RE-UPLOAD: Christian Death - Whiskey-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, USA - 13.11.1981 (MP3)

 

Thanks to Ronan for sending me this recording to post here. In MP3.

Tracklist:

01. Intro / Birth
02. Cavity / First Comminion
03. Spiritual Cramp
04. Deathwish
05. Desperate Hell
06. Skeleton Kiss (instrumental)
07. Romeo's Distress
08. Dream For Mother
09. Dogs
10. Figurative Theater
11. Burnt Offerings
12. Resurrection / Six Six Sixth Communion

RE-UPLOAD: Christian Death - Al's Bar, Los Angeles, USA - 26.12.1981 (Flac)

 

Excellent audience recording. HUGE Thanks to the original uploader on Dime.

Cassette Master -> Untracked Aiff File -> Soundforge -> FLAC

SETLIST

01.BURNT OFFERINGS
02. RESURRECTION
03. ROMEO'S DISTRESS
04. DREAM FOR MOTHER
05. SKELETON KISS
06. CAVITY
07. SPIRITUAL CRAMP
08. DESESPERATE HELL
09. FIGURATIVE THEATRE
10. DEATHWISH
11. DOGS

Christian Death - Club Lingerie, Hollywood, CA, USA - 26.02.1984 (Flac)

 

Thanks to the original uploader on Dime.

Cassette Master -> Untracked Aiff File -> Soundforge -> FLAC

The tracklist:

01 Awake At The Wall - Sleepwalk    06:21
02 Sleepwalk    03:15
03 Cavity    03:45
04 Figurative Theatre    03:33
05 Resurrection - Sixth Communion    04:26
06 Face    05:22
07 Romeo's Distress    03:20
08 Burnt Offerings    03:43
09 Mysterium Iniquitatis    03:27
10 The Drowning    03:48
11 This Glass House    03:52

 

Christian Death - Al's Bar, Los Angeles, USA - 30.10.1981 (Flac)

 

Very good audience recording. Thaks to the original uploader on Dime.

Cassette Master -> Untracked Aiff File -> Soundforge -> FLAC

The tracklist:

01 Cavity - First Communion    03:50
02 Spiritual Cramp    03:02
03 Deathwish    02:25
04 Desperate Hell 04:26
05 Skeleton Kiss  02:46
06 Romeo's Distress 03:28
07 Dream For Mother 03:28
08 Dogs 02:59
09 Figurative Theatre 03:19
10 Burnt Offerings    03:39
11 Resurrection - Sixth Communion 05:04

Christian Death - Fender's Ballroom, Long Beach, CA, USA - 09.11.1984 (Flac)

Very good audience recording.

Cassette Master -> Untracked Aiff File -> Soundforge -> FLAC

Setlist
01. Awake at the Wall
02. Sleepwalk
03. The Drowning
04. Mysterium Iniquitatis
05. Cavity - First Communion
06. The Blue Hour
07. Androgynous Noise Hand Permeates
08. Electra Descending
09. As Evening Falls
10. Face
11. Cervix Couch
12. This Glass House
13. Romeo's Distress

Christian Death - The Rat, Boston, MA, USA - 31,12.1989 (Flac)

Thanks to the original uploader in Dime.

audience - 1st generation but unknown equipment

Maxell XLII-90 > Denon DRW-850 > wavelab 6 > TLH > make torrent 2 > Dime
Azimuth calibrated and SBE corrected.

setlist
01-(fades into) CAvity-First Communion
02-Figurative Theatre
03-Burnt Offerings
04-Dodo (D. Bowie)
05-Theatre Of Pain
06-Dream For Mother
07-Stairs(Uncertain Journey)
08-Spiritual Cramp
09-Romeo's Distress
10-Resurrection-Sixth Communion
11-Deathwish
12-Sleepwalk
13-Dogs

Rozz Williams-vocals
Eva O-vocals
Rikk Agnew-guitars
Casey Chaos-bass
Vic Cujo-drums

Please DO NOT SELL or redistribute in lossy formats.

Christian Death - Al's Bar, Los Angeles, USA - 24.07.1982 (Flac)

Good audience recording. Thanks to the original uploader on Dime.

