RE-UPLOAD: Gang Of Four - Black Sessions, Studio 105, Maison De La Radio, Paris, France - 27.10.1995 (Flac)

 

Thanks to Kingrue for sharing on TTD.

The Stonecutter Collection vol 132

Source: FM Broadcast > DAT > 1st generation cassette
Transfer: Sony TC-WE 475 > gold tipped cables > JVC XL-R2010 CD-RW (44.1)
Editing: Soundforge (tracking) > Wav > TLH [SB's aligned] Flac Level 8
Traders Den 4/3/16
Transferred and Tracked by kingrue upload 757
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There was a silver disc of this on Sangatte Records, which was flac'd on dime back in 2007.

What I have to offer here is a little different lineage.  This is the complete broadcast with the French DJ with the intro and outro. If you like the Gang of Four, then you'll enjoy this radio performance.

Clocks in at just over an hour.  Come and get some.

Tracklist:

01 DJ Introduction
02 World Falls Apart
03 Not Great Men
04 I Parade Myself
05 Paralyzed
06 If I Could Keep It For Myself
07 Unburden
08 Anthrax
09 Return The Gift
10 To Hell With Poverty
11 Showtime, Valentine
12 We Live As We Dream Alone
13 At Home He Feels Like a Tourist
14 F.M. U.S.A.
15 Ether

Total Time = 60:47 min

enjoy

George

Gang of Four - 'All Tomorrow's Parties - Nightmare Before Christmas', Butlins Holiday Resort Minehead, Somerset, UK - 09.12.2006 (flac)

 

 

Gang Of Four playing with it's original members. Very Good audience recording. Thanks to the original uploader On Dime.

Original Info File:

Recording: FOB Schoeps MK4 > Rmod > Sony TCD-D7
Transfer: Master DAT > Panasonic SV-3800 (spdif out) > Digigram VX Pocket sound card > Panasonic Toughbook (spdif in) > Steinberg Nuendo > WAV 16

Recording by T. M.
Transfer by Anonymous
Edited & Mastered (Adobe Audition) by J. N.
December 26, 2020

The Players
- Andy Gill; guitars, vocals (RIP)
- Jon King; lead vocals, melodica
- Dave Allen; bass, vocals
- Hugo Burnham; drums

Notes:
- Curated by Thurston Moore

- setlist -
t01 - intro
t02 - At Home He's A Tourist
t03 - Not Great Men
t04 - Ether
t05 - What We All Want
t06 - Return the Gift
t07 - Natural's Not in It
t08 - Damaged Goods
t09 - To Hell With Poverty!

Run Time; 36:49.853

Checksums & tags created in xACT

Tagging notes:
Show information is embedded within the header of each flac file.
It will display on any player capable of directly playing flac files.
If converted to wav during processing, all tags will be stripped,
however audio data will remain unaffected. If you must
transcode to a lossy format, do so directly Flac > Lossy.
Use ffp or st5 to validate audio integrity.
Md5 values will change if tagging is altered.
[J.N. 12 January 2021]

 

Gang of Four - The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA - 02 & 03.05.2005 (Flac)

Thanks to the original uploader.

Taped by Pumpkin / Eat Pussy Not Cow Productions

Lineage:  Sony ECM mic > Sony Hi-MD minidisc recorder > Sony Hi-MD master > Sony MZRH710 > Sonic Stage > .WAV > Wavepad Masters Edition (edits, tracking) > flac (8) via TLH



02.05.2005 

Setlist:  50:41
00 intro
01 Return the Gift
02 Not Great Men
03 Ether
04 I Parade Myself
05 Paralysed
06 What We All Want
07 Anthrax
08 Why Theory
09 At Home He's a Tourist

10 I Love a Man in a Uniform
11 I Found That Essence Rare

03.05.2005
 
Setlist:  53:30
00 intro
01 Return the Gift
02 Not Great Men
03 Ether
04 I Parade Myself
05 Paralysed
06 What We All Want
07 Anthrax
08 Why Theory
09 At Home He's a Tourist
10 We Live As We Dream, Alone
11 Damaged Goods

12 I Found That Essence Rare

RE-UPLOAD: Gang of Four - David "Kid" Jensen Show, London, UK - 12.08.1982 (Flac)

Thanks to Kingrue for sharing this recording on TTD.

