New York Ritz '82: First Night

The Ritz

New York (New York), USA.

17 - March - 1982.

Attendance: 1.600 (sellout)

Disc 1 (70:35)

01. Gloria

02. Another Time, Another Place

03. I Threw A Brick Through A Window

04. A Day Without Me

05. An Cat Dubh

06. Into the Heart

07. Rejoice

08. Cry / The Electric Co.

09. I Fall Down

10. October

11. Tomorrow

12. I Will Follow

13. Twilight

14. Out of Control

15. Fire

16. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

17. The Ocean

Recording Equipment - History

SBD > ANA-1 > CDR

Comments

Fantastic recording, with better quality than "St. Patrick's Day". Probably they come from the same source, but this is definitely better, from a lower generation. Sound is much powerful, very close, and sharper and cleaner than the incomplete commercial bootleg. Crispness is just awesome. All instruments sound pretty clean, with great clarity. The only issue is a prominent hiss staying in the background, very noticeable between songs or during the quiet parts of the concert. This recording features the complete concert.

About the minors, Gloria contains a dropout at 0:29. Tape degradation ca be heard at 02:23 in Twilight. I Threw A Brick has a nasty skip a 03:15, that cuts off a pair of seconds. Another large skip can be found at 01:15 in I Will Follow, which kills a couple of seconds of the song, and a dropout at 02:01. An edit occurs after Out of Control, that only affects to crowd noise.