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Dire Straits
1980-10-28
The Roxy, West Hollywood, CA
JEMS Archive
Audience Recording Gear: unknown
JEMS 2016 Transfer: low-generation cassettes > Nakamichi CR-7A (azimuth adjustment) >
Sound Devices USBPre 2 > Audacity 2.0 capture > Peak 6.0 pitch correction >
iZotope RX4 clean up > iZotope Ozone 5 mastering > wav > (tracking,
level adjusting in soundforge) > flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours.
tracking, level adjusting and posting by glasnostrd19, pitch adjusting by butterking.
runtime: 106:12 (minutes/ seconds)
Mark Knopfler: lead guitar, lead vocals
Hal Lindes: rhythm guitar, vocals
Alan Clark: piano
John Illsley: bass
Pick Withers: drums
promoting their album "making movies"
setlist:
1: stage introduction, once upon a time in the west 10:46
2: expresso love > 5:28
3: down to the waterline > 5:04
4: lions 6:29
5: single handed sailor > 4:55
6: skateaway 7:24
7: Romeo and Juliet 7:38
8: in the gallery 7:22
9: news 5:33
10: sultans of swing 8:48
11: Les Boys 7:16
12: portobello belle > 4:21
13: angel of mercy 4:45
14: tunnel of love 9:46
15: wild west end 6:13
16: where do you think you're going? 4:20
This recording captures Dire Straits at what for me is the career high point of their
magical third album, Making Movies, playing what had to be a special show at the tiny,
500-capacity Roxy in West Hollywood.
It's a captivating, intimate performance and boasts unique arrangements of some tracks
along with less frequently played material like "Les Boys."
This is the same underlying source recording that circulates as "Roxy Los Angeles 1980"
and has been torrented before. But the circulating version is several generations
downstream from this copy and suffers from many negative sonic artifacts
and attempts to clean up what was likely a hissy, high-generation source.
You'll find this edition materially clearer, full fidelity and ultimately
much more listenable. Samples provided, including what the circulating version sounds like.
The tapes we transferred fell into our hands somewhat accidentally, but have a
provenance going back at least 20 years before a kind soul gave them to us a few months ago.
Thanks to our mystery benefactor.