Swans
Wartburg, Wiesbaden, Germany
October - 01 - 1987





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from MILAVALENTI collection # 053
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The MILAVALENTI collection consists mostly of 80's and some 90's and 2000's masters in generally great sound. Most of the concerts
which will be uploaded from this collection are uncirculated. I met the taper who is an old friend of mine recently after more than 20 years.
He was happy to give me his very precious gems to be presented to a wider public. In the 80's I often went to concerts with him and sometimes
both of us were recording.
So some of the recordings which will be uploaded have been uploaded by me before as of my masters collections and some of his recordings
which had been uploaded by me already as first gen copies will now be re-uploaded as master transfers.
The musical style varies from "normal Rock acts" to Wave/Punk and Avantgarde. Also some German Post-Punk acts are included.




Master recording. 
Recording equipment: SONY WM-D 6 with OKM 01 Headmicrophones


master tape / cass transfer via Onkyo tapedeck TA-2330 -> Magix Audio & Music Lab (edit/remaster) -> FLAC -> DIME
VG+, some equalizing was done (check sample). There is a cut in the middle of track 6 due to tape flip. During the first minutes the sound level had to be adjusted several times by the taper as the sound level created by the band became higher and higher. Some distortions resulting from this were inevitable.


This is a great document of the band's mid period where the newly arrived Jarboe brought in some "milder" elements to the otherwise brutal approach. Especially the parts where she is on vocals give a nice contrast to Gira's violent eruptions.
The show seems to be uncirculated and even if it is very short (nowadays the shows take more than 2 times longer) it is a must for every fan.


 
setlist (60:41 min.)

01 - audience
02 - Blood And Honey
03 - Trust Me
04 - Sex, God, Sex
05 - Like A Drug (Sha La La)
06 - Blackmail
07 - Blind Love (cut in the middle)
08 - Beautiful Child





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Do not convert to lossy files, unless for personal use. Don't ever sell!



Swans 1987:

Michael Gira: vocals, guitar
Jarboe: keyboards, vocals
Norman Westberg: guitar
Algis Kizys: bass
Ted Parsons: drums





Uploaded to DIME by Stacheleber 2017/01/12