Sting
Dane County Coliseum
Madison, Wisconsin
March 2, 1988

Length:	143 Min
Source: Audience
Quality: 
Notes:
Origin:	** Thu 27th Apr, 2006 05:42 GMT - DAD
Taper:

Lineage:  Master cassette => cassette => cassette => Stand-alone Pioneer CD burner => EAC => Magix Audio Cleaning Lab => WAV => FLAC Front-end (level 8)

Disc one (75:21):
(1)  Crowd (0:46)
(2)  Warm up (0:47)
(3)  The Lazarus Heart (5:52) =>
(4)  Too Much Information (2:40)
(5)  We'll Be Together (4:45)
(6)  Englishman In New York (4:34)
(7)  Sister Moon (7:30)
(8)  Rock Steady (5:47)
(9)  Murder By Numbers (5:17)
(10)  Straight To My Heart (4:19)
(11)  One World (Not Three) (8:40)
(12)  If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (7:00)
(13)  Consider Me Gone (5:40)
(14)  Bring On The Night (2:42) =>
(15)  When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around (8:56)

Disc two (67:13):
(1)  They Dance Alone (9:54)
(2)  King of Pain (5:48)
(3)  Be Still My Beating Heart (6:09)
(4)  Fragile (4:10) =>
(5)  Little Wing (incl. From Me To You) (9:05)
(6)  Grammy Announcement (2:25)
(7)  Roxanne (3:55)
(8)  Fortress Around Your Heart (4:51)
(9)  Don't Stand So Close To Me '86 (10:15)
(10) The Secret Marriage (3:16)
(11) Banter (1:26)
(12) Message in a Bottle (5:56)

ademotte's notes:
Fingerprint file is included.  Sorry, no artwork - perhaps someone can create
some

Comments:  Fine recording from Sting's "Nothing Like The Sun" tour.  My 2nd
generation copy (on Sony UX90's -- ugh) had a great deal of fidelity to it,
and very little processing was needed other than some de-hissing.  The taper
was evidently close up -- the audience noise is appropriate (between songs,
etc.) and not distracting whatsoever.

The performance is great.  Sting is loose and funny -- at various points
mocking Madonna, Bon Jovi, and Jimmy Swaggart -- and the band is definitely
"on."  A member of Sting's entourage (I assume his manager) interrupts the
show to announce that Sting has won a Grammy (Best Pop Male Vocal Performance)
during that night's ceremony; he gives a brief but emotional speech during the
show.

This tour is probably Sting's finest hour as a live performer, and I think
this is one of the best recordings and performances around.  

I have no idea whether this show has been booted, and if so how the quality
compares.  This one's real good considering it was taped in the pre-digital
era.

----
While the de-hissing here introduced only a small part of artifacts (you can
hear them raising highs in an eq) I think it cut also high frequencies.
And since the de-hissing was digital, you can't raise them without hearing
those artifacts again. That's one of the reasons transfers should not be noise
reduced in any way.
-- Carlo.