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Stuart Ferguson's Collection

The Cars   07/01/1978

Paradise Rock Club , Boston, MA
Source WBCN-FM broadcast
Media CDR   1 disc
Notes DVD 3249; lineage: FM broadcast>normal-bias cassette>transferred in Soundforge, no remixing done>single WAV file>tracked in Audacity>SBE's repaired, FLAC-8 files and checksum files created in Trader's Little Helper. A Zootype project September 2008
J-Card Comment This must have circulated before, but I can't find it anywhere currently so I made a fresh transfer from my master cassette of the broadcast. I taped it, played it once, and stored it away for the past 30 years.

The opening act at this show was Suicide (with Alan Vega) but I don't think it was broadcast (much too-strong stuff for 'BCN I'm pretty sure); whatever the case was, I don't have it.

I did enough research and consulted with a Cars collector at Etree to be certain that it contains no officially released tracks.
If it turns out that it does, I'm sure I'll learn of it the hard way :-(

This is a good-sounding broadcast with little or no transmission loss, with a tape-flip gap in one track.

Please correct any mis-titles or other mistakes; I'm not that much of a Cars fan but I apppreciate accurate information on my boots so feel free to blast away.

That said, I did enjoy hearing this again - I liked the Cars live much more than on record, and here they play well with a very enthusiastic crowd (including a screaming girl who sounds like she was being murdered repeatedly).
I hope you like it and that we have no problems.
Enjoy!
Trades Allowed Yes
Reference / Generation 3249
Owned by Stuart Ferguson · Last Updated May 23, 2023