Paul Simon And Sting
2014/03/13 - The Center; Washington DC, USA

Source: CA-14's (Cards) > Church Audio ST-9100 > Edirol R09-HR @ 24/96
Location: Section 210
Editing: Tracking and fades were done while the show was laid in Sony Soundforge 9.0a (Build 297) as a wav file. Audience applause was mitigated using the "Click and Crackle" removal tools. Periodic loud points were gently enveloped to allow for more headroom in normalization. Normalization performed on each channel independently to -0.10dB.
Conversion: Trader's Little Helper v.2.7.0 (Build 172)



TRACKLIST: TIME:

01. Intro 00:43
02. Brand New Day 04:34
03. Boy in the Bubble 04:23
04. Fields of Gold 04:51
05. Every Little Thing She Does is Magic 04:33
06. Englishman in New York 04:10
07. I Hung My Head 05:09
08. Driven to Tears 05:31
09. Walking on the Moon 04:35
10. Mother and Child Reunion 03:31
11. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover 04:07
12. Dazzling Blue 05:04
13. Graceland 05:13
14. Still Crazy After All These Years 04:40
15. Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard 04:17
16. Fragile 05:45
17. America 02:50
18. Message in a Bottle 05:41
19. The Hounds of Winter 06:22
20. They Dance Alone 05:57
21. Roxanne 04:01
22. Desert Rose 05:34
23. The Boxer 06:02
24. That Was Your Mother 04:02
25. Hearts and Bones 05:59
26. Mystery Train / Wheels 04:22
27. The Obvious Child 04:41
28. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes 07:04
29. You Can Call Me Al 06:31
30. Bridge Over Troubled Water 05:23
31. Every Breath You Take 04:47
32. Late in the Evening 05:35
33. When Will I Be Loved? 02:44

GRAND TOTAL- 159:41



MISC NOTES:
I first caught Paul Simon 15 years ago (literally half my life-time ago) when he played with Bob Dylan at Nissan Pavilion in Bristow VA. I'm sure he must have toured some time between that show and this one, but I never made it out, and Paul Simon remained on my "must see" list for a decade and a half. I saw Sting once when he played about a half dozen songs for a free Earth-Day event on the National Mall in DC in April 2010. I am honestly not a huge Sting fan, but I respect his music and his career so when this show was announced, I jumped on it. Even with the insane $180 ticket, I figured Paul put on such a great show 15 years earlier, and at 72 years old, there is no telling how many more opportunities I will have to see him. Verizon Center is a hockey / basketball stadium pretty notorious for rotten acoustics. That said, I am pretty happy with how this tape came out-- not my best tape ever, but certainly not as boomy or jumbled as I was expecting (indeed the recording sounds clearer than the actual show did!).

Here's hoping you enjoy this awesome 2.5hr+ of great music!

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