03.08.1991 
USA, East Troy, Alpine Valley Music Theater	
First Night At Alpine Valley	
good Aud.

Disc 1 [46:29]
file size: 469.34 MB
01. All This Time [5:59]
02. Jeremiah Blues (Part 1) [6:16]
03. Band introductions [1:26]
04. Mad About You [5:12]
05. Ain't No Sunshine [4:53]
06. Why Should I Cry For You? [7:46]
07. Roxanne [5:55]
08. When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best of What's Still Around / Bring On The Night [9:00]

Disc 2 [49:22]
file size: 498.44 MB
01. King of Pain [6:09]
02. Fortress Around Your Heart [3:09]
03. The Wild, Wild Sea (6:01] >
04. The Soul Cages [6:37]
05. Purple Haze [3:34]
06. Walking On The Moon [5:58]
07. Every Breath You Take [6:43]
08. Message in a Bottle [5:50]
09. Fragile [5:17]

Lineage: Unknown master audience > cassette (low) > Stand-alone Sony ES DAT > Stand-alone Pioneer CD burner > EAC > Magix Audio Cleaning Lab > WAV > FLAC Front-end (level 8)

Comments: Sting played two nights at Alpine Valley in 1991 on a double-bill with Don Henley (I believe that they alternated in the headlining slot); Henley's set was a shade under two hours and Sting averaged about 90 minutes. The shows from this tour are consistently good, but too short considering the wealth of Police material he had to draw from. "Purple Haze" was consistently a high point of every show.
 
Transfer notes: The original source cassettes (I think mine are 2nd or 3rd gen, but I don't have a record of the lineage anymore) I have of this are not good at all; they took a lot of work to turn them into an enjoyable recording. They were recorded by the same taper in roughly the same spot in the pavilion, and the bass is overwhelming on the raw recording. I used Audio Cleaning Lab to -
 *  Even the levels out (the right channel -- where most of the high end is -- was about 4 db lower than the left)
 *  Reduce the low frequencies (<100 Hz)
 *  Slightly increase the +3 kHz band
 *  Apply light de-hissing and noise elimination
 *  (On the 8/4 show) offset a dramatic spike in the levels during "King of Pain"
 
What remains are not great recordings by any stretch, but are certainly listenable -- perhaps a 6-7 on a scale of 1 to 10. This clearly was recorded on amateur equipment, but during the quieter points of the shows, the sound is pretty good now.