The Roches
Boston, MA
Berklee Performance Center
December 18, 1985


Audience Master
Recorded and transferred by SDC
First seeded June, 2017


Recording Information: Sony D-6 portable cassette recorder, single Sennheiser 300 microphone with shotgun shell jacked into both channels -> mono master Maxell XLII-S-90 cassettes---->Sony KA1ESA---->--Soundforge 9.0 16-bit, 44,000 wav files-->Amadeus II tracks split-->Traders Little Helper (Wav->Flac (6), Boundary Sector Corrected)



01 Gimmie a Slice
02 Weeded Out
03 The Train
04 Hammond Song
05 Older Girls
06 Intro: Turn Off the Faucet
07 Turn Off the Faucet
08 Mr. Sellack
09 Intro: Face Down at Folk City
10 Face Down at Folk City
11 Chat: It�s Libby
12 Missing
13 Love to See You
14 The Troubles
15 Intro: Want Not
16 Want Not
17 Come Softly to Me
18 Clothes Line Saga (Bob Dylan)
19 The Angry Angry Man
20 Pretty and High
21 /Hallelujah Chorus
22 West Virginia
23 Chat: Boston
24 Another World
25 Love Radiates Around
26 /Angels We Have Heard on High
27 Deck the Halls
28 /We

Modifications:
Applause between tracks amplified by 50%
A portion of We is amplified by 150% (from appx 1�39��1 to 2�16��2)
A small piece of Gimmie a Slice was tweaked to compensate for naive level adjustments while the original recording was being made

Warts:
Gimmie a Slice has some slight gaps as I tried to get the recording levels right
The Tree missing after Face Down at Folk City
Gap for tape flip between tracks 10 and 11 and 20 and 21
Gap before encore after Another World
Beginning of Hallelujah Chorus cut
Beginning of Angels We Have Heard on High is also cut
As is the beginning of We

SDC Notes: This was one of my first forays into recording in a theatre instead of a club. The sound is pretty good when the audience is quiet, although there are periods where it there is a slight scratchy sound as if the microphone was being hidden, but at a cost, and times when people are laughing and/or chatting. I recommend the show as one of the longer Roches sets around from this period, as well as a couple of bonus Christmas songs near the end. It seemed like every time I recorded them something went wrong and this was no exception. There is one song missing at the end of the first side of the tape (as I forgot to check if I still had enough tape left until it was too late) and clearly I needed should have just let the tape run before the encores since I must have needed to get things somehow just right when they started. For all that, I would certainly recommend this show. It was a treat hearing it again. They were just so good at that point.