Identifier9707329
Created AtTue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Media TypeFLAC
Media Count1
NoteR.E.M.

2 July 1982
The Strand Cabaret, Marietta, GA

/// REMASTERED ///

Source: Silver CD bootleg "Do The Strand" (Red Robin Records)
AUD unk *low* gen analog, possibly reel or Elcaset based on sonics

Remastering:
EAC secure (no errors)
Adobe Audition @ 32bit
Phase correction
Pitch correction
Secret sauce
Various cleanup edits
Re-tracksplit at sector boundaries
Normalization and fades
Dither to 16bit
FLAC
...to you

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01 intro
02 West Of The Fields
03 Shaking Through
04 Pilgrimage
05 Romance
06 We Walk
07 Wolves, Lower
08 That Beat
09 Pretty Persuasion
10 Sitting Still
11 1,000,000
12 Gardening At Night
13 9-9
14 There She Goes Again
15 Catapult
16 Radio Free Europe
17 Perfect Circle
18 Laughing
19 Moral Kiosk
20 Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)

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From my original seed of this on the defunct Sharing The Groove tracker:


This is a TERRIFIC sounding audience recording of a classic pre-Murmur gig, at the Strand
Cabaret in Marietta, GA. It's one of the best AUD recordings I've ever heard - at first I thought
it was a soundboard recording but you can hear too much audience chatter for that to be the case.
Either way, it's a phenomenal gig, and it is from a very critical part of the band's career - many
of the songs that would end up on "Murmur" were written during this time, and you can hear the
differences pretty clearly here. "Perfect Circle" is debuted here and played with a drum machine -
this is why it was dropped from the live set shortly after summer 1982 until the Green tour, when
they could do it justice.

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Pulled this out for a re-listen the other day and realized a couple things:

1) It's too slow - per Audition, it runs about 2% slow.
2) It's out of phase.
3) It's muffled and otherwise poorly EQ'ed.

Beyond that, it's a great little gig that took *very* well to remastering - this could fool many
people into thinking it's a soundboard!

I'm not convinced this is a cassette master. The underlying sonics sound very much as if it was a
reel-to-reel tape source, or perhaps an Elcaset machine (a short-lived successor to the venerable
cassette pitched by Sony in the late 1970's that had better frequency response and sonics than
the classic cassette format). There's a Joy Division gig (Jan 18 1980 Eindhoven, Holland)
recorded on Elcaset that has similar sonics, which makes me think this too is possibly Elcaset.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elcaset

So I tarted it up quite a bit and, if I may be so humble, this is the definitive version of this
gig. It's that good! So trash any other version you may have of this gig and grab this. Unless, of
course, you have a soundboard of it ;)


Full show info, from the timeline:

2 July 1982 - The Strand Cabaret, Marietta, GA
support: Love Tractor
set: West Of The Fields / Shaking Through / Pilgrimage / Romance / We Walk / Wolves, Lower / That Beat /
Pretty Persuasion / Sitting Still / 1,000,000 / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / There She Goes Again /
Catapult / Radio Free Europe
encore: Perfect Circle / Laughing / Moral Kiosk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: For the first half of the song Sitting Still is played at half speed, before they kick into normal
speed. It also contains the first known live performance of Perfect Circle (complete with drum machine).
This show can be found on the CD bootleg "Do the Strand", which included a version of the song 'Crazy'
from another performance.

Enjoy!

Drew
Source Infosilver CD bootleg "Do the Strand" remastered (please see notes)
Trades Allowed
Performance
R.E.M. 1982-07-02 The Strand Cabaret, Marietta, GA
Set 1West of the Fields
Shaking Through
Pilgrimage
Romance
We Walk
Wolves Lower
That Beat
Pretty Persuasion
Sitting Still
1000000
Gardening At Night
9-9
There She Goes Again
Catapult
Radio Free Europe
Perfect Circle
Laughing
Moral Kiosk
Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)
Crazy *
Set 2

Set 3

Comment* : unknown performance