Tears For Fears
1990-02-12
Public Hall
Cleveland, OH

CD1:
01. I Believe
02. Head Over Heels/Broken
03. Change
04. Woman In Chains
05. Advice For The Young At Heart
06. Mad World
07. The Working Hour
08. Famous Last Words

CD2:
01. I’ve Got To Sing My Song (Oleta Adams)
02. Badman’s Song
03. Band introductions
04. Sowing The Seeds Of Love
05. All You Need Is Love
06. Everybody Wants To Rule The World
07. Encore break
08. Year Of The Knife
09. Shout

Roland Orzabal – vocals, guitars
Curt Smith – vocals, bass
Adele Bertei – backing vocals
Biti Strauchn – backing vocals
Andrew Davis – keyboards
Carole Steele – percussion
Jimmy Copley – drums
William Gregory – saxaphone, keyboards
Neil Taylor – guitar
Oleta Adams – vocals

Lineage:
SBD > master cassette > CDR > EAC > WAV > Editing (below) > FLAC Frontend > FLAC

Editing notes:
* Re-tracked show (combined WAV files in Nero, then re-split with CD Wave)

Note #1: I decided to create a separate track for the encore break–which is really just crowd applause–since it lasts roughly two minutes; tracking it this way allows you the option of skipping over the “applause” track when you listen to the show…and thereby saving two minutes of listening time.

Note #2: The volume on both CDs is just below 90dB; I did not make any adjustment to the volume, although some of you who prefer louder recordings may want to increase the volume 1-2 dB with your favorite wave editor if you feel the volume should be slightly louder.

TheCommish notes:
On previous “RS Archives” torrents, several of you requested a Tears For Fears show from the archive. Well, you’re going to LOVE this awesome-sounding show!

A caveat, however: Since I am not a Tears For Fears fan, I had to research almost all of the song titles below. I think I got everything correct, but please forgive me if any of the titles are incorrect.

Also, this show came to me as “Unknown venue” and with an April 1990 date. After doing some research, I found that this Cleveland show was held at Public Hall on Feb. 12, 1990.

Somewhere in the mid-to-late 90’s, that is to say in the early days of the Internet, or rather, the early days of widespread Internet, a friend of mine sent me an e-mail an in the subject line she had written “Woman in Chains.”  That will likely seem strange until I tell you that in all the e-mails we sent each other we included in the subject line a song title, or lyric.  The receiver then tried to guess which song it came from.  I hadn’t the slightest idea where that one came from, which is to say I am not the world’s biggest Tears for Fears fan.  It surprised me that I didn’t know it, because I actually did have a couple of their disks, and my roommate enjoyed listening to them. I was surprised even more when I found out I had that very song on a CD.  Which is to say that I liked their big hit songs, but not much else.

The question then becomes why do I have one of their concerts if I am not really a fan.  The answer lies in my love of finding oddball, or obscure shows.  Concerts from folks like the Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen or Ryan Adams are easy to come by.  They allow taping, they understand the benefits behind letting people trade their shows.  For others this isn’t the case and thus there are not very many of their concerts available in trading circles.  I’ve never once seen a Tears for Fears show out there, and thus I find it interesting.