Iggy Pop - 1991-01-26 - Berlin, DE (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Iggy Pop 

Neue Welt, Berlin. Germany 

26 Jan 1991 

EX FM Stereo 

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Silver CDs > EAC > Click Repair (due to one CD being vinyl sourced) > Audacity > CD Wave > TLH > FLAC 

CD1

01 Raw Power 

02 Five Foot One 

03 Dirt 

04 Loose 

05 Lust for Life 

06 China Girl 

07 I Got A Right 

08 Butt Town 

09 Real Wild Child 

10 My Baby Wants to Rock and Roll 

11 Neon Forest 

12 Home 

CD2

01 Brick by Brick 

02 1969 

03 Candy 

04 I Wanna Be Your Dog 

05 No Fun 

06 Search and Destroy 

...as the band crash into Five Foot one Iggy greets his audience, "you f***ers!" :) 

This is a great gig...for the most part from the "Metalhead" CD. For whatever reason, this CD betrayed a vinyl source. I have been puzzled by this, as by this time CD bootlegs were pretty much the norm (hence it would be rare for a new CD bootleg to be sourced from a new-ish vinyl bootleg, I know of one occurence but like I say, it was rare). Also this is a European concert...most concerts that made it to transcription LPs were for US or UK broadcast primarily, and often recorded in the UK or the US accordingly. There was the odd minor dropout too...I repaired this carefully on Five Foot One and Lust for Life, and I feel they flow well. 

I carried out de-clicking of the minor vinyl crackle on the Metalhead tracks using Click Repair. This was done very sensitively...I have found in the past that while Click Repair can do a great job, extreme care is needed in the settings and checking the results as it can sometimes confuse music / vocals for scratches on some recordings. Careful repairs were done of the odd louder vinyl click. 

Some vinyl crackle can still be heard here and there, due to the need for sensitivity in de-clicking to remove clicks, not music. 

I have inserted the tracks Brick by Brick, 1969, and Candy where I feel they most likely occurred in the running order, using the tracklist of the Brixton 91 gig, 8 days before, as a guide. These three tracks, and Raw Power at the start, came from the "Berlin 91" CD, everything else was from the aforementioned "Metalhead" CD. I carefully adjusted sound of the "Berlin 91" CD tracks to match the deeper and richer tones of the "Metalhead" CD tracks as closely as possible. 

For the most part the tracks from the Metalhead CD are untouched, bar the vinyl de-clicking...while not a perfect recording, that CD in particular has got a great sound, and trying to tweak it beyond the repair of dropouts in the aforementioned tracks seemed pointless.