Richard Thompson Band
3/12/85
9:30 Club
Washington D.C.

Noted on inserts accompanying discs: MastCass>Cass>DAT>CDR
Then: CDR>EAC(secure mode)>WAV>FLAC(level 8)

This is the late show, offered to accompany the early show torrented here a week or so ago by redman. The early show was direct from his master, but this late show is a first gen. from an unknown taper.

Apparently there were a lot of tapers that night, so this may be a completely different quality of recording relative to the early show torrent. Because I didn't download the early show, I haven't a clue whether this is better or worse than that, so, if people who did d/l'd the early show would let me know what they think, I'd appreciate it. If this is an obviously inferior recording, I'll see if they'll let me yank it in the hopes redman will upload his late show. If people think it's comparable, I'll leave it alone.

The sound is somewhat distant, so cranking the volume helps, the band screws up a couple of times (Chris C even sings off key once!) and RT's guitar is not right up front, but while it's not the best recording, as far as I'm concerned any 85-88 band performance is worth having all of.

I know the idea is to shoot for only sharing the best available here, so I hope uploading this without being sure isn't a huge faux pax and I trust people will tell me if it is. In any case, until or unless someone uploads a better quality late show, I thought people might want to have this.

enjoy
deborah

Setlist from http://home.myfairpoint.net/srabbot/rt/rtbase.htm#1985

late show:

1 Wrong Heartbeat
2 You Don't Say
3 Did She Jump
4 She Twists the Knife Again
5 How I Wanted To
6 Time to Ring Some Changes
7 Home is Where the Heart Is
8 Mind Your Own Business
9 Calvary Cross *
10 I Still See Her Face
11 Love in a Faithless Country
12 Ain't Gonna Drag My Feet No More
13 Nearly in Love
14 Fire in the Engine Room
E:
15 Withered and Died
16 Open Fire

* Note, original set had Calvary Cross in two parts with a cut on both ends. I’ve edited them together, FLAC > WAV > ProTools > WAV > FLAC, conversion using xAct 2.38. The original Calvary Cross files are in a folder with the original text file. —north jersey 10.17.2016