The Stonecutter Collection vol 133
Source: FM Broadcast > 2nd generation cassette (Maxell XL-IIS)
Transfer: Sony TC-WE 475 > gold tipped cables > JVC XL-R2010 CD-RW (44.1)
Editing: Soundforge (tracking) > Wav > TLH [SB's aligned] Flac Level 8
Traders Den 4/4/16
Transferred and Tracked by kingrue upload 758
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Here's a short FM performace from Go4.
It was filler at the end of another tape, unfortunately the last song is cut off.
If anyone has the complete recording, please share it.
thanks to Rich for supplying the tape.

Band line-up
Jon King - Vocals
Andy Gill Guitar & Vocals
Sara Lee - Bass
Hugo Bumham - Drums


01 The World At Fault
02 We Live As We Dream, Alone
03 I Will Be A Good Boy
04 History of The World (incomplete)

Total Time = 14:03 min

enjoy

George

Gang Of Four - Vilar de Mouros Festival, Vilar de Mouros, Portugal - 24.08.2019 (Flac)

RIP Andy Gill, you will be missed..
   
Taper: circle
Gear: Roland R-05 with internal mics
Lineage: WAV -> Audacity TLH -> Flac (Level 8)

Setlist:

01. Intro
02. Not Great Men
03. Isle Of Dogs (Aborted)
04. Isle Of Dogs
05. I Parade Myself
06. Paralysed
07. What We All Want
08. I Love A Man In A Uniform
09. Damaged Goods
10. Toreador
11. Natural's Not In It
12. At Home He's A Tourist
13. To Hell With Poverty

Total Time: 52m 56s


Do Not Sell!
Enjoy.

Gang of Four - Tipitina's, New Orleans, LA, USA - 22.09.1982 (Flac)

Thanks to the original uploader.

Lineage :

Source : Audience Recording (Courtesy of R.H. Archive)
Transfer : Maxell XLII-S 90 Master Tape > JVC KDVR-5 Deck (Azimuth Adjusted) (by Munichhilton)
Editing : Sound Forge (Fades In/Out / Gaps Editing) / CD Wave Editor / Trader's Little Helper (by big22)

Setlist :

01. We Live As We Dream, Alone
02. The Republic
03. Why Theory ?
04. The History Of The World
05. Not Great Men
06. I Will Be A Good Boy
07. I Love A Man In A Uniform
08. Paralysed
09. What We All Want
10. Independence
11. Call Me Up
12. To Hell With Poverty

13. Encores

14. He'd Send In The Army
15. Natural's Not In It
16. A Hole In The Wallet
17. Damaged Goods

Notes :

All credits go to R.H. for lending G.E. aka Munichhilton his master tape.

Gang of Four - Town Hall, Bournemouth, UK - 22.11.1979 (Flac)

Very good sound . thanks to the original uploader.

Setlist:

01 Essence Rare
02 5:45
03 Love Like Anthrax
04 It's her Factory
05 Bloodfree
06 Damaged Goods
07 Not Great Men
08 Natural's not in it
09 Information
10 At Home He's a Tourist
11 Return the Gift
12 Ether
13 Armalite Rifle
14 Glass
15 Damaged Goods
16 Rose Anne
17 Can't Stand My Baby

Toshiba Ghetto Blaster> TDK D90> TeacV-615> SoundBlaster> CoolEdit Pro> EQ & 
Normalise (in Adobe Audition)> FLAC

Recorded by Duncan (In my home town)

Enjoy

Duncan

RE-UPLOAD: Gang Of Four - Demos - xx.xx.1978 (flac)

Thnaks to the original uploader.

I think that these Demos are from 1978. Lineage and everything else is unknown.
Cool Stuff!
Enjoy


1. The Things you do
2. Iron Man
3. Hold up my Weekend
4. He called me a Wanker
5. Armalite Rifle
6. Anthrax

Gang of Four - Hurrah's, New York, USA - 31.12.1980 (Flac)

Very good soundboard. Thabks to the original uploader on TTD.

