The Police - 1983-09-10 - Oackland, CA (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

Oakland Stadium
Oakland, CA
USA
1983-09-10
DVD (PRO-SHOT)

Lineage & Source: Unknown

Sting (lead vocals, bass)
Andy Summers (guitar, vocals)
Stewart Copeland (drums, vocals, percussion)

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 O 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
12 Hole In My Life/ Hit The Road Jack
13 One World
14 King Of Pain
15 Don't Stand So Close To Me
16 Murder By Numbers
17 Every Breath You Take
18 Roxanne
19 Can't Stand Losing You/ Jamaica Farewell

The Police - 1979-09-07 - Voorburg, NL (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Vliegermolen 

Veronica's "Countdown" 
Rebroadcasted on 1979-10-03 

Broadcasted on TV on 1979-10-10 

Length: 43 Min 
Source: FM 
Quality: 9 

Lineage: 
FM > TDK D-C90 low generation cassette (side B) 

Conversion: 
Cass(?) > Nakamichi Dragon > FireWire 410 @ 24/88.2 > Audition (speed correction 91%) > WAV 

24 bit/88.2 kHz version: WAV > CDWAV > FLAC (level 8 w/ Verify) 
24/88.2 Size: 1.26 GB 
24/88.2 FLAC Compressed: 1.04 GB 

16 bit/44.1 kHz version: WAV > Audition (44.1 kHz resample) > Izotope Ozone (MBIT+ ULTRA dithering) > CDWAV > FLAC (level 8 w/ Verify) 
16/44.1 Size: 433 MB 
16/44.1 FLAC Compressed: 289 MB 

THIS IS THE 16 bits / 44.1 kHz VERSION 

Conversion by: Carlo Bolchini, 13 December 2007 

01) Intro 
02) Next to you 
03) So lonely 
04) Walking on the moon 
05) Hole in my life 
06) Message in a bottle 
07) The bed's too big without you 
08) Can't stand losing you > Reggatta de blanc > Can't stand losing you 
09) Roxanne [cut] 

This was almost a whole step lower, I have speed corrected to the correct key, but there are some speed issued so it still sounds a bit fast to my ears. 

The Police - 1982-09-03 - Devore, CA (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

The Police
September 3, 1982
The US Festival
Glen Helen Regional Park
Devore, California, USA

Primary source: Master audience cassette
Nakamichi CM300 shotguns > Technics 686 > Maxell UD XL II
Playback: Nakamichi 680ZX > Tascam CD RW5000

Secondary source: low-gen. audience cassette received in trade (Dolby B Maxell USXLII) [used only for splices where noted].
transfer of secondary source: Nakamichi Dragon [Dolby B decoded] > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III sound card.

CD1 [71:08]
01 [1:22] Voices Inside My Head
02 [3:56] Message in a Bottle
03 [4:02] Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
04 [4:21] Walking On The Moon
05 [0:40] band intros
06 [3:07] Spirits in a Material World
07 [3:26] Hungry for You
08 [4:13] When The World is Running Down
09 [4:50] The Bed's Too Big without You
10 [5:42] De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
11 [5:20] Demolition Man
12 [5:51] Shadows in the Rain
13 [5:37] Bring on the Night
14 [3:14] Driven to Tears >
15 [4:50] One World
16 [4:21] Invisible Sun
17 [6:16] Roxanne > crowd

CD2 [19:34]

encores 
01 [0:29] talk and crowd before encores
02 [3:31] Don't Stand So Close To Me >
03 [8:00] Can't Stand Losing You
04 [0:21] talk before last encore
05 [7:13] So Lonely > crowd

The splices from the secondary source are:

disc 1 edits:
The first 47 seconds of track 1
3:47 track 3 to the first second of track 4
All of track 5 to 4 seconds into track 6
3:23 track 7 to 4 seconds into track 8
The last second of track 9 to 3 seconds into track 10
5:19 track 10 to 7 seconds into track 11
5:28 track 17 (right as music ends) to end of disc 1

disc 2 edits:
All of track 1 to 1.6 seconds into track 2
3.7 seconds track 3 to 22 seconds track 3
7:20 track 3 to 5.4 seconds into track 4
6:39 track 5 (right as music ends) to end of disc 2

Other notes: speed match of secondary source to master, edits and retracking with Pro Tools. A few minor dropouts also repaired seamlessly. No equalization or noise reduction. New level 8 Flac files created with xACT (sector boundaries verified). md5 file created with checkSUM+.

