Elvis Costello & the Attractions
March 16, 1979
Masonic Temple Auditorium
Detroit, Michigan, 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 TC-153SD (Mono, Dolby B on)
Transferred By: Mike Ziegler
Taped By: JEMS

Thanks once again to JEMS for providing the WAV file. I used Audacity to split into tracks and smooth over the tape flip and encore break with brief fades.
Additional lineage: WAV > Audacity (track splits, fade) > TLH > FLAC 6 (align on SB) > Foobar2000 (flac tags).

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

01. [2:50] Hand In Hand
02. [3:11] Goon Squad
03. [3:25] Oliver's Army
04. [3:27] Two Little Hitlers
05. [2:27] B Movie
06. [3:01] Green Shirt
07. [3:39] (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?
08. [4:37] The Beat
09. [3:09] Accidents Will Happen
10. [2:59] (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
11. [2:51] Big Boys
12. [2:26] Alison
13. [4:50] Lipstick Vogue
14. [5:48] Watching The Detectives
15. [7:15] Pump It Up / band intro
Encore
16. [2:46] Radio, Radio
17. [2:44] You Belong To Me

Duration : 61:33

Notes:
JEMS master recording. This is a very good to excellent sounding audience recording capturing Elvis Costello & the Attractions touring in support of Armed Forces, on the 29th date of their 4th U.S. tour. This performance comes one night after "idiotic remarks made during a drunken brawl in Columbus, Ohio." Elvis alludes to the incident here during the intro to "Accidents Will Happen."

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.


Additional notes:
- "Alison" is missing about 20 seconds at 0:31.
- tape flip near the end of "Lipstick Vogue"; only a few seconds missing.
- the next song "Watching The Detectives" fades in on the opening notes.
- Detroit is name-checked several times throughout.
- rudimentary artwork included in torrent.

Torrent history:
- first upload on Dime: October 15, 2010.
- reposted to Dime in March 2013.


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