Tom Waits – Hamburg, Germany (12/04/87)

Tom Waits
Hamburg (Germany), Audimax
12.04.1987

Taped from the center of row 7. The sound of the tape is still good after all these years in my dungeon. I’ve recorded the 05.12.1987 show also, it can be found here: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?returnto=%2Faccount-cp.php&id=106427
Lineage: Sony WM-D6C + Aiwa CM30 (or OKM 01, I can´t remember) – Maxell XL2 tape (master) – CD Wave 1.93.3 – Flac

Artwork is included.

CD 1:

Hang On St. Christopher
16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six
Way Down In The Hole
Gun Street Girl
Cold Cold Ground
Hang Down Your Head
Yesterday Is Here
Telephone Call From Istanbul
Straight To The Top
I ll Take New York
I Wish I Was In New Orleans
Invitation To The Blues
Train Song
Jitterburg Boy – Johnsburg, Illinois

CD 2:

Frank s Wild Years
Innocent When You Dream
Midtown
Cemetary Polka
Clap Hands
More Than Rain
Red Shoes
Strange Weather
Rain Dogs
Gin Soaked Boy
Band Intro – Walking Spanish
Papap s Got A Brand New Bag
Big Black Mariah
Tom Trauberts Blues

Tom Waits – Utrecht, The Netherlands (11/10/85)

Tom Waits
Raindogs Tour 1985
1985-11-10
Muziekcentrum Vredenburg
Utrecht, NL

CD A:
Entering Stage
Underground
Prelude to
Walking Spanish
16 Shells From a 30.6
Jockey Full of Bourbon
Pasties And a “G” String
Gin Soaked Boy
Preamble
The Tango
Tango ‘Till They Sore
Ruby’s Arms
Medley: Jitterbug Boy/Johnsburg, Ilinois
Take Care of All my Children
In The Neighborhood
Cementary Polka
Anywhere I Lay my Head
Down, Down, Down

CD B:
Shore Leave
Rain Dogs
Downtown Trains
Big Black Marhia
Band Introduction (Walking Spanish Groove)
Crowd For First Encore
29 $
Medley: Burma Shave/Summertime
Step Right up
Crowd For Second Encore
Train Song, Preamble
Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis
I Wish I Was in New Orleans
Jersey Girl

Personell:
Tom Waits: Vocal, Piano, Harmonium
Ralph Carney: Saxes, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Harmonica, Banjo, Violin
Marc Ribot: Guitar, Banjo, Trumpet
Greg Cohen: Upright Bass
Michael Blair: Percussion, Bass Marimba
Steven Hodges: Drums

Lineage:
AUD(SONY ECM 929)>MCA(Sony WM D6, Dolby C)>CAS (PB: NAK LX 3 azimuth adjusted)>MARIAN MARC 2 (setting: 24/64)>HD>REMASTERED WITH WAVELAB 5.0, USING 32, 48 & 64 BIT SOLUTION PLUG INS>16/44.1 DOWNSAMPLING>NORMALISATION TO -0.01 DB>CD WAVE TRACKING>TRADERS LITTLE HELPER (FLAC LEVEL 8, TORRENTING)

DON’T FUCK MUSICANS! THIS RECORDING IS NOBODY ELSES PROPERTY THAN THE MUSICANS, AND, OR THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER (S). THIS NOTE IS ADRESSED TO THOSE PEOPLE ONLY, WHO SELL CDRS, OR MAKING BOOTLEGS. NOT JUST A FEW MUSICANS ACCEPT TAPERS. ONLY A FEW MUSICANS MAKING THE BIG MONEY, WHILE MOST OTHERS HAVE TO FIGHT HARD NOWADAYS TO SURVIVE WITH THEIR MUSIC. HEY, IF YOU LIKE THEIR ART, WHY NOT SUPPORTING THEM IN BUYING SOME OF THEIR RELEASES, OR BUYING A TICKET FOR ONE OF THEIR SHOWS?

Tom Waits – London, England (10/17/85)

Tom Waits
The Dominion Theatre
London – UK
17-10-1985

This is yet another one of the rare shows that you often hear about but never find anywhere.

(courtesy of M.R. archive) ;O)

Thank you very much to my good friend Mauro Verona for sharing this gem. )

Quality : B

Lineage :

Source: Audience > unknown generation cassette

Wav > WavePad Sound Editor > Flac

Artwork included.