Cassette Master -> Untracked Aiff File -> Soundforge -> FLAC

Setlist:
01 audience chatter - Sleepwalk 04:31
02 Cavity - First Communion 03:13
03 Figurative Theatre 03:19
04 Spiritual Cramp 03:20
05 Romeo’s Distress 03:09
06 Stairs - Uncertain Journey 03:41
07 Into The Light 04:53

RE-UPLOAD: Christian Death - University, Leeds, UK - 05.10.1988 (Flac)

This is the version of the band with Valor and not Rozz Williams. Sounds a little rough but quite listenable, and CD bootlegs don't seem to be circulating a lot. I had to redo the tracking, since it was originally very messy. Huge Thanks to sam1 for sending me this recording to share here..

Lineage: Trade CDr -> Audacity -> TLH -> Flac (Level 8)


Setlist:

01. Introduction
02. Dogs
03. Sleepwalk
04. This Glass House
05. Ashes
06. Face
07. Will O the Wisp
08. Strapping Me Down
09. Sick of Love
10. Jezebel's Tribulation
11. Four Horsemen
12. 1983 (Jimi Hendrix cover)

Do Not Sell!
Enjoy

RE-UPLOAD: Christian Death - La Dolce Vita, Lausanne, Switzerland - 09.04.1999 (Flac)

We're quite delighted to present you this one. We were asked by Alex (who by the way took the excellent pictures on the post andthe cover) if we could help transfering this master tape of his friend, who prefers to remain unknown., and post it here. It was our pleasure :)

This is Valor's incarnation of the band promoting the "Pornographic Messiah" record.  There's an unexpected tribute on the end of the set to Rozz Williams, when the band plays some songs co-written with him (Rozz had commited suicide on year before).


Taper: unknown
Gear: MD (unknown model) with Sony ECM MS907 mic
Lineage: MD -> M-Audio Quattro Soundboard -> Audacity -> TLH -> FLAC (Level 8)


Setlist:

01. Intro/Die With You
02. She Never Woke Up
03. Luxury of Tears
04. Millenium Unwinds
05. Tales of Innocence
06. Lie Behind The Truth
07. Weave My Spell
08. Washing Machine
09. Obscene Kiss
10. Heresy
11. Out Of Control
12. This Glass House
13. Cavity
14. Romeo's Distress
15. Figurative Theatre
16. (encore break/speech)
17. Dissention
18. Sick Of Love
19. Spontaneous Human Detonation

Total time: 97:53

Do Not Sell!
For sharing and trading porpuses only!
Support the band by buying official products!
Please, convert to MP3 or other lossy format just for personal use.
Enjoy!

Christian Death - Lhasa, Hollywood, CA, USA - 20.01.1984 (Flac)

This one goes to Frederic, who sent me all the missing Christian Death files. Thanks to the original uploader.


Cassette Master -> Untracked Aiff File -> Soundforge -> FLAC

The tracklist:

01 intro    01:03
02 Awake At The Wall - Sleepwalk    05:12
03 Sleepwalk cont.    03:06
04 Cavity - First Communion    03:35
05 Figurative Theatre    03:21
06 Resurrection - Sixth Communion    03:40
07 Face    04:57
08 Romeo's Distress    02:58
09 Burnt Offerings [instrumental version]    03:44
10 Mysterium Iniquitatis    02:43
11 Mysterium Iniquitatis cont. - The Drowning    04:29
12 This Glass House    04:14

RE-UPLOAD:Christian Death - Big Club, Torino, Italy - 23.10.1985 (Flac)

Thanks to Maurizio 'Ratpie' for sharing on Dime. Cover courtesy of  this blog: http://rockrarecollectionfetish.blogspot.com.

(56'24") - Quality A

SBD - K7 - CD - seed


Setlist:


01. Sleepwalk
02. The Wind Kissed Pictures
03. Will'O The Wisp
04. The Luxury Of Tears
05. When I Was Bed
06. Gloomy Sunday
07. Between Youth/Androgynous Noise
08.  Electra Descending
09. Strapping Me Down
10. Ashes
11. Lament - Over The Shadow
12. This Glass House

Hope you enjoy.
All the best from Italy.

RE-UPLOAD: Christian Death - Alexandria Hotel, Los Angeles, USA - 22.12.1983 (Flac)

Another concert kindly shared by Superblasted, a HUGE Thank You to Him for this series of CD concerts.

Tape (audience / unknown generation) transfered into CD received in a trade in late 90's
Lineage: CD > EAC > Audacity (speed corrected) > WAV > FLAC > You

Original Info File:

Sound is pretty raw, but this is an historical performance.

