Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros at the Roxy, Boston, MA, November 22, 1999, audience recording.

This was recorded with an Aiwa walkman-type cassette recorder, with a clip-on stereo mic. Memorex CD2 110 Type II cassettes went from JVC TD-5207 cassette deck into Denon DRA-25 receiver, which was lined into Zoom H2 from the headphone jack (RCA outputs on the deck cause major distortion issues, so the phone jack is cleaner sounding). Wav went by USB cable from H2 into PC. Wav went to Magix Music on CD & DVD. Magix was used to make track markings, remove before show noise, and remove space from the tape flips. Wav then converted to flac with TLH. TLH was also used to replace the last track with a padded remake (SBE fixin'), to create ffp and md5 info, and to create the final torrent, as well as testing the torrent before uploading.

Tracklist:
01 - Diggin' The New
02 - Nothin' 'bout Nothin'
03 - X Ray Style
04 - Rock The Casbah
05 - Joe speaks
06 - A Quarter Pound of I'cense
07 - Brand New Cadillac
08 - Tony Adams
09 - Trash City
10 - Joe speaks
11 - Nit Comb
12 - The Road To Rock 'n Roll
13 - White Man In Hammersmith Palais
14 - Safe European Home
15 - Yalla Yalla
16 - Rudy Can't Fail
17 - London Calling
18 - Pressure Drop
19 - Tommy Gun
20 - Techno D-Day
21 - Straight To Hell
22 - I Fought The Law
23 - crowd noise and Joe speaks
24 - Bankrobber
25 - White Riot


I had planned on sharing this years ago, but the sound quality always put me off, after doing work on it. The sound quality probably gets a C+, B- at best. It's unfortunate that I recorded so close to the stage. I started the recording as I was leaving the bathroom and the show had just begun, and you can hear the sound go from distant, to pretty good, to over-modulated/distorted sounding. I'd only had that problem with the recorder at one or two other shows. Anyway, it is a very nice show. Tape flips occur at the start of track 13, and during track 21 at 05:42. I am largely uploading this, in hopes that a nicer recording emerges. A store called Second Coming had a very homemade looking cdr of some of this show, and it sounded pretty good, but I never bought it. While the sound quality is not the best, the show certainly was.


Enjoy - try real hard not to sell or trade as lossy. Cheers!
Craig