The Definitive Career-Spanning, Joe Jackson Tour History Live 30-CD Set
Disc 27-30: A compilation of the songs performed by Joe Jackson during the "Joe Jackson Trio Tour," "Tour 2007" and "Rain Tour," 2006-2008
Compiled by Jon F.
Uploaded to DIME by John N.
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From Jon:
Some of you may remember that in September 2003, I finished and distributed an 18 disc set of live Joe Jackson material. Since then, I've improved my "studio" quite a bit and also have unearthed a few more recordings. There have also been more tours. I was recently listening to those discs and decided they don't really sound all that great. So I decided to "remaster" all of them and recreate some of them. I think they sound much better. And they are more complete.
As to why I ever did this:
1. I love raw live recordings.
2. I wanted just one disc from every tour instead of 10 of each in which the difference between the discs was one song.
3. My fanship of JJ is based largely on his constant innovation and reinterpretation of his own (and others) music. This set reflects that.
I made these because I was sick of having 10 shows from 79, but with only one song difference on each. For instance, if I wanted to hear the one with "Friday", I had to wade through my 1,000,000th listening of "Is She Really...". So I decided to combine them all into one master show.
The other component of this is, as "Joe-heads" frequently comment, when you see him live a lot, you have to wade through the inevitable appearance of "Be My Number Two" to get to the stuff you're excited to hear. So, in cases where it's a song he plays often and the version from that tour, "82-83" in this case, isn't much different from any other, I didn't include it for space purposes. I didn't want the set to be twice as long. And honestly, I did make this for me and I didn't want to have "Is She Really..." on every disc. It gets boring to me. But of course, that's my opinion. So sorry, if the set isn't entirely complete, but I hope you'll find it overall to be a nice compendium.
With special thanks to Jeff, Bjoern, John N., Gert, Maura, Carol, Bladerunner and especially Phillip (hope I didn't forget anyone), I was able to accumulate enough different shows from every tour that I think I had at least one version of every song played.
From there, I took the best sounding version of each song and created a master list. From the master list, I took as many songs as I could fit on an 80 minute disc, in order of songs I most wanted to have from each tour. Then, using Sound Forge, I blended all of the songs together so that they sound like one show with no breaks of silence, and remastered each song as best as I could (not everything was salvageable - like "Moonlight" from 1983 - but I put it on anyway because I like the song so much) and balanced the sound levels.
I hope you will find it all worth it. I am very happy with the finished product. Now if only the record companies could have done this for me...
As always, these are not for sale - either by me or anyone who receives one. These are strictly for trade and personal enjoyment. I do not take it for granted the legal questions surrounding this and ask that everyone be respectful of JJ and his management and thankful that they allowed me to share this the first time (and presumably this time, as well).
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The Joe Jackson Tour History Collection 2006-2008
CD 27:
01 Hometown
02 Steppin' Out
03 Invisible Man
04 Too Tough
05 Citizen Sane
06 Goin' Downtown
07 Wasted Time
08 Another World
09 Dirty Martini
10 Drunk Song
11 Cancer
12 Chinatown > Caravan (Juan Tizol)
13 It's Different for Girls
14 Real Men
Sources:
Tracks 01-03: 07/04/08 - Piazza della Riforma, Lugano, Switzerland
Tracks 04-09, 12: 05/05/08 - Chan Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Track 10: 06/15/06 - Vic Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA
Track 11: 05/17/07 - Vredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Track 13: 07/13/08 - North Sea Jazz Festival Nile Stage, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Track 14: 07/10/08 - Festivalzelt, Tuttlingen, Germany
CD 28:
01 Sunglasses in the Rain
02 Rush Across the Road
03 Fools In Love / For Your Love (Yardbirds)
04 Not Here, Not Now
05 King Pleasure Time
06 Obvious Song
07 On Your Radio
08 Love at First Light
09 Solo (So Low)
10 Girl (Beatles)
11 It's Different for Girls
12 Be My Number Two
13 Stranger Than Fiction