Original Info File:

Source: (tracks 1 - 6) Soundboard > 2nd generation cassette (Maxell XL-II)

Source: (tracks 7 - 12) VHS > 1st generation > DVD (audio rip)

Editing: Soundforge (tracking) > Wav (eac tested) > TLH [SB's aligned] Flac level 8

Traders Den 1/8/17 - The Stonecutter Collection 218 - kingrue upload 1011
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This is something I got from Rich from 2 sources.  There were probably a few more songs played, but this is everything that exists from this show.

If you're a fan of GO4 than you're gonna enjoy hearing this really great quality recording.

So now for the first time,  we get this show in it's most complete form.

Thanks goes to Rich for suppyling these recordings, samples provided.


01 5:45
02 Return The Gift
03 Not Great Men
04 Natural's Not In It
05 At Home He Feels Like a Tourist
06 Outside The Trains Don't Run on Time
07 Damaged Goods
08 In the Ditch
09 It's Her Factory
10 Armalite Rifle
11 He'd Send in the Army
12 Elevator

total time = 43:55 min

enjoy

George

Gang Of Four - Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 02.03.1979 (Flac)

Good sounding recording. Thanks to the taper for sharing it on Dime.

Original Info File:

Setlist:

01-I found that Essence Rare
02-5:45
03-Anthrax
04-I'm waiting for my elevator
05-Glass
06-It's her factory
07-Armalite Rifle
08-Natural's not in it
09-Damaged Goods
10-Ether
11-Return the Gift
12-At Home he's a Tourist
-------------------------------
13-Last train leaves at
14-The Times

Master audience recording
Sony TC-150 + Sony ECM-150
recorded on a TDK C90
Made to wav with Adobe Audition
Split with Adobe Audition
Made to Flac with Traders Little helper

Gang Of Four - Toronto Concert Hall, Toronto, Canada - 07.09.1979 (Flac)

Thanks to the original uploader.

Original Info File:

Created from a first generation cassette copy of an audience recording (recording equipment uncertain), as follows :-

Traded Maxell XL-II (Type II) source tape -> Aiwa ADF770 3-Head Cassette Deck -> SB Extigy soundcard -> CoolEdit Pro 2.1 -> WAV -> TLH -> FLAC 8 + .ffp

Setlist:

 1. I Found That Essence Rare
 2. 5-45
 3. Anthrax
 4. It's Her Factory
 5. Contract
 6. Natural's Not In It
 7. Not Great Men
 8. (At Home He's A) Tourist
 9. Ether
10. Return The Gift
11. Armalite Rifle
12. Rosanne     (Mekons song)
13. Damaged Goods

Total length of show: 46 minutes approx.

This has very good sound quality indeed for an audience recording from this period, in fact in some ways it sounds better than some of the early soundboard Go4 shows being circulated.

Gang Of Four - Peppermint Lounge, New York, USA - 20.07.1982 (Flac)

Thanks to George for sharing this excellent recording on TTD.

Original Info File:

The Stonecutter Collection [Vol 11]

Source: 2 mics > Aiwa Cassette Walkman > 1st generation cassette (TDK-SA 90)

Transfer Lineage:
Cassette > Sony Deck TC-WE 475 > JVC XL-R2010 CD-RW > Soundforge 9.0 > Wav > TLH [SB's aligned] Flac Level 6

Traders Den 4/23/15

Transferred, Channels Balanced and Tracked by kingrue upload 465

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Time for some Post Punk from Rich's collection.

Rich attended this gig on 7/20/82 and his friend recorded it. This was an unannounced show.

There does seem to be a recording in limited circulation with a date of 7/19/82, with the exact same set list.

Gang of Four most definitely did NOT play on 7/19.  Copies that made it into cd trades, were just mis-dated.

There was a tape flip during the middle of track 12, otherwise complete.

I've included photos of the j-card and cassette.

