Richard & Linda Thompson Band
1980-11-23 Sheffield, England The Crucible Theatre (M1-FM)

01. Modern Woman
02. Sisters
03. You're Gonna Need Somebody
04. Lonely Hearts
05. Just The Motion
06. Back Street Slide
07. Lucky In Life
08. Don't Renege On Our Love
09. Walking On A Wire
10. Living On Borrowed Time

Total Time ::: 58:25

::: Quality varies from very fine to EXC stereo FM but has brief annoying radio reception issues in various places. Check samples for trepidation alleviation or some thrills & giggles.
::: Warts: High end drops out slightly for several seconds in a few spots. Main reception issues and/or station drift as follows on: 4 (some, mostly 2nd half), 5 (erratic/brief), 6 (3 secs only), 7 (7 secs only), 8 (many problems including ~1 min deleted in middle), 9 (8+5+4 secs), 10 (8+4+10 secs).
::: NOTE : Taper had reception problems, seein' as how he was recordin' on the "wrong" side of the Pennines. Static problems scattered throughout (details below).
::: Overall a fine listen if you leave track 8 out, drift with the drift in a few places & pretend there are occasional ghosts in your stereo. Not to be missed.
::: 1980-11-23 was the concert date & first broadcast was 1981-01-01 on Radio Sheffield.
::: THIS IS NOT the same show as 1982-07-18 Crucible Theatre, South Yorkshire Folk Festival, Radio Sheffield (final Linda gig).
::: Thanks to DIMER srabbot for some research assistance.

Recording Information ::: Radio Sheffield FM delayed broadcast -> unknown recording equipment -> off-air master stereo tape (usually taper mastered on reels), Dolby off -> 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby on.

Playback 2013-05-05 ::: 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth & speed adjusted (pitched!) for individual recording, heads cleaned & demagnetized -> Sony Linear PCM Recorder PCM-M10 (LPCM 44.10kHz/16bit WAV files) -> computer -> Audacity (normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch / dropout / bump / pop / click / dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, further speed fixes if necessary, NO equalisation) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. First uploaded week of 2013-05-25. I removed or reduced a thousand or more bits of static, one by one. Probably could have done more, but life's a too short. Also, certainly someone out there was no so drunk fron New Year's Eve & recorded on the "right" side of the Pennines & has a better master... I'm looking forward to it!

Line-up ::: Richard Thompson - acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, vocals // Linda Thompson - acoustic guitar, vocals // Simon Nicol acoustic? & electric guitars, backing vocals // John Kirkpatrick - accordion // Sue Harris - keyboards, oboe, hammer dulcimer // Dave Mattacks - drums // Pete Zorn - electric bass.

Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.

CoolSonics 243 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader, Reel Master Gaule! ::: Corrections welcome ::: Knowing how much the taper loved this music, I can well imagine he was literally in tears over the reception issues. Luckily for DIMERs, the station drift is only to talking in the background (and it is rather minimal & infrequent), there's no commercially released music!

Kudos to Zongo for life support, Lochner for mikes&more & Fast Freddie for runnin' Video Dick's Record Emporium with the bathroom office full of tape decks. Thanks to Hanwaker (few among us can keep his pace). Mountains of gratitude to Davmar, D.White, Sanchez, Elliot, The Florida Kid, Kloiber, Zingg, JTW, Bershaw, Boston Gold, Dixon, Moore, Gough & SO many more for all that collecting & sharing... Royal thanks to The Man In The Palace, Doc Tinker, Brinkhoffs, Barely Eatin', Reel Master Gaule, Parrish & all the traders who housed me thru my music acquisition & travel years. Hats off to Brother Kent, Uncle Jake, Little Queenie (& her neighbor Frank) & his honor Ptomaine Thomas. Glasses raised to Byron for musical horizon expansion & much obliged to J & Thurston for keepin' my concert fires burnin' since my continental shift. Thanks to the Mods for keepin' DIME alive. Enjoy, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees

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