Sources:
Track 01: 06/15/06 - Vic Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA
Tracks 02-03: 07/05/08 - Stravinski Auditorium, Montreux, Switzerland
Track 04: 03/05/08 - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Track 05: 05/17/07 - Vredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Track 06: 03/08/08 - Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Track 07: 07/13/08 - North Sea Jazz Festival Nile Stage, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Track 08: 06/15/06 - Vic Theatre, Chicago, IL USA
Track 09: 06/05/08 - Montecasino, Johannesburg, South Africa
Tracks 10-11: 05/05/07 - Passionskirche Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Track 12: 07/04/08 - Piazza della Riforma, Lugano, Switzerland
Track 13: 03/19/08 - Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy
CD 29:
01 Knowing Me, Knowing You (Abba)
02 Uptown Train
03 Scary Monsters (David Bowie)
04 Chinatown > Caravan (Juan Tizol)
05 Reelin' In the Years (Steely Dan)
06 Frank and Ava (Suzanne Vega)
07 I'm Looking Through You (Beatles)
08 Any Major Dude (Steely Dan)
09 InBetweenies (Ian Dury)
10 Dirty Love (Frank Zappa)
11 Drunk Song
12 Awkward Age
13 You Can't Get What You Want
Sources:
Track 01: 06/05/08 - Montecasino, Johannesburg, South Africa
Tracks 02-03: 07/13/08 - North Sea Jazz Festival Nile Stage, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Track 04, 12: 03/05/08 - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Tracks 05-06: 04/12/08 - Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston, NY, USA
Track 07: 05/17/07 - Vredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Track 08: 05/05/07 - Passionskirche Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Track 09: 07/12/06 - Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany
Tracks 10-11: 06/15/06 - Vic Theatre, Chicago, IL USA
Track 13: 07/04/08 - Piazza della Riforma, Lugano, Switzerland
CD 30:
01 Take It Like a Man
02 Blaze of Glory
03 Good Bad Boy
04 You Can't Get What You Want
05 Place In the Rain
06 Dirty Love (Frank Zappa)
07 What's the Use of Getting Sober (Louis Jordan)
08 Breaking Us In Two
09 One More Time
10 Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Duke Ellington and Bob Russell)
11 Is She Really Going Out With You?
12 A Slow Song
Sources:
Track 01: 05/17/07 - Vredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tracks 02-03: 04/12/08 - Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston, NY, USA
Track 04: 03/11/08 - Schiller Theater, Berlin, Germany
Track 05: 03/05/08 - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Track 06: 05/05/07 - Passionskirche Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Track 07: 06/22/08 - Cadogan Hall, London, England
Track 08: 06/04/08 - Montecasino, Johannesburg, South Africa
Tracks 09-12: 05/05/08 - Chan Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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The Definitive Career-Spanning, Joe Jackson Tour History Live 30-CD Set
Discs 1 and 2: Look Sharp & I'm the Man Tours (1979-1980) - [Note 1]
Disc 3: Beat Crazy Tour (1981)
Discs 4A and 4B: Night and Day Tour (1982-1983) - [Note 2]
Disc 5: Body and Soul Tour (1984)
Discs 6 and bonus disc: Big World Tour (1986) - [Note 3]
Discs 7 and 8: Blaze of Glory Tour (1989)
Discs 9 and 10: Laughter and Lust Tour (1991) - [Note 4]
Discs 11 and 12: Night Music Tour (1994-1995)
Disc 13: Heaven and Hell Tour (1998)
Discs 14 thru 16: Just For the Hell of It Shows (1999) - [Note 5]
Discs 18 through 21: Night and Day II Tour (2001)
Discs 22 and 24: Volume Four (Reunion) Tour (2003)
Discs 25 and 26: Joe and Todd Tour (2005) - [Note 6]
Discs 27 thru 30: Joe Jackson Trio & Rain Tours (2006-2008)
Notes
[1] Set was banned on DIME for having included lossy tracks. It will be seeded when suitable tracks substitutions are located.
[2] After several other sets were already shared and included coordinated CD case art, the 1982-1983 set was expanded from one to two discs.
It was re-named as "Discs 4A and 4B" for the sake of maintaining numerical continuity.
[3] This set was revised by John N. with DIME-friendly tracks to replace Jon's original choices taken from offically released material.
The bonus disc was not a part of Jon's original compilation.
[4] Not yet shared on DIME because of the inclusion of offically released material. It will be seeded when suitable tracks substitutions are located.
[5] There is no #17 disc.
[6] Recently banned on DIME per Todd Rundgren being placed on NAB list.