Nick Cave
Minneapolis, MN USA
First Avenue
20 February 1989
stereo audience recording
(01:23:28)

cassette side A (37:58.23):
A01. start (00:47.71)
A02. introduction > From Her To Eternity (05:10.43)
A03. interim (00:12.72)
A04. Long Time Man (05:24.59)
A05. interim (00:27.03)
A06. Your Funeral, My Trial (04:17.15)
A07. interim (00:34.40)
A08. Deanna (03:41.38)
A09. interim (00:47.70)
A10. I'm Gonna Kill That Woman (04:05.32)
A11. interim (00:14.28)
A12. Jack's Shadow (05:35.02)
A13. interim (00:26.57)
A14. Mercy (06:12.18)

cassette side B (45:29.73):
B01. start (00:10.58)
B02. The Mercy Seat (04:12.26)
B03. interim / tuning (00:10.16)
B04. Knockin' On Joe (08:18.46)
B05. interim / tuning (00:18.60)
B06. City Of Refuge (04:10.28)
B07. interim / tuning (00:53.27)
B08. The Singer (04:03.29)
[tape paused]
B09. interim / tuning (00:41.25)
B10. By The Time I Get To Phoenix (07:03.50)
B11. interim / crowd / comments (01:04.45)
B12. Train Long Suffering (03:54.32)
B13. interim / tuning (00:39.60)
B14. Sugar Sugar Sugar (04:51.17)
B15. interim / tuning (00:08.09)
B16. Saint Huck [end cut] (04:48.70)

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digitizing notes:
This is one of a handful of shows from "Mr. Smith" that I had also recorded. Although my own recording of this performance has circulated in the past, this version from the Mr. Smith collection has *reportedly* never seen the light of day until now.

A 16-bit transfer of my own recording was shared on DIME several years ago, and had also circulated back in the old tape-trading days. It seems that subsequent uploads of my source recording which have been uploaded to DIME since then have in some instances been derived from a traded CD-R, rather than from the original tape transfer.

The Mr. Smith version is nearly the complete show (the final song - “New Morning" - is missing), and is the only other master tape of this performance I’ve ever been made aware of since 1989. The sound quality of the Mr. Smith version is fairly comparable to my own recording, give or take some varying degrees of distortion from over-saturated mics, and what unique sonics each of us were able to capture from our different positions in the venue.

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additional notes:
This performance has been on the DIME tracker before, some versions were derived from an original source recording, by Jdot420 / J. Free; one version *may* have been an early trade CD-R from "Mr. Smith":

Torrent: 228805
Uploaded by: Jdot420 in 2008
- 16-bit cassette transfer

Torrent: 228783
Uploaded by: zipty6
- 16-bit Jdot420 cassette transfer plus unknown-gen alt-source CD-R version
***the notes for this in the bot-list *might* suggest that the unknown-gen version is the same as
Torrent: 174692, and *possibly* the "Mr. Smith" version, also:
"Saint Huck (cuts near end)
The last song, New Morning, is missing."

Torrent: 174692
Uploaded by: Jason_T
- banned in lieu of an upgrade (176531)
- unknown-gen processed version of 16-bit Jdot420 cassette transfer

Torrent: 176531
Uploaded by: Jdot420
- 16-bit cassette transfer

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lineage:
original master cassette [2-channel stereo] > Nakamichi DR-3 cassette deck [Azimuth adjustment applied to playback head] > Edirol R-04 [RCA/analog in; 24-bit/96kHz transfer (.wav)] > PC [via USB] > CD Wave Editor [Version 1.98; Windows Build Number: 0000.23F0] (sector boundary tracking) > Trader's Little Helper [Version 2.7.0; Build 172] (Level 8 .wav > .flac conversion)

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The “Mr. Smith” Tapes.
Made available to the world through the collaborative resources of these people:
Recorded in 1989 by “Mr. Smith”.
Digitized in 2016; and technical notes by J. Free [sonicarchives.com]
Uploaded in 2016; any additional notes: 01001010

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Audio sample: Approx. 30 seconds each of: Mercy and Sugar Sugar Sugar