Huey Lewis & The News
1987 June 25
Sonoma-Marin Fair, Petaluma Fairgrounds, Petaluma, CA

stealth audience recording by Easy Ed, 50 - 75' from stage

record: Audio Technica AT853 > Panasonic PV-8600 (portable) VHS Hi-Fi (mono 2 channels)

transfer by Easy Ed: Mitsubishi HS-U448 VHS Hi-Fi analog out > Digigram VXPocket 440 PCM-CIA soundcard > laptop > Sequoia (44.1kHz 32 bit) > Sound Forge (tracking, change bitdepth) > FLAC level 8 encoding aligned on sector boundaries

tracks 10-20 with Tower of Power


01 Step By Step 04:52.130
02 I Never Walk Alone 03:36.479
03 "Hello Petaluma!" 01:45.047
04 Heart And Soul 03:26.907
05 Walking On A Thin Line 08:34.072
06 Naturally 04:30.791
07 Bad Is Bad 04:04.250
08 Whole Lotta Lovin' > 03:13.503
09 The Boys Are Back In Town06:24.714
10 The Power Of Love 04:55.735
11 Trouble In Paradise 04:32.671
12 Simple As That 03:30.419
13 If This Is It 04:37.757
14 "who knew?" 02:57.536
15 Hip To Be Square 04:38.131
16 I Want A New Drug 13:08.735
17 The Heart Of Rock & Roll 05:58.121
18 Stuck With You 05:08.732
19 (drum solo) 03:12.208
20 Workin For A Living 04:53.157

There is a inexplicable cut of unknown length in track 12. There are brief intervals in 3 or 4 tracks where the sound gets muffled - I'm guessing that during those intervals I was bending down and my head (and microphone) was no longer above the level of the crowd (I'm 6'2" so mikes on my head are usually just a smidgen higher than crowd level).

When this show was recorded I did not yet have a PCM recording setup. For this show I chose to use VHS Hi-Fi because it is better than cassette tape, which has discernable wow and flutter and hiss. VHS Hi-Fi has frequency response of 20 - 20,000Hz and greater than 90db signal to noise ratio, dynamic range and channel separation, and less than .005% wow and flutter: much better specs than cassette. I only wish I had been closer to the speaker stacks for this recording.