Rain Parade - New York & Los Angeles 1983

Anti Club, Los Angeles, CA
Jan. 20, 1983

Maxwell's, Hoboken, N.J.
Dec. 2, 1983

Gerde's Folk City, New York, N.Y. 
Dec. 7, 1983

audience recordings (sound quality range: VG to VG+)

ROB SEZ: Last week's Rain Parade post generated more interest than I've seen here in quite a while, so here's another helping. This time, it's a collection of shows from 1983 — 1 or 2 that some fans may not have heard before. As you'd expect, the sound quality varies depending on the venue & recording equipment. For my ears, the Maxwell's show has the best sound (but you do have to ignore the crowd noise, which is fairly constant, even if not terribly intrusive).
  

Rain Parade plays Onkel Pös in Hamburg, Germany — mid-1980's 

FLAC

(not enough time this week to create high-quality MP3s; sorry about that)

    

Rain Parade - Torino, Italy 1985 (sbd)

Big Club
Torino, Italy 
Nov. 13, 1985 
  

soundboard recording (sound quality: Ex-; transfer from master tape — other than a few tape dropouts and a relative lack of crowd noise, this is a totally enjoyable listening experience)
  


01 intro - No Easy Way Down
02 It Can't Be Today
03 Ain't That Nothing
04 Invisible People
05 Don't Feel Bad
06 You Are My Friend 
07 Broken Horse
08 Mystic Green
09 Depending On You
10 My Secret Country
11 Blue
12 Night Shade
13 Both Eyes Closed
14 Cheap Wine
15 band intro
16 Only Business
17 One and a Half Hours Ago
  
TT: 62:54 mins.

ROB SEZ: By request, here's my all-time favorite boot by the mighty Rain Parade. UPDATE: Colin has upgraded and remastered this for his Dream Remaster blog. Surf over there and check it out... Want more Rain Parade? Look for some older posts here and also at Big Plans for Everybody blog, where Rushbo has posted many great recordings.
  

artwork by Bigozine, included here

Taper Maurizio (‘Ratpie’) comments:

A picture disc was bootlegged from this very recording (actually a copy of my tape), but the mastering work was awful and the sound quality is a lot worse than the original - also, it has 11 tracks; here we have 17. This is the whole thing, from the venue manager's introduction straight to the encores. Hope you enjoy. All the best from Italy.


LINEAGE: mixing desk > reel recorder > K7 > CD > FLAC


  
Rob-in-Brevard “tweak” in Audacity: it was a coupla years ago, so I cannot recall exactly what I did, but I’m guessing I applied some modest hiss reduction and a slight bit of compression

FLAC

MP3@320 

Rain Parade - In & Around NYC 1983 + bonus

‘In & Around the Big Apple’

New York City & Hoboken, NJ

December 1983

audience recordings (sound quality VG; club shows — see info on sources below)

Rain Parade: a handy bunch of guys

THANK YOU KINDLY to the tapers, sharers and Hermesacat for pointing me to one of these

01 Whatever They Say

02 I Look Around

03 This Can't Be Today

04 No Easy Way Down

05 Saturday's Asylum

06 Talking In My Sleep

07 One Hour 1/2 Ago

08 Revolution (Beatles cover)

09 Any Other Way

10 What She's Done to Your Mind

11 It's Gonna Work Out

12 All My Friends

13 Sad Eyes Kill (B.O.B. flexi version)

14 What She's Done to Your Mind 
     (single version)

15 This Can't Be Today (live, Club 688)

SOURCES

1-8 = CBGB, NYC 1983-12-10; liberated Pontiac Records boot Out of Time (digital transfer from Welcome to Paisleyland vinyl LP boot to silver, factory-pressed CD)

9-12 = Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ 1983-12-02; master audience recording (more crowd noise than NYC show)

13 = Bucketful of Brains flexi disc; from Out of Time boot

14 = original 7-inch single; video-sourced vinyl rip

15 = audience recording; Club 688, Atlanta, GA 1985

The band reunited in 2012 and recorded THIS live album

[coupla more vintage RP live shows at THIS earlier post] 

MP3@320

Rain Parade:

Steve Roback - vocals, bass

David Roback – vocals, guitar

Matt Piucci - vocals, guitar

Will Glenn - keyboards, violin

Eddie Kalwa - drums

Learn more about the music of Rain  Parade 
at Wikipedia or AllMusic
 

Rain Parade - Madison, WI 1984 & London 1985

Bunky’s

Madison, WI

Nov. 8, 1984

NOTE: 2 separate shows, 2 separate downloads

If you like these and ask nicely, I might post some more later…

audience recording (sound quality VG; a club show, so of course you can hear audience chatter, but not ruinously so)

Rain  Parade: contemplating what they've done to your mind...

SPECIAL THANKS to gomonkeygo at The New Disease, where I first snagged these...

 

01 You Are My Friend

02 One and a Half Hours Ago

03 Prisoners
04 On the Way Down 

05 Kaleidoscope 

06 Blue

07 Don't Feel Bad

08 Sad Eyes Kill

09 No Easy Way Down 

10 This Can't Be Today

11 Broken Horse

12 Crashing Dream 

13 Ain't That Nothin’ (Television cover)

MP3@320

Riverside Studios

Hammersmith

London, UK

May 19, 1985

soundboard recording (quality Ex--; quite nice sound)

01 You Are My Friend

02 This Can't Be Today

03 Blue

04 Prisoners

05 Broken Horse

06 Kaleidoscope

07 Saturday's Asylum

08 Don't Feel Bad

09 What She's Done to Your Mind

10 No Easy Way Down

11 Night Shade

12 When You Dance (Neil Young cover)

MP3@320

Rain  Parade:

Will Glenn - keyboards
Mark Marcum – drums

Matt Piucci - guitar, vocals
Steven Roback - bass, vocals
John Thoman – guitar, vocals

Learn more about the music of Rain  Parade at Wikipedia or AllMusic … and read this great, extensive interview with Matt Piucci and other leaders of the “Paisley Underground”