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Shawn's Collection

Duran Duran   09/07/1981

Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK
Source Vinyl/Audience Recording
Media CDr   1 disc
Tech Notes This is a very important Duran Duran recording, as it is the oldest-known live recording of the band to have surfaced. Although some shows floating around are credited as being from early 1981 at the Sundown Club or Aston Villa University, both are usually incomplete versions of this particular concert (or a jumble of other material).

This concert was released on a double vinyl bootleg entitled "Decadent Durantics" - some attributed it to a Japanese source. There is no way to tell. Either way, that vinyl bootleg was always difficult to find - and still is. This recording seems to have been lifted from that vinyl bootleg,
although somewhere along the way it has been de-noised and had a better EQ curve placed on it. I might go as far to say this is the best version of this concert recording available.

This is an audience recording. A very good audience recording. There is no soundboard recording of this concert available. Some people have this listed as either a soundboard or an audience recording. They are one in the same and usually multi-generation copies of the vinyl bootleg are
referred to as the 'audience' version, while this cleaned up version is called the 'soundboard'.
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Show: A-    Sound: A-
Owned by Shawn · Last Updated May 23, 2023