Husker Du
Minneapolis, MN, US
First Avenue
1 April 1987
Eighth Anniversary - night three
[audience recording; total running time: 01:28:40]
disc one [A-side of 1st-gen. cassette] (46:31):
001 These Important Years (3:44) [edit/patch]
002 Charity, Chastity, Prudence and Hope (2:52) [edit/patch]
003 Standing In The Rain (3:26)
004 Back From Somewhere (2:12)
005 Ice Cold Ice (4:14) [edit/patch]
006 You're A Soldier (2:38)
007 Could You Be The One (2:20) [edit/patch]
008 The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill (2:54)
009 Makes No Sense At All (2:27) [edit/patch]
010 Everytime (2:26)
011 Visionary (2:23) [edit/patch]
012 Terms Of Psychic Warfare (1:46) [edit/patch]
013 Bed Of Nails (4:17) [edit/patch]
014 Flexible Flyer (4:35) [edit/patch] [tape flip on original cassette - between song and comment]
015 Turn It Around (4:09) [fade at end of side A]
disc two [B-side of 1st-gen. cassette] (42:09):
016 Diane (4:56)
017 Hardly Getting Over It (5:30)
018 She's A Woman (and now he is a man) (2:56)
019 Up In The Air (2:49)
020 You Can Live At Home (7:28)
021 When Pink Turns To Blue (2:42)
022 Love Is All Around (2:25) [edit/patch]
encore:
023 Statues (4:24) [edit/patch; fade out - tape ran out]
024 What's Goin' On / Recurring Dreams (8:55)
notes from the uploader/taper ! :
Night three of Husker Du's "Eighth Anniversary" celebration. I'm a little fuzzy as to why I didn't record all three nights, although I think I sort of recall striking a deal with a fellow taper, partly because I wasn't crazy about the idea that Huskers would be basically playing most of "Warehouse..." for each show, along with a few other random songs. At any rate, this particular night restored whatever faith I might have thought I was losing, as a result of the new material. If I held on to any reservations about the group playing these songs by the numbers, they dispersed that notion pretty quickly on this particular evening. Bob pretty much goes nuts during the last number; a manic contrast to the almost chilling restraint the band displayed on of some of the songs played earlier in the set. Bob and Grant respectively keep taking turns in the limelight, each reaching their pinnacle by mid-set ("Flexible Flyer" and "Hardly Getting Over It"), as if to remind the audience that they didn't earn their reputations just by playing hardcore.
It's a darn good thing that whatever deck I was using sorted the sound out as well as it did, considering I chose to stand directly in front of the stage left P.A. column. Frankly, I'm a bit surprised this isn't more overdriven, but that may be due in part to the somewhat excessive reverb in the live mix. I had to flip through a couple cassettes to capture it all, and at some point I apparently decided to consolidate everything onto a Maxell XLII-S 90-minute tape. Fortunately, that tape still holds up pretty well, although the Nakamichi deck I tried to digitize it with didn't seem to be able to hold the calibration of the cassette, and I had to switch to a Sony deck in order to keep the Azimuth tuned accurately. Also, it seemed to be playing back a bit slow, so I bumped up the pitch almost half a semitone.
[means that when I made this transfer back in '87, I snipped out any extraneous "dead" time between songs (feedback squeals, tuning, audience murmurs). No music or band patter was removed - in fact, there wasn't any band patter. The most you hear in that respect is when Bob remarks to Grant at the end of "Flexible Flyer", "that was real nice". All edit/patches noted are at the END of the track.
original master cassettes > 1st-gen. copy > analog/digital transfer to hard drive, using CDWav editor to capture the audio, and also to split the .wav file into tracks).
SoundForge processes applied: DC Offset; pitch shift: +47 cents (NO anti-alias filter applied); channel level adjustments (average -1.0dB per channel).
Traders Little Helper: SBE check/repair; .flac conversion (level 8) : MP3
http://rapidshare.com/files/14676471...1987.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/14676549...1987.part2.rar
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