18.08.1983 USA, New York, Shea Stadium New York, Shea Stadium exc. Aud. Disc 1 [60:28] file size: 610.38 MB 01. Voices inside my head [1:01] 02. Synchronicity I [2:55] 03. Synchronicity II [4:45] 04. Walking in your footsteps [4:15] 05. Message in a bottle [4:26] 06. Walking on the moon [5:04] 07. Oh my God [3:44] 08. De do do do de da da da [5:00] 09. Wrapped around your finger [5:15] 10. Tea in the Sahara [4:28] 11. Spirits in the material world [tape flip] [2:59] 12. Hole in my life [cuts in, but only 1 chord lost] [4:58] 13. Invisible sun [5:17] 14. One world (not three) [Tea break] [6:15] Disc 2 [49:15] file size: 497.11 MB 01. King of pain [Tea break] [6:08] 02. Every breath you take [5:30] 03. Murder by numbers [4:44] 04. Don't stand so close to me [3:47] 05. Roxanne [change of tape (probably)] [4:44] 06. Can't stand losing you / Reggatta de blanc / Can't stand losing you [7:55] 07. So lonely [7:17] Bonustracks: 08. Report from Shea Stadium with short interview (UK? TV) * [5:12] 09. J. King about the Shea Gig ("Entertainment USA") * [2:29] 10. J. King presenting "Best selling single" from 1983, Every breath you take live from Shea Stadium, broadcasted in December 1983 * [1:24] Lineage: Audience > Low generation cassette Conversion: Cass(?) > Nakamichi Dragon > CD-RW700 > coax > M-Audio FireWire 410 > coolpro > cdwav > FLAC (level 8 w/ verify) The CD-RW700 is used only for the A/D conversion and is a pass-through. There is no DAE in the lineage/conversion Conversion by: Carlo Bolchini 7/Feb/2005 Notes: This is one of the best Police recordings, from a really low generation copy, transferred with all possible love. It's so good I rated it the maximum, even if it has a very slight hiss and really a few of that small "vintage" analog distortion. Actually is one of the best recordings of that era I've ever heard. You can even hear stereo effects (mainly the guitar going from a stack to the other), which tells us that the taper was greatly placed in the middle. Thank you taper for this great job! From this tape it was taken the vinyl bootleg "I'd like to thank the Beatles from lending us their Stadium", which is the grandpa of all the other Shea Stadium bootlegs. So we can say we have a pre-bootleg source here! ;) The sound is greatly balanced and the performance is what you would expect from a show at the legendary Shea Stadium, where the Beatles performed, specially since Sting played with a freshly broken rib, a consequence of one of his famous playful wrestling match with Stewart Copeland they did after the soundcheck. There is a chapter dedicated to the Shea Stadium gig on "Wild Thing", a book by Stewart's brother Ian Copeland, who was the Police agent at the time. I suggest you get and read the whole book, it's an interesting reading. This show sold out in kess than three hours, definitely a record for the time. What else can I say ? No eq, no noise reduction, no speed adjustment. There is a small dropout after "Message in a bottle", but it does not touch any music. I could have cut it, and you would'n have noticed (well, actually I cu a small silence after the dropout, but if I didn't told you...). You can hear someone says "Bullshit" when Sting announces the Tea break after "One world". -- Carlo Bolchini - www.bolchini.com/police - 24/Feb/2005 * TV Reports for the concert: This is a short collection of various TV reports for the Shea Stadium concert. I have taken several different versions of this reports on audio cassette tapes and on VHS and mixed the best ones to get the longest versions, specially for the first track. The first track is assembled from three different audio tapes. The second is taken from the best quality tape of the three I have. The third track is taken from VHS. I have forced this back to mono with cooledit and now sounds much better. I also pathced a small dropout with another version I have on audiotape, and it came out so well that now I do not know exactly where I did this.. The lineage is: vhs(?) or cass(?) > cdrw700 > coax > firewire410 > coolpro > FLAC (8 w/ verify), No DAE.