The Police - 1979-09-01 - Hamburg, DE (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

The Police 
Tracks 1-13: Radio Broadcast>Tape>CDR>EAC>FLAC 
Track 14: Video Broadcast (audio used only)>VHS>DVD>PCMm10>FLAC 
September 1st 1979 
Hamburg, Germany 
Deutschlandhelle 

01 - Next To You 
02 - So Lonely 
03 - Walking On The Moon 
04 - Hole In My Life 
05 - Deathwish 
06 - Fall Out 
07 - Bring On The Night 
08 - Visions Of The Night 
09 - Bed's Too Big Without You 
10 - Peanuts 
11 - Roxanne 
12 - Can't Stand Losing You 
13 - Message In A Bottle 
14 - Born In The 50's 

Fantastic recording in perfect stereo. This was a radio broadcast of a WDR program. There is also a really great TV broadcast of this whole show too. This is the superior source of this show from radio...except the last track which was not broadcast on radio. It was only available from the TV show so I patched it in from my DVD. 

The Police - 1983-08-27 - Winnipeg, Canada (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Lineage:

Unknown gen cassette>CD>EAC>WAV>FLAC

CD1

01 - Voices Inside My Head/Synchronicity I

02 - Synchronicity II

03 - Walking In Your Footsteps

04 - Message In A Bottle

05 - Walking On the Moon

06 - O My God

07 - De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

08 - Wrapped Around Your Finger

09 - Tea In the Sahara

10 - Spirits In the Material World

CD2

01 - Hole In My Life

02 - Invisible Sun

03 - One World (Not Three)

04 - King of Pain

05 - Don't Stand So Close To Me

06 - Murder By Numbers

07 - Every Breath You Take

08 - Roxanne

09 - Can't Stand Losin' You/Reggatta De Blanc

10 - So Lonely

101:54

There's enough hiss hear to turn some away, but this is a nice August '83 performance. Sting seems in quite a good mood here (he does sing a song for Winnipeg during CSLY), and the band turns in a good show. This may not be everyone's first choice, but this is an enjoyable show to have.

The Police - 1980-08-22 - Beziers, FR (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Unknown venue

SRC: SBD > ? > Dan Haugh's DAT (48 khz)

Lineage:
Sony DTC-790 > Hucht Copyprocessor MKII > Tascam HD-P2 > WAV > resampled to 44.1 khz in r8brain Pro > FLAC

01. Don't Stand So Close to Me
02. Walking on the Moon
03. Deathwish > Bo Diddley
04. Fall Out
05. Bring on the Night
06. De Do Do Do
07. Truth Hits Everybody
08. The Bed's Too Big Without You
09. Driven to Tears
10. The World is Running Down
11. Message in a Bottle
12. Roxanne
13. Can't Stand Losing You
14. All I Want is to Be Next to You
15. So Lonely

The Police - 1980-08-20 - Orange, FR (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

The Police -  Theatre Antique, Orange,France, August 20th 1980, FM.

lineage
2nd generation cassette (nack) > behringer ultra curve pro deq 2496 audio equalizer > amplifiers > tascam audio cdrw750 > cd > computer > plex tool professional XL > wav > flac.

01. Walking On The Moon
02. DJ > Fall Out
03. Bring On The Night
04. De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
05. The Bed's Too Big Without You
06. Deathwish
07. Truth Hits Everybody (beginning is cut, jump in)
08. DJ > Driven To Tears
09. When The World Is Running Down
10. Message In A Bottle
11. Roxanne

Encores :
12. DJ > Can't Stand Losing You > Be My Girl Sally
13. DJ > Next To You >
14. So Lonely

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

CD1

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]

CD2

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

--
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".