Band line-up
Jon King - Vocals
Andy Gill Guitar & Vocals
Sara Lee - Bass
Hugo Bumham - Drums


Samples Provided

01 We Live As We Dream, Alone
02 The Republic
03 The History Of The World
04 I Will Be A Good Boy
05 I Love A Man In Uniform
06 Return The Gift
07 Paralyzed
08 What We All Want
09 It Is Not Enough
10 Why Theory?
11 To Hell With Poverty
12 He'd Send In The Army (tape flip @ 2:28)
13 Call Me Up
14 The World At Fault
15 At Home He Feels Like A Tourist
16 Not Great Men
17 Damaged Goods
18 Cheeseburger
19 Natural's Not In It

Total Time = 80:12 min

Enjoy

Gang of Four - Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA - 22.10.1983 (Flac)

Excellent FM broadcast. Thanks to the original uploader.
 
Original Info File:

01 We Live As We Dream, Alone 3:22
02 I Love a Man In Uniform  4:08
03 A Man with a Good Car  3:40
04 I Will Be a Good Boy  3:16
05 The History of the World  5:01
06 Silver Lining  4:37
07 Call Me Up  4:02
08 Is It Love  6:02
09 Paralysed  3:13
10 What We All Want  5:40
11 Woman Town  5:03
12 I Fled  4:09

Total time: 52:20

Jon King - vocals, melodica, percussion
Andy Gill - guitar, vocals
Sara Lee - bass, vocals
Steve Goulding - drums
Alyson Williams & Paula West - backing vocals

Delayed live broadcast over 92.7 WLIR-FM, Garden City, Long Island, NY USA.

Lineage:
From my off-air master cassette
WLIR-FM > Technics Receiver > BIC Cassette Deck > Maxell UD XLII >
Sony TC-WE835S Cassette Deck > Behringer UCA202 > Sony Soundforge 9.0 >
FLAC level 6 aligned on SB

Original recording and transfer by beatpop.
Posted April 2009. 

EN remaster notes
1.1.2015
It's Andy Gill's 58th birthday and the birth of a new year with new possibilities as well, so I rang it all in after midnight by sitting down with this wild Go4 set from Hofstra University on Long Island, aired by WLIR-FM in 1983 on the HARD tour. I'm pretty heretical when it comes to this band, in that I really like the last two records they made in the 1980s when their moment was deemed "over" by the always-positive and respectful music press. Anyway it's a great sounding master chrome cassette capture that was a prime candidate to get really popping, especially the sultry snap of Sara Lee's boombastic bass. I feel that the Sound Forge graphic dynamics tools are great for these FM things because they really blow them up to a big-screen type of presence and serve to somewhat liberate them from their implicit compression, and this one was no exception. Whereas before it sounded great (yet a little dull and lacking life), now it's razor sharp and honed to a gleaming perfection, or close to it anyways. Have a listen and see what your ears say, and of course a very Happy Birthday to the one and only Andy Gill as well as the very best 2015 to all of you reading this :)

updated lineage:
FLACs from original DIME seed in 2009 > Sound Forge 9 remastering > DIME > you

Gang Of Four - Toronto Concert Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - xx-10.1983 (Flac)

I was tiped by Dave Sez about some recording that I have a lossless version, I will posted them here in the nexxy days. Thanks to the original uploader. 1st generation cassette copy of an FM broadcast.

Original info file:

Captured from an excellent sounding cassette copy of a recording (on Type II cassette) of an FM broadcast of highlights of this concert, broadcast on the CKLN radio station probably - DJ intros/outros and advertisements or announcements removed by the original taper here and there, but the actual music (songs) are basically not affected.

Lineage:-

Traded 1st generation TDK-SA (Type II) cassette tape -> Aiwa ADF770 cassette deck -> Creative SB Extigy sound card -> CoolEdit Pro -> WAV -> CD-R

Conversion to FLAC :-

Original archived CD-R -> EAC -> WAV -> TLH -> FLAC 8 & .ffp


Tracklist :-

01. We Live As We Dream, Alone
02. I Love A Man In A Uniform
03. A Man With A Good Car
04. I Will Be A Good Boy
05. History Of The World
06. Silver Lining
07. Call Me Up
08. Woman Town
09. Paralysed
10. What We All Want
11. Is It Love?
12. I Fled (no it's not, surely?)
13. Independence

Total Length = 58 minutes approx

Gang of Four - The Rathskeller, Boston, MA, USA 18.08.1979 (Flac)

Thanks to the originalç uploader.

