THE CURE
MEADOWS MUSIC THEATER
HARTFORD, CT, USA
SEPTEMBER 15, 1996

TAPER: J.J.

SOURCE: ALD, captured to Sony TCD-D8 (mono channel)

Transfer (by Mahntoh)

DAT Master > Sony DTC-59ES > Monster Optical Cable > Terratec 24/96 > Soundforge (duplicated one channel to the other)
> CDWAV > FLAC

The net result is a near perfect SOUNDBOARD quality recording.


Tracklisting:

Plainsong (10 second dropout due to mic connection problem)
Want
Club America
Fascination Street
Lullaby
High
This is a Lie
A Strange Day
Just Like Heaven
Jupiter Crash
Round & Round & Round
Lovesong
The Figurehead
Strange Attraction
Mint Car
Catch
Like Cockatoos
One Hundred Years
Return
Treasure
Trap
Prayers for Rain
Inbetween Days
From The Edge of the Deep Green Sea
Bare
The 13th
Hot Hot Hot
Why Can't I Be You(Young at Heart/Lovecats)
A Forest/Forever

Notes From ErikDenning

"This tape was recorded specifically to try to acquire what has now been called the Frankfurt & Bremen Prayer Tour Soundboard.
I was given samples of these shows (as well as Brussels 87 and London 84 SBD) on a dat tape from a prominent german trader
that basically said if you can match it let me know, and we can trade. At the time it was made to sound like there were
complete versions of both these shows (which it appears they are not). The famous JJ recorded this show off the
ALD system at Harford Meadows which was a telex system. To this day, even though it was a mono feed
(JJ had a stereo 1/8th inch adapter, but we only got one channel out of the box) its still one of the best in house ALD
systems we have heard. There are some fluctuations in volume and there was a dropout during Plainsong were the jack
came out. This was only the second Plainsong since 1989, and their sound engineer did not understand he was supposed to
fade out the bells when the song starts so that tape continues well into the song which sounds quite strange."

Notes from Mahntoh

Please also direct your thanks to JJ as well as Erikdenning, as without their knowledge, wisdom, and authorization, this
release would not have been possible.

This is also being released to return the wonderful thanks of the glorious gem from Rainer, who I hope has been appreciating
the finer subtleties of The Cure's performances of the Swing Tour 1996.

Rare trade only (RTO) and rare swap (RSO) are a thing of the past, please don't play that game.

Please continue to share Cure masters on DIME regardless. If you have GOLD (aka RSO / RTO) please share.