Neil Young & the Shocking Pinks
Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
Irvine Meadows, CA
1983-07-24

please read tape notes below before downloading

01 Dan Clear Intro including interview with Joel Bernstein and Glen Palmer
02 Comes A Time
03 Motor City
04 Down By The River
05 Soul Of A Woman
06 Old Ways
07 Old Man
08 Helpless
09 Dance Dance Dance
10 Heart Of Gold
11 Don't Be Denied
12 Dan Clear Backstage Interviews with Pinkettes and Larry Cragg
13 Dan Clear Backstage interview with Graham Nash
14 Dan Clear interview with Neil
15 Sail Away
16 Powderfinger
15 Ohio
17 After The Goldrush
18 Transformer Man
19 My My, Hey Hey
20 Mr. Soul
21 Sugar Mountain
22 Dan Clear interview with "Vito Toledo"

23 Jellyroll Man
24 That's Alright, Mama
25 Wonderin'
26 Kinda Fonda Wanda
27 Bright Lights, Big City
28 Get Gone
29 Everybody's Rockin'
30 Do You Wanna Dance
31 Dan Clear post show interview

Band:
Neil Young - vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica, vocoder
Ben Keith - guitar, alto saxophone
Larry Byrom - piano, trumpet, vocals
Anthony Crawford - guitar, vocals
Rick Palombi - vocals
Craig Hayes - baritone saxophone
Tim Drummond - bass
Karl T. Himmel - drums
Larry Cragg - drums, banjo, pedal steel guitar
Joel Bernstein - vocoder and synclavier
Pegi Young - vocals
Inez Bongiorn - vocals
Connie Simmons - vocals
Rosemary Lovell - vocals

information from GOTR and/or Sugar Mountain - thanks to PL and TH

source: first generation MaxellXLIIS > AIWA AD-F810 > Creative SB1260 > Audacity > wav file >
edited w Nero > flac > Dime

Most of you will know the format of the 1983 shows which were MC'd by Newell Alexander in the role of Dan Clear.
During intervals between sets Clear would interview crew, musicians etc and between interviews there would be
old TV ads and shows playing. The original tapes for this concert ran a monster 2hours 41 mins. The taper turned his
machine on at the start and left it running pretty much - apart from tape flips - for the rest of the show - interviews
/ intervals / music - even the PA broadcast of "The Star Spangled Banner" at the end. This clearly required some editing
and I have tried to do the right thing for everyone.

If you have never heard a full version of of a show from this tour you may wish to download the Dan Clear segments to give
you some idea of his involvement - tracks 1, 12, 13, 14, 22. These have been carefully edited to remove dead time and TV ads etc
- as a result the commentary and interviews run almost continuously - in reality there were often stretches in between where
the audience amused themselves. However should you choose to omit tracks 1, 12, 13, 14 and 22 the rest will still form a
coherent concert.

From a technical point of view the only thing I did outside of this was balance channels where necessary.

There is an issue during Helpless where the taper either leaves his seat or covers the mic.