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Two versions of this show are also on the tracker (and there've been other versions in the past).
This one ( http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=383131 ) an unknown gen FM broadcast omits Land/Gloria.
This one ( http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=383812 ) from FM radio has the same number of songs as mine, but my version is recorded from satellite and is 4 minutes longer (some extra talking bits) as well as being a noticeable upgrade in sound quality.
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Patti Smith
Musikhalle, Hamburg, Germany, 1996.08.01 (Satellite broadcast)
01 Wing
02 People Have The Power
03 Dancing Barefoot
04 Summer Cannibals
05 Wicked Messenger
06 Ghost Dance
07 Beneath The Southern Cross
08 Redondo Beach
09 Free Money
10 About A Boy
11 Crystal Ship
12 When Doves Cry / Ain't It Strange
13 Wild Leaves
14 People Have The Power (spoken)
15 Gone Again
16 Because The Night
17 Land / Gloria
18 Farewell Reel
Length - 100:29
Patti Smith - vocals
Tom Verlaine, Lenny Kaye, Oliver Ray - guitars
Tony Shanahan - bass
Jay Dee Daugherty - drums
NDR2 > Astra Satellite receiver(Analogue) > TDK D120 > 2x That's CDIIF60's(cassettes, despite the CD in their name) > wav > Soundforge(normalise) > CDWave(split on sector boundaries) > flac(6)
There've been various versions of the radio broadcast of this show, some I've see were a)silver cd bootleg(incomplete?), b)FM broadcast with Land/Gloria missing, c)FM Radio(mono DAT recording but more complete), d)FM Radio, and there've probably been various edits using these recordings. Here's another, this one recorded from satellite...
As well as getting a load of free German TV channels on the Astra satellite each channel also had alternate audio tracks carrying radio stations. I had 2 phono leads running from the satellite receiver to my hifi so I could make recordings of the radio shows.
On 12th Oct 1996 NDR2 broadcast a 54 minute shortened version of this show (consisting of tracks 1-6,12-14,16... I think. I rubbed out the titles of side 2 of the cassette to make way for the new version so I'm not 100% certain of 12,13,14). On 1st Nov 1997 NDR2 broadcast a 100 minute version, with a break for the news after the first 55 min. I recorded on a c120 so I wouldn't have to miss anything while turning the tape, then copied this onto two 60's, so what you get here is 1st gen. The first 25 min (tracks 1-5) are from the 1996 broadcast (this is where the extra talk parts are - after people Have The Power and after Summer Cannibals) and the rest is from the 1997 broadcast. (There's a DJ announcement lasting 7 seconds after Dancing Barefoot which more than likely wasn't present in the 2nd broadcast). I left the DJ announcement as he is talking over audience applause and it's only 7 seconds so it's no big deal, but I removed the other DJ announcements at the start and end of each hour as they were very polite and didn't talk over the beginning or end as sometimes happens so it was easy to remove them without losing anything.
In the spectral view it cuts off at around 15000Hz. I checked one of the FM sources (the 2nd link in the contrast clause up at the top) and it has the same cutoff point, so presumably that's typical for this station. You can also see a little line that's a 16k carrier wave in the part recorded in 1997, but weirdly it's not present in the part recorded from the 1996 broadcast.
Crystal Ship was the final song of the broadcast, but in line with other recordings (and the correct order proven by an audience recording) I've moved it to it's proper place with small crossfades. Nothing else has been touched apart from removing a click 0:22 into Beneath The Southern Cross, and another click 1:20 into About A Boy.
It sounds like there's a bit of clipping/distortion in a few drumbeats in part of Free Money, but on examination of the wave there are peaks that are higher than the distorted drumbeats and yet are not distorted, so the problem must be with the broadcast. Probably the guy on the soundboard had a fader set too high or something, but the sound guy is pretty fast in fixing things and it quickly goes right. (I also noticed some distorted drumbeats in Because The Night & Land which again don't last long.)
Egg_Crisis, March 2012.