This is the first Christian Death gig with joining team Valor, Gitane Demone, Constance and David Glass,
who will bring us one of the most intriging and beautiful piece of music (at least to me): Catastrophe Ballet.

New songs and new versions are tested here (ie. Burnt offerings with Electra Descending lyrics, first performance of The Drowning...) wich make this one a must have gig!

Enjoy !

Setlist:


01. Awake at the Wall (instrumental)
02. Sleepwalk
03. Cavity - First Communion
04. Figurative Theatre          
05. Resurection - Sixth Communion
06. Face
07. Working On Beyond  
08. Romeo's Distress
09. Burnt Offerings
10. Theatre Of Pain
11. The Drowning

RE-UPLOAD: RE-UPLOAD: Christian Death - Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles - 06.04.1985 (Flac)

Another rarity shared by Superblasted. A Huge Thank You to him for this week of Christian Death Delights.

Original Info File:

"The Path Of Sorrows" performance.
(not to be confused with The Path of Sorrows album released in 1993)

Lineage: Audience recording > unknown generation tape > CDr trade > EAC > Audacity > WAV > FLAC > You!
Audacity was used to split tracks, speed correction and removing some cuts.

This one is the only know 1985 recorded performance with still Rozz on vocals!

I tracked down this show for so many years, and so far it's the better source i've got.
The sound is a bit muffy and loud but overall good. I tried to level up the high frequencies but the result wasn't satisfying, and too saturated.
So this is the direct transfert from what i got. It got some little pops on a couple of tracks however.
If someone feels like improving the sound of this historical performance, or even better, has a low gen source, please process and share!!

Christian Death performed a series of gigs entitled "The Path Of Sorrows" in march/april 1985 in America to promote "Ashes" album.
The Los Angeles gig at Roxy Theatre on 6 April 1985 is a multi-media extravaganza featured films, a banquet, and a program. Kristina Fuller coordinated and supervised the visuals, film sections and Rozz's four costume changes.

In late April 1985, Rozz officialy left Christian Death after a phonecall to Gitane Demone, leaving Valor to take the rest of the band to Italy as part of the European tour.
The Rest of the story is well known, Skippy hijacked the name, even if he agreed to performs as "Sin and Sacrifice of Christain Death" at first.
Who knows how Christian Death could have evolved if Rozz stayed in the band...

So 25 years ago was the Path of Sorrows.


Line up

Rozz Williams - Voice
Gitane Demone - Voice, keyboards
Valor - Guitars, vocals
David Glass - Drums, vocals, Zither
Barry Galvin - Bass, vocals

Stage set, slides and lighting: Kris Fuller and Rozz Williams



SetList:

Intro
Prayer
Awake at the Wall
As Evening Falls
Ashes
Ashes II
When I was Bed
The Fleeing Somnambulist
Cavity - First Communion
Androgynous Noise Hand Permeates
Electra Descending
Dogs
Face
Cervix Couch
Of the Wound
The Blue Hour
Sleepwalk
This Glass House
Romeo's Distress
The Luxury of Tears
Lament - Over the Shadows

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Christian Death - Maxim, Stuttgart, Germany - 06.10.1987 (Flac)

Very good sound. Thanks to the original uploader.

Original Info File:

BIbER master-series #030

Master - Audience recording from an old TDK SA C90

Equipment:
Recorder: Sony WM D3
Micro: AIWA CM 30E.

Anyway here is the master as it is on the original cassette. No corrections were made.
The sound-quality is -for its age- very good +, maybe better. Very good listenable. Well done, BIbER!

Another Kuschelrock-concert from back Kuschelrock-romantic-high-times. Don't ever ask me how I liked this one here.
The audience was partially completely verwirred.  In the background a film was running through showing the whole time the same sequences of a short war-film.
Art?
Music?
Shit?
Love it!

Cover and Label Artwork for this show is included.

Setlist: ?

Line-Up: ?

Support this ?
Buy their records on vinyl - if you still can

Do not sell. Just listen and enjoy!!??

And -of course- a small thanks to the original-taper: thank you, BIbER!!!!!

