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DVD 3475; lineage: EX FM Broadcast, from silver CDs - Stereo for all tracks bar 10-12. Reality in Colour CD [tr2-12] + Acoustic Tour 91 CD > Audacity (minor EQ-ing) > TLH > FLAC; Revolution on The Radio CD [tr10-21] > Audacity (EQ-ing + widening process described below for Radio Song + Disturbance + speed correction) > TLH > FLAC

BONUS
22 Dallas - 28Apr91 Acoustic Tour 91 CD [included as while not as clear as the above version - which was from the Revolution on The Radio CD - the drums / congas have a 'big' sound to them here due to the sonics of the recording)

"I'd like to add if I had any views at all, they would be the same as Billy's and everyone else's" - Robyn Hitchcock


For years I couldn't listen to the second part of this concert much at all - the varying sound quality frustrated me, that and the fact that the tracks where REM were less involved in meant I didn't feel like giving this much time until I had got around to doing something about the fact the last few tracks ran too fast with way too much treble.

I did a little widening (see process below) of 10-12 - the announcements, Radio Song and Disturbance at the Heron House. This is where the recording was a very stodgy mono, and from Swan Swan H onwards (where is it true FM stereo again). I also slowed the recording down a few percent by comparing to other sources of the REM tracks . I also did some EQing on these as they were way too treble-y beforehand and painful to listen to prior to EQ-ing.

I should note that the weird noise that sounds like it might be Michael Stipe mucking about around a minute into 'Hello In There' is on the original CD (Revolution on the Radio), and was not distortion that cropped up in ripping (via EAC) or afterwards.

I have very much enjoyed compiling this, particularly getting to give the folk tracks from and with other artists towards the end a proper hearing. I hope you enoy this too!

I should warn you, the levels differ for the sets of tracks from different sources...the thing is, unless I bring the gain down a lot on tracks 1-9, a little on 14-21...you get the picture. I am not sure whether creating more 'headroom' is necessary on those tracks, when we all (usually) have a volume control on our PCs / listening devices.

It is annoying having to leave out key tracks that have been officially released, *but* it must be said the Best of Mountain Stage Vol 2, which contains a very beautiful version of Losing My Religion, in better sound quality than this too, is more than worth the price of admission.

For your info, the full broadcast - which I do not have, but I have read online that other parts have circulated - was:

28 April 1991 - 'Mountain Stage', Capitol Plaza Music Hall, Charleston, WV
R.E.M.: World Leader Pretend / Radio Song / Fall On Me / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Larry Groce: Positively 4th Street
Robyn Hitchcock: Oceanside (w/ Deni Bonet) / Arms Of Love (w/ Bonet) / Wild Mountain Thyme (w/ Bonet) / So You Think You're In Love
Clive Gregson & Christine Collister: The Minute You're Gone / Here I Go Again / I Shake, I Rattle and I Roll / I Know Something
Bob Thompson: Brother's Keeper
Billy Bragg: The Marching Song Of Covert Batalions / Accident Waiting To Happen / Tank Park Salute / Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
Twister Sisters: All You Ever Think About Is You
R.E.M.: Half A World Away / Belong / Love Is All Around / Losing My Religion
encore:
everyone: Dallas
R.E.M.: Radio Song / Disturbance At The Heron House / Low / Swan Swan H
Peter Holsapple: White Train
Robyn Hitchcock: If You Go Away / Birdshead
Billy Bragg & Michael Stipe: My Youngest Son Came Home Today / Hello In There
Billy Bragg with Clive Gregson & Christine Collister: Dark End Of The Street
R.E.M.: Pop Song 89 / Get Up
notes: Performance for Mountain Stage radio program, up to 'Dallas' was broadcast on national radio, the rest was broadcast only on local radio. After 'Dallas', the governor of West Virginia came out and announced the day to be R.E.M. Day for R.E.M.'s support of National Public Radio. Peter Holsapple performed with R.E.M. during their sets, & Deni Bonet played violin on 'Radio Song' & 'Losing My Religion'.

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