R.E.M. - 1982-07-02 - Marietta, GA (AUD/FLAC) "Do The Strand"

(Audience FLAC)

R.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 

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) 

Notes:

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. 

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.