Christian Death - Meerhaus, Bern, Switzerland - 25.10.1986 (Flac)

You can still get the MP3 version here: http://swisstapes.blogspot.pt/search/label/Christian%20Death


Original Info File:

This is a hell of a recording (believe me!) and yet another example of a rare clarity in sound, one that I love for the listening pleasure alone and you too might like it, even if you are (like me) not one of Valor's biggest fans. Unlike later recordings of "Valor Christian Death", this indeed still carries the true goth spirit inherent in the early era of the band and a good portion of the tracks stem from "Catastrophe Ballet", "Ashes" and the still great "Atrocities" album.

This show is brought to you thanks to Swiss Tapes (http://swisstapes.blogspot.com/2010/06/christian-death-meerhaus-bern.html), who not only taped it but also posted it in a 24/44.1 FLAC version in his blog, which simply is priceless. BUT thanks also go to Dime member Creatured who, by posting a Rollins Band show from the same taper (http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=322296), was my guide to Swiss Tapes blog, which in return led me to download the Christian Death show, love it, track it, edit it and ultimately post it here.

I wouldn't be surprised if this were a yet uncirculated recording.

I need expert help with some of the track titles, that I couldn't find on the early albums that I have.

Lineage: audience recording with a Sony WM-DC6 Walkman Professional>mastertape>flac (24/44.1))>Toast 9.0.4 Titanium (.Sd2f)>Roxio Jam 6.0.3 (tracking/crossfade of tape flip/image file)>Toast 7.1.3 Titanium (flac 16/44.1)

Total running time: 73:46 min.

Tracklist:

01 As Evening Falls   
02 This Glass House   
03 Sleepwalk   
04 Face   
05 When I Was Bed   
06 The Wind Kissed Pictures   
07 After The Rain   
08 Believers Of The Unpure 
09 Gloomy Sunday original   
10 Chimère de-ci de-là   
11 Will O' The Wisp   
12 Strapping Me Down   
13 The Loving Face
14 Venenum
15 announcement   
16 Strange Fortune   
17 Ventriloquist [extended version]   

En-fuckin'-joy!
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RE-UPLOAD: Christian Death - Whisky A Go-Go, Los Angeles, USA - xx.04.1982 (MP3)

AKA  "Cruxifiction"

More Christian Death from Superblasted collection. This one is in MP3, the only avaible format right now. This is  the version of the band before  Valor and Gitane joined. George Belanger left Christian Death following this performance. Good sound.

Rozz Williams: Vocals
Rikk Agnew: Guitar
James McGearty: Bass
George Belanger: Drums
and probably Eva O on backing vocals.


Tracklist:

01. Invocations
02. Figurative Theatre
03. Burnt Offerings
04. Mysterium Iniquitatis
05. Dream For Mother
06. Six Six Sixth Communion
07. Stairs (Uncertain Journey)
08. Spiritual Cramp
09. Romeo's Distress
10. Invocation II
11. Resurrection (Sixth Communion)
12. Prayer


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RE-UPLOAD: Christian Death - Hollywood Live, Los Angeles, USA - 29.10.1989 (DVD)

Thanks to Max1334 for making this DVD and to cEnda for sharing it here.

Original Info File:

THIS IS THE VERY FIRST REUNION SHOW THAT ROZZ WILLIAMS AND RIKK AGNEW DID TOGETHER ON THAT TOUR WITH EVA O.

STARTING IN THE FALL OF '89 THAT CULMINATED IN THE PHOENIX SHOW IN JANUARY, 1990 (THAT ONE APPEARS ON THE OFFICIAL "DEATH CLUB" DVD RELEASE ~ PLEASE NOTE THAT MY OWN PRIVATE CAMERA ANGLE ON THE RARE ROZZ DVD BELOW IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THAT PHOENIX SHOW "DEATH CLUB" ANGLE, AND I THINK SUPERIOR TO THAT ONE). THIS RARE HOLLYWOOD SHOW IS APPROXIMATELY 50 MINUTES LONG AND SHOT FROM THE BALCONY WITH A ZOOM LENS.

THE VIDEO IS SOMEWHAT GRAINY/BLURRY, BUT ROZZ IS CLEARY VISIBLE ~ HE'S WEARING A BLACK MINI-SKIRT WITH GARTER BELTS.

OVERALL QUALITY IS ONLY ABOUT A "C" ON VIDEO, "B+" ON AUDIO.  AGAIN, THE EXTREME RARITY OF THISFOOTAGE MAKES IT VERY WELL-WORTH OWNING FOR FANS.


