Talking Heads
Long Beach Arena
Long Beach, CA
Dec. 12th 1983

“The Unauthorized Documentary”

Source: Audience
Deck: Unknown
Mic: Unknown
Sound Quality: (A) VG+ to EX sound (Some Flaws*)
Source: 1st gen cassette

Transfer: >PB Pioneer CT-F1000>ASUS Xonar DG Sound Card>Audacity 2.0 @96k/24bit>Export multiple tracks 44.1k/16bit flac8>Fixed SBEs>You

Talking Heads was:
David Byrne – vocals, guitar
Jerry Harrison – guitar
Tina Weymouth – bass
Chris Frantz – drums
Alex Weir – guitar
Bernie Worrell – keyboards
Steve Scales – percussion
Ednah Holt – backing vocals
Lynn Mabry – backing vocals

[96:00]

Disk one:
01.Psycho Killer
02.Heaven
03.Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
04.Building On Fire
05.Book I Read
06.Slippery People
07.Cities
08.Burning Down The House
09.Life During Wartime

Disk two:
10.Making Flippy Floppy
11.Swamp
12.What A Day It Was
13.NaÔve Melody (this must be the place)
14.Once In A Lifetime*
15.Big Business
16.I Zimbra
17.Genius Of Love (tom tom club)
18.Girlfriend Is Better
19.Take Me To The River*

*14 mics were covered
*19 fade
=======Missing===========
eyes wide open
houses in motion
crosseyed and painless
pull up the roots

This was recorded by a guy named “Island”, he mostly taped shows on VHS-C
type video, but after meeting me, and collecting audio tapes, he was inspired to bring an audio deck to this show.
Good thing too, because he was too close and the audio was very distorted on
the video, so I dubbed this sound to sync to the video.
there is 25 minutes of video total, but I will need to do a new transfer before it can be shared. It will be posted to youtube with the rest of Island’s video that I have copied from his masters.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCaQbEHkPDPhBxsVAv8zqoQ/videos

I can’t explain why the audio is so clear other than this was festival
Seating and he was very close. I don’t think it was on a high quality deck or
mics but still sounds excellent.
I doubt this recording has ever been circulated before.

Enjoy
Flashback17

The Who
10th December 1971
Long Beach Arena
Long Beach, California

Lineage: Silver CD -> WAVE (Exact Rip with xACT) -> FLAC (Level 8, xACT)
Silver: Killing Floor, KF 98003/4, “Closer To Queen Mary”

Disc 1:

01 I Can’t Explain
02 Substitute
03 Summertime Blues
04 My Wife
05 Baba O’Riley
06 Bargain
07 Behind Blue Eyes
08 Won’t Get Fooled Again
09 Baby Don’t You Do It

Disc 2:

01 Magic Bus
02 Overture
03 Amazing Journey
04 Sparks
05 Pinball Wizard
06 See Me, Feel Me
07 My Generation
08 Naked Eye

Notes:

This is an excellent audience recording of the entire show.

Here is a description of this recording that was in Record Collector Nov 2000 issue.

If the Young Vic show revealed the Who in a period of uncertainty, by the end of the year, thanks to the success of “Who’s Next” and constant gigging, LA Times critic Robert Hilburn spoke for many by describing them as “The Greatest Show On Earth”. This Long Beach concert catches the band feeding off a rowdy crowd, prompting Townshend’s infamous outcry: “This is a fucking rock’n’roll concert, not a fucking tea party!” (this comment was later used to introduce the “Thirty Years of Maximum R&B” box set).

“Baba O’Riley”, “My Wife”, “Behind Blue Eyes” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again” have already become an integral part of the set, with “Tommy” reduced to just five songs. It’s a shame “Bargain” wasn’t retained, as the band always performed it dynamically – listen to the San Francisco version, taped three nights later and releaed officially on the box set for confirmation.

A quality audience tape resulting in this well-known bootleg (the title refers to the ocean-going liner) first appeared in early 1972, albeit edited to a single album. In 1998, the full show appeared as a Japanese double-CD, restored right down to the original TMOQ artwork.

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