Thursday, June 2, 2011

PG - 1987-07-27 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH

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Dr. Forrester said...

Peter Gabriel
Blossom Music Amphitheater
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
July 27, 1987

Lineage: Soundboard => cassette (low) => Stand-alone Pioneer CD burner => CDR => EAC => Magix Audio Cleaning Lab => Export to WAV => FLAC (level 8)

Setlist:

Disc 1 (60:21):
(1) San Jacinto (10:17)
(2) Red Rain (5:52)
(3) Shock The Monkey (6:43)
(4) Intro (0:26)
(5) Not One Of Us (5:53)
(6) Intruder (5:35)
(7) Intro (1:15)
(8) Games Without Frontiers (5:26)
(9) No Self Control (6:18)
(10) Mercy Street (7:49)
(11) This Is The Picture (cut)

Disc 2 (57:47):
(1) Big Time (7:23)
(2) Intro (0:37)
(3) Don't Give Up (8:04)
(4) Solsbury Hill (5:24)
(5) Lay Your Hands On Me (8:12)
(6) Sledgehammer (6:22)
(7) Here Comes The Flood (2:49)
(8) In Your Eyes (fade out) (7:39)
(9) Biko (fade out) (11:14)

Notes:

Excellent soundboard from Gabriel's summer 1987 tour of outdoor amphitheaters. By this time, he had been promoting the album for the better part of a year, so the set had pretty much jelled and the band was hitting on all cylinders. All of these performances were great.

The recording itself . . . I traded for it from an established Gabriel collector in early 1988; he claimed it was a soundboard, and I'm pretty sure (20 years later) that it is. I don't know the generation, but given when I got it and how well-connected he was, I don't think it's more than two or three generations removed from the master. The fidelity for a cassette recording is really nice. Listen to the mp3 samples and judge for yourself.

I'm really surprised that this hasn't been posted on DaD before; this is a good one for even casual or non-Gabriel/Genesis collectors -- I think it's quite superior to any other latter-day Peter Gabriel board. Well worth the download, even though a couple of the songs are cut.

if anyone has a more complete or better-sounding copy, please post it!

No artwork, sorry. Fingerprints are included, however.

June 2, 2011 at 12:11 PM
Drew Freeman, RPh said...

Excellent recording from a great venue between Akron and Cleveland.

It sounds as if it were taken from a microphone somewhere on stage. Crisp percussion, crowd noise between each song. Reverb on vocals, but different than the natural sound of the wooden amphitheare that was built in the sixties.

Very good. Highly recommended.

June 4, 2011 at 7:58 AM

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