(008171) THE CURE - SEPTEMBER 15, 1996, MEADOWS MUSIC THEATER HARTFORD, CT, USA

TAPER: J.J.

SOURCE: ALD, captured to Sony TCD-D8 (mono channel)

Transfer (by Mahntoh)

DAT Master > Sony DTC-59ES > Monster Optical Cable > Terratec 24/96 > Soundforge (duplicated one channel to the other)

> CDWAV > FLAC

The net result is a near perfect SOUNDBOARD quality recording.

Tracklisting:

Plainsong (10 second dropout due to mic connection problem)

Want

Club America

Fascination Street

Lullaby

High

This is a Lie

A Strange Day

Just Like Heaven

Jupiter Crash

Round & Round & Round

Lovesong

The Figurehead

Strange Attraction

Mint Car

Catch

Like Cockatoos

One Hundred Years

Return

Treasure

Trap

Prayers for Rain

Inbetween Days

From The Edge of the Deep Green Sea

Bare

The 13th

Hot Hot Hot

Why Can't I Be You(Young at Heart/Lovecats)

A Forest/Forever

Notes From ErikDenning

 

"This tape was recorded specifically to try to acquire what has now been called the Frankfurt & Bremen Prayer Tour Soundboard.

I was given samples of these shows (as well as Brussels 87 and London 84 SBD) on a dat tape from a prominent german trader

that basically said if you can match it let me know, and we can trade. At the time it was made to sound like there were

complete versions of both these shows (which it appears they are not).  The famous JJ recorded this show off the

ALD system at Harford Meadows which was a telex system. To this day, even though it was a mono feed

(JJ had a stereo 1/8th inch adapter, but we only got one channel out of the box) its still one of the best in house ALD

systems we have heard. There are some fluctuations in volume and there was a dropout during Plainsong were the jack

came out. This was only the second Plainsong since 1989, and their sound engineer did not understand he was supposed to

fade out the bells when the song starts so that tape continues well into the song which sounds quite strange."

Notes from Mahntoh

Please also direct your thanks to JJ as well as Erikdenning, as without their knowledge, wisdom, and authorization, this

release would not have been possible.

This is also being released to return the wonderful thanks of the glorious gem from Rainer, who I hope has been appreciating

the finer subtleties of The Cure's performances of the Swing Tour 1996.

Rare trade only (RTO) and rare swap (RSO) are a thing of the past, please don't play that game.

Please continue to share Cure masters on DIME regardless. If you have GOLD (aka RSO / RTO) please share.

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