buck - Guitar
Mike Mills - Bass, vocals
Bill Berry - Drums, vocals
Show notes: North Carolina was R.E.M.'s second home in their formative years, and this was already the bands 6th performance in Charlotte for the year (in addition 6 shows in nearby Greensboro the same year). An incredibly fun show to listen to, the band is barely 18 months old but they are a well oiled machine by this point. In addition to newer songs that had been debuting over the previous few months such as 'Romance' and 'Carnival Of Sorts', this show features the second known performance of 'Wolves, Lower' after its debut the previous night. While hindsight is always beneficial, it's hard to imagine how you'd walk away from an R.E.M. show in 1981 and not think this band is destined for big things. A superb show and amazing piece of R.E.M. history.
Recording notes: This is a superb audience recording. It was held tightly for a long time, but was released into the Dime wilderness in 2016, apparently the taper being concerned his recordings would end up on bootlegs (probably well justified), and he received approval from Jefferson Holt to record the show. Wouldn't be a good look for his recording to then appear on a bootleg after receiving approval. It already sounded great, but i've given it a touch up in iZotope, and I think it now sounds a little nicer. Stay listening after the final song for some drunk guy yelling out for someone called Rebecca Jones, and her reply to him. It's priceless. There's not many recordings out there from 1981, and this one is superb.
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Notes:
-running time 1:11:24
-After Permanent Vacation MS "Tres bon! So what do you guys think about Viceroy Park"?
-After Windout MS makes a suggestion (?) to which MM replies "Let's not and say we did".
Grade: B
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R.E.M. - Viceroy Park, Charlotte, North Carolina, 7th November 1981 [M1-AUD] [Dream Remaster]
Source Audience
Track List:-
Set One :::
01 - Just A Touch
02 - Burning Down
03 - Shaking Through
04 - [Don't Go Back To] Rockville
05 - There She Goes Again
06 - Permanent Vacation
07 - Pretty Persuasion
08 - That Beat
09 - Mystery To Me
10 - Carnival Of Sorts [Box Cars]
Set Two :::
11 - Ages Of You
12 - I Can't Control Myself
13 - Us And You [a.k.a. Ha (We Get Paid For It)]
14 - Laughing
15 - Romance
16 - Sitting Still
17 - Wolves, Lower
18 - Gardening At Night
19 - 9-9
20 - Windout
21 - 1,000,000
22 - Radio Free Europe
Remaster Notes:-
Firstly many thanks to the taper for a superb recording & the original seeder,
without them both this wouldn't be here.
Secondly much appreciation to Knees for all his work with this show,
he has done a top job.
In his notes he says to add the bass & turn it up.
I have done that and added a little more work on the mids & highs.
Sounds amazing, it is very close to a soundboard recording in quality.
For an audience recording this is as good as it gets.
Great early show from the band,
including a song in the second set that never got to be recorded.
Just some of "Romance" missing, otherwise good to go.
This is a must for anyone who likes the band, it does not disappoint.
You cannot go wrong with this, a no brainer.
As always enjoy.
Your humble blogger,
C.
An "I Don't Sleep, I Dream" Presentation, 2017.
Do NOT sell this recording.
Freely given to you, so don't charge others.
Do NOT sell it on Ebay or Ioffer or any other place.
Buy the records/CD's/Go to shows if there are any.
Support the artist anyway you can.
Failure to comply will result in the karma police visiting.
Want to share this?
That is fine all that I ask is keep these notes with your shares, thank you.
Original Notes:-
Total Time ::: 1:11:25
~*~ Carefully remastered fixing various issues, without EQ ~*~
::: EXCELLENT quality stereo AUD, crisp & right up front.
::: Warts ::: VERY few.
Repaired dullspots & dropouts but surely missed a few.
#1 starts ~5 seconds late. #13 has cut/splice in middle (tapeflip?). #16 had 1/2 second glitch about 30 secs in (now spliced).
::: Smokin' show! Add some bass & turn this sucker UP! One o' the finest quality early REM shows around.
::: Only been in somewhat limited circulation & this'll upgrade what is around.
::: NOT the same as the Charlotte 1982-01-23 Viceroy Park show.
Recording Information
::: Nakamichi 550 portable stereo cassette recorder, unknown microphones -> master stereo audience cassette, Dolby off ->
1st generation Maxell MX-90 cassette, Dolby B on (circa 1990 transfer - made on original deck with azimuth adjusted).
Playback 2015-08-14
::: 1st generation Maxell MX-90 cassette on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby B on,
azimuth adjusted for individual tape, heads cleaned & demagnetized ->
Sony Linear PCM Recorder PCM-M10 (LPCM 44.10kHz/16bit WAV files) -> computer ->
Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch,
bump, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments,
-0.8% averaged pitch (speed) fix with single pass after frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation] ->
CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears.
First uploaded week of 2016-07-23.
Line-up
::: John Michael Stipe lead vocals // Peter Lawrence Buck electric guitar //
Michael Edward Mills electric bass, backing vocals // William Thomas Berry drums, percussion, backing vocals.
Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge.
If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.
DimeTravel 299
::: MANY thanks to the original taper & trader!
Also, thanks to DIMER gv0000 - the info man. ::: Corrections welcome :::
I've had this & the 1982 Viceroy show from the taper for some decades, but at his request I never traded them,
since there was quite reasonable concern about bootlegs appearing back in the day.
With his good wishes, they are now being passed out into the world.
I'd already bailed on the Queen City by the time this great sh*t went down.
The taper must have had the sweet spot for this one.
Much less AUD motion interference than his '82 recording - stellar sound.
A rippin' good listen - have fun!
Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace.
Yrs truly, Knees
Support the artists! www.remhq.com -- www.michaelstipe.com -- (Mike Mills) www.twitter.com/m_millsey
REM Timeline:
'Us And You' is a new song (originally arbitrarily called 'Ha! (We Get Paid For It),
& the title of the song is mentioned by Michael after the song finishes.
Grade: A