Artist:	The Police
City:	Aylesbury, UK
Venue:	Friars Club
Date:	28/Jun/1982
People:
Time:
Support act:
Length:	89'
Source: Audience
Quality: Anything less than 6 would fit
Notes:
Origin:	MF
Taper:
Lineage: Aud>Cass(?)
Conversion: Cass(?)>Nakamichi Dragon>FireWire 410>coolpro>cdwav>FLAC (level 8 w/ verify)
	There is no DAE in the lineage/conversion.
Conversion by: Carlo Bolchini 3/Jan/2005
Size:	894 MB
Compressed: 544 MB

Disc 1
01) Voices inside my head
02) Message in a bottle
03) Every little thing she does is magic
04) Spirits in the material world
05) Hungry for you (J'aurais toujours faim de toi)
06) When the world is running down you make the best of what's still around
07) The bed's too big without you
08) Dedododo dedadada
09) Demolition man
10) Shadows in the rain

Disc 2
01) Bring on the night [small cut in the middle]
02) Driven to tears
03) One word (not three)
04) Invisible sun
05) Roxanne
Encores:
06) Can't stand losing you > Reggatta de blanc > Be my girl > Can't stand losing you
07) Don't stand so close to me
08) So lonely
09) =Noise print=

--
No eq, no noise reduction, no speed adjustment.

This is one of the worst tapes EVER!
It has all kinds of defects:
- It is way too genned, tape noise is so high that I have difficulties to
understand what sting says. I can understand the music only because I know
the songs!
- It has volume fluctations; I tried to mitigate them, but at some point
decided that it simply does not worth the effort so more has to be done
- There are some cuts between songs, as the taper (or someone else in the lineage)
pressed the pause button

Moreover I believe is incomplete. Read the story (by me):
I first received this tape starting from "Hungry for you", i.e. with the
first 4 songs (including "Voices") missing. The sound quality was as bad
as this one and the recording lasted only 74 minutes.
At some point, it surfaced this "more complete" version, with the first
4 songs apparently from another source, and everybody was happy with it.
But I was always a bit puzzled by this more complete version, since I always
thought to hear some italian words said by the public in those first 4 songs.
But since those words were barely understandable, I did not worry too much
at the time and forgot about it.
Now, converting to digital, I listened more carefully, and I hear Sting
saying "buonasera" ("good evening" in italian) in the first chorus,
after the second "Message in a bottle". Don't know why I never noticed before.
I'm pretty sure about that. So everything lightened up: the recording
of the first 4 tracks IMO is from Bologna. The others are OK.
Since it seems I am the only one to care about this (and other issues regarding
Police recordings) I've left the first 4 songs so you can judge by yourself.
The d1t5 starts where the tape changes so you can throw away the first 4 tracks
if you want without losing any bit of the true Aylesbury recording.
In this case I have left some extra stuff at the end of disc 1
if you want to join the two discs "seamlessy"....
Your opinion on this issue is welcome.

The last track is a noise fingerprint taken at the end of side B of the tape,
if you want to play with it.

If you have a "true" more complete version, or a cleaner one please CONTACT ME.

NOT FOR SALE - STRICTLY TRADES ONLY

-- Carlo Bolchini - www.bolchini.com/police - 3/Jan/2005