(affectionately known as "The Rat Club")

AUD > ? > Cassette > CDR > xACT > FLAC(8)
44:29 minutes total

01. 5.45   3:34
02. Anthrax   4:30
03. Not Great Men   3:01
04. Contract   3:00
05. Natural's Not In It   3:37
06. Damaged Goods   3:48
07. At Home He Feels Like A Tourist   3:59
08. Guns Before Butter   4:24
09. Return the Gift   3:25
10. Armalite Rifle   3:23
11. I Found That Essence Rare   3:30
12. Rosanne   1:50
13. I Can't Stand My Baby   2:25

A Tribute to Nico (John Cale, Lisa Gerrard, Jon King, Mark Lanegan, Laetitia Sadier) - Teatr Muzyczny Capitol, Wroclaw, Poland - 27.03.2014 (Flac)

An unique night, exactly four years ago to this date. Thanks to robjab for sharing this one on Dime.

Original Info File:

"LIFE ALONG THE BORDERLINE - A TRIBUTE TO NICO"

John Cale live with guests
Third edition of Life Along the Borderline: a Tribute to Nico

Date: 2010-03-27
Venue: Teatr Muzyczny Capitol (Capitol Theatre)
City: Wroclaw
Country: Poland
a part of "Przeglad Piosenki Aktorskiej - Actors Song Festival"

Setlist:

01 intro
02 Frozen Warnings (John Cale)
03 Falconer (Lisa Gerrard - Dead Can Dance)
04 Mutterlein (Jon King - Gang of Four)
05 My Heart Is Empty (Soap&Skin)
06 My Only Child (Laetitia Sadier - Stereolab / John Cale)
07 Roses In The Snow (Mark Lanegan)
08 No One Is There (Lisa Gerrard)
09 Afraid (Laetitia Sadier)
10 Tananore (Soap&Skin)
11 You Forgot To Answer (Mark Lanegan)
12 Fearfully In Danger (Jon King)
13 Sixty Forty (John Cale)
14 Win A Few (Mark Lanegan)
15 Facing The Wind (John Cale)
16 All That Is My Own (everyone)
17 Close Watch (John Cale - solo)


Dustin Boyer: lead guitar
Deantoni Parks: drums
Josh Schwartz: bass


Complete show

Lineage: Sony ECM 727P > Sony MD MZ-R909 > line out/line in to HDD via SoundBlaster SB0270 adapter > SoundForge > wav > FlacFrontend (level 6) > Trader's Little Helper > Dime > you

No equalization, direct transfer

Taper position: 8th row at the balcony

Taped & transferred & edited by: robjab

Note: Audience recording quality A-. Great show with very very special artists together at one stage.

Please, do not sell this recording and do not distribute after convertion into mp3 format!

Support the artists by buying official releases and going to the shows!


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RE-UPLOAD: Gang Of Four - Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany - 04.05.1981 (Flac)

The Gang of Four have a new album (wich you can hear everytime you enbter the blog) and are touring promoting it, don't miss them when they come near you. Excellent sound.

Source: 1st Generation Audio Cassette -> Magix MCLab15_deluxe -> Cool Edit -> wav -> TLH -> flac 8

all credits for this very good audience recording go to the taper. show was originally released
on the famous "Mutterstolz Records".

running time: 66'56 mins

01. Paralysed
02. Our Republic
03. Not Great Men
04. Anthrax
05. Why Theory?
06. In The Ditch
07. Cheeseburger
08. Return The Gift
09. What We All Want
10. Natural's NoT In It
11. He'd Send In The Army
12. To Hell With Poverty [fade out]
13. encore break
#1--- encore # 1 ---
14. If I Could Keep It For Myself
15. Damaged Goods
16. encore break
#2--- encore # 2 ---
17. Contract
18. At Home He's A Tourist





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RE-UPLOAD: Gang of Four - Second Chance Saloon, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA - 30.06.1981 (Flac)

As requested here's another excellent recording of GO4. Dedicated to Dave Sez.

Thanks to Foxtrotter for this and the other great recordings!

This one is killer show & quality. I know a 2nd gen of this has
been seeded before,which I think is from my 2nd gen tape that came
from Foxtrotters originally.

