new complete February 25, 1982, Hong Kong

[Heston]

BB did a great job with the BAD tape the other week.

[Silent Majority]

To familiarise myself with this board, I read the Lewisham Odeon 80 Tapes thread viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7078&hilit=lewisham#p244677. Unfortunately, things didn't go so well there!

Time is going to tell on that one.

[Heston]

To familiarise myself with this board, I read the Lewisham Odeon 80 Tapes thread viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7078&hilit=lewisham#p244677. Unfortunately, things didn't go so well there!

Time is going to tell on that one.

It was, like, 6 years ago. How much more time does Michel need?

[101Walterton]

Oh, this is great news! The Rat Patrol tour has been my favorite tour of the band for awhile now so its great to here theres some more from this. Especially from a gig that I really like. I'm hoping that Washington Bullets, Tommy Gun, and White Man are complete on this, would be nice to hear those in full. Either way, glad to hear theres still this stuff out there, hopefully someone can come up with some recordings from the Sydney residency. Hope to hear this soon!

Unfortunately, those three songs aren't complete. I taped it straight off Commercial Radio Hong Kong and the reason they are incomplete/edited in the circulating bootleg was that the damn dj talked over the songs (this is on my tape, but has been edited out on the bootleg) and/or they went to a commercial break. The dj/commercials happened early on in the broadcast, so most of the show is uninterrupted after that. I'm sure there are better Clash shows than this one, but this one is my favourite, purely because it's the one I've played the most.

I've had the tapes for 35 years, and my cassette player broke down years ago, so I've long wanted to digitise it, but without the equipment or knowledge of how to do it, I'm hoping someone here can do it for me, and then share it to anyone else who wants a copy.

Ah, shame to hear that its the DJ talking over. That always seems to happen. And, I must agree with you on this being your favorite show. Its not my favorite per se, but its definitely up there. Like I said, this tour is my favorite. I love it because of the set lengths (33 songs with this one), the arrangements they were doing for the songs, and just how tight the band is. I'm glad that this show is getting some more love.

What are your other favourite shows?

And the HK show has 34 songs, not 33!

Oh, whoops, my bad!

And my other favorite shows are a few from this tour, one of them being a few days prior when they played in Melbourne. (Still really hoping someone has something from Sydney haha.) Theres a few great shows in Japan, the first Osaka show being really good. Then theres the 2 shows in Boston later on in 82 with Terry on the drums.

One of the NZ shows was good can't remember if it was Wellington or Auckland?

[bazarboy75]

i can work on restoration for sure
Send me the digital AIFF or WAV format and be sure the tape is ripped in stereo !

my email indieground75@gmail.com

Anybody for a new cover artwork ?

[Tim Bucknall]

a friend saw this thread and alerted me
so you need a high end transfer and the tape is in Australia?
I'm a mod at Livenirvana.com, they do pro- standard transfers on nakamichi tape decks and the head dude was talking about reaching out to other bands fans to swap info

our transfer people are fairly busy but i've asked


and if you happen to know anything about the person who taped BAD II at Reading 92 , we'd be very grateful yes even though the official dvd is out we're still transferring and archiving audience tapes! - we're up to 6 audience audio tape and 4 amateur videos!
https://www.livenirvana.com/tourhistory/92/08-30-92.php

ps: If the New HK Tape is off Mono AM Radio like the old one, our transferer will check both channels and duplicate the best one across both channels
-the circulating tape came off Commercial Radio Hong Kong 864 AM, i have no idea if they had an fm simulcast

[matedog]

OK, unfortunately, Marky doesn't have the time to commit just now; Matey, Hes, Sonnyburnit? Anyone?

The idea, I think, is just to get it transferred to digital and get it on the Mega List, initially - by someone with not only a deep appreciation of the band but the skill and gear (read poet351's descriptions of the tape up-thread). Then, later, if anyone wants to have a crack at a remix/remaster, it's all yours.

Got your pm.

I have digitized tapes before by taking it to a place to do it. It was pretty cheap, but I don't have the technical knowledge to know if there are better places to digitize than others. Kory might have some input on this.

I'd be happy to take it to a place to digitize and if someone (Marky) wants to spiff up the sound after, that's always welcome. I can't imagine there isn't a place near poet351 that does that though.

[poet351]

mcintyrepoet has kindly offered to do the digitising so I will be sending him the tapes this week.

[Heston]

mcintyrepoet has kindly offered to do the digitising so I will be sending him the tapes this week.

Great, thanks for this.

[white man]

mcintyrepoet has kindly offered to do the digitising so I will be sending him the tapes this week.

Nice one. By a strange quirk of fate my previous announcement about not having a tape deck now has me in possession of two, including my Dad's monster ghetto blaster.
Might revisit some old bootleg tapes.

[matedog]

mcintyrepoet has kindly offered to do the digitising so I will be sending him the tapes this week.

This is pretty exciting. Thanks for bringing this to light and to all involved.

[Flex]

mcintyrepoet has kindly offered to do the digitising so I will be sending him the tapes this week.

Awesome, very excited to hear the results! I haven't chimed in yet, but this is all rad as hell!

[mikel]

Fantastic news, waiting to hear the result.Thank you in advance.

[JohnS]

I've got my fingers, legs and (almost all) other body parts that I have in pairs, crossed that this one works out....
Thanks in advance to all involved

[sonnyburnit]

Yes, thanks so much to all involved, I'll be following to see how it all turns out after digitization & some spit shine. I would have normally been happy to help in some way but I have 6 month old twin girls at home who are taking up much of my time these days... in a great way of course. They already dig the clash so I'm sure we'll be crankin' this one when it's ready to go!