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Megadeth - Live in Cleveland, OH, USA, 1992 |
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| Venue: |
Music Hall: Cleveland, OH, USA |
| Date: |
November 19, 1992 |
| Time: |
78:40 |
| Size: |
1 CD |
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| Sound: |
B+, AUD, copy from master |
| Notes: |
Taper: Dave I. Lineage: Floor seating on David Ellefson's side > Sony TCS-430 > Maxell UR90s (master) > Denon DR-70 cassette deck (cleaned and azimuth adjusted) > Edirol R-09 (44.1khz, 16bit) > Audacity: mild low-end EQ boost, quick fades around tape stops, volume adjustment > FLAC 1.4.2: level 8, aligned on sector boundaries.
Taper's comments: I was in floor seating for this, though I can't remember how far back I was from the stage. This was my first live taping and I used one of several Sony TCS-430 recorders I had access to at the time. I hadn't yet purchased an external mic, so I stood there with the recorder at chest level and its internal mics facing the stage for the length of the set. I'm pretty sure the Music Hall was sold out that night. The crowd was wild and you'll hear them overwhelm the recording sometimes (especially earlier on in the set). This is the dream team lineup of Megadeth and they absolutely owned that night. Nick in particular is an utter whirlwind behind the kit here-- a proverbial tornado of souls. Marty and the two Daves are on fire, but Nick's playing is some kind of sorcery of the highest order on display here. A few years later I would upgrade to a Sony WM-D3, then a DAT by the end of the 90s and I really wish I would've had either one at this show. The TCS-430 was really just meant for dictation, but it did its best. You can hear the volume fluctuate sometimes as the recorder's auto-level tries to prevent clipping (it had no manual level setting, unfortunately). It wasn't capable of recording on high bias tape, either, which I didn't know at the time was a must. There are some sudden tape stops I tried to obscure with discrete fade-outs/fade-ins. A few songs are now abruptly faded-in at the start, but no tracks are blatantly chopped up or cut from the set.
My comments: this was shared 31! years after the gig. Enormous thanks to Dave I. for this. You never know when will the next megadeth ol' tape appears. Anyways, yes, the sound is not perfect, but very listenable, with some shouters here and there, but they are not a problem. Absolutely great addition to my collection. And, yes, Dave shouts 'Cleveland' several times.
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| Disc 1: |
1. Intro
2. Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
3. Skin O' My Teeth
4. Wake Up Dead
5. Hangar 18
6. Countdown To Extinction
7. Foreclosure Of A Dream
8. Lucretia (quick fade in)
9. This Was My Life
10. Sweating Bullets
11. In My Darkest Hour
12. The Conjuring (quick fade in)
13. Tornado Of Souls
14. Ashes In Your Mouth
15. Symphony Of Destruction
16. Peace Sells
17. Anarchy In Cleveland
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