Eugene 06-05-1997 / AUD Matrix

Autzen Stadium

Eugene (Oregon), USA.

06 - May - 1997.

Attendance: 25.931 (capacity: 30.000) - Support: Rage Against the Machine

Disc 1 (65:40)

01. Pop Muzik (PA)

02. Mofo

03. I Will Follow

04. Even Better than the Real Thing

05. Do You Feel Loved

06. Pride (In the Name of Love)

07. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

08. Gone

09. Last Night on Earth

10. Until the End of the World

11. If God Will Send His Angels

12. Staring at the Sun

13. - Daydream Believer (karaoke) -

14. Miami

15. Bullet the Blue Sky

16. I Want to Live in America / Amazing Grace

Disc 2 (47:49)

01. Please

02. Sunday Bloody Sunday  (bits)

03. Where the Streets Have No Name

04. - Lemon Intermission (PA) -

05. Discothèque

06. With or Without You

07. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

08. Mysterious Ways

09. One

Recording Equipment - History

Mix of two sources: TCD-D7 + Nakamichi 700 (taper: JEMS) // TCD-D7 + Sonic Studios DSM-6C (taper: MH)

mix of best channel of each DAT master > wavelab > remixed DAT master > DAT clone > Peak 5.2 > Flac

JEMS info: Found this DAT in the archive and was pleasantly surprised by the quality when I threw it on. Back in the day, JEMS experimented with mixing two source recordings from the same show, now commonly called matrixing. This DAT blends JEMS' Nak 700 master with our friend MH's Sonic Studios master, picking the best channel of each. Given the different decks, the sources eventually go out of sync but that can be corrected. You may hear an adjustment or two on here, the most notable one I heard was at the start of "Where the Streets Have No Name."

The reason we favored such mixes at the time is that they created a wide-open soundstage and seemed additive when it came to strengthening the best qualities of both recordings. From the research I did online, the widely disseminated source for this early PopMart show is the bootleg Popmart Shopping Eugene. I don't have a copy of that but based on the description I suspect it is an entirely different source, and presume this recording to be an upgrade. We may have used the shotgun attachment on the Nak 700s; I will try to find out. MH was on the floor as I recall and the JEMS team (well, half of us anyway) were up on the side a section back from the stage.

I remember thinking this was a strange show, the highlight of which for me was "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me." It is probably better on tape in hindsight than it was in person.

Anyway, this seemed unusual enough to post here. I indexed the songs to match the same tracks as Shopping Eugene (not in the exact same places but same number of tracks per disc).

Comments

An awesome matrix tape of two different audience recordings. The final output brings a very clear and sharp sound, with music and vocals coming through very clean and powerful. The balance is also fantastic. As remarked by JEMS, a few little droputs are present, and some points out of synch (such a few seconds of Until the End of the World, or Streets). Concerning to sound quality, this is a major upgrade to the silver Shopping Eugene.

Some songs need more rehearsal, such as Gone, Staring at the Sun or even the classic Pride. The band did a full-band version of Staring at the Sun, and messed up on Until the End of the World. Note If You Wear That Velvet Dress wasn't played that night.