photo from one of the below mentioned dates
1978-xx-xx (November for sure; 19-21?)
BBC In Concert, Radio 1 broadcast.
OU: This is extracted from an hour long broadcast including short sets by three of the acts on the 1978 "Be Stiff - Travel by Train" tour of the UK. Probably from London's Paris Theatre, but I could be wrong.
This is a 2nd generation copy of the tape, recorded direct from the radio at the time, despite the occasional sound like a scratch on some vinyl, I can assure you that we did not possess anything more than a tape copy at the time this was made.
The sudden break in of the crowd at the end of a song (such as after Monkey Talk) was on the broadcast. The sound has been cleaned up slightly to reduce the excessive amount of hiss present, without reducing the apparent quality, at least to my ears. Looking at the sound spectrum with Cool Edit, there is very little above about 15KHz, just the hiss. This is not evidence of a lossy lineage, just the quality of the machinery we had available to us in those far-off days. The accompanying frequency analysis shows this drop off quite clearly.
Lineage: FM ->Cassette->cassette (including fades)->CD->PC (Sound Laundry)->FLAC->You
Track listing
01. Truckstop Queen
02. Pin a Medla on Mary
03. Wildwood Saloon
04. B-A-B-Y
05. Alison
06. Who Does Lisa Like?
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5 comments:
I love this old Punk/New Wave stuff. Thanks again Dave.
absolutely deeelightful!
RE 15k cut off: over the air FM cuts 100% at 15k by the specification.
Thank you so much for this one. While imo the best version of Wildwood Saloon is the live UK B side to Baby, this version is still awesome. It's always blown me away how a 14 yo could so totally get across the pain & desperation of that song.
Apparently she's made a great career for herself in TV writing & production but giving her music was our loss.
I met her during this period when i was a Tower Records employee & ended up pretty much running an instore she did. Seemed like a nice kid.
Never heard these recordings before, thanks again!
I think that is radio static.
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