here is the info file from Dime
PHIL COLLINS
March 1984 California
From a vinyl boot called “File Under… Phil Collins First Live Serving”
I’ve looked around the web but can not find any info on the show from which this boot came.
Any help would be appreciated.
Many thanks,
LO
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THE SONGS:
01 Like China 5:40
02 You Can’t Hurry Love 3:31
03 It Don’t Matter to Me 4:06
04 Droned 9:28
05 In the Air Tonight 6:00
06 Hand in Hand 8:04
07 I Don’t Care Anymore 5:50
08 The Roof is Leaking 2:39
09 Those House Walls 5:11
10 I Dannot Believe It’s True 5:13
11 You Know That I Mean 2:56
12 If Leaving Me is Easy 6:20
TOTAL TIME 1 hour 4 minutes 50 seconds
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THE SOUND:
pretty good
you can definitely tell this is from vinyl (clicks, etc.)
sample below
You know, I sure do believe that the vinyl bootleggers used lesser quality vinyl for their subversive releases, most likely to save money. I really didn’t play the vinyl very many times. But listening to this you’d think I played it to death. There is a good amount of surface noise. Much more than there should be given the few times this got run under a needle. That diamond really can take a toll on cheap vinyl. I remember reading in some music magazine back in the early 1980’s that some record companies were actually buying up old toilet seats to melt down and making records out off them. I don’t know if that was actually true, but I’d put nothing past those idiots in the record biz.
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THE LINEAGE:
audience > vinyl boot > cassette (I made a copy onto cassette and sold the LP) > Nakamichi BX-2 for playback with azimuth adjustment done > digitize via Audacity > FLAC 8 via xAct
Between almost every song there was either a quick fade out or an abrupt stop.
I did smooth them out with relatively uniform fade outs and ins, just for a more consistent listening experience. Hope you don’t mind. That also removed the clicks and surface noise that was present during the between-song silences.
I have done NOTHING to the actual sound of the recording.
You get to enjoy all the clicks and pops and surface noise in which we all used to revel in those long-gone vinyl days.
If anyone would like to work some digital remastering-type magic to clean this up, please feel free.
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HEY GANG:
I offer what I have, with ALL the information known to me.
If you’ve got a better version, seed it.
If you have more accurate information, please add it in a comment.
Try and keep it positive.
Let’s make DIME as good an experience for all as possible.
Cheers,
Lake Ogleton