Van Halen
The Spectrum
Philadelphia, PA
October 20, 1982

Lineage: AUD>1st gen cass>RCA SCT-520 tape deck>Sony
RCD-W500C standalone burner>CDR>EAC(secure/offset)>
WAV>Soundforge Audacity splicing/editing>WAV>CDR
Quality: B

Total Time: 56:03

1. Pre-recorded music before the show 2:15
2. Romeo Delight 3:37
3. Unchained 4:31
4. Drum Solo 3:18
5. The Full Bug 3:45
6. Runnin' With The Devil 3:05
7. Dave Raps 3:39
8. Jamie's Cryin' 3:44
9. Little Guitars 4:51
10. Where Have All The Good Times Gone! 3:28
11. Bass Solo (cut) 3:36
12. Secrets (cuts in) 1:27
13. Everybody Wants Some!! 14:24
14. Dance The Night Away (cut) 0:18

Notes:
This is from Gary C's 1st gen tape of this show. About 10 minutes of 
this have never circulated before--the pre-show stuff, and then about
8 minutes of Everybody Wants Some!! On the tape itself, the show is 
oddly out of order. The taper's machine broke the night of the show,
and he had to keep holding down this button to record. (Which 
explains why there are so many dropouts in the analog source; the guy
had to put up a fight to tape it). Anyway I surmise that perhaps the
guy accidentally hit auto reverse on the Walkman, or was fiddling with
it and accidentally flipped the tape? After all, we don't have the rest
of the bass solo, Hang 'em High, Cathedral, or the first half of Secrets,
so he must have been playing with it all that time. Finally the guy 
probably just gave up shortly after "Dance The Night Away" started,
and hence we only have 56 minutes of this. 

Because the stuff was out of order on the tape, after recording it on
my standalone, I ripped the CD and edited it.

The sound is alright though bassy. It also has a flatness to it and isn't
as good sounding as the previous night. The original tape cut after the
bass solo, then had the second half of EWS and the first 18 seconds of
DTNA. Side two of the tape had the second half of Secrets and the
first half of EWS. Thus I fixed the order and combined the EWS parts
to give us what sounds like a mostly complete EWS.

The sound is flat and bassy. It's decent, clear enough with no hiss as
it's a first gen. Nothing that's gonna make you excited. The cool
thing about this is the music before the show, which really so very few
VH boots have. The only other one that has this, to my recollection
is Largo 10/11/82; however that one had different music than what
was being played here.

All in all, this is as good as it will get for this recording. It's 10-11
minutes longer than what has circulated since the '80s (I suppose
being able to fit it on one side of a 90 minute tape was more 
important than spreading all that was recorded). This is more of a 
completist item, but it's a superior copy of a completist item.

My own tape transfer.