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16 November 1986
Trask Coliseum,
University Of North Carolina Wilmington,
Wilmington, NC
support: Let's Active

*3 versions

(silver version)
Disc One 43:45
01. These Days
02. Moral Kiosk
03. Pilgrimage
04. The One I Love
05. Shaking Through
06. Feeling Gravitys Pull
07. The Flowers Of Guatemala
08. Riders In The Sky
09. Driver 8
10. Tired Of Singing Trouble - I Believe
11. Swan Swan H

Disc Two 57:54
01. Lightnin' Hopkins
02. Superman
03. Can't Get There From Here
04. Old Man Kensey
05. King Of Birds - Auctioneer (Another Engine)
06. Radio Free Europe
07. Little America
encore 1:
08. Fall On Me
09. Sad Lover's Waltz
10. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
11. Spooky
12. See No Evil
encore 2:
13. Singing Cage / Oddfellows Local 151
14. Mississippi Queen
15. Whole Lotta Love
missing: Funtime / After Hours

Grade: B
-Drums boomy, can be eq'd out but takes some of MM with it.

(black version)
-Not nearly as good.  Possibly higher gen from same tape.  Taper talks a couple times on silver version, and there are clear edits where that would have been (but isn't) on black version.  Black version includes Funtime & Afterhours.

Grade: C

(HD version)
Source: 1st generation analog cassette
Taper: David O Thomas
Equipment: Sony TCD-6M/Nacamichi CM-300

Grade: B (note to self this should replace one of the two versions above)

Timeline notes: 'King Of Birds' is sung rather than spoken, in the tune of the eventual song, more or less. Michael also incorporates some the additional spoken lines "Lenny Bruce is not afraid, Leonid Brezhnev is not afraid." 'Mississippi Queen' and 'Whole Lotta Love' feature Corky Laing, drummer from 70s rock outfit Mountain.

Notes:
-Before Swan Swan H MS: "There was a time of great ebarassment in the United States called the Civil War.  There is a time of great embarassment in the United States called...the 1980's.  In the same way that we look back to the last century and say 'I can't believe how that's happened', our children;s chhildren's children will curse us and say 'I can't believe that happened'.  There's a man named Howard Finster.  He had this huge church and on the outside of it these hornets built a big wasp's nest.  He went out one morning after playing piano and he got a little too close to the nest and they all came down and stung him all over his body.  That's nothing to clap about.  So Howard was covered with wasp bites big welts came up all over him.  Most people would say...(crowd starts cheering)...most people would probably just go ahead and sing the song.  Here's the song".
-During Lightnin' Hopkins MS ad libs "It's 1986 and nothings changed here".  This sentiment is repeated in the pre-Auctioneer King Of Birds tag
-There is some commentary from the taper regarding super heroes before Superman. Perhaps someone on stage donned a cape?
-During Radio Free Europe, MS Ad libs "The following broadcast is purely rhetorical and does not require a response". It throws the band off before MS jumps back in and finishes the song.  He repeats the statement after the song and adds "You are not living in a police state.  Repeat, you are not living in a police state.  This is a free country.  Are you proud to be in America?".
-Before Fall On Me MS: "Chapter seven.  Redemption".
-During Rockville MS "I(?) sound like a trailer(?)...see I do it one time and then you do it the next time".
-Spooky is introduced as a Patsy Cline song from 1931.
-See No Evil is introduced as Cab Calloway song "from the year 1927".
-PB solos more in Missisippi Queen and Whole Lotta Love than the rest of the tour combined.

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