WCBN-FM Ann Arbor rebroadcast in 1990ish

FM>cass master>Azimuth>Audacity>Normalized>TLH>Flac>Dime>You>?

01. Paralyzed
02. Our Republic
03. Not Great Men
04. Capitol (It Fails Us Now)
05. Why Theory?
06. Return The Gift
07. Cheeseburger
08. Hole In The Wallet
09. What We All Want
10. Natural's Not In Ti
11. He'd Send In THe Army
12. To Hell With Poverty
13. It's Her Factory
14. Ether

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Gang Of Four - The Edge, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 25.08.1979 (Flac)

OK Dave Sez, we get it, you need your GOF dose, here it it, enjoy it, just take care because it's a double dose.

Thanks to the original uploader.

Created from a first generation cassette copy of an audience recording (recording equipment uncertain), as follows :-

Known lineage :-

Unknown mic(s) -> Sony TC-D?? Walkman Professional portable tape recorder -> Type II cassette (unknown brand) -> TDK-SA (Type II) cassette tape

Conversion to FLAC :-

Traded 2nd gen TDK-SA source tape -> Aiwa ADF770 Cassette Deck -> SB Extigy soundcard -> CoolEdit Pro 2.1 -> WAV -> TLH -> FLAC 8 + .ffp


Setlist:

    1st set:
 1. I Found That Essence Rare
 2. Contract
 3. 5 45
 4. Love Like Anthrax
 5. Damaged Goods
 6. Not Great Men
 7. Ether
 8. Natural's Not In It
 9. Return The Gift

    2nd set:
 1. Armalite Rifle
 2. Glass
 3. 5 45
 4. Love Like Anthrax
 5. It's Her Factory
 6. Damaged Goods
 7. Natural's Not In It
 8. (At Home He's A) Tourist
 9. Guns Before Butter
10. Not Great Men
11. Return The Gift
12. Ether
    1st encore:
13. Rosanne
14. Can't Stand My Baby
    2nd encore (start missing):
15. I Found That Essence Rare (fades in)

Total length of 2 shows: 80 minutes (1st set = 31 mins) approx

This was recorded by the same person using the same equipment as the other later Gang Of Four Toronto 1979 show; as such, this has exceptional sound quality for an audience recording from this period.

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Gang Of Four - The Longhorn, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - 10.09.1979 (Flac)

Thanks to the original uploader on Dime.

LINEAGE:
2 Shure SM57 mics>Sony TC-D5 stereo recorder>Maxell UDXLII cassette>Yamaha-KX330 tape deck>Terratec-EWX soundcard>EAC-WAV>EAC-FLAC

Taper: Minnesota Mike

This is a companion to "Buzzcocks 1979-09-10 Minneapolis" which I've also uploaded. Gang Of Four were the opening act for the Buzzcocks that night and Mike recorded them both. Also of note is that The Clash were in the audience, as they were in town to play in St Paul on the 12th. A big week in Twin Cities music history!

This is straight from the mastertape. I have not done any EQing, filtering, editing, or any kind of tampering with the sound.

I don't put sound ratings on these uploads -- I'd prefer to have somebody independent (such as yourself) judge that. So, after you've downloaded and listened, post a comment on the sound quality.

Minnesota Mike made audience recordings of shows in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area between 1978 to 1985. He used a stereo Sony TC-D5 tape recorder and two Shure studio microphones, top-of-the-line equipment in those days. He recorded shows just for himself and never made copies. I met him years later and he allowed me to trade tape copies around 1993. Later when the technology became available, I traded some on CDR. So some of the copies that are out there are second generation or more, and some are digital copies of the master. I wasn't a very active trader and, in fact, some of Mike's tapes have never circulated. The digital copies I'm uploading now were made in 2006 with azimuth adjustments on the tapedeck and a Terratec EWX soundcard to the computer. Mike's tapes are often mistaken for Soundboard or FM sources -- but they are not, they are audience recordings.

01 I Found That Essence Rare
02 5:45
03 Anthrax
04 It's Her Factory
05 Contract
06 Natural's Not In It
07 Not Great Men
08 At Home He's A Tourist
09 Ether
10 Return The Gift
11 Armalite Rifle
12 Damaged Goods



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