Tom Verlaine - 1990-06-18, live, solo acoustic, Vancouver, BC, (AUDIO) Full set: 14 songs

Описание: The venue was The Ridge Theatre. I attended this 1990 show and this is my own recording.

01 Kaleidoscopin'
02 At 4AM
03 Song
04 Man in the Backyard
05 One Time at Sundown (with long spoken word intro.)
06 Smoother Than Jones
07 Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (cover)
08 Stalingrad
09 Shimmer
10 Words From the Front
11 O Foolish Heart
12 Ancient Egypt
13 Let Go the Mansion
Encore:
14 Johnny Cash covers "medley": I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire - but mostly it's lots of Tom's spoken word
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The audio is taken from my (analog cassette) master tape. I recorded it using an Aiwa walkman-style recorder and a Sony mic that was better quality than the Aiwa mic but which was unfortunately not 100% compatible with the Aiwa recorder, as I belatedly learned. The mic recorded well - except the mic created unexpected prominent background noise that marred the recording. The end result was listenable but I viewed it as largely a failed recording due to the loud background noise.

But thanks to audio software easily accessible today, I was able to significantly reduce, though not eliminate, the irritating background noise (I used Audacity's noise reduction). So, this digital version sounds better than the cassette.

The song "Shimmer" has some audio problems specific to it. It has a couple of short gaps, plus a repetitive "thump" noise that seems to have been created by a temporary problem with the recorder.
I was able to reduce the thumping some by adjusting EQ on that song.

The venue was a movie theater built in 1950 which showed (mostly repertory) movies but did not typically book music or other acts. Before Tom's gig, I'd never heard of a music act playing there.
You can hear Tom say near the start "This is a funny place".
The audience was tiny, but enthusiastic. I doubt there were more than three dozen people attending. But the applause between songs sounded thunderous on the recording. It still sounds fairly loud though I did significantly lower volume of the applause sections.

The bit of background noise that still remains is hopefully more than made up for by the fact the audience is attentive and respectful enough there's zero audience chatter audible during songs, and barely any between songs, even.

The opening act was a local band, No Fun. One of the songs they played was "Blank Generation," the Richard Hell song Hell first sang when he played with Tom in Television.

A few tracks here seem more rare than others. I checked info I could find on bootlegs, including an extensive collection known as "The Big One", and found just one other example of Tom playing
"Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (1990-06-19, San Francisco, Slim's) and two other examples of his long Johnny Cash medley/spoken word piece (1990-06-19, SF, Slim's; & 1990-00-13, Long Beach, CA, Bogarts)."Man in the Backyard" he played at quite a few solo acoustic shows.

For the youtube slide show, I could find online only one photo of Tom playing acoustic guitar, so it recurs several times in the slide show.

I recall at the time feeling disappointed after this show as it was Tom's electric guitar playing I'd been wowed by, and Tom on acoustic didn't seem nearly as interesting. But 27 years on, I like what I hear on the recording now better than I liked it hearing it live back in 1990.

Anyone interested can download an audio file of this same show in lossless FLAC format from a file hosting site, here: https://mega.nz/#!bQNHGJqD!iUxHjGZR6Z...
-Hermesacat / Bob B.