Graham Parker & the Shot (opening for Eric Clapton)
July 26, 1985
Seattle Center Coliseum
Seattle, Washington, 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: Sony ECM-939 > Sony WM-D6C
Transferred By: Mike Ziegler
Taped By: JEMS

Thanks to JEMS for providing the WAV file. I used Audacity to split it into tracks and apply fades to the first second of track 1 and the last five seconds of the crowd outro.
Additional lineage: WAV > Audacity (splits, fades) > TLH > FLAC 6 (align on SB) > Foobar2000 (flac tags).

01. [3:43] Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City (Bobby Bland)
02. [4:19] Howlin' Wind
03. [3:10] Life Gets Better
04. [6:23] Wake Up (Next To You)
05. [4:05] The Weekend's Too Short
06. [0:26] crowd

Duration : 22:09

Notes:
JEMS master recording. This is a very good to excellent sounding recording of GP & the Shot's opening set for Eric Clapton. It runs only 22 minutes, so I'm assuming the first three or four songs at the start were not recorded. There are three level adjustments during the first track, but other than that it's a very nice recording and performance.

To my knowledge, this is only the third Graham Parker set from the Clapton tour to appear on Dime. In 2007 Analog4011 uploaded Milwaukee (June 30), and Persic uploaded Bonner Springs (July 9) in 2008. As on those recordings, the band members here are not introduced, but likely consist of Brinsley Schwarz, guitar; George Small, keyboards; Kevin Jenkins, bass; and Michael Braun, drums. If anyone knows for sure, please comment.

Additional notes:
- "Wake Up (Next To You)" includes a bit of "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)"
- level adjustments in the first track at 0:20, 0:30 and 1:09.
- "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" written by Michael Price & Dan Walsh (first recorded by Bobby "Blue" Bland)
- no artwork in torrent

Torrent history:
- first upload on Dime on October 18, 2010.

Useful links:
Johannes Deininger's GP gig list
http://www-nw.uni-regensburg.de/~.dej09534.rz.uni-regensburg.de/gparker/gig-list.htm
Johannes Deininger's GP setlist pages:
http://www-nw.uni-regensburg.de/~.dej09534.rz.uni-regensburg.de/gparker/set-list.htm
http://www-nw.uni-regensburg.de/~.dej09534.rz.uni-regensburg.de/gparker/set-ls80.htm


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