Title: L.A. Palace 14/5/87
Venue: Palace, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Date: May 14, 1987
Lineage: Matrix of "LA Palace" & "In America" CDs, plus DJNeph's Tape > K3B & Audacity > WAV > Fixes > FLAC (8)
Source : FM Broadcast
Quality:(P/F/G/VG/EX): EX
Artwork: Yes
01. Wasteland ...............[6:42]
02. Wishing Well ............[2:56]
03. Like A Hurricane ........[5:27]
04. Serpent's Kiss ..........[4:46]
05. Blood Brother ...........[4:59]
06. 1969 ....................[2:29]
07. Shelter From The Storm ..[8:14]
08. (encore break) ..........[1:05]
09. Love Me To Death ........[4:20]
10. Sacrilege ...............[5:16]
Total Running Time 0:46:14
Wayne Hussey: Vocals, Guitars
Mick Brown: Drums
Simon Hinkler: Guitars
Pete Turner: Bass
*** GAGLIEM's TECH INFO ***
The bootleg "LA Palace" was a good one, but it was recorded at a slightly slow pitch and didn't contain the whole show, as it's missing the first 30 seconds of "Shelter From The Storm" and some Wayne speeches between songs. The most notable things to fix were two bad diginoise on "Wasteland" and "Sacrilege" (at 1:45 and 1:07 respectively, unbareable if listened with earphones), then the usual gaps, etc (on tracks 1,4,9). The recording also has a slight backround noise and the L/R channels inverted, then all this has been also fixed.
During somes songs there are some feedbacks in Wayne's mic during "Like A Hurricane" (4:35; 5:03) and "1969" (2:20), then on the first chord of "Love Me To Death" there's a sudden pan of guitar volume from the left channel to the right: all this is present in the original broadcast and this last issue was left unchanged, but the mic's feedbacks were really annoying, so I left them, as they're part of the real gig, but I've attenuated them in order to be less dangerous to our ears... anyway, in the extra folder I've included these tracks with their original feedbacks, if you want the "real" concert.
The "In America" CD had few tracks from this show but had the whole "Shelter From The Storm", with a slight inferior quality than the other bootleg, but it was useful to patch & fix the missing seconds of that song.
When all that could be done was completed, came out a tape of unknow generation, but almost low, with some dropouts and gaps during "Serpent's Kiss", but had the full bradcast, including the encore break and Wayne speeches between songs.
At this point all was patched again and now this should be the full broadcast... I didn't any EQ as some of you liked the "bass" sound this gig has...
About the artwork, I didn't have so much free time to spend on it, unfortunately the original "LA Palace" artwork had a sticker on the front cover, hiding Craig's face (maybe at that time, the seller knew the truth that wasn't Craig the bass player at that gig :D ), so I did some basic re-working and here it is....
*** GAGLIEM's NOTES ***
During the USA Crusade '87 tour, the Mission had to play two shows the 14 of May 1987 (afternoon and night) at the Palace in Los Angeles in order to be broadcasted by a radio station, and part of them used for a forthcoming american film, more datails are well described in the Mish biography book "Names are for tombstones baby" (starting from page 87).
The short story of what's written in the book is that the film company pulled out the event at the last minute, but the radio station refused to cancel the shows, while the band didn't wanted to play, as they needed to take a break. Then all that stress, plus drugs & alcohol, had their first victim of the band in Craig, who had a breakdown before the soundcheck, which caused him to get back home and the rest of the band had to replace him with Pete Turner, their sound man.
This is the full remastered version of that afternoon concert broadcast (using three sources), which was a nice performance, considering all the facts happened before, with a short setlist including some usual classics and "Serpent's Kiss" which shouldn't be played, but requested by the audience, plus a nice acoustic version of "Love Me To Death" just before "Sacrilege", where one of the two guitars slightly goes out of tune, ending the performance "in-tune" with the bad day the band was passing through....
Finally, Big Thanks to AndreaR "BirdOfPassag" (for his "LA Palace" and "In America" CDs) and Stefano "DJNeph" (for his low generation tape) for allowing me to realize this matrix/remastered full version of this show.
Thanks also to AlexD and Petra for additional infos about what happened that day and the rest of the US tour.
Enjoy this gig!!!!