TRACKLIST:

01. CAVITY (FIRST COMMUNION)
02. FIGURATIVE THEATRE
03. BURNT OFFERINGS
04. THEATRE OF PAIN
05. DREAM FOR MOTHER
06. STAIRS, UNCERTAIN JOURNEY
07. ROMEO'S DISTRESS
08. RESURRECTION (SIXTH COMMUNION)
09. DEATHWISH
10. PRAYER
11. DOGS
12. SPIRITUAL CRAMP


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RE-UPLOAD: Christian Death - Biskuithalle, Bonn, Germany - 24.04.1986 (Flac)

Seems that there's interest for some more CD recordings, so here another one. At this stage Rozz williams had already left, and less of the songs he had co-written appeared on the setlist. Thanks to SpaceBandit for sharingthis ione on DIME.

Original Info File:
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from DIMENEW collection # 062
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Rec. Info:
Vivanco EM 160 mic -> SONY WMD6 -> Mastercassette (TDK SA90) -> playback on Harman Kardon CD491 -> Zoom H2n -> WAV 16/44 -> Audacity (edit/remaster) -> WAV 16/44 ->
TLH8 -> FLAC -> DIME -> YOUR EARS AND MIND...
All thanks to DIMENEW for this really fine recording, done some 26+ years ago. A bit of annoying audience chatter, but the music is well captured!

CHRISTIAN DEATH ca. 1986...

VALOR KAND - vocals, guitar, multiple instruments
GITANE DEMONE - keyboards, vocals
DAVID GLASS - drums
BARRY GALVIN (Bari-Bari) - guitar
JOHANN SCHUMANN - bass

FULL SHOW (37:58 min.)


t1 - Announcement (0:46)
t2 - The Death of Josef (tape intro)/The Danzig Waltz (7:38)
t3 - Strange Fortune (4:46)
t4 - Tales of Innocence (6:17)
t5 - Chimère de-si de-là (4:43)
t6 - Gloomy Sunday / Strapping Me Down (intro) (4:19)
t7 - Strapping Me Down (1:50)
t8 - Will-o'-the Wisp (2:59)
t9 - Ventriloquist (4:35)


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RE-UPLOAD: Christian Death - Les Bains Douches, Paris - 21.02.1984 (Flac)

Another treat courtesy of  Superblasted. Huge Thank You for his generosity in sharing all these recordings from CD here in the room.

Original Info File:

First gig in Europe for the new fresh Christian Death line-up. Pretty similar to the Alexandria gig in late 83. New versions, new songs...  Rozz in full form for a strong performance here.


Line up :
Rozz Williams / Vocals
Valor / Guitars
Gitane Demone / Synths & backing vocals
Constance Smith / Bass
David Glass / Drums

Lineage : tape trade > CDR > EAC > Audacity (Speed correction) > Flac > You!
Quality : 7-8/10


01. Awake at the Wall
02. Sleepwalk
03. Cavity - First Communion
04. Figurative Theatre
05. Resurection - Sixth Communion
06. Face
07. Working On Beyond
08. Romeo's Distress
09. Burnt Offerings
10. Theatre Of Pain
11. The Drowning
12. This Glass House
13. Romeo's Distress

Enjoy !


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RE-UPLOAD: Christian Death - Exo 7, Rouen, France - 15.05.1984 (Flac)

The 2 first songs have hiss (tape fluctuations) but it goes very okay from the middle of track 2.
And the first contributtion from new collaborator, Superblasted, who offered some of the recordings of Christian Death from his collection to post on the blog. A HUGE Thank YOU to him!

So it seems that for this month we will have an increase in this band related posts, and thats very good news, let's start by this very good soundboard recording.

The Fleeing Somnambulist is missing (after track 6). Cervix Couch is cut at the beginning.

BUT this is a must have for all Rozz Williams/Christian Death fans!!!

Unknown generation soundboard received in a trade in early 00's
Lineage: CD > EAC > WAV > FLAC > You


Tracklist:


01. Awake at the Wall
02. Sleepwalk
03. The Drowning
04. Theatre of Pain
05. Cavity - First Communion
06. The Blue Hour
07. Androgynous Noise Hand Permeates
08. Electra Descending
09. As Evening Falls
10. Face
11. //Cervix Couch
12. This Glass House
13. Romeo's Distress
14. Cavity - First Communion



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