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