Gagliem
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Title: Live in Seinäjoki 2.6.1990
Venue: Provinssirock Festival, Seinäjoki, Finland
Date: June 2, 1990
Lineage: Tape [TDK D90, Unknown Low GEN] > Audacity > WAV > DN+FIX+EQ > FLAC (8)
Source: FM Broadcast
Quality:(P/F/G/VG/EX): EX
Artwork: Yes
01. Into The Blue ..................[4:08]
02. Butterfly On A Wheel ...........[6:07]
03. Serpent's Kiss .................[4:08]
04. Sea Of Love ....................[5:13]
05. Beyond The Pale ................[5:19]
06. Tower Of Strength [fade out] ...[4:47]
Total Running Time 0:29:42
Wayne Hussey: Vocals, Guitars, keyboards
Craig Adams: Bass
Mick Brown: Drums
David Wolfenden: Guitars
Tim Bricheno: Guest Guitar on "Beyond The Pale" and "Tower Of Strength"
*** GAGLIEM's TECH INFO ***
This time the recording was really good, the only most notable things are two sudden volume/stereo loss & dropouts in the right channel during the third chorus of "Butterfly On A Wheel" and during the last chorus of "Beyond The Pale", plus some usual mirogaps or drop-outs all over the tracks (typical of old tape recodings)... all this has been fixed.
Also, even if the whole recording has more sound in the right channel, the left channel's volume on tracks 1 & 2 was too much lower than the right one, don't know if that's in the original broadcast and also tracks 2 has a gradual increase of left ch. until the end... maybe not so audible on hi-fi stereos, but very annoying listening these two tracks with earphones on some PC audio cards or portable players...
Track 1 was almost easy to fix, but when I tried to balance the volume correctly on track 2 (gradually contrasting its volume increase and raising it at the end), alone it sounded excellent, but it sounded more heavier and louder if compared to the other tracks (?!), so I balanced the left channel leaving it a little lower than the right one... that seemed to work..
Then I applied a slight Hiss Reduction and some EQ to give back the sound the correct balance of treble & bass.
The last fix was removing the radio speaker at the beginning of "Into The Blue" and between "Beyond The Pale" and "Tower Of Strength" (rebuilding the songs' parts where he talks over'em); for those who want to hear him (and can understand the Finnish speaker), I've included the removed sequences in the "extra" folder...
...then the tech details:
> Standard Normalization
> Distortions Corrected/Attenuated:
01) 0:23; 0:39; 0:42; 1:25; 2:08
02) 3:59->4:04 [low vol dx]; 4:20; 5:07; 6:00,091; 6:00,646; 6:02,927; 6:07
03) 1:16; 1:19; 3:24; 3:29
04) 1:36; 3:35
05) 2:32; 4:48 [low vol dx]; 4:49; 5:04; 5:19
06) 1:39;[2:14 not fixed, seems in the original performance, like a mic bumping]
there are also some issues presente in the original broadcast left untouched (buzzing or distortions in the mics, guitars' jack plug/unplug noises, etc.)
> Hiss Reduction
> Track 01 Left / Right Channel volume balanced
> Track 02 Left Channel gradual fade out to contrast exactly the gradual volume raising, then Right / Channel volume balanced
> EQ
> Removed Radio Speaker introducing "Into The Blue"
> Removed Radio Speaker between "Beyond The Pale" and "Tower Of Strength"
*** GAGLIEM's NOTES ***
This cd contains my remaster of a "short but nice" radio broadcast capturing partially The Mission playing at the Provinssirock Festival, in a rainy Seinäjoki, with Dave Wolfenden on guitars as substitute for Simon Hinkler (who left the band on april's end), supporting Wayne, Craig and Mick during the prosecution of the Deliverance Tour.
The broadcast begins with "Into The Blue", soon after followed by "Butterfly On A Wheel" and "Serpent's Kiss", all three hit singles of their respective albums.
Then Wayne goes towards the piano and, while some in the crowd ask for "Kingdom Come", starts softly "Sea Of Love", which ends with the usual fast pace... then the broadcast focuses on Wayne introducing Tim Bricheno (from the band "All About Eve") guesting on "Beyond The Pale" and "Tower Of Strength".
During these songs, Wayne's voice sometimes disappears or seems extremely distant, maybe due to microphone's tech problems (it doesn't seem his voice is going), but both songs stand alone with their energy, until the broadcast fades out in the middle of "Tower Of Strength"...
This time the challenging (and funniest) part of this remaster wasn't remastering the tracks, but using Gimp 2 and doing the artwork with the same fantastic look that Keith Breeden gave to the "Carved In Sand" album and all the singles that followed ("Deliverance 12" Lim. Ed. over all).
Finally, Big Thanks to StephNeph for allowing me to remaster his excellent tape.
Enjoy this gig!!!!
Gagliem
PS: There's another partial FM Broadcast, which included "Amelia" and "Child's Play" (before "Into The Blue") and "Deliverance" (which cuts in, after "Tower Of Strength"), but both recordings are incomplete.
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