R.E.M. - 7 October 1987 - Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY
Low gen tapes received from Glen, thanks Glen.
2xTDK SA90s>Pioneer CT-W830R>M-Audio Audiophile 192@48khz>Adobe Audition>Wav>Flacfrontend 1.7.1
01. Finest Worksong
02. These Days
03. Pilgrimage
04. Disturbance At The Heron House
05. Exhuming McCarthy
06. Orange Crush
07. Feeling Gravity’s Pull
08. The Flowers Of Guatemala
09. Fireplace
10. Tired Of Singing Trouble
11. I Believe (tape flip immediately after)
12. Maps And Legends
13. Driver 8
14. Superman
15. Pretty Persuasion*
16. Oddfellows Local 151*
17. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)*
18. Begin The Begin*
(suggested disc 2 start)
encore 1:
19. Strange*
20. Title*
21. Fall On Me
encore 2:
22. We Walk (featuring Natalie Merchant)
23. 1,000,000
24. See No Evil
encore 3:
25. Harpers
26. Crazy
27. The One I Love
*second source
I received this tape in the mail last week. Having converted it immediately to wavs and played it through, I reckon this particular tape was put together from two recording sources.
Source one has quite a full sound, but also is afflicted by a curious echo in the left channel – I did some research and discovered that RCMH is notorious for its awful acoustics, particularly the echo. It is caused the by lack of any acoustic dampening on the vast ceiling and walls. The echo is more pronounced towards the edges of the theatre.
I have attempted to compensate for the echo by overlaying a mono copy of the right channel, so you still get the fullness of sound, but the delay effect in the left ear is less obtrusive. You can hear the echo on the drum intro to McCarthy quite clearly.
The second source doesn’t have this problem, and I have highlighted songs from source two with an asterisk.
Anyway, issues aside, it’s all pretty good, it’s a bit trebly on some tracks and will sound better at a lower volume. During Superman, taper one starts fiddling with his mikes so there’s some rustling and mike noise, and also the relocation of the mikes catches someone singing along.
The transitions between sources are as they were on the original tape. I have smoothed out the tape flip between Pretty Persuasion and Oddfellows, and rejoined the final encore to the rest of the show. No EQ was used, but I did use some volume envelopes to make sure the volume is a bit more consistent.
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Different version:
Disc One 77:26
01. Finest Worksong
02. These Days
03. Pilgrimage
04. Disturbance At The Heron House
05. Exhuming McCarthy
06. Orange Crush
07. Feeling Gravitys Pull
08. The Flowers Of Guatemala
09. Fireplace
10. Tired Of Singing Trouble - I Believe
11. Maps And Legends
12. Driver 8
13. Superman
14. Pretty Persuasion
15. Oddfellows Local 151
16. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
17. Begin The Begin
encore 1:
18. Strange
19. Title
20. Fall On Me
Disc Two 17:45
01. We Walk
02. 1,000,000
03. See No Evil
encore 2:
04. Harpers
05. Crazy
06. The One I Love
Timeline notes: Natalie Merchant guests on 'We Walk', Michael guests on 'A Campfire Song' with the 10,000 Maniacs on their opening set. After 'The Flowers Of Guatemala', Michael again quotes from David Bowie's 'Diamond Dogs' - "This ain't rock and roll, this is genocide".
Notes:
-1st version: Disc One 71:13, Disc Two 29:30. Grade B
-Different version Grade: C
-I think differen version is different because there is not a singing female during Superman
-MS claims Fireplace, written on his setlist is illegible. "Firepays? Does that mean water puts out?"
-MS introduces MM before Superman "He's brash, He's bold, he's 35".
-Least annoying Natalie Merchant appearence I've heard to date. Sounds like they actually rehearsed