Disc 2:
01- Across The Lines
02- For My Lover
03- Behind The Wall
04- Fast Car
05- Freedom Now
06- Mountains O'Things
07- Talkin'bout A Revolution
08- Why?
Disc 3:
01- Of These, Hope
02- Games Without Frontiers
03- Family Snapshot
04- Shock The Monkey
05- Shock The Monkey
06- No Self Control
07- Don't Give Up
08- Sledgehammer
09- band intro
10- In Your Eyes
11- Biko
Disc 4:
01- King Of Pain
02- If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free
03- One World (Not Three)
04- Fragilidad
05- They Dance Alone
06- Fortress Around Your Heart
07- Bring On The Night
08- When The World Is Running Down
09- Don't Stand So Close To Me
Disc 5:
01- BORN IN THE U.S.A.
02- THE PROMISED LAND
03- COVER ME
04- WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY
05- THE RIVER
06- CADILLAC RANCH
07- WAR
08- MY HOMETOWN
09- THUNDER ROAD
10- BECAUSE THE NIGHT
11- GLORY DAYS
12- BORN TO RUN
13- RAISE YOUR HAND
14- CHIMES OF FREEDOM
15- GET UP, STAND UP
Disc 6: (DVD)
1.01- King Of Pain / Set them Free [Sting]
2.01- Across The Line [Tracy Chapman]
3.01- Biko [Peter Gabriel]
3.02- Games Without Frontiers [Peter Gabriel]
4.01- DVD intro
5.01- Strada Facendo [Claudio Baglioni]
6.01- CHIMES OF FREEDOM
6.02- GET UP STAND UP
7.01- BORN IN THE U.S.A. [Bruce Springsteen]
8.01- Intro
8.02- Jack Healey (Amnesty International USA)
8.03- Chiara Bolzoni (Amnesty International Italy)
8.04- Franca Sciuto (Amnesty International Worldwide)
8.05- Sting
8.06- Tracy Chapman
8.07- Youssou N'Dour
8.08- Claudio Baglioni
8.09- Peter Gabriel
8.10- Bruce Springsteen
8.11- Q&A session
Disc 1, track 01: all artists
Disc 1, tracks 02-06: Youssou N'Dour set
Disc 1, tracks 07-14: Claudio Baglioni set
Disc 1, track 11: with Peter Gabriel
Disc 2: Tracy Chapman set
Disc 3: Peter Gabriel set
Disc 4: Sting set
Disc 5, tracks 01-13: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band set
Disc 5, track 05: with Sting
Disc 5, tracks 14-15: all artists
Disc 6 (DVD), title 8: the press conference, 07 Sep 1988
Disc 6 (DVD), title 6: the encores, 08 Sep 1988
Disc 6 (DVD), title 1,2,3,5,7: a few extras, 08 Sep 1988
Disc 6 (DVD) size: 4.09 GB
Disc 6 (DVD), title 1 duration: 2:21
Disc 6 (DVD), title 2 duration: 3:12
Disc 6 (DVD), title 3 duration: 6:31
Disc 6 (DVD), title 4 duration: 0:41
Disc 6 (DVD), title 5 duration: 4:02
Disc 6 (DVD), title 6 duration: 9:59
Disc 6 (DVD), title 7 duration: 1:03
Disc 6 (DVD), title 8 duration: 1:00:32
Disc 6 (DVD) video: 720x576 50Hz 4:3
Disc 6 (DVD) audio: LPCM 48000Hz 16bits 2 channels
Notes from info file:
VARIOUS ARTISTS (Y.N'DOUR,C.BAGLIONI,T.CHAPMAN,P.GABRIEL,STING,B.SPRINGSTEEN)
"FLASHING FOR YOUR RIGHTS"
The Italian Concert For Amnesty International - 25th Anniversary Edition
Turin (I), Stadio Comunale - September 8, 1988
Kokomo is proud to present this historical event for the very first time in a COMPLETE version to celebrate its 25th Anniversary.
We put together different sources: some were already circulating, some had never surfaced before.
Our goal was to recreate that night in its entirety, and here it is.
