10,000 Maniacs – New York, NY (07/22/88)

10,000 Maniacs
July 22nd, 1988
Pier 84
New York, NY
USA

Source: possible soundboard or FM, or even very good audience recording > ? > cassette received in trade >
recorded to hard drive > CoolEdit (track separations) > burned to CDR > extracted from CDR using iTunes > FLAC > you

Sound quality: B / B+

Tracks:

stage intro.
Hey Jack Kerouac
Maddox Table
Gun Shy
City of Angels
Peace Train
A Campfire Song
Like the Weather
Don’t Talk
ABC Lullaby (unreleased – Natalie solo)
Verdi Cries

Description:

This is a recording of unknown origin – it’s either a moderate-to-high generation soundboard or FM recording, or a very good audience recording. It’s possible that the band was opening for someone else, or that they were playing as part of a festival, since the set is fairly short. If they were headlining this show, then the recording must be considered to be incomplete – this could not possibly be the entire headlining set.

The setlist seems fairly standard for this era, with the exception of the unreleased “ABC Lullaby” which is a very pretty piano-based song in the style of “Verdi Cries” or the similar unreleased song “After Talking to Myself” (see Chicago 4-14-88, uploaded separately).

10,000 Maniacs’ “The Wishing Chair” L.P. will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year (original release date – September 23, 1985). Since it seems apparent that the Maniacs are not being given the remaster / bonus tracks / box set treatment that they so richly deserve, I’ve decided to upload all of my 70+ live and rare 10,000 Maniacs recordings during the coming weeks. Although many of these recordings will be re-seeds of previous Dime torrents, a substantial number have never appeared on the Dime (and many others haven’t been shared since the Dime’s previous incarnation as “easytree.org” circa 2005).

Enjoy!

2015 re-seed