Reseda 15-03-1981

Country Club

Reseda (California), USA.

15 - March - 1981.

Attendance: 600 (sellout)

Disc 1 (61:58)

01. The Ocean

02. Twilight

03. I Will Follow

04. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

05. An Cat Dubh

06. Into the Heart

07. Another Time, Another Place

08. Cry / The Electric Co.

09. Things to Make and Do

10. Stories for Boys

11. Boy/Girl

12. Out of Control

13. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

14. The Ocean

15. I Will Follow

16. A Day Without Me

Recording Equipment - History

Sony portable recorder + built in mic > Analog Master

Taper: RG

Transfer (by JEMS): Master Cassette > DAT > M-Audio Transit + Peak 4.1 capture and prep > FLAC

JEMS comments: This show was recorded by RG. Like a lot of tapers of his era, he did some things that seem strange now, like pausing on occasion between songs to save tape. That being said, I find this recording to be highly listenable and highly entertaining. It is clear and has little distortion. The whole show is there and some chatter in between, too, though not all. I transferred RG's master cassette to DAT around 10 years ago, and pulled it out yesterday and did this transfer. The only thing I did besides break it into tracks was add some fade ins and fade outs. I didn't even normalize, so this is pretty much exactly as the master is. I probably traded a DAT clone or two of this back in the day, but it has never been torrented from this verified lineage.

Comments

Great recording of the Boy Tour. A nice capture of all instruments in this item, that features very good clarity and sharp sound. Audience noise is just minimal, located between songs. U2 played real encores (last two songs) during this energetic show.

Background noises are audible throughout this recording. They do not appear on the so-called 'The Ides of March' (my other recording of this concert). They both seem to come from the source, and 'The Ides of March' seem to be a remastered version, as it sounds slightly more balanced and does not contain those background noises (or not so many, at less). But it doesn't sound as powerful and close as this RG / JEMS recording. 'The Ides of March' may come from a very low gen cassette, or even from one of the DAT clones that JEMS mentioned right above.