Nick Cave & Bad Seeds
The Beacon Theatre
New York City NY
March 28, 2013

source: AT831 (SP-CMC-2) > SP-SPSB-6 > iriver h120 (rockbox)
lineage: USB > extract file using photorec > wav > flac > web

'fill-in' source: Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS20 (1080p .MTS streams) > extract audio to wav on VLC

taper: inez
location: orchestra center, row B (6th row)

amazing rescue operation: hoserama
editing, patching and reassembly: BLG

This is a sad sad situation. The old recorder decided to retire in the middle of the gig (without telling me so!). Couldn't wait till the end, dammit! Upon arriving home I discovered that my perfect 1h 52min WAV was not perfect at all. In fact, I could only recover the first 1h 03min thereof!! The rest would not transfer, convert, transcode or do anything that would make it useful.

In desperation, I sent the semi-dead recorder to hoserama who agreed to try a rescue operation on the damaged drive. And guess what??!! - he got the file extracted!! Pure magic!

Now, the file is clearly damaged: beginning Love Letter (track 12!) it stumbled and continued to skip very badly for about 15 min, than skipping got lighter and lighter, and during Stagger Lee (track 15) - the sound clears and we seem to be safely off the bad sector of the drive.

This left me with 4.5 damaged songs in the middle. HOWEVER, I also taped a bunch of Hi_def videos using my Lumix which has impressive audio capabilities relative to all other point-and-shoots. So I have 2.5 songs of those 4.5! BLG kindly did some surgery and patching to splice in Love Letter and God Is In The House and parts of Stagger Lee. So In the end, there are 2 songs that are truly missing.
This is far from ideal of course, but I am so ecstatic that Seneca was able to rescue the cursed file and BLG did his editing magic - I am really grateful these guys restored this almost completely.

Needless to say, it was a killer show!!! Nick is an animal he OWNED his audience, got all seated Beacon onto their feet and into GA spirit by track 2!!!

Tracklist

01 Intro
02 We No Who U R
03 Wide Lovely Eyes
04 Jubilee Street
05 We Real Cool
06 Higgs Boson Blues
07 From Her To Eternity
08 Red Right Hand
09 O Children
10 Jack the Ripper
11 Deanna
12 Love Letter (Lumix Sourced)
13 God Is In The House (Lumix Sourced)
xx The Weeping Song - missing
14 The Mercy Seat - partial
15 Stagger Lee (Lumix Patched)

16 encore break
17 The Ship Song
18 Tupelo
19 Push the Sky Away

Total Time: 101:17

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Enjoy :-)

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