1990-07-21 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountainview, San Francisco, CA, USA/Source 1

== Notes ==
An okay soundboard recording. It sounds like it has been subject to several rounds of lossy compression, which causes significant squelching and metallic sounding artifacts throughout the recording.
A very good, incomplete audience recording is available to stream and download as Source 2.
More background information about this recording can be found in the original info file "DM Mountain View 1990", which was written by DM Live’s colleague Vince Dome in 2006. We have also quoted it below (with minor edits for clarity and accuracy):
=== The “famous” 1990 soundboards ===
 
Note : I used various sources and personal infos to write down
the following background text.
 
Some info may be incorrect, please contact me if you see any error,
or if you can complete or add any relevant information
about that venue/period/gig/set/songs.
 
Depeche Mode released no official live tracks on audio or video of the “World Violation Tour”.
Some parts of a live concert (filmed at the 1990-07-02 and 1990-07-03 Chicago shows) can be seen in the World In My Eyes music video.
 
The band and management said that with the release of “Depeche Mode 101”,
there was no need for another audio/video release only 2 years after the last tour.
It seemed that no gig was pro-taped by Mute, but that some were partially taped by TV or more fully
when giant screens were provided by the venues (the TV staff of the venue filmed the performance).
 
But where are the other soundboards?
 
Brat did a great job finding a multicam proshot tape of the first of the two [shows at the] Dodger Stadium in 1990.
It was taped by the Dodger video crew, for the giant screens.
The Dodger Stadium may have a digital copy, but who knows?
 
Brat provided free samples on Vimeo (90 sec of each song), thanks to him :
http://vimeo.com/album/2199441
Furthermore, at the Home forum (depeche-mode.com), in this post 
(http://www.depeche-mode.com/forum/index.php?topic=10563.msg124250#msg124250)
Brat said:
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The last time I tried to beg Fletch to release all the old soundboards that JD has collecting dust,
Fletch replied with "They're soundboards. They aren't properly mixed. You can't hear the crowd."
Even though I almost went blue in the face, screaming that was the exact reason to release them,
I doubt it will ever happen (though I always beg whenever I get the chance). One day, they will give in! :)
---
 
Here are the “questions and answers” done by Alan on his website, who is always happy to give many many infos
on his work with Depeche Mode. Thanks to him!
 
From: Frantisek Trenkler
E-mail: gulo@dodo.sk
 
Q > I would like to ask you why DM released so many live songs during the 'Devotional' tour
(live singles, 'SOFAD' live, 'Devotional' video) and yet there was nothing released during the 'World Violation' tour?
Are there at least some 1990 tour audio/video recordings in your archives so we can hope for their later release?
 
A > The 'World Violation' tour was too soon after the 'MFTM' tour to warrant a live LP.
By the time 'Devotional' came along it was felt that enough time had passed to release another one.
I'm sure there are some recordings from 'World Violation' but I don't know if they will ever be released.
 
From: Farhan
E-mail: f-kazmi@uiuc.edu
 
Q > Did DM record all their live shows and then listen to them afterwards for improvement matters?
 
A > I used to get our sound engineer to record tapes (directly from the mixing board) of rehearsals
and the first few shows of a tour. These don't always give you an accurate balance but are good
for checking performance etc. Apart from that, we only recorded certain shows (using a mobile)
if we were intending a live LP or something.
=== The gig ===
An incomplete audience recording of this gig exists, and three different complete “mp3 versions” have been available (mostly since 2005):
- raw SBD “mp3 version”
- “remastered” (?) SBD “mp3 version”
- normalized and reworked SBD “mp3 version” done by me and freely sent to around 30 "important" french fans since May 2006.
I asked them not to surface it, as I was hoping to surface the “wave version”. It was a gift I made to them, to give proof that if I was not surfacing anything, they will have the opportunity to do that.
Since May 2006, I [have] worked very hard to track down a possible wave / video version. I did not find it, but had many many infos, and I hope that it will be surfaced in the future with other rarities.
The original source for this soundboard recording was said by Brat to be 192kbps MP3 files, leaked by an unnamed northern Californian promoter.
I received the MP3 files used for this recording from a French DJ who obtained it from a DJ friend in the USA, so it is reasonable to assume 
that these files are the original leaked files, hopefully without further MP3 transcoding applied...
 