The Police - 1983-08-15 - Norfolk, VA (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

The Scope

lineage
Cassette Sb Master > Reel > M-Audio Transit > Cool Edit > Cd Wave Editor > Fla

CD1

01 - Synchronicity I

02 - Synchronicity II

03 - Walking in Your Footsteps

04 - Message In A Bottle

05 - Walking On The Moon

06 - Oh My God

07 - De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

08 - Wrapped Around Your Finger

09 - Tea In The Sahara

10 - Spirits in the Material World

CD2 

11 - Hole In My Life

12 - Invisible Sun

13 - One World 

14 - King of Pain

15 - Every Breath You Take

16 - Murder By Numbers

17 - Don't Stand So Close To Me

18 - Roxanne

19 - Can't Stand Losing You

The Police - 1983-08-07 - Rochester, NY (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

The Police 
Rochester, New York 
Holleder Stadium 
August 7th, 1983 

Tape Source: stingon 

Lineage:

LOW GEN CASSETTE(?) (TDKSA90Type II Cr02) > JVC TD-R441 > Sony PCM-M10 > Soundforge Pro 10 > WAV > TLH (FLAC LVL 6) SBE's Fixed> Electric Ladyland 

01) Synchronicity I 
02) Synchronicity II 
03) Walking in your footsteps 
04) Message in a bottle 
05) Demolition Man 
06) Oh my God 
07) De do do do de da da da 
08) Wrapped around your finger 
09) Tea in the Sahara 
10) Spirits in the material world 
11) Invisible sun [start missing] 
12) One world (not three) 
13) King of pain 
14) Every Breath You Take 
15) Murder by number 
16) Don't stand so close to me 
17) Roxanne 
18) Can't stand losing you 

87m 07s 

This show tape comes from the extensive stingon collection and he was generous enough to open that collection to us for transfer and torrent. There are some fantastic rarities and several major upgrades in the stingon collection. 

The Police - 1977-08-05 - Mont de Marsan, FR (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

"No Title"
Live in France at the famous Mont de Marsan Festival, August 5th 

Lineage
Cd silver -> Wav -> Flac Frontend level 8

Sting Bass, vocals
Stewart Copeland Drums
Henry Padovani Lead guitar

01 - Fall out (Copeland) 1:57
02 - Next to you (Sting) 2:57
03 - Visions of the night (Sting) 2:28
04 - Games to play (Sting) 2:38
05 - Clouds in Venice (Sting  - Copeland) 2:21
06 - Three o'clock (Sting) 2:47
07 - Nothing achieving (Sting) 1:51
08 - To fuck I want (Sting) 1:53
09 - Fall out (Copeland) 2:53
10 - How are you (Sting) 1:34
11 - I don't wanna be your number (Sting) 2:20
12 - Visions of the night [Encore] (Sting) 3:10
13 - Nothing achieving (Sting) 2:35

Lots of rare tracks never ever released on albums. It's raw and energetic as The Police were at first. It's a very early live Police recording as Andy Summers was not even here yet !
Henry Padovani (French from Corse) plays guitar on this one.

Punk Festival - 1977-08-05/06 - Mont De Marsan, FR (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

PAL

Various
Date: 5+6 August 1977
Venue: The Bullring, Mont De Marsan, France
Sets: 2 Hrs 18 Mins
Media: DVDR
Number: 1
Source: chapters
Quality:
Notes:


The Police
01 - Visions Of The Night

The Damned
02 - I Feel Alright
03 - Born To Kill
04 - You Take My Money
05 - Problem Child
06 - Neat Neat Neat
07 - Politics
08 - Sick Of Being Sick
09 - Help
10 - Stab Your Back
11 - So Messed Up
12 - New Rose
13 - Fish
14 - Neat Neat Neat

The Boys
15 - Sick On You
16 - Keep Running
17 - Cop Cars
18 - Tenement Kids
19 - First Time
20 - I Dont Care

