14.07.1987
USA, Boston, The Metro
Live At Boston
good / vg Aud.

Disc 1: [1:04:23]
01. WBCN Interview Part I (1) [6:37]
02. WBCN Interview Part II [5:32]
03. WBCN Interview Part III (2) [7:03]
04. How Many Days [8:12]
05. Almost There [5:39]
06. The Change [5:25]
07. Truth Hits Everyone [4:29]
08. The Only Road [4:45]
09. XYZ [3:43]
10. Omegaman [4:52]
11. Carry Me Back Home (3) [8:01]
 
Disc 2: [1:07:39]
01. Band Introductions [1:08]
02. Love Is The Strangest Way [6:33]
03. Cleveland Avenue [6:37]
04. Tea In The Sahara [8:41]
05. Hold Me [8:30]
06. Scary Voices (4) [7:01]
07. Nowhere [6:37]
08. Eyes Of A Stranger [6:48]
09. So Lonely [8:18]
10. Can't Stand Losing You [7:21]
 
(1) with Mark Parenteau afternoon before the show (7/14/87)
(2) studio songs played between interview segments have been edited out. Fortunately this does not miss or ruin any of the interview segments.
(3) this one is very good, with a nice guitar jam
(4) very nice song and performance

performance quality:  B+ to A- (Andy's singing is not his strongest suit in Police songs, and he screws up a couple of times in his songs but still sounds good overall, and his guitar sounds good period. This show is mostly Andy's own material, and I like it alot. It has a mood to it that I never hear in Police shows at all, partly because those are mostly Sting songs.)

recording quality: B
source: master audience tape

lineage: Realistic mini mikes >Sony D-6 cassette deck (dolby off) > Maxell XLII-S cassettes > played on Naka. 125 into soundforge 4.5 > CD > CD extractor (WAV) > FLAC 6 > torrentially yours.

mastered and remastered by: glasnostrd19.

Band: Andy Summers- guitar, Aaron Almoun (last name spelling probably incorrect) - drums, Allan Thompson- bass (from Eric Clapton's band), Tommy Eyre- keyboards, Anne Vernon – vocals

comments: What could be more appropriate in the summertime than some Andy Summers? How many musicians are great enough to be named after a whole season? There are lots of fun things to do in the summer time and one of them is to hear some Andy. Especially this tour which is a nice mix of pop, progressive pop and about as close as you can get to Police Andy Summers without either of his more common concert company. The music after this sounds a little more fusey from Andy, before this, I believe not much else but Police and the I Advance Masked album he did with Robert Fripp a few years before this. Some of this sounds a little like that, and most of these songs I've never heard live except in this show (also the only 87 Andy show I've heard, and it was a good one). This was the tour of XYZ (why do I keep confusing it with Rush? It doesn't sound the slightest bit like Rush but they have a song called YYZ. Andy Summers doesn't.). They do a few Police songs, but that's not what I went to hear and that's not really what Andy was there to play. Most of the show was about his material which was the most enjoyable for me in this show. The interview is in 3 parts because it had 2 commercial interruptions. It is complete and so is the concert, although after the interview they play a studio song and Mark makes some remarks after that about this concert so I faded out the studio track at the very start of it (2 second fadeout) and put his remarks in after that. the studio track "eyes of a Stranger" was also played just before the second interview segment, and been removed from this posting. this does not take any continuity out of the interview. The doors opened at 8 P.M., about 2 hours later the music started. This first time ever posting for Independence Day in the U.S.A. includes the complete interview before concert with WBCN's Mark Parenteau, and the complete concert. You don't miss anything. I don't believe there was a warmup act, and in 1987 the $11.50 price tag for the ticket to the show seemed a bit pricey- for .333 of a Police concert? Actually to me it was better than seeing a Police concert. Andy is the most underrated member of that band and proves it in this show. Sting's all right, but when you can have Allan Thompson (of Eric Clapton's band)? the 4 ? songs may include a Police one or two but I think they're all Andy solo songs not on the XYZ studio CD (which I have, it's good.) Several songs that are on that disc are in here and they all sound very good to me. I got to hear alot of what Andy Summers does best- play guitar. He does alot of that in here and alot of his singing sounds very good too (although Sting's job there is hardly threatened). Some of this is mellow pop (not schlock, I don't think), some more "progressive", there is mercifully little sappy Police music in here, Anne sounds very good singing in Tea in the Sahara (it probably wouldn't have sounded very good if Andy had to sing that one). The Police had quite a history in Boston, having played the largest concert venue then available in the area (Sullivan/Foxboro) just 4 years earlier, Andy remarks the stadium got a little smaller (the Metro held about 600 or so). I've only heard a couple of shows at the Metro. the acoustics in there are awful. That's probably why I don't rate this a B+, it was a decent recording and despite being one of my most played master tapes (before digital days), it was also one of my 1st digital master transfers, and it's still a decent recording. the 1st transfer wound up on a digiglitched CD, which was not a CDR-W so it had to go in the trash and fortunately the only other transfer I did of this came out fine, turns out it needed some more ICPVR (individual clap peak volume reduction, between the songs) and level balancing, but I'm listening to it as I write this info file, fortunately this second transfer disc copy seems to be glitchless. I had thought there may be a few in here, but upon further visual and audio file inspection, what I thought were clicks are actually claps, and not very loud ones. I'm glad I didn't have to do a third transfer of this, it was a bit of a project, but no EQ or noise reduction/processing was done other than the already described and to splice the flips. The crowd had a good time, and did not ruin the recording at all. I feel good about sharing this one and think I've finally got it in good sharing condition. It would be alot easier to pick out which songs I don't like in here, than which I like, cuz there aren't many. I'm quite surprised to not see anything from this tour posted, considering how popular Andy Summers is. He mentions they played the night before in Providence, R.I. For some reason I thought David Sancious played in this show, but apparently he does not. Andy Summers is the only performer I've ever seen introduce the drummer first. I've never seen the Police in concert or any member of them except this one time. do not sell this recording. Trade freely and losslessly. You can't put a price on summertime... or Summerstime.

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