The Cure
Cleveland Music Hall
Cleveland, OH
Oct. 22, 1985


Excellent soundboard recording

Another stellar recording from "The RS Archives"
(a Mexminute/TheCommish production)


**mp3 samples provided (as always) in the Comments section**


Setlist:
101. The Baby Screams
102. Play For Today
103. Kyoto Song
104. Primary
105. The Hanging Garden
106. Cold
107. A Night Like This
108. In Between Days
109. Let's Go To Bed
110. The Walk
111. Push (small dropout at end of track)
112. Screw
113. One Hundred Years
114. A Forest
115. Sinking

201. Six Different Ways
202. Close To Me
203. Charlotte Sometimes
204. Three Imaginary Boys
205. Boys Don't Cry
206. 10:15 Saturday Night
207. Killing An Arab
208. Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah!) <-- Gary Glitter cover

(Main show is on Disc 1, all encores are on Disc 2)

Lineage:
1st generation cassette > Nakamichi CR-7A (playback) > HHB CDR-850 (burning) > CDR, then: CDR > EAC > WAV > Editing (see below) > FLAC Frontend > FLAC

Editing notes:
* Re-tracked show (combined WAV files in Nero, then re-split with CD Wave)
* Small fade-out applied to end of Track 115 with Nero's wave editor
* Deleted small gap at end of Track 205 with Nero wave editor
* Volume adjustments (as listed below); with the exception of a few spots, the overall volume of the recording was a little low (before adjustments, the avg. volume of the entire show was 89.4 dB).

Volume adjustments:
Track 101: +1dB (2:03-2:06 mark), +2dB (2:06-2:09), +3dB (2:09-end)
Tracks 102-110: +3dB
Track 111: +3dB (0:00-4:25 mark); +5dB (4:25-end)
Tracks 112-113: +5dB
Track 114: +5dB (0:00-1:14); +3dB (1:14-4:45); +2dB (4:45-10:16); +3dB (10:16-end)
Track 115: +3dB
Tracks 201-202: +5dB
Track 203: +5dB (0:00-0:12 mark); +3dB (0:12-end)
Tracks 204-206: +3dB
Track 207: +3dB (0:00-0:14 mark); +2dB (0:14-2:22), no volume adj. (2:22-end)
Track 208: No volume adj.


About "The RS Archives":
The RS Archive consists of a selection of live recordings made by a great individual who passed away in 2005.

RS worked in the music industry in many capacities….a music fan….a musician….a sound engineer. He was considered one of the best behind the mixing board. I was honored to have known him for practically 35 years. There was no one like him….he was a wonderful human being. Everybody loved him. He was a level-headed guy who knew what sounded good and what didn't. He could conceive and design sound systems from scratch in his head to meet the artist’s needs. Whatever they wanted, he could do.

For years, he mixed music at the annual Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards television show. RS worked closely for years with Daryl Hall and John Oates, Juice Newton, Anita Baker, Mariah Carey, Tears for Fears, Crack the Sky, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Aretha Franklin, Pink Floyd, Whitney Houston, Bette Midler, Ann Murray, Michael Bolton, Kenny G, Tony Bennett, Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, John Fogerty, Bonnie Raitt, Frank Sinatra, John Hiatt, Little Feat, Little Village, and Waylon Jennings…..to name a few.

He had a huge reputation in the business, and that's why he was chosen to work with such budding clients as Mariah Carey. With the major stars, he was one of the preferred engineers they choose to work with. A particular client of RS who had a reputation for firing sound engineers with great regularity was Anita Baker, whom he won over not only with his technical abilities and personality, but with his refusal to put up with her criticism. He quit a few times but always came back because she loved the way he mixed her music. He could coddle difficult and temperamental celebrities, and they respected his work. He was able to kick back and get along with them. Even though he knew these people, he was a very modest man.

So now, it is time to honor him by sharing some of the many recordings he made while on the road. All are perfect (or near perfect) soundboard recordings made from the master cassettes or master dat tapes. Unfortunately, I am not able to identify the original equipment these tapes were made on, however I can say that for the transferring process, the cassette tapes were played back on a Nakamichi CR-7A, and the dat tapes on a Sony PCM-R500. They were all burnt onto cdr using a HHB CDR-850.

Please enjoy these tasty gems!
Mexminute (fellow DIME member).



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Generously shared by Mexminute
and uploaded on DIME by TheCommish
March 2009