The Clash
21 - Londons Burning
22 - Capital Radio
23 - 1977
24 - Complete Control
25 - Pressure Drop
26 - The Prisoner
27 - I’m So Bored with the USA
28 - White Man in Hammersmith Palais
29 - Cheat
30 - Hate and War
31 - Police and Thieves

Shakin Street
32 - I Wanna Be Your Dog
33 - Chinese Rocks

Eddie And The Hotrods
34 - The Kids Are Alright
35 - Quit This Town
36 - Do Anything You Wanna Do
37 - Been So Long
38 - Life On The Line

The Police - 1983-08-02 - Montreal, Quebec (TV/FLAC)

(TV broadcast FLAC)

Le Spectrum

Lineage
TV Broadcast > Original Silver CD > EAC (V0.95 BETA 2) > WAV > FLAC FRONT-END (V1.7.1) > FLAC (LEVEL 5)

Bootleg Title : "Many Miles Away" (THE SWINGIN' PIG / TSP-CD-116)
Quality : A
File Size : 441 MB (FLAC)
Artwork : Front / Back included
Fingerprints: Included
Total Time : 65:13

01. Synchronicity I 03:03
02. Synchronicity II 04:49
03. Walking In Your Footsteps 04:37
04. Message In A Bottle 04:17
05. Wrapped Around Your Finger 05:10
06. Tea In The Sahara 05:16
07. Spirits In The Material World 03:25
08. Hole In My Life 05:25
09. Every Breath You Take 04:05
10. Roxanne 03:58
11. Can't Stand Losing You / Reggatta De Blanc 07:40
12. King Of Pain 05:41
13. So Lonely 07:47

The Police - 1983-08-02 - Montréal, QC (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

Le Spectrum, Montréal, QC, Canada. August 2, 1983.

TV Broadcast “Les Enfants du Rock” on France Antenne 2 in December 1983
Procuced by Ken Godley & Lol Creme (ex-members of 10CC) 

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=10
Duration : 2mn 14s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 689 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 7 500 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL

01 - TV Commentator
02 - Synchronicity I 
03 - Synchronicity II 
04 - Walking In Your Footsteps
05 - Message in a Bottle
06 - Wrapped Around Your Finger
07 - Hole in my Life
08 - Every Breath You Take
09 - I Can't Stand Loosing You
10 - King of Pain
11 - So Lonely

59 min

The Police - 1982-07-31 - Gateshead, UK (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

The Police - Live
International Stadium
Gateshead, England
July 31, 1982

lineage
Silver CD > Orignal extraction to .wav > ACL remastering with loudness, bass added and stereo FX to correction> FLAC (level 5).

CD1
01. Message In A Bottle
02. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
03. Walking On The Moon
04. Spirits In The Material World
05. Hungry For You (J'aurais Toujours Faim De Toi)
06. When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around
07. The Bed's Too Big Without You
08. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
09. Demolition Man
10. Shadows In The Rain

CD2
01. Driven To Tears
02. Bring On The Night
03. One World (Not Three)
04. Invisible Sun*
05. Roxanne
06. Don't Stand So Close To Me
07. Can't Stand Losing You (incl Reggatta de Blanc & Be My Girl, Sally)
08. So Lonely

*feat. Bono.

The Police - 1982-07-31 - Gateshead, UK (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

pro-shot
Video: A
Sound: A

Video:
NTSC 708x480
Fram rate 29.97

Audio:
sample rate: 48Hz
bitrate: 256 kb/s

01 - Message In A Bottle
02 - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
03 - Walking On The Moon
04 - Spirits In The Material World
05 - Hungry For You
06 - When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What´s Still Around
07 - The Bed´s Too Big Without You
08 - De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
09 - Demolition Man
10 - Shadows In The Rain
11 - Driven To Tears
12 - Bring On The Night
13 - One World
14 - Invisible Sun * w/Bono
15 - Roxanne
16 - Don´t Stand So Close To Me
17 - Can´t Stand Losing You
18 - Reggatta De Blanc
19 - So Lonely

90 minutes

The Police - 1983-07-30 - Richfield, OH (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