  1. Heartattack And Vine
  2. 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought Six
  3. ’Til The Money Runs Out
  4. Shore Leave
  5. Step Right Up
  6. Tango Till They’re Sore
  7. I Beg Your Pardon
  8. Broken Bicycles
  9. Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
  10. In The Neighborhood
  11. Cemetery Polka
  12. Falling Down
  13. Rain Dogs
  14. Underground
  15. Blind Love
  16. Burma Shave
  17. Walking Spanish

Tom Waits – Edinburgh, Scotland (10/14/85)

Tom Waits & Band
Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland
14 October 1985

Tom Waits; Vocals, Guitar
Ralph Carney; Saxes, Clarinet, Mouth Organ
Marc Ribot; Guitar, Banjo, Trumpet
Greg Cohen; Bass
Michael Blair; Percussion
Stephen Hodges; Drums

01 Underground
02 16 Shells from a 30.6
03 Shore Leave
04 Down, Down, Down
05 In the Neighbourhood
06 Walking Spanish
07 I Wish I Was In New Orleans
08 Tango ’til They’re Sore
09 Clap Hands
10 Step Right Up
11 Jersey Girl
12 Jockey Full of Bourbon
13 Jitterbug Boy
14 Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
15 ’til the Money Runs Out *

01 Singapore
02 Frank’s Wild Years
03 Heart Attack & Vine
04 Ruby’s Arms
05 Rain Dogs
06 On the Nickel
07 Big Black Mariah
08 Sight for Sore Eyes
09 Gin Soaked Boy
10 Tom Traubert’s Blues
11 Blue Valentines

  • – To cover the track split at a tape flip here, track 15 was patched in from another tape of this show
    Some microphone break-up in places, but not too intrusive
    This show is presented in glorious mono.

Recording lineage

Unknown recorder, probably Panasonic -> cassette(0) -> copied to Cassette(1)

Playback / Encoding lineage

Technics Cassette Deck -> Alesis Masterlink @ 44.1kHz, 16-bit (track splits, level increase, and patch in track 15)
-> CDR -> EAC to .wav -> TLH to .flac
TLH sez no need to fix SBEs – files already sector-aligned

Tom Waits – Transmission Impossible: 1975-1977

Tom Waits
Transmission Impossible (2015)
Label: Eat To The Beat

This 3 CD set includes radio broadcasts transmitted during this initial period of Tom Waits career, and features complete live performances recorded in; 1975 at the studios of KRQS FM, Minneapolis, featuring just Tom alone at his piano; in December 1976 at Media Sound Studios – another in studio session during which, between numbers, Tom is interviewed by the station presenter; and in 1977, back in the big apple at the famous, My Father s Place venue, out on Long Island.

Tracklist:
CD1 – Minneapolis 1975
1-1 Emotional Weather Report
1-2 Eggs And Sausage (Intro)
1-3 Eggs And Sausage
1-4 Better Off Without A Wife
1-5 Semi Suite
1-6 Spare Parts
1-7 The Ghosts Of Saturday / The Heart Of Saturday Night
1-8 New Coat Of Paint
1-9 Warm Beer And Cold Women
1-10 Virginia Avenue
1-11 San Diego Serenade
1-12 Putnam County
1-13 Ol’ 55
1-14 Mr. Siegal (from The Don Lane Show Australia 1981)
1-15 Tango Til They’re Sore (from Late Night with David Letterman NYC 1986)
1-16 Time (from Late Night with David Letterman NYC 1986)

CD2 – New York 1976
2-1 Emotional Weather Report
2-2 A Sight For Sore Eyes
2-3 Step Right Up
2-4 Eggs And Sausage / Invitation To The Bues
2-5 Jitterbug Boy
2-6 Diamonds On My Windshield
2-7 San Diego Serenade
2-8 Tom Traubert’s Blues
2-9 New Coat Of Paint
2-10 The Piano Has Been Drinking
2-11 I Can’t Wait To Get Off Work

CD3 – New York 1977
3-1 Standin’ On The Corner
3-2 I Never Talk To Strangers
3-3 Pasties And G-Strings
3-4 Invitation To The Blues
3-5 Jitterbug Boy
3-6 Step Right Up
3-7 I Wish I Was In New Orleans / Small Change
3-8 The Piano Has Been Drinking
3-9 Emotionak Weather Report
3-10 Muriel
3-11 Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come
3-12 Tom Traubert’s Blues

Tom Waits – Memphis, TN (11/02/77)

Tom Waits
The Ritz
Memphis, TN, USA
Nov. 02, 1977


SBD

Here’s a nice one from the ’77 Foreign Affairs – tour.

Actually, this is a good soundboard-direct-to-tape recording, but the tape was played quite often before transferred to CD, so the quality went “way down in the hole” over the years. After all, it’s still nice to listen to, I would give it a B+.
There are some severe tape problems at the beginning of track one, but it’s getting better after a few minutes. If you find it too disturbing, you might flip on to the second song…

I’ve selected this show for two main reasons:

  • rare performance of “Potter’s Field” ( track 14 )
  • funny things happen in “Cupid” ( track 12 ) : Tom started to sing this quiet song with guitar accompaniment, stopped after one minute and complains about the noisy audience….saying something like: ” Shut up back there for christ sake, I’m trying to sing a goddamn song ! These people are trying to listen, you farmers back there making all that … I mean, for christ sake….sounds like a farm workers convention back there … I know… I remember my first beer and everything, I get a little rowdy too ! …”
    After that, he didn’t finish the song but starts with “Heart Of Saturday Night”.

🙂

There is also an introduction to a local stripper named “Sherry Love” in “Pasties & A G-String” ( track 8 ); unfortunatly, this is not a video ! ;-))
According to drummer Chip White, tour manager John Forscha hired a stripper lady on Toms birthday show in dec.76 to enter the stage in the middle of the song. After that night, they hired a stripper in every town for the rest of the tour.

