Long Beach 85, longer recording ?

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Floorshow bootleg from TSP has 7 tracks only in disorder and I never managed to find more, only heard of the video made by a fan.

Is the more complete soundboard recording of this Long Beach around ?


Looks like this is the full set :

• First And Last And Always
• Body And Soul
• Marian
• No Time To Cry
• Walk Away
• Emma
• Amphetamine Logic
• A Rock And A Hard Place
• Floorshow
• Alice
• Gimme Shelter
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audience yes, but never heard about full sbd :?
Spiggytapes may know something more :roll:
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I think that the only complete recording circulating is an audience one:

http://darkcircleroom.blogspot.com/2010 ... -long.html

The video exists, you can find it in compilations on the weeding section, not sure if it's complete.
darkcircleroom4.blogspot.com
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Flood wrote:Floorshow bootleg from TSP has 7 tracks only in disorder and I never managed to find more, only heard of the video made by a fan.

Is the more complete soundboard recording of this Long Beach around ?


Looks like this is the full set :

• First And Last And Always
• Body And Soul
• Marian
• No Time To Cry
• Walk Away
• Emma
• Amphetamine Logic
• A Rock And A Hard Place
• Floorshow
• Alice
• Gimme Shelter
The soundboard recording failed part way thru the gig - hence there are only the 7 complete tracks.

The 7 tracks were re ordered to fit on the 2 x 7 inch ep's of the Silence Is Platinum box set. (Too short for an LP and to much content for a single 7 inch).

The master tape for that production was the same one used by TSP for Floorshow, lack of focus meant they never bothered re instating the correct running order.

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Randall Flagg wrote:The soundboard recording failed part way thru the gig - hence there are only the 7 complete tracks.
There has to be a little more to it than that, because otherwise there would be gaps in the running order. At the very least, assuming that the sbd recording ran continuously, Walk Away, Emma and Amphetamine Logic should also exist.
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lachert wrote:audience yes, but never heard about full sbd :?
Spiggytapes may know something more :roll:
Unfortunatly I haven't got the complet mixing desk.
I only got this:


LONG BEACH FENDERS BALLROOM (USA) 30-5-85 (4 differents recordings)
-(cut)FIRST/BODY AND SOUL/MARIAN/NO TIME CRY/WALK AWAY/EMMA/LOGIC/
A ROCK/FLOORSHOW/ALICE/GIMME SH(cut)ELTER * (CLAUSEN)(audience version 1) 4/5 / CD60
-FIRST/BODY AND SOUL/MARIAN/NO TIME CRY/WALK AWAY/EMMA/LOGIC/
A ROCK/FLOORSHOW/ALICE/GIMME SHELTER * (KENDRICK)(audience version 2) 4 / CD60
-BODY AND SOUL/MARIAN/NO TIME TO CRY/A ROCK/FLOORSHOW/ALICE/
GIMME SHELTER(mixing desk CD source) (version 3) 5 / CD60
WALK AWAY/EMMA/LOGIC/A ROCK/FLOORSHOW/ALICE/GIMME SHELTER( original video source)(version 4) 1 / C 30

+ FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS ( mixing desk ) taken from the compilation sound of long beach video.


On my video there's several differents audios source in bad quality (original sound/Official/mixing desk from long beach gig)
“First and last and always� appearing with a mixing desk sound , and can't be found on other stuff for the moment.

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thanks for your details spiggy
always interesting!
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mh wrote:
Randall Flagg wrote:The soundboard recording failed part way thru the gig - hence there are only the 7 complete tracks.
There has to be a little more to it than that, because otherwise there would be gaps in the running order. At the very least, assuming that the sbd recording ran continuously, Walk Away, Emma and Amphetamine Logic should also exist.
Eldo's mic failed during No Time To Cry and in the video you can see that there was a delay while roadies came on stage to fix things. It's my guess that someone stopped the tape at this point then forgot to start it again when the gig resumed. (Also there's the incomplete F+L+A as mentioned earlier, starts in the middle of the song, so we already know the person was a little sloppy at tape recording!) I'd expect the original source tape to have a little more after Walk Away before the tape was stopped, and maybe a little bit more before A Rock & A Hard Place depending on when they thought "WOOPS!" and started the tape.
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Flood wrote:thanks for your details spiggy
always interesting!
Aye! :notworthy:
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Dan wrote:
mh wrote:
Randall Flagg wrote:The soundboard recording failed part way thru the gig - hence there are only the 7 complete tracks.
There has to be a little more to it than that, because otherwise there would be gaps in the running order. At the very least, assuming that the sbd recording ran continuously, Walk Away, Emma and Amphetamine Logic should also exist.
Eldo's mic failed during No Time To Cry and in the video you can see that there was a delay while roadies came on stage to fix things. It's my guess that someone stopped the tape at this point then forgot to start it again when the gig resumed. (Also there's the incomplete F+L+A as mentioned earlier, starts in the middle of the song, so we already know the person was a little sloppy at tape recording!) I'd expect the original source tape to have a little more after Walk Away before the tape was stopped, and maybe a little bit more before A Rock & A Hard Place depending on when they thought "WOOPS!" and started the tape.
Ah, that makes sense! :notworthy:
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Ah I found the cd this was on! Here's the incomplete soundboard recording of First & Last & Always.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J6IXMU13
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