On October 4th, 2006, a French fan sent Rapidshare links with 12 tracks of mp3 (mp3 [encoded] from the wave version I sent in May 2006), taken from the normalized version I sent to friends. It seems that someone lied to me and made copies.
Everyone played the game… only one black sheep, not bad after all ^_^
 
There were also samples of the SBD that surfaced in 2004 (heavy compression), and a few more samples in 2005 (same compression than the usual 
complete SBD “mp3 version”).
[The] Side-line electro websbite announced in late 2003, 'Violator soundboard recording pops up'.
This started some debate to know if the extract [included of] Enjoy The Silence was taken from the Moutain View SBD presented here,
or from the Philadelphia MTV broadcast.
In summer 2011, a 3LP colored vinyl bootleg called "Violator Live" appeared on eBay. This bootleg contains an incomplete copy of the soundtrack of 
the Dodger Stadium pro-shot VHS giant screen tape mentioned earlier. The last five tracks on "Violator Live" are from this torrent's recording of 
Shoreline and are not from a lossless source. It is unknown why the entire Dodger Stadium soundtrack was not used for the bootleg. Late December 2011 
is when the recording appeared on bootleg forums and DIME. Compared to the Shoreline soundboard recording, the Dodger's Stadium recording is unmixed 
and unmastered (other than what was done by the bootleg label).
DM Live was sent a snippet of Enjoy The Silence which was purportedly encoded from a lossless source, and it sure sounds like it:
<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/samples/1990-07-21-sbd-ets-good.mp3</html5media>
No further audio from this better sounding source was provided to DM Live, unfortunately.
== Listen ==
You can listen to this entire recording below, but it's going to sound very bad since it was subject to yet another round of compression in order to stream here. For the best listening experience, download the ZIP file at the bottom of this page which contains FLAC files.
<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/complete.m4a</html5media>
== Track list ==
#[3:17] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/01.m4a</sm2> Kaleid
#[5:15] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/02.m4a</sm2> World In My Eyes
#[4:40] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/03.m4a</sm2> Halo
#[5:16] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/04.m4a</sm2> Shake The Disease
#[6:07] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/05.m4a</sm2> Everything Counts
#[3:58] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/06.m4a</sm2> Master And Servant
#[7:00] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/07.m4a</sm2> Never Let Me Down Again
#[5:43] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/08.m4a</sm2> Waiting For The Night
#[4:36] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/09.m4a</sm2> Here Is The House (*)
#[3:24] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/10.m4a</sm2> Sweetest Perfection (*)
#[6:18] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/11.m4a</sm2> Clean
#[6:31] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/12.m4a</sm2> Stripped
#[5:05] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/13.m4a</sm2> Policy Of Truth
#[7:48] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/14.m4a</sm2> Enjoy The Silence
#[5:02] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/15.m4a</sm2> Strangelove
#[6:34] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/16.m4a</sm2> Personal Jesus
#[4:43] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/17.m4a</sm2> Black Celebration
#[4:35] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/18.m4a</sm2> A Question Of Time
#[5:33] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/19.m4a</sm2> Behind The Wheel
#[5:07] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-07-21.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1644/20.m4a</sm2> Route 66
*Total time: 1:46:31
== Lineage ==
*Tentative: pro-shot Betacam or S-VHS (no hiss) -> unknown transfer and generation -> several rounds of MP3 encoding -> MP3 192kbps copy -> normalization -> FLAC level 8
== Download ==
*Download ZIP - FLAC 16-bit 44.1KHz - 586MB
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