Elvis Costello & the Attractions
March 10, 1979
Location:
Aragon Ballroom
Chicago, Illinois, U.S

From the JEMS archives

Lineage: ANA(M)>WAV [96kHz/24bit]>WAV [44.1kHz/16bit]>Flac
Transfer: Nakamichi CR-7A>PreSonus FireStudio Project>Adobe Audition 3.0
Taping Gear: Teac M-100>Sony TCM-600 (Mono, Dolby B off)
Transferred By: Mike Ziegler
Taped By: JEMS

Thanks once again to JEMS for providing the WAV file. I used Audacity to split it into tracks, smooth over tape flips & tape pauses with brief fades, fade in the first second of track 1, and fade out the last three seconds of the last track.
Additional lineage: WAV > Audacity (track splits, fades) > TLH > FLAC 6 (align on SB) > Foobar2000 (flac tags).

Elvis Costello & the Attractions
- Steve Nieve - keyboards
- Bruce Thomas - bass
- Pete Thomas - drums

01. [2:51] Accidents Will Happen
02. [3:10] Goon Squad
03. [3:15] Oliver's Army
04. [2:29] Hand In Hand
05. [3:35] Two Little Hitlers
06. [4:38] (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
07. [3:10] Green Shirt
08. [2:51] B Movie
09. [3:59] The Beat
10. [3:22] Tiny Steps
11. [1:05] This Year's Girl
12. [3:01] Big Boys
13. [3:24] Party Girl
14. [4:58] Lipstick Vogue
15. [1:06] Watching The Detectives
16. [3:08] Radio, Radio
Encore
17. [6:00] Pump It Up
Encore 2
18. [3:17] Alison
19. [2:19] Mystery Dance
20. [2:46] You Belong To Me

Duration : 64:34

Notes:
JEMS master recording. Very good to excellent audience recording, except for the first couple tracks which are somewhat muffled. Three tracks are incomplete, including large chunks of "This Year's Girl" and "Watching The Detectives".

JEMS recorded the band four times this week -- March 10 in Chicago, March 15 in Columbus, March 16 in Detroit, and March 17 in Dayton. Columbus, Detroit and Dayton were torrented previously.

There's an alternate recording of this show which is more complete (71:46), taped by acetboy and torrented by him in November 2009 (fell off the tracker in March 2010). The JEMS recording has the gaps mentioned above and detailed below, but has much clearer sound.

Gap detail:
- tape flip or pause at 1:17 of "Tiny Steps" - about 10 seconds missing.
- tape flip or pause at 0:46 of "This Year's Girl" - about 2½ minutes missing.
- tape flip or pause at 0:25 of "Watching The Detectives" - about 5 minutes missing.

Additional notes:
- includes the third-known performance of "B Movie"
- Elvis name-checks Chicago after "Goon Squad", "Radio, Radio" and "You Belong To Me".
- rudimentary artwork included in torrent.

Torrent history:
- first upload on Dime on November 11, 2010.
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