1993.07.29 New World Theatre, Tinley Park, IL
Decent recording by Drew C! Recorded 35 or so rows away. After the show, the taper and his friends ask people about the gig, and his friend "Mike" tells people it is for an Argentinian Radio show.
New Order
1993/07-29 World Music Theatre, Tinley Park, IL
(openers: 808 State, The The)
Source: My own recording (Realistic (Radio Shack) SCP-29 Stereo Cassette Recorder)
Lineage: Master cassette --> big honkin' WAV file --> Adobe Audition (for EQ) -->
--> CD Wave (tracksplits) --> FLAC --> you
Taped/transferred by: me (drewc)
Setlist:
01 ...intro...
02 Ruined In A Day
03 Regret
04 Dream Attack
05 Round And Round
06 World
07 As It Is When It Was
08 Everyone Everywhere
09 True Faith
10 Bizarre Love Triangle
11 Temptation (spliced around 3:12 due to tape flip)
12 The Perfect Kiss
13 Fine Time
14 Blue Monday
15 Post-Gig Conversations
Gig plus intro (tracks 1-14): 77:26 (fits on 80-min CD-R)
Entire thing, including track 15: 96:17 (fits on 2 CD-Rs)
Notes:
After sitting on this tape for the past 11 years, I've finally decided to let it loose on
the world. Not a spectacular recording by any means (it was recorded with a consumer-grade
stereo cassette recorder using the built-in condenser mics), it still is a nice little gig -
especially considering this show has hardly seen the light of day in the New Order trading
community! I've never seen this show on any trade lists, which is odd considering that I did
trade it out a couple times shortly after the gig itself back in 1993...
Anyhow, there are a few bumps here and there with this gig. Namely, the middle section of
"Dream Attack" is a bit muffled because I had to, um, pee in a cup at my seat - too many
pre-gig beers! ;) So what you hear during this part of "Dream Attack" is the recorder being
passed back and forth between me and one of my friends.
I wasn't terribly close to the PA so the crowd noise is a bit louder than I like, but overall
it's not too bad at all. (For reference, I was about 30-40 rows back from the stage, on the
main floor at the venue. Furthermore, being an outdoor amphitheater amidst a residential
neighborhood, the World's acoustics left something to be desired to begin with... so there
wasn't much I could do anyway about the sound.)
An interesting side note - this was the gig where the "World" video version II was filmed, the
one set to the Perfecto mix featuring all the live shots. Imagine how surprised I was to
see myself in the video several months later, amidst the heaving crowd!
And finally, the story behind track 15, Post-Gig Conversations...
After the gig, we (me, my friends and my sister) decided to keep the recorder running, asking
anyone and everyone we walked past their opinions of the show. The conversations range from
the banal to the hilarious, with some rather cutting commentary by some informed fans about
'93-era New Order and how they used to be. We carried this ruse on for some 18 minutes or so,
from leaving our seats on the floor all the way to waiting in a massive traffic jam leaving the
venue's parking lot (we were in a Jeep with the top off, so towards the end you hear traffic,
car stereos, and shouted conversations between us and random strangers in their own cars). In
the middle of the conversations, you can hear my sister with the recorder getting harassed by
venue security, telling her that they didn't actually just see the recorder in her hand ;) You
also hear my friend Mike winding lots of people up by claiming this was for a radio station in
Argentina, and more often than not they believe him!
The post-gig conversations aren't something you'd really listen to again and again, but I
highly recommend giving them a listen at least once because at the end of the day the fans'
opinions of the Republic tour etc. really ring true ("I remember when New Order was good...").
Sam's detailed notes on this gig can be found here:
http://www.new-order.net/no/gigs/nogigs93.html#NO-930729
Enjoy!