Neil Young
Beacon Theater, NYC
October 1, 1983
**ALTERNATE SOURCE**

Contrast Clause:
This torrent is from a different audience source than the torrent at:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=405238 

Source: AUD > portable cassette recorder (unknown make, internal mics) > cassette > Cool Edit Pro > CDR > Max > FLAC 
Recorded and mastered by neil d
Light EQ in Cool Edit Pro

Setlist:
01 Comes a Time (cut)
02 Love Is a Rose
03 Down By The River
04 Too Far Gone
05 Soul of a Woman
06 Old Ways
07 Old Man
08 Helpless
09 Dance, Dance, Dance
10 Heart of Gold
11 Don't Be Denied
(Sail Away - not recorded)
12 Powderfinger
13 Ohio
14 After The Gold Rush
15 I Got a Problem
16 My My, Hey Hey
17 Mr. Soul
18 Sugar Mountain
Encore with Shocking Pinks:
19 Jellyroll Man
20 That's Alright, Mama
21 Payola Blues
22 Get Gone
23 Don't Take Your Love Away From Me
24 Everybody's Rockin'
25 Do You Wanna Dance

So here it is - the very first show I ever recorded, with my dad's portable cassette recorder that I stuffed into my sock to get past Beacon Theater security. There's another audience recording of this show (the last of the solo/Shocking Pinks tour) circulating, but this one differs in a few subtle ways.

First, the negatives of my recording: I was late in starting the recorder, so the first track (Comes a Time) cuts in after the first verse. Then, when it was time to switch tapes, I popped in a new cassette ... and it promptly jammed, because the tape had become tangled during its time in whatever piece of clothing it had been hiding in. I swapped in a backup tape, but it was too late to capture the next song (Sail Away). 

On the plus side, I think this recording is somewhat less echoey than the other one - I was seated in the middle loge section just left of center, and I'm guessing the other recorder was in the upper level. Some of the crowd noise is more up-front in my recording as well, but thankfully the audience members near me weren't so stoned that they couldn't remember to shut up during the actual songs.

I transferred this from the original cassettes to CDR many years ago, using Cool Edit Pro to master it and do whatever mild EQ I deemed necessary at the time. Enjoy, and please buy all of Neil Young's records, even the terrible ones.