I did very little rework on the sound, just a little limiter and normalization, no noise or hiss reduction…I also have cut out a short segment at the beginning of track 15; there was a very loud and strange noise for about two seconds of no music.

Original lineage:
SBD > tape (unknown gen.) > CDR > EAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > WAV > FLAC > Correct SBEs (TLH 2.4.1.160) >

Goody’s additional lineage:
dBpoweramp (WAV) > Audition (Pitch Bender +24 cents; Auto align and center channels; Tracking updated) >
TLH (FLAC Level 8; Align sector boundaries; .ffp) > foobar2000 (tags)

01 The One That Got Away 4:26
02 Step Right Up 5:16
03 Jitterbug Boy (Sharing A Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and The Mug and Artie) 5:58
04 New Coat Of Paint 2:21
05 The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)(An Evening With Pete King) 3:40
06 Depot Depot 3:19
07 I Never Talk To Strangers 3:28
08 Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O’Clock Club) 8:57
09 Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38) 6:16
10 I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward) 4:07
11 Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson) 4:23
12 Cupid 2:15
13 (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night 3:34
14 Potter’s Field 8:54
15 San Diego Serenade 3:48

Running time: 70:42

Tom Waits: vocals, guitar, piano
Frank Vicari: tenor sax
Danny Trifan: upright bass
Chip White: drums & percussion, vibes

NOT FOR SALE – TRADE FREELY

cheers, Pascal
http://www.waitswatcher.de.vu

Goody’s notes:
This is somewhat of an improvement over the original files which had more severe left and right channel fading in and out than what you’ll now find. Centering these channels served to bring much of that panning together. Unfortunately there’s still lots of evident damage and dropouts, especially in the beginning of the show, as described in Pascal’s original notes. I believe the vocals are now more distinct and centered and more easily understood. Please do stick with it. 🙂
I also found the files I received to be a bit slow/flat. The Speed/Pitch is now adjusted correctly.

Text updated for this edition – August 27, 2018

Happyrudolf’s comment :

First of all thank you very much to my good friend Goody for his great work. :o) The difference between the original upload and this version is amazing.:o)

Also thank you very much to the one of the great pioneers within the Tom Waits community The Waitswatcher Pascal for sharing the show a long time ago.:o)

Goody points out that you should be aware of the various song references in the intro to Jitterbug Boy for the 1st minute or so of that tune.

Enjoy. :o)

Tom Waits – Madison, WI (10/31/77)

Tom Waits
10/31/77
Madison, WI
Park Motor Inn

Disc 1
The One That Got Away
I Never Talk to Strangers
Step Right Up
Invitation to the Blues > Eggs and Sausage
Jitterbug Boy
Pasties and a G-String
Small Change
New Coat of Paint

Disc 2
The Ghosts of Saturday Night > The Heart of Saturday Night
Depot, Depot
Burma Shave
Instrumental Improv
Summertime > Putnam County > Spare Parts II

WIBA- FM broadcast-> CD-R Trade-> EAC->FLACfrontend (level 6)

This is a classic show. Tom gets heckled by a woman during the show
and, that alone makes it classic. BUT, this is also a GREAT performance
amazing version of ‘Burma Shave’. Sound is pretty good B+ it is a FM
recording. Artwork is included.

Peter Gabriel – Forest Hills, NY (07/29/83)

Peter Gabriel : The Lostbrook Tape Series – Volume 53
July 29, 1983
Forest Hills Tennis Stadium
Forest Hills
New York, NY
USA

contrast clause:

this previously uncirculated lostbrook recording is a different capture than the show uploaded by davmar77
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=358940

end contrast clause

Recording Equipment: Internal Mic>Sanyo M2533 tape deck>(2) Maxell UDXLII C90>Alesis TapeLinkUSB>Audacity>WAV>FLAC

Taper: Lostbrook
Mastering: CQ

01 Across The River
02 I Have The Touch
03 Not One Of Us
04 The Family And The Fishing Net
05 Shock The Monkey
06 Family Snapshot
07 Intruder>
08 Intruder>Humdrum
09 Games Without Frontiers
10 Lay Your Hands On Me
11 Solsbury Hill
12 I Don’t Remember
13 San Jacinto
14 On The Air
15 Biko>Band Intros

Peter Gabriel – Vancouver, Canada (08/08/83)

Peter Gabriel
Date 08-Aug-1983
Venue British Columbia Place, Vancouver
Country Canada

Type Audience
Quality * B
Media 1CD-R

Track # Track Name Track Length
1.1 Across The River 03:44
1.2 I Have The Touch 04:31
1.3 Not One Of Us 06:03
1.4 The Family And The Fishing Net 07:25
1.5 Shock The Monkey 07:41
1.6 Family Snapshot 05:02
1.7 Intruder 05:00
1.8 Lay Your Hands On Me 08:45
1.9 Solsbury Hill 05:01
1.10 Biko 09:52
Total Running Time : 1:03:04

Recording comments
Different source and tracklist to ‘Opening Show’

Converted SHN to FLAC using xACT. Created new md5.
The Midnight Cafe, February 2021.