Elvis Costello
April 30, 1978
Monteal, Quebec, Canada
Theatre St. Denis
audience recording
From The Moose Track Collection
15 year old Back Up Dat from non-EQ'd transfer from original cassette master>Alesis 9500 Masterlink (no EQ)>AIFF
File conversion done with xACT setting of 6
The story of The Moose Track collection
In the late 80Õs a buddy of mine in Pennsylvania told me during my visit to the East coast about a tiny independent record store in Port Jervis, NY called Moose track Records. He thought I be interested in a box of live tapes he saw for sale in there. I went over almost immediately and sure enough there it was, a box of 72 cassettes. Some without labels. Some were generic white cassettes with a white cardboard insert. Most were TDK normal bias. Some were from the sixties, most from the seventies. Some were from BBC, most were audience recordings from the NY/east coast area. I bought them all at 50 cents a tape. Bands I knew: Devo, NY Dolls, Capt. Beefheart, Runaways,Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Led Zeppelin, Graham Parker, Rockpile, Damned. Bands I didnÕt know: Ducks Deluxe, Eddie and The Hotrods, Frankie Miller. Some cool oddballs: Johnny Rotten DJ-ing at the BBC, Monty Python in a radio appearance, a 10 minute radio clip devoted to the death of Paul McCarthy.
Yes, IÕve digitized them all with no EQ. All are a bit hissy, some have drop outs, the listening qualities vary wildly and IÕll do my best to describe them and post samples.
A lot has surfaced in better qualities over the years so feel free to ask about anything IÕve mentioned, you might already have it.
ALSO! Feel free to EQ or tweak the pitch or whatever. If you can genuinely clean up any of these please do it and post it. If you do, just be clear that itÕs your whatever version. I hear the potential in a lot of these recordings, but I simply donÕt have the time or place to do it myself.
Over the 2010 Christmas holiday break I retransferred all the remaining cassettes. Some had deteriorated forcing me to use the DAT back-up recordings. But I have them all and I will attempt to post as many as possible. I will also be posting scans of the actual cassettes in the comments section.
-Hitwitstuff2 (but you can call me Hitwitstuff)
Track list:
01. Pump It Up
02. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
03. This Year's Girl
04. No Action
05. Less Than Zero
06. Lip Service
07. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
08. Alison
09. The Beat
10. Stranger In The House
11. Radio, Radio
12. You Belong To Me
13. Mystery Dance
14. I'm Not Angry
15. Lipstick Vogue
16. Watching The Detectives