The Police
Amnesty International "Conspiracy of Hope" 25th Anniversary Tour
Giants Stadium, NJ
1986-06-15

LINEAGE: FM broadcast > Denon DRM-800 (Maxell UDXL-II, NR off) > Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI Sound Card > CDWav > wav > FLAC6

01 - Message In A Bottle [small cut]
02 - King Of Pain
03 - Driven To Tears
04 - Every Breath You Take
05 - Roxanne
06 - Invisible Sun (with Bono)
Combined Amnesty Performers
07 - I Shall Be Released

DocBox #8 - a series of concerts from a box in Doc basement

(Seed first torrented 21 June 2005.)

Parts of this appear all over the place, but here, in excellent quality, is
most of the "good stuff" (i.e., the artists I care about) from the day-long,
summer 1986 "Conspiracy Of Hope" concert in Giants Stadium, NJ, for Amnesty
International. If you're as old as I am, you might remember watching this--MTV
covered the whole thing (I think that is veejay Martha Quinn that you hear on
some of the voiceovers here), and the commercials, mostly for Amnesty, were
awesome ("dictatorship is a bitch" by Robin Williams, comes to mind).

This is from master FM tapes in my basement (UDXL-IIs, NR off),
taped directly off of the air. The tapes sound great--excellent dynamic range,
not much hiss. The only processing I did was some fade ins/outs during the
concert. No tape flips during songs (yeah, baby--that takes TALENT!). Included
are the complete sets by Jackson Browne, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell (played great
with an impromptu band, despite the fact that you can hear her asking people to
"stop pitching shit" at her), Peter Gabriel, The Police (re-formed after a
breakup in the earlier 80s, and an incredibly energetic, tight set here), U2
(not included here due to DIME restrictions (unfortunate, because their set is
also very good, with a rockin' "Sun City" which included most of the other acts
as well).

I noticed avery brief dropouts (fraction of a sec) during "I Am A  Patriot",
low vocals initially during the first song of Joni's set--this was a mix
problem and was corrected during the song. No diginoise, no saturation.
All-in-all, a nearly 20-year-old tape that has held up very well.

Enjoy!

-Doc

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please note I have split this from its companion Peter Gabriel, U2, etc.
I like more this FM than the TV audio, but I still think it was used too much
reverb effect in both.
-- Carlo 28 Jul 2005

    length     expanded size   cdr  WAVE  probs   filename
     4:51.59      51471212     ---   --    -xx    police-19860615-t01.flac
     6:23.54      67688252     ---   --    -xx    police-19860615-t02.flac
     5:12.35      55119164     ---   --    -xx    police-19860615-t03.flac
     5:01.46      53204636     ---   --    -xx    police-19860615-t04.flac
     4:31.70      47969084     ---   --    -xx    police-19860615-t05.flac
     5:03.24      53505692     ---   --    -xx    police-19860615-t06.flac
     7:43.04      81682652     ---   --    -xx    police-19860615-t07.flac
    38:47.67     410640692 B                      (totals for 7 files, 0.7159 overall compression ratio)