The Police - 1983-08-18 - New York, NY (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Shea Stadium

People: Sold Out
Time: An all day event
Support act: REM, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Length: 101'
Source: Audience
Quality: 10

Lineage: 
Audience>Low generation cassette

Conversion: Cass(?)>Nakamichi Dragon>CD-RW700>coax>M-Audio FireWire 410>coolpro>cdwav>FLAC (level 8 w/ verify)

The CD-RW700 is used only for the A/D conversion and is a pass-through.
There is no DAE in the lineage/conversion
Size: 0.99 GB
Compressed: 691 MB

Disc 1
01) Voices inside my head
02) Synchronicity I
03) Synchronicity II
04) Walking in your footsteps
05) Message in a bottle
06) Walking on the moon
07) Oh my God
08) De do do do de da da da
09) Wrapped around your finger
10) Tea in the Sahara
11) Spirits in the material world [tape flip]
12) Hole in my life [cuts in, but only 1 chord lost]
13) Invisible sun
14) One world (not three) [Tea break]

Disc 2
01) King of pain [Tea break]
02) Every breath you take
03) Murder by numbers
04) Don't stand so close to me
05) Roxanne [change of tape (probably)]

Encores:
06) Can't stand losing you > Reggatta de blanc Can't stand losing you
07) So lonely

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This is one of the best Police recordings, from a really low generation copy, transferred with all possible love. It's so good I rated it the maximum, even if it has a very slight hiss and really a few of that small "vintage" analog distortion. Actually is one of the best recordings of that era I've ever heard. You can even hear stereo effects (mainly the guitar going from a stack to the other), which tells us that the taper was greatly placed in the middle.

From this tape it was taken the vinyl bootleg "I'd like to thank the Beatles from lending us their Stadium", which is the grandpa of all the other Shea Stadium bootlegs. So we can say we have a pre-bootleg source here! ;)

The sound is greatly balanced and the performance is what you would expect from a show at the legendary Shea Stadium, where the Beatles performed, specially since Sting played with a freshly broken rib, a consequence of one of his famous playful wrestling match with Stewart Copeland they did after the soundchek.

There is a chapter dedicated to the Shea Stadium gig on "Wild Thing", a book by Stewart's brother Ian Copeland, who was the Police agent at the time. 

This show sold out in kess than three hours, definitely a record for the time.

No eq, no noise reduction, no speed adjustment. There is a small dropout after "Message in a bottle", but it does not touch any music. I could have cut it, and you would'n have noticed (well, actually I cu a small silence after the dropout, but if I didn't told you...).

You can hear someone says "Bullshit" when Sting announces the Tea break after "One world".