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Kraftwerk live at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, USA
June 7th, 1998
1998 World Tour
Home Remaster
Recording quality: A
Attendance: 2.000 - 2.300
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00:00 Pre Show Sounds
00:14 Meine Damen Und Herren
00:56 Numbers
05:24 Computer World
08:30 Home Computer
15:36 The Man Machine
23:42 Tour De France
30:25 Autobahn
42:54 The Model
46:46 Airwaves
49:50 Tango
58:07 Sellafield 2
59:10 Radioactivity
1:05:58 Trans Europe Express
1:15:23 Pocket Calculator
1:23:12 The Robots
1:27:52 Robotronik
1:32:57 Nummweltverschmutzung
1:39:10 Music Non Stop
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After 17 years and a cancelled North America tour in 1991 in between, Kraftwerk finally returned to the USA starting in San Francisco. The venue in which this concert took place, the Warfield Theatre, is commonly used by rock bands, but nothing is unusual for Kraftwerk since they even performed in a venue that was originally a church (Paradiso, Amsterdam 1976).
In comparison to the earlier three concerts in Japan, the performance was clean, but technical difficulties occured and the problem with the sound system still persisted. Ralf's voice is suppressed by the music, the lead synth is detuned in Nummweltverschmutzung and Florian's handheld instrument temporarily stopped working in Pocket Calculator. He smashed on the buttons, but no sounds were triggered. Then he swung his instrument in the air. To say it in the words of an attendee of this show, Florian acted like a rock artist for a second. Later, his instrument started working again. It feels to me that they rushed this song because of that fault, but they always played Pocket Calculator this short during the late 90s.
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According to a well-known bootleg of this gig, the tape was recorded from the soundboard. This is disproven by the description of another bootleg created by a friend of the taper. A high-end microphone and a DAT recorder were used for the recording. The latter bootleg doesn't have the brief distortions at the beginning and is complete unlike the first one with the exception of the straight cut at the intro of Trans Europe Express which appears in both bootlegs.
Because this recording is magnificent, not much had to be done, but it is too weak on the middle frequency while the low-end is alright. I fixed it and with that, Ralf's vocals can be heard slightly better.
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*Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.*
Kraftwerk live at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, USA
June 7th, 1998
1998 World Tour
Home Remaster
Recording quality: A
Attendance: 2.000 - 2.300
__________________________________________
00:00 Pre Show Sounds
00:14 Meine Damen Und Herren
00:56 Numbers
05:24 Computer World
08:30 Home Computer
15:36 The Man Machine
23:42 Tour De France
30:25 Autobahn
42:54 The Model
46:46 Airwaves
49:50 Tango
58:07 Sellafield 2
59:10 Radioactivity
1:05:58 Trans Europe Express
1:15:23 Pocket Calculator
1:23:12 The Robots
1:27:52 Robotronik
1:32:57 Nummweltverschmutzung
1:39:10 Music Non Stop
__________________________________________
After 17 years and a cancelled North America tour in 1991 in between, Kraftwerk finally returned to the USA starting in San Francisco. The venue in which this concert took place, the Warfield Theatre, is commonly used by rock bands, but nothing is unusual for Kraftwerk since they even performed in a venue that was originally a church (Paradiso, Amsterdam 1976).
In comparison to the earlier three concerts in Japan, the performance was clean, but technical difficulties occured and the problem with the sound system still persisted. Ralf's voice is suppressed by the music, the lead synth is detuned in Nummweltverschmutzung and Florian's handheld instrument temporarily stopped working in Pocket Calculator. He smashed on the buttons, but no sounds were triggered. Then he swung his instrument in the air. To say it in the words of an attendee of this show, Florian acted like a rock artist for a second. Later, his instrument started working again. It feels to me that they rushed this song because of that fault, but they always played Pocket Calculator this short during the late 90s.
__________________________________________
According to a well-known bootleg of this gig, the tape was recorded from the soundboard. This is disproven by the description of another bootleg created by a friend of the taper. A high-end microphone and a DAT recorder were used for the recording. The latter bootleg doesn't have the brief distortions at the beginning and is complete unlike the first one with the exception of the straight cut at the intro of Trans Europe Express which appears in both bootlegs.
Because this recording is magnificent, not much had to be done, but it is too weak on the middle frequency while the low-end is alright. I fixed it and with that, Ralf's vocals can be heard slightly better.
__________________________________________
*Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.*
