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So with that I bring you my favorite, probably, pre-Murmur R.E.M. set - the guys live in Marietta, Georgia in July 1982 shortly before recording Murmur. This is an interesting transitional period for the band, as the songwriting is clearly shifting from the 60s-influenced "That Beat" stylings to the ethereal, un-categorizeable Murmurian structurings. We have "That Beat", probably the best evidence (both in terms of songwriting and catchiness) of their garage band roots, and then we have "Perfect Circle" in its likely debut performance - on a drum machine as Bill Berry's working the keyboards! Other new songs "We Walk", "Pilgrimage" - a song Michael Stipe is still clearly working out the lyrics for, and "West Of The Fields" point strongly to the future.
This is a cool little gig too, in that for an audience recording it really puts you, dear listener, direct into the room right in front of the stage. It's lively, it's got a lot of space, it doesn't sound cavernous or muddy. It's just a really great recording that excels after the mastering treatment I gave it over the past few days. I realize I did some work on this in 2008 and put it on dimeadozen, but that effort was crap (in retrospect) - a simple A/B if you have the 2008 variant will make it clear as day. Many tracks can easily fool even an astute listener into thinking it's a soundboard recording, but it's not.
So anyway, onward. Life after Mediafire begins... now.
2013 analogloyalist master
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R.E.M.
1982/07-02 Strand Cabaret, Marietta, GA ("Do The Strand" liberated bootleg)
Source: Silver CD ("Do The Strand" bootleg CD, "Red Robin Records")
Lineage: AUD --> ??? --> CD --> CDex to FLAC external encoder
Tracks:
01 West Of The Fields
02 Shaking Through
03 Pilgrimage
04 Romance
05 We Walk
06 Wolves, Lower
07 That Beat
08 Pretty Persuasion
09 Sitting Still
10 1,000,000
11 Gardening At Night
12 9-9
13 There She Goes Again
14 Catapult
15 Radio Free Europe
16 Perfect Circle
17 Laughing
18 Moral Kiosk
19 Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
20 Crazy (unknown venue/date)
This is a TERRIFIC sounding audience recording of a classic pre-Murmur gig, at the Strand
Cabaret in Marietta, GA. It's one of the best AUD recordings I've ever heard - at first I thought
it was a soundboard recording but you can hear too much audience chatter for that to be the case.
Either way, it's a phenomenal gig, and it is from a very critical part of the band's career - many
of the songs that would end up on "Murmur" were written during this time, and you can hear the
differences pretty clearly here. "Perfect Circle" is debuted here and played with a drum machine -
this is why it was dropped from the live set shortly after summer 1982 until the Green tour, when
they could do it justice.
Full show info, from the timeline:
2 July 1982 - The Strand Cabaret, Marietta, GA
support: Love Tractor
set: West Of The Fields / Shaking Through / Pilgrimage / Romance / We Walk / Wolves, Lower / That Beat /
Pretty Persuasion / Sitting Still / 1,000,000 / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / There She Goes Again /
Catapult / Radio Free Europe
encore: Perfect Circle / Laughing / Moral Kiosk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: For the first half of the song Sitting Still is played at half speed, before they kick into normal
speed. It also contains the first known live performance of Perfect Circle (complete with drum machine).
This show can be found on the CD bootleg "Do the Strand", which included a version of the song 'Crazy'
from another performance.
Enjoy! |
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silver CD bootleg "Do the Strand" remastered (please see notes) |
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R.E.M.
2 July 1982
The Strand Cabaret, Marietta, GA
/// REMASTERED ///
Source: Silver CD bootleg "Do The Strand" (Red Robin Records)
AUD unk *low* gen analog, possibly reel or Elcaset based on sonics
Remastering:
EAC secure (no errors)
Adobe Audition @ 32bit
Phase correction
Pitch correction
Secret sauce
Various cleanup edits
Re-tracksplit at sector boundaries
Normalization and fades
Dither to 16bit
FLAC
...to you
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01 intro
02 West Of The Fields
03 Shaking Through
04 Pilgrimage
05 Romance
06 We Walk
07 Wolves, Lower
08 That Beat
09 Pretty Persuasion
10 Sitting Still
11 1,000,000
12 Gardening At Night
13 9-9
14 There She Goes Again
15 Catapult
16 Radio Free Europe
17 Perfect Circle
18 Laughing
19 Moral Kiosk
20 Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
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From my original seed of this on the defunct Sharing The Groove tracker:
This is a TERRIFIC sounding audience recording of a classic pre-Murmur gig, at the Strand
Cabaret in Marietta, GA. It's one of the best AUD recordings I've ever heard - at first I thought
it was a soundboard recording but you can hear too much audience chatter for that to be the case.
Either way, it's a phenomenal gig, and it is from a very critical part of the band's career - many
of the songs that would end up on "Murmur" were written during this time, and you can hear the
differences pretty clearly here. "Perfect Circle" is debuted here and played with a drum machine -
this is why it was dropped from the live set shortly after summer 1982 until the Green tour, when
they could do it justice.
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Pulled this out for a re-listen the other day and realized a couple things:
1) It's too slow - per Audition, it runs about 2% slow.
2) It's out of phase.
3) It's muffled and otherwise poorly EQ'ed.
Beyond that, it's a great little gig that took *very* well to remastering - this could fool many
people into thinking it's a soundboard!
I'm not convinced this is a cassette master. The underlying sonics sound very much as if it was a
reel-to-reel tape source, or perhaps an Elcaset machine (a short-lived successor to the venerable
cassette pitched by Sony in the late 1970's that had better frequency response and sonics than
the classic cassette format). There's a Joy Division gig (Jan 18 1980 Eindhoven, Holland)
recorded on Elcaset that has similar sonics, which makes me think this too is possibly Elcaset.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elcaset
So I tarted it up quite a bit and, if I may be so humble, this is the definitive version of this
gig. It's that good! So trash any other version you may have of this gig and grab this. Unless, of
course, you have a soundboard of it ;)
Full show info, from the timeline:
2 July 1982 - The Strand Cabaret, Marietta, GA
support: Love Tractor
set: West Of The Fields / Shaking Through / Pilgrimage / Romance / We Walk / Wolves, Lower / That Beat /
Pretty Persuasion / Sitting Still / 1,000,000 / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / There She Goes Again /
Catapult / Radio Free Europe
encore: Perfect Circle / Laughing / Moral Kiosk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: For the first half of the song Sitting Still is played at half speed, before they kick into normal
speed. It also contains the first known live performance of Perfect Circle (complete with drum machine).
This show can be found on the CD bootleg "Do the Strand", which included a version of the song 'Crazy'
from another performance.
Enjoy!
Drew |
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Source: Silver CD bootleg "Do The Strand" (Red Robin Records)
AUD unk *low* gen analog, possibly... |
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Remastered version of silver disc: "Do The Strand" (Red Robin Records) |
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467 MB, 74:16.
REM 20 (with sector alignment of one track and FLAC transcoding).
Really nice early R.E.M. here. |
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"Do The Strand" |
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450mb/69min, great recording
Remastering:
EAC secure (no errors)
Adobe Audition @ 32bit
Phase correction
Pitch correction
Secret sauce
Various cleanup edits
Re-tracksplit at sector boundaries
Normalization and fades
Dither to 16bit
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Liberated boot "R.E.M. Do the Strand." |
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"Do The Strand" |