Talking Heads - Werchter Festival Belgium, 4th july 1982, SBD & FM upgrade


Contrast clause:
This torrent is different from http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=159735 in that it has a different source for 11 of 13 tracks.


1. Psycho killer
2. Cities
3. Big blue Plymouth
4. Once in a lifetime
5. Mind
6. My big hands
7. Big business
8. I Zimbra
9. Swamp
10. Slink
11. Houses in motion
12. Life during wartime
13. Take me to the river

Running time: 68:20


David Byrne: vocal, guitar
Tina Weymouth: bass, guitar, vocal
Jerry Harrison: synthesizers, keyboards, guitar, vocal
Chris Frantz: drums
Alex Weir: lead guitar, vocal
Steven Scales: percussion
Bernie Worrell
Dolette MacDonald


This upgrade is courtesy of the Talking Heads tapes Hans de Vente shared last year. Among them were 25 minutes of this concert recorded from the sounddesk: Psycho killer, Big business, I Zimbra, Swamp and Slink. Quality was of course better than that of the two FM broadcasts (1982 and 2006) that were available. Also, Slink was a track that was never broadcast (I guess they considered a solo Jerry Harrison track less interesting).

I tried to combine these five tracks with the FM broadcasts, but this did not work out well. The 2006 FM broadcast has great sound but its compressed and in-your-face quality did not fit in with the sounddesk tracks. And the available recording of the 1982 broadcast was simply not very good.

I had just about given up about the idea when I discovered among the myriad Talking Heads tapes Hans shared an excellent recording of the 1982 FM broadcast. This one fit much better with the sounddesk tracks. And it makes the recording closer to how things originally sounded. So I used this for the other tracks and added to it only two tracks from the 2006 broadcast, Once in a lifetime (not broadcast in 1982) and Take me to the river (which faded halfway into the bleeps of the news, a bittersweet throwback to how things were, listening to Dutch radio).

In combining the sources I took the soundboard tracks as point of departure and used CoolEdit to adapt the other tracks to make transitions minimal (some equalizing, volume leveling, etc.). You can still hear a slight difference in sound characterics, with the sounddesk tracks standing out, but only when listening closely. Also, Slink was at the end of Hans'tape, so it fades out after about four minutes.

Anyway, these are just minor issues. This is a nice Talking Heads concert from 1982 with great sound quality. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do (which won't be easy, believe me).

Lineages:

Tracks 1, 7-10:
Sounddesk > cassette Hans de Vente > Nakamichi Dragon > Audacity > Wav 96/24 > FLAC > CoolEdit > Wav 44/16.

Tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12 .
FM broadcast 1982 > cassette Hans de Vente > Nakamichi Dragon > Audacity > Wav 44/16.

Tracks 4, 13:
FM broadcast 2006 > Onkyo TX-SR600E ->M-Audio 1010LT ->Adobe Audition v2.0 -> Wav 44/16.