Smashing Pumpkins October 23, 1995 Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theater Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness CD-Release Show FM/SBD > HI-FI VCR > Digi001 > Soundforge > Flac > thir13en remaster > flac > CDR Disc One: 01 - Tonight Tonight 02 - Jellbelly 03 - Zero (false start) (non-remastered source) 04 - interview (non-remastered source) 05 - Zero 06 - Today 07 - Disarm 08 - Fuck You 09 - Thru The Eyes Of Ruby 10 - Geek USA 11 - Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans 12 - Bullet With Butterfly Wings 13 - Cherub Rock 14 - Mayonnaise Disc Two: 01 - XYU 02 - Baby Loves To Rock (with Cheap Trick) 03 - If You Want My Love (with Cheap Trick) 04 - Auf Wiedersehen (with Cheap Trick) 05 - radio interview (non-remastered source) -------------- March 13th, 1996 Sydney, Australia @ Triple J Studios SBD > ? > Turpentine Kisses CD > thir13en remaster > flac > CDR 6. Tonight, Tonight 7. 1979 8. Cupid de Locke 9. Thirty-three 10. Take Me Down 11. Bullet with Butterfly Wings 12. To Forgive 13. Muzzle 3-13-96 notes: After perusing through five different caps of this show, this source was the clear winner for purest lineage and integrity, and the best remaster candidate hands-down. A couple of the other sources were obviously worked over as well, but if I may be so bold, they were not as good as this. I've always loved this show. There are acoustic shows for nearly every stage of the Pumpkins career, each one delivering the tunes of the time in a cozy setting that helps to ensure a proper environment for the stripped-down display of chords and emotion. This one may be the most "complete", as the setlist travels in rhythm and grace, opening with "Tonight x2", meandering into mostly the quieter territory of tunes, and ending with a brilliantly subdued version of the album-rocker "Muzzle". "...have you ever heard the words, I'm singing in these songs?" ------------------- 10-23-95 notes: The day before MCIS would land in the stores, the band treated the local fans to an energetic and new-material filled spectacle. This show was simulcast and re-broadcast to many cities around the globe. Probably why there are so many versions of it out there. Just a quick look at SPFC shows a mind-boggling number of silver-sources. How to determine which was the best capture? You could listen to them all, try to decipher the little nuances, the different edits, FM static, and I bet a few are even mono sourced. Or you can take this and toss aside the rest. It's my capture from the local DC broadcast on DC101, a broadcast tower that was maybe 2 miles from my house at the time. I've always used the finest equipment whenever I do anything important, like capturing SP from the radio. And this one was archived on my very expensive and top analog quality HIFI VHS machine. I've mastered to this thing many many times. And I have a wealth of original recordings as well as a few concert caps' on a large catalog of archived S-VHS tapes. Why is it top analog quality? The head spins at a very high speed rate, eliminating the noise generated by tape-to-head contact, and the tape itself is 1/2" wide, each stereo track getting it's own 1/4" width to stretch out and get comfortable. No bleed, no drop-outs, no squeeze, no noise. And it's better than a DAT anyday, anytime, anywhere. Most DAT machines will strip all the odd harmonic frequencies in it's A to D conversion, unless someone spent the additional thousands of dollars to get a couple of Apogees, which in 1995 was highly unlikely. Still unlikely even today. Scope it if you like, you'll see a full range of frequencies and no 19K stereo tone or stripped frequencies around that tone. And no FM static at all. Still FM compressed as all FM is, but it sounds immaculate. And of course it's been properly mastered. Though I've probably mastered it a few times over the years, I did it one more time with the latest and greatest tools to share with you, the dedicated SP bunch here at the Zomb. Yes, my copy did have quite a bit of banter, station ID's and the "blackout" that occurred during the first attempt at "Zero". Of course that's been edited. It's just a rock-n-roll show, top to bottom, and includes them being joined by Cheap Trick for the closers unlike some other versions I've seen that omitted those songs. I guarantee you'll not hear this show sound better than this. Yes, "...the World is a vampire..." indeed.