The Police 
Saturday, July 30, 1983 
Richfield, OH 
Richfield Coliseum 

CD1
01 - Voices Inside My Head 
02 - Synchronicity I 
03 - Synchronicity II 
04 - Walking in Your Footsteps 
05 - Message in a Bottle 
06 - Demolition Man 
07 - O 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 
12 - Hole in My Life 

CD2
01 - Invisible Sun 
02 - One World (Not Three) 
03 - King of Pain 
04 - Every Breath You take 
05 - Murder By Numbers 
06 - Don't Stand So Close to Me 
07 - Roxanne 
08 - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic 

Notes:
The sound here is TERRIBLE. O My God is chopped and most of Every Little Thing She Does is Magic is missing. The tea break seems to take longer than it usually did. This ran 3% too slow until Wrapped Around Your Finger but was corrected.

The Police - 1979-07-23 - In Session at the BBC (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

The Police

In Session at the BBC

23 July 1979

01 Can't Stand Losing You (the bit we left out)

02 This Beds Too Big Without You

03 Next to You

04 Message in a Bottle

05-08 - as per 01 - 04, but with DJ chat and intros included.

Recording Lineage

FM off-air from original broadcast 1979-07-30 -> Revox B77 reel-to-reel -> Master reel

Playback / Encoding Lineage

Master reel on Revox B77 -> Alesis Masterlink @ 44.1kHz, 16-bit (track splits, fades, level adjustment) -> CDR -> EAC to .wav -> TLH to .flac

TLH sez no SBEs

The Police - 1983-07-22 - Lilitz, PA (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

"Complete" Synchronicity Rehearsals

Lineage:
Audio trade CDR(?) > xACT (cdparanoia) > FLAC > WAV > Coolpro > CDWAV > FLAC (level 8 w/ verify)

01) King of Pain
02) One World
03) King of Pain [false starts]
04) Don't Stand So Close to Me [preparing for...]
05) Don't Stand So Close to Me [cut]
06) Synchronicity I >
07) Synchronicity II >
08) Walking In Your Footsteps
09) Message In A Bottle
10) Walking On The Moon [cut]
11) O My God >
12) De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
13) Wrapped Around Your Finger >
14) Tea In The Sahara
15) Hole In My Life [cut]
16) Hole In My Life [from "three ghosts" source] >
17) Spirits In The Material World [from "three ghosts" source]

76 Min

tj7 notes:
Some tracks were split incorrectly, and there are some false starts here and there - but tracks 1-15 are from a very low gen source and sound great.

Carlo's notes:
" The tracking was madness, so I retracked this completely. I also removed those short silence gaps that were all around, but not on track boundaries. I hope I catched all.

This unfortunately is noise reduced, and obviously "mastered", but sounds much more better than what is commonly circulating and can be found on "3 ghosts caught in the act", and it has more songs including "King of pain", "One World" and "Don't stand so close to me". Last two tracks are from "3 ghosts" source and lower quality. They have been added (not by me) to have the most complete version of this rehearsals, but I understand they were not included originally in this version.

Please notice that there is some debate on the date and location of this rehearsals. "

The Police - 2007-07-20 - Hershey, PA (IEM/FLAC)

(IEM FLAC)

The Police 

Hershey Stadium 

Hershey, PA 

July 20, 2007 

source : in ear monitor + aud [Schoeps MK4V's>Nbox+>Edirol R-09?] matrix

01 Message in a Bottle 

02 Synchronicity 2 

03 Walking on the Moon 

04 Voices Inside My Head/When the World Is Running Down 

05 Don't Stand So Close To Me 

06 Driven To Tears 

07 Truth Hits Everybody 

08 Bed's Too Big Without You 

09 Every Little Thing She Does is Magic 

10 Wrapped Around Your Finger 

11 De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da 

12 Invisible Sun 

13 Walking in Your Footsteps 

14 Can't Stand Losing You 

15 Roxanne 

16 King Of Pain 

17 So Lonely 

18 Every Breath You Take 

19 Next To You