Andy Summers: guitar Tommy Eyre: keyboards Nan Vernon: vocals Allan Thompson: bass (from Eric Clapton's band) Arrun Ahmun: drums The Metro Boston, Mass. U.S.A. July 14, 1987 (including WBCN radio interview on afternoon before concert) performance quality: B+ to A- recording quality: B source: master audience tape total runtime: 132:22 interview: 19:01 concert: 113:21 Thanks to our reliable Dime Setlist Patrol for some setlist fillage (rhymes with Hillage). thanks to doctone for titles of tracks 8 and 10 (getting us "almost there") and to rhoeckel for getting our setlist all the way there with titles of tracks 11 and 16. thanks to force11 for name correction of the vocalist and thanks to MrUnhalf for spelling correction of drummer. this one took a full team effort to get it all right, but it should be all right now. setlist: disc 1: 63:49 1: WBCN interview with Mark Parenteau afternoon before the show (7/14/87) part I 6:37 2: interview part II 5:32 3: interview part III 7:03 (concert) 4: how many days 8:08 5: almost there 5:43 6: the change 5:43 7: truth hits everybody 3:49 8: the only road 4:52 9: XYZ 3:42 10: Omegaman 5:04 11: carry me back 7:45 (end spliced, tape flip. this one is very good, with a nice guitar jam) disc 2: 68:33 12: band introductions 1:10 13: love is the strangest way 6:26 14: Cleveland Avenue 7:04 15: tea in the Sahara 8:06 16: hold me 8:38 17: scary voices 6:45 (very nice song and performance) 18: nowhere 6:37 19: eyes of a stranger 8:01 20: encore I: so lonely 9:04 21: encore II: can't stand losing you 6:37 lineage: (concert) Realistic mini mikes > Sony WMD-6 cassette deck (dolby off) > Maxell XLII-S 90 min. master cassettes > played on Naka. 300 into soundforge (wav) > flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours. (interview) WBCN 104.1 FM radio > Maxell XLII-S 90 min. cassette > Maxell XLII-S cassette copy > played on Naka. 300 into soundforge (wav) > flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours. a masters of rock, 3 step torrent production. (master > wav > flac > torrent) mastered and remastered by glasnostrd19. first posted at dime torrent #203635 in July 2008 (from CD extracted files) reposted at dime torrent #257735 on July 14, 2009 (w/setlist correction) reposted in July 2011 (w/band corrections and from new transfer direct from master tapes) all these posts are from the same original source recording. do not sell this recording. share freely, losslessly and gaplessly. You can't put a price on summertime... or Summerstime. comments: What could be more appropriate in the summertime than some Andy Summers? How many musicians are great enough to be named after a whole season? There are lots of fun things to do in the summer time and one of them is to hear some Andy. Especially this tour which is a nice mix of pop, progressive pop and about as close as you can get to Police Andy Summers without either of his more common concert company. The music after this sounds a little more fusey from Andy, before this, I believe not much else but Police and the "I Advance Masked" album he did with Robert Fripp a few years before this. Some of this sounds a little like that, and most of these songs I've never heard live except in this show. This was the tour of XYZ (why do I keep confusing it with Rush? It doesn't sound the slightest bit like Rush but they have a song called YYZ. Andy Summers doesn't.) They do a few Police songs, but that's not what I went to hear, and that's not really what Andy was there to play either, so it worked out well. Most of the show was about his material which was the most enjoyable for me in this show. The interview is in 3 parts because it had 2 commercial interruptions. It is complete and so is the concert, although after the interview they play a studio song and Mark makes some remarks after that about this concert so I faded out the studio track at the very start of it (2 second fadeout) and put his remarks in after that. the studio track "eyes of a Stranger" was also played just before the second interview segment, and been removed from this posting. this does not take any continuity out of the interview. The doors opened at 8 P.M., about 2 hours later the music started. This first time ever posting for Independence Day in the U.S.A. includes the complete interview before concert with WBCN's Mark Parenteau, and the complete concert. You don't miss anything. I don't believe there was a warmup act, and in 1987 the $11.50 price tag for the ticket to the show seemed a bit pricey- for .333 of a Police concert? Actually to me it was better than seeing a Police concert. Andy is the most underrated member of that band and proves it in this show. Sting's all right, but when you can have Allan Thompson (of Eric Clapton's band)? Andy's singing is not his strongest