Husker Du Minneapolis, MN, US First Avenue 1 April 1987 Eighth Anniversary - night three disc one [A-side of 1st-gen. cassette] (46:31): 001 These Important Years (3:44) [edit/patch] 002 Charity, Chastity, Prudence and Hope (2:52) [edit/patch] 003 Standing In The Rain (3:26) 004 Back From Somewhere (2:12) 005 Ice Cold Ice (4:14) [edit/patch] 006 You're A Soldier (2:38) 007 Could You Be The One (2:20) [edit/patch] 008 The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill (2:54) 009 Makes No Sense At All (2:27) [edit/patch] 010 Everytime (2:26) 011 Visionary (2:23) [edit/patch] 012 Terms Of Psychic Warfare (1:46) [edit/patch] 013 Bed Of Nails (4:17) [edit/patch] 014 Flexible Flyer (4:35) [edit/patch] [tape flip on original cassette - between song and comment] 015 Turn It Around (4:09) [fade at end of side A] disc two [B-side of 1st-gen. cassette] (42:09): 016 Diane (4:56) 017 Hardly Getting Over It (5:30) 018 She's A Woman (and now he is a man) (2:56) 019 Up In The Air (2:49) 020 You Can Live At Home (7:28) 021 When Pink Turns To Blue (2:42) 022 Love Is All Around (2:25) [edit/patch] encore: 023 Statues (4:24) [edit/patch; fade out - tape ran out] 024 What's Goin' On / Recurring Dreams (8:55) Night three of Husker Du's "Eighth Anniversary" celebration. I'm a little fuzzy as to why I didn't record all three nights, although I think I sort of recall striking a deal with a fellow taper, partly because I wasn't crazy about the idea that Huskers would be basically playing most of "Warehouse..." for each show, along with a few other random songs. At any rate, this particular night restored whatever faith I might have thought I was losing, as a result of the new material. If I held on to any reservations about the group playing these songs by the numbers, they dispersed that notion pretty quickly on this particular evening. Bob pretty much goes nuts during the last number; a manic contrast to the almost chilling restraint the band displayed on of some of the songs played earlier in the set. Bob and Grant respectively keep taking turns in the limelight, each reaching their pinnacle by mid-set ("Flexible Flyer" and "Hardly Getting Over It"), as if to remind the audience that they didn't earn their reputations just by playing hardcore. It's a darn good thing that whatever deck I was using sorted the sound out as well as it did, considering I chose to stand directly in front of the stage left P.A. column. Frankly, I'm a bit surprised this isn't more overdriven, but that may be due in part to the somewhat excessive reverb in the live mix. I had to flip through a couple cassettes to capture it all, and at some point I apparently decided to consolidate everything onto a Maxell XLII-S 90-minute tape. Fortunately, that tape stilll holds up pretty well, although the Nakamichi deck I tried to digitize it with didn't seem to be able to hold the calibration of the cassette, and I had to switch to a Sony deck in order to keep the Azimuth tuned accurately. Also, it seemed to be playing back a bit slow, so I bumped up the pitch almost half a semitone, [edit/patch]: means that when I made this transfer back in '87, I snipped out any extraneous "dead" time between songs (feedback squeals, tuning, audience murmurs). No music or band patter was removed - in fact, there wasn't any band patter. The most you hear in that respect is when Bob remarks to Grant at the end of "Flexible Flyer", "that was real nice". All edit/patches noted are at the END of the track. original master cassettes > 1st-gen. copy > analog/digital transfer to hard drive, using CDWav editor to capture the audio, and also to split the .wav file into tracks). SoundForge processes applied: DC Offset; pitch shift: +47 cents (NO anti-alias filter applied); channel level adjustments (average -1.0dB per channel). Traders Little Helper: SBE check/repair; .flac conversion (level 8) ********************************************************************************************************************** A KIND OF DISCLAIMER AGAINST POTENTIAL BOOTLEGGERS... I had taken a bit of a break from posting anything, due to getting a lot of flak about my no-artwork "policy". I'm willing to give it another try, and see how it goes. If people are interested in hearing what I dig out of the archives, then please do not post artwork on the torrents I post, and please don't try to open a big debate about it in the comments section. Either of those things will be the quickest way to convince me that I'm wasting my time sharing this stuff with people. Do what you want in your own space, but please respect my one simple request on the torrents I post, okay? It is my express interest to provide the best quality archival material I have available, but the notion of people creating "artwork" for these recordings has little to do with the work I do as an archivist. It also easily enables the ready packaging of archival recordings as illegitimate bootlegs, which I do not support. I am not in the business of manufacturing a "product", but simply contributing to a particular type of cultural history. If people are going to make artwork for my recordings, I don't want to see it attached to this or any of my torrents, or that will seriously be the end of me putting up anything else from my archives. If this is going to be an issue for anyone, I'm done sharing my recordings, period. I'm not interested in anyone's opinions on the subject, and this is not a matter that's up for discussion. If you disagree with my opinion, why waste your time or anyone else's posting about it? ********************************************************************************************************************** Now, back to the fun stuff - just enjoy the music, okay?