Cheap Trick
September 1, 2012
Virginia Beach, VA
5th Street Beach Stage @ Verizon Wireless American Music Festival

Taped By: handymannification (YouTube Username)
Tracked, Compiled, & Released By: SMBTapes @ DIME [09/'12]

Source: AUD > Zoom H2n > WAV [@ 24bit/48kHz] > Audacity 2.0.2 > WAV [Tracked WAVs @ 24bit/48kHz] > FLAC (Level 8)

Setlist:
On Top Of The World
California Girl
Heaven Tonight
She's Tight
Tom Petersson Bass Solo (w/ snippets of "Auf Wiedersehen" and "Daddy Should Have Stayed In High School")
I Know What I Want
The Flame
I Want You To Want Me
Ain't That A Shame
Dream Police
California Man

The story behind this recording: Immediately following the gig, I began combing over YouTube looking for possible users that might have videotaped the complete show. There was one user who has about 8 songs in full 1080 HD (they've yet to respond to my message), and another with only 2 songs. Today I began my daily search, and came upon a video that was audio only, but a great sounding recording of the "middle section" of the show. I contacted the uploader via YouTube messaging, and he sent me the original WAV file, which I then tracked in Audacity. Everything else about the recording has been left as is, other than compressing to FLAC.

Notes:
Being a part of the American Music Festival, the performance was oceanfront, and the outdoor setting really makes this recording shine, as Cheap Trick can sometimes come across as very muddy sounding due to the use of loud guitars, a 12-string bass, and sometimes even a Mandocello. Although there are fluctuations in the stereo channels due to the show being outdoors, the overall quality makes up for it. I've heard soundboard recordings that sounded worse than this!
As mentioned above, this is a partial recording of the "middle section" of the show. According to the recorder, he arrived late, sacrificing 6 songs from the beginning of the set. For unspecified reasons, there are also 3 songs missing from the end of the set. The 6 missing from the beginning are "Way Of The World", "Hello There", "Just Got Back", "Hot Love", "I Can't Take It", and "In The Street (That '70s Show Theme)". The 3 missing from the end are "Gonna Raise Hell", "Surrender", and "Goodnight".