Difford & Tilbrook
RAPP Arts Centre
New York City, NY
September 23, 1989
(Two Of Us Master Volume 32)

Recording: Shure Mic > Sony WM-D6C

2021 Transfer: D6 Master Tape > Nakamichi DR-01 (azimuth adjusted) > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity > iZotope RX / ozone 5 (mastered) > Peak Pro 6 (post production) > xACT 2.39 > FLAC

01 Footprints
02 She Doesn�t Have To Shave
03 Woman�s World
04 Tough Love
05 Sea Cruise
06 Within These Walls Without You
07 Peyton Place
08 No Place Like Home
09 Up The Junction
10 Drinkin� Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
11 1Labelled In Love
12 Messed Around
13 Take Me I�m Yours
14 If It�s Love
15 Annie Get Your Gun
16 Tempted
17 Black Coffee In Bed

Known Faults:
-Take Me I'm Yours: splice

Welcome to Volume Thirty-Two of the "Two Of Us" Master Series.

Between 1983 and 1999 there was likely not a taper or taping duo more active than the "Two Of Us". For the better part of a decade and a half they taped over 250 artists with an array being taped multiple times.

If you collect Springsteen then you are already familiar with some of their work, "fmcleanboots" has posted a half dozen or so of their "Tunnel Of Love" tour shows but has decided to pass the baton.

What you don't know is their passion was not just for Springsteen but for music and that passion runs deep. It is astonishing how many artists they taped.

They followed tours taping club shows, theater shows, arena shows, big artists, mid-level artists and local artists. If they were following a tour and the tour had an off night they'd see who else was playing that night to tape.

Always focused on enjoyment of the show as the priority, tickets were for the most part acquired outside of the venue as they worked to obtain the best possible seats, continually trading up until the correct seats were acquired.

The results of this were the captures are uniformly excellent but on occasion the start of the show was sacrificed as a trade-off for the seats. The heavy lifting was done by the Sony WM-D6C and an external Shure Mic before moving to DAT for the last couple of years.

None of their masters have ever been circulated and have been safely stored for the past three to four decades in a climate controlled environment. Tapes transferred so far are in pristine condition.

Though we may do some mini releases of a series of shows in order for one portion of a tour for the most part shows will not be released in order, there are just too many of them.

This will be a very exciting series and we hope along the way we upgrade existing circulating audio and offer up shows that do not have any circulating audio.

We hope you enjoy the ride, this is definitely not a dark ride.

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Difford & Tilbrook RAPP Arts Centre - NYC 1989

Volume 32 of our series features a wonderful acoustic performance from Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook. This is the third of five dates the duo played after the release of Squeeze's new LP "Frank". They played Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Boston, Washington DC and this show in NYC. The shows were essentially warm-ups before they took Squeeze on the road the following month.

A very good capture of a great performance in front of an adoring audience. When possible external audience noises were cleanly removed, fortunately the multiple sing-alongs do not interfere with the recording at all.

Thanks to "Two Of Us" and their dedication to capturing all these great shows as well as trusting me to be the caretaker of their work. Also, a big thank you to my friend "fmcleanboots" for putting me in touch and laying the groundwork that has resulted in this release.

Artwork included...

mjk5510 & Two Of Us

Images for all shows as well as full size images for this show.

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