A group of friends and I decided to take the trek to Detroit from small town Ohio for this show. I was a college student at the time and had recorded concerts that I attended on the cheap GE recorder that I used for lectures at The Ohio State University. I bought a Sony WM-D3 professional recorder to capture this show. I had seen Iggy on two prior occasions, so I knew it would be a great show. For some reason, I hadn't yet purchased an accompanying microphone. Instead, I borrowed one for this show from a fellow taper.
Once in the venue, we made our way to the balcony, where we had a great vantage point, and waited for the show to begin.
After the show, we waited around out back of the venue for a chance to see Iggy and get autographs, which we were ultimately successful at doing.
Once back to the hotel, we listened to the recording and continued the party, only to discover the first half of the show did not exist. Side A of the tape was not recorder. Not sure what may have happened, but this was the first time I had used the new recorder, so I chalked it up to user error. You can only imagine my disappointment.
The next morning as we were preparing to head home, I noticed that the microphone I had borrowed was missing. As it was nowhere in the hotel room, we retraced our steps from the night before. We got back to the venue, and there was a cleaning crew that let us in to look around for the microphone. No luck inside, so we went out back to look around the parking lot. We found a cassette tape laying in the gravel. I picked it up and we headed back to the hotel.
Once there, I placed the tape in the boom box (it was the '80's), and what played was the soundboard recording of the show from the prior evening.
2. Gimme Danger
3. Some Weird Sin
