Elvis Costello & the Attractions
March 30, 1979
Capitol Theatre
Passaic, New Jersey, 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 the tape flip and encore break 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. [2:55] I Stand Accused
02. [3:16] Goon Squad
03. [3:27] Two Little Hitlers
04. [2:44] Opportunity
05. [3:24] Oliver's Army
06. [2:30] B Movie
07. [3:06] Green Shirt
08. [2:36] Idle Hands
09. [2:36] Hand In Hand
10. [3:19] Alison
11. [4:09] The Beat
12. [3:11] Accidents Will Happen
13. [3:45] High Fidelity
14. [2:45] Big Boys
15. [5:12] Lipstick Vogue
16. [6:31] Watching The Detectives
17. [0:36] talk
18. [2:43] Radio, Radio
Encore
19. [6:10] Pump It Up
20. [2:57] You Belong To Me

Duration : 68:04

Notes:
JEMS master recording. Good to Very good audience recording. Brief tape squeals in "Oliver's Army" and "Lipstick Vogue" lasting a tenth of second each. JEMS also recorded the first show the following night in New York.

Additional notes:
- includes one of nine known performances of "Idle Hands", an early version of "Temptation"
- includes the third known performance of "High Fidelity", in its the original arrangement, which Elvis later described as 'after the fashion of David Bowie's Station To Station album'
- brief tape squeal at 0:47 of "Oliver's Army" and 1:38 of "Lipstick Vogue".
- tape flip after "Big Boys"; "Lipstick Vogue" fades in on the opening notes; only a few seconds missed.
- Elvis name-checks Passaic after "Goon Squad" and during the intro to "Radio, Radio".
- rudimentary artwork included in torrent.

Torrent history:
- first upload on Dime on November 17, 2010.
- reposted on Dime in March 2013


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