The Clash - Electric Circus, Manchester 8th May 1977

01 London's Burning 
02 1977 
03 I'm So Bored With The U.S.A.
04 Pressure Drop
05 Hate And War 
06 48 Hours 
07 Deny 
08 Capital Radio 
09 Police And Thieves
10 Cheat 
11 Remote Control 
12 Career Opportunities
13 Janie Jones 
14 White Riot 
15 Garageland 
16 1977


Some original info:
This was the first bootleg recording of The Clash to be issued and marketed.
Transferred from a vinyl copy of 'Take It Or Leave It', recorded to CD and cleaned up on PC, 
using some Sound Laundry to remove the surface noice, then some EQ to reduce the tape hiss. 
BBE Enhancer to increase the bass and treble very slightly and L3 Multiband compressor to 
lift everything a bit louder and make a more consistent sound.

Additional info:
FLAC > WAV > 
MAGIX music studio generation 6 deLuxe > 
WAV > FLAC > rp61hawk > DIME

After acquiring this recently posted on Dime by n0xious, I noticed there were bits missing. 
Which is odd because the copy I have on cassette was recorded from the same vinyl bootleg title 
as the above, that a friend of mine had 35 years ago. I also recall it having the same artwork 
that was included in the n0xious torrent. It got me wondering whether there were two pressings 
of the bootleg, though that's highly unlikely. It's also from the same source so the mystery continues.
Anyway, so what we have now is a complete recording with the missing end of 'Police And Thieves', 
plus 3 further missing moments of importance.
The n0xious transfer sounded slightly better than my tape copy, so using the missing parts from that tape, 
I made some slight pitch adjustments to match speed, some minor adjustments to match sound quality, 
then made seamless edits to create this complete uncut version...

I've included the original artwork, plus new artwork I made for this version, based on the old.

A summary of added audio:
20 seconds before track 01 (Joe's intro)
47 seconds inbetween tracks 06 & 07 (guitar tuning, a song request, Joe's 'Slits' comment)
18 seconds inbetween tracks 08 & 09 (Joe's infamous 'wog' intro)
1 minute 1 second ending on track 09 (previously missing?)

rp61 2012