Elvis Costello - 1978-04-22 Royal Oak (early) (JEMS)

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Elvis Costello & the Attractions
April 22, 1978, 1st show
Royal Oak Music Theatre, 
Royal Oak, Michigan, U.S.

From the JEMS archives

Lineage: ANA(M)>WAV [96kHz/24bit]>WAV [44.1kHz/16bit]>Flac
Transfer: Nakamichi CR-7A>PreSonus FireStudio Project>Adobe Audition 3.0
Taping Gear: Teac M-100>Sony TC-153SD
Transferred By: Mike Ziegler
Taped By: JEMS

Thanks once again to JEMS for providing the WAV file. I used Audacity to split into tracks, and to fix a few minor clicks.
Additional lineage: WAV > Audacity (track splits) > TLH > FLAC 6 (align SB) > Foobar2000 (flac tags).

Elvis Costello & the Attractions
- Steve Nieve - keyboards
- Bruce Thomas - bass
- Pete Thomas - drums

01. [4:20] Waiting For The End Of The World
02. [2:01] No Action
03. [3:15] This Year's Girl
04. [2:22] Lip Service
05. [0:24] talk
06. [3:23] Less Than Zero
07. [2:30] (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
08. [3:28] The Beat
09. [0:33] talk
10. [2:32] Radio, Radio
11. [3:26] Pump It Up
12. [4:05] Miracle Man
13. [5:15] Watching The Detectives
14. [2:35] You Belong To Me

Duration: 40:16 
(combined with late show: 78:43)

Notes:
JEMS master recording. This is a very good to excellent sounding recording capturing Elvis Costello & the Attractions on the fourth night of their third North American tour, following appearances in Minneapolis, Madison, and Chicago, It's Bruce Thomas' second night back after a hand injury. The band plays two shows, and the bill also includes opening sets from Rockpile and Mink DeVille.  It's Elvis' first appearance in the Detroit area, and he cites Detroit radio as the reason. JEMS recorded the late show as well, which is torrented separately.

There is another audience source to this show that was torrented back in February. This is a different recording, with better sound. There's also some newsreel footage from an unbroadcast episode of "20/20" that circulates. Here's a video of "Radio, Radio" from that footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWYDxMKvGSU, same monologue as in this recording.

Additional notes:
- one second of tape drag/rumble at 0:03 of "Pump It Up".
- includes three songs not played in the late show - "Less Than Zero", "Red Shoes", and "Watching The Detectives"
- lovely new artwork by Colin included in torrent.

Torrent history:
- first upload on Dime: September, 2010.