The project will be uploaded in three parts:
1) CD1+CD2+CD3
2) CD4+CD5
3) DVD
Sources and lineages (discs 1-3):
1) SM tape: SONY HF > PIONEER CT-S609R > PC LINE IN > GoldWave > FLAC
2) "Human Rights Now! In Concerto" 3LP set (Audience) > Pioneer TT > Denon AVR 2807 Receiver > MacBook Pro > Audacity > Peak Pro XT (manual de-click/volume smoothing/indexing) > xACT > FLAC
Vinyl transferred and upped by MJK5510
3) FM broadcast: master TAPE > PC LINE IN > GoldWave > FLAC
Taping and digital transfer by Sognidipoeti
4) Intruder's master recording: Sony ECM-99 stereo microphone (with problem causing connectors!) > Sony TCD-5M deck (no dolby) > TDK SA-X tapes
Transferred with: Aiwa XK009 - EXCELIA (no dolby) > iMac/Sound Forge Pro (96khz/24bits) > tracked and converted to 44khz/16bit FLACs > xACT (SBE fix)
Sources and lineages (discs 4-5):
1) SM tape: SONY HF > PIONEER CT-S609R > PC LINE IN > GoldWave > FLAC
2) LDB master series: Sony Pro TCS-310 (internal microphone) > Master Tape > Aiwa Tape Deck TC-WE475 > Creative Audigy SE > HD >
SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave > FLAC
3) 3 LP bootleg: Pioneer TT > Denon AVR 2807 Receiver > MacBook Pro > Audacity > Peak Pro XT (manual de-click/volume smoothing/indexing) > xACT > FLAC
Vinyl transferred and upped by MJK5510
4) "Amnesty 88" 2LP set (Audience) > Pioneer TT > Denon AVR 2807 Receiver > MacBook Pro > Audacity > Peak Pro XT (manual de-click/volume smoothing/indexing) > xACT > FLAC
Vinyl transferred and upped by MJK5510
Sources and lineage (disc 6):
1) Press Conference pro-shot footage
Original shoot —> VHS copy
2) Be Bop A Lula (Italia Uno) - Italian Tv program
VHS copy of the studio edited, pre-broadcast program (no logo on screen)
3) Chimes Of Freedom and Get Up Stand Up
Private audience shot video of the Peter Gabriel set and whole cast encores
Unknown camera —>unknown generation VHS (possibly 2nd or 3rd)
First of all my thanks go to RDP for supplying the footage on 2 Vhs tapes a couple of years ago - hope the end result was worth the wait :-)
The tapes contained:
- a fully edited, pre-broadcast version of the Italian Tv program BeBopALula entirely dedicated to the concert
- 2 different pro shot camera recordings of the press conference (one from the right, the other from the left side of the artists desk) which were used in the making of the program
- some videoclips that, that from what I understood, were passed on to Tv stations wanting to do a report on the event: these included both studio, official music videos (like Gabriel’s "Biko", Springsteen’s "Born In The USA" and Sting’s "They Dance Alone") and live extracts from the Turin concert stage cameras feed. It goes without saying that only the live portions have been used in the making of this disc.
The press conference
BeBopALula's authors have entirely dubbed in Italian all participants speeches, including further interviews with some human rights activists, ex prisoners of conscience and a couple of Italian artists that did not take part in the concert. My original idea was to edit the 2 angles in full to have a more internationally appealing video. Unfortunately, one of the 2 cassettes was totally fu**ed up, with so many tracking issues that there was no way I could play it consistently or smoothly enough to transfer it on to hard disc...
So I left it well alone and used the full "right side" footage. The only editing involved includes the removal of the Italian translation of Sting’s speech (he probably supplied a written text to the translators - the other participants adopted a sentence by sentence translation method), and adding a couple of fades where the original Vhs had evident breaks.
The Encores
This was a matter of "straightforward" editing and mixing the 2 available sources, using the private audience tape to fill in the gaps of the lengthy but incomplete pieces that were used by BeBopALula’s editors (who cut them up into little pieces and interspersed them through all the various interviews). All footage was re-synched using the audience audio recording patiently and carefully restored for this very release.
The Extracts
This are straight digitizations of the extracts given to Tv stations by the organizers, but for 2 exceptions.
First, half of Peter Gabriel’s "Biko" had no sound, so it was resynced to the audience recording.
Secondly, the Tv program also included more musical bits of the concert: more of "Biko", the beginning of "Games Without Frontiers", Sting’s "Set Them Free" and Springsteen’s "Born In The USA" which were not part of the extracts... This are much shorter but have been thrown in nonetheless.
I'm positive that someone, somewhere, must have a full recording of the concert, but until the day it sees the light, I hope this will be a good enough testimony of a great event!
- the intruder
Kokomo Bros. want to thank:
SM: for your master tapes and presence when ALL began
LDB: for sharing your Sting master recording
MJK: for permission to use your precious transfers from vinyl bootlegs
Mouhamadou F.N.: for helping us with YND setlist and band line-up
Sognidipoeti: for taping and sharing Baglioni's FM recording
The Intruder: for your HUGE help and the uncirculated recording of PG's set (http://the-intruder.com)
SP: for unseen photos supply
RDP: for pro-shot footage
DVD edited and mastered by the intruder (2013)
Audio CD and package compiled, edited and produced by Kokomo (2013)
Enjoy!
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