suit in Police songs, and he screws up a couple of times in his songs but still sounds good overall, and his guitar sounds good period. This show is mostly Andy's own material, and I like it alot. It has a mood to it that I never hear in Police shows at all, partly because those are mostly Sting songs.) Several songs on that XYZ (studio) disc are in here and they all sound very good to me. I got to hear alot of what Andy Summers does best- play guitar. He does alot of that in here and alot of his singing sounds very good too (although Sting's job there is hardly threatened). Some of this is mellow pop (not schlock, I don't think), some more "progressive", there is mercifully little sappy Police music in here, Nan sounds very good singing in Tea in the Sahara (it probably wouldn't have sounded very good if Andy had to sing that one). The Police had quite a history in Boston, having played the largest concert venue then available in the area (Sullivan/Foxboro) just 4 years earlier, Andy remarks "the stadium got a little smaller" (the Metro held about 600 or so). I've only heard a couple of shows at the Metro. the acoustics in there are awful. That's probably why I don't rate this a B+, it was a decent recording and despite being one of my most played master tapes (before digital days), it was also one of my 1st digital master transfers, and it's still a decent recording. the 1st transfer wound up on a digiglitched CD, which was not a CDR-W so it had to go in the trash and fortunately the only other transfer I did of this came out fine, turns out it needed some more ICPVR (individual clap peak volume reduction, between the songs) and level balancing, fortunately the second transfer disc copy seems to be glitchless. so that was posted previously, and I thought while the master tape still sounds like a master tape, why not just do a third transfer and forget all about having a "masters of rock production" with CD extraction lineage in it. The crowd had a good time, and did not ruin the recording at all. I feel good about sharing this one and think I've finally got it in good sharing condition. It would be alot easier to pick out which songs I don't like in here, than which I like, cuz there aren't many. I'm quite surprised to see so little from this tour posted, considering how popular Andy Summers is. He mentions they played the night before in Providence, R.I. For some reason I thought David Sancious played in this show, but apparently he does not. Andy Summers is the only performer I've ever seen introduce the drummer first. I've never seen the Police in concert or any member of them except this one time. this show has been posted twice before, once from a CD extracted source and then again from maybe a CD extracted source, but I decided to do a new transfer that is definitely not CD extracted. this show has several songs I never got to hear live again in any other Andy recording I've heard until one other show from this tour was posted from N.Y. awhile back. it also includes a short interview with Andy the afternoon before the show, where he talks about the current tour and various other subjects. both the interview (minus official songs) and the concert are complete and uninterrupted. This is an Andy tour like no other, I liked it alot and hope you do to. no better time than now to share this with you. Happy Summerstime, everyone. samples are in comments as usual. Ian ---- This had inverted phase on one channel (concert only, not the interview), so I fixed that too and now sounds better. Of course ffps and checksums have changed. I've also put in the set a short 2:11 mpeg video interview recorded off the local newscast following the concert, from WBZ-TV 4 Boston (Thanks, bab!) - Carlo. length expanded size cdr WAVE probs filename 6:34.07 69518108 --- -- -xx disc one/01.flac 5:29.55 58165004 --- -- -xx disc one/02.flac 6:57.66 73714076 --- -- -xx disc one/03.flac 8:08.25 86142044 --- -- -xx disc one/04.flac 5:42.74 60502892 --- -- -xx disc one/05.flac 5:43.30 60575804 --- -- -xx disc one/06.flac 3:49.36 40480316 --- -- -xx disc one/07.flac 4:52.04 51518252 --- -- -xx disc one/08.flac 3:42.19 39205532 --- -- -xx disc one/09.flac 5:04.05 53637404 --- -- -xx disc one/10.flac 7:45.22 82077788 --- -- -xx disc one/11.flac 1:10.67 12505628 --- -- -xx disc two/12.flac 6:26.26 68151596 --- -- -xx disc two/13.flac 7:04.06 74807756 --- -- -xx disc two/14.flac 8:06.68 85890380 --- -- -xx disc two/15.flac 8:38.45 91481084 --- -- -xx disc two/16.flac 6:45.05 71453804 --- -- -xx disc two/17.flac 6:37.68 70190780 --- -- -xx disc two/18.flac 8:01.52 84970748 --- -- -xx disc two/19.flac 9:04.29 96029852 --- -- -xx disc two/20.flac 6:37.09 70052012 --- -- -xx disc two/21.flac 132:22.43 1401070860 B (totals for 21 files, 0.5614 overall compression ratio)