Talking Heads
Billerica Forum
Billerica, MA
October 2, 1983
Set 1:
01. Psycho Killer
02. Heaven
03. (My Love Is A) Building On Fire
04. The Book I Read
05. Slippery People
06. Cities
07. Big Blue Plymouth
08. (power failure announcement)
Set 2:
09. Burning Down The House
10. Making Flippy Floppy
11. Swamp
12. What A Day That Was
13. This Must Be The Place
14. Once In A Lifetime
15. Big Business
16. Houses In Motion
17. Genius Of Love (Tom Tom Club)
18. Girlfriend Is Better
19. Take Me To The River (band introductions during the song)
20. Life During Wartime
Total time = 116:32
Comments (from glasnostrd19 ’08 upload): “This is one of 3 TH 83 shows I wanted to offer, in this one the power generator that ran all the stage lights blew out, so they took a break (I think it was supposed to be after the next song anyway) and played the second set in the dark. This must have been an interesting show, and nearly the full-length set (the Providence 10/6/83 one was about 5 minutes longer), apparently the power for the amps and sound was not affected since this sounds pretty good for a hockey arena concert. When you think of places big bands of rock play in Massachusetts, you think of Boston, Worcester, Mansfield (Great Woods/ now the Tweeter Center), Amherst and Foxboro (Gillette Stadium), but Billerica??? They did not play any of the above locales (that I know of) on this tour, just Providence and Billerica and Cape Cod Coliseum, all of which I was going to share here on the dime. the CCC was posted in a better quality already by another uploader, and the Providence show was also uploaded from another source in a good quality. This one is the lone remaining 83 Heads show I have that is not yet posted on dime. Thanks to Purple Moon Productions, nice job with the recording of this. I believe it is all here, without interruption. I’d forgotten what a good tour this was, at least these 3 shows of it, so near where it all started for Talking Heads in the 1970’s. The Providence one I have is a SMP (Stud Muffin Production, as in D-5 source) but this one has a little clearer path between stage and mike and everything comes through clearly. A lesser band would have packed it in after a 40-minute set if they lost all the stage lights, but Talking Heads have always been a bit daring, here they don’t let a lighting failure cut their lone Central Mass. area concert short. Why they chose to play here, who knows, TH may be the only band anybody’s ever heard of to play the Billerica Forum. I don’t think there was an opening act. They meant to play 2 sets anyway, and they did, this break just came a little earlier than planned. It was a nice inspired concert. Do not sell this recording. Trade freely and losslessly.”
Source: Audience recording > unknown Sony mics > Sony D-6 cassette deck (Dolby off) > Maxell XLII cassette > My copy (1st generation audience tape) > Soundforge 4.5 > FLAC (level 6).
My part:
FLAC (from glasnostrd19 ’08 upload) > TLH > WAV > shntool (ref. shntool_len_original.txt, shntool_len_corrected.txt) > TLH > FLAC (level 6).
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