Columbia '81 1CD

4DaFunk Catalog # 4DF 002 Release Year  2005 1CD Length 78:18 Date/Venue Carolina Coliseum, Columbia 12/12/1981 Source Soundboard Recording Quality EX+

Rating 5.0/5.0

Track Listing
Controversy Tour Carolina Coliseum, Columbia 12th December 1981
1. Uptown 2. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? 3. Sexy Dancer 4. I Wanna Be Your Lover 5. Head 6. Dirty Mind 7. Do Me, Baby 8. Controversy 9. Let's Work 10. Partyup 11. Jack U Off

Comments
Deane's Comments (rates this release 5.0/5.0)
As I'm sure just about everyone is aware, this show can be found on the excellent 'City Lights : Columbia/Saginaw' release. It would only be fair to say that the original recordings on the City Lights set are amongst the cleanest, clearest soundboard recordings already circulating, so anything done to the audio is minimal - due to the fact the recordings were of such high quality to begin with.

What 4DaFunk have done is repaired the 5 second drop-out during 'Do Me, Baby' which was a slight annoyance on the original City Lights set. Not only have they repaired it, but it is flawlessly done and I can guarantee it would go unnoticed to anyone who wasn't aware of it being there - really excellent work. The audio also receives a boost and sounds fresher than before. The show itself is one of the longest from the Controversy tour due to the rare addition of 'Sexy Dancer' along with two encores. The undisputed highlight is surely the guitar masturbation on 'Head' which not only includes some feedback guaranteed to blow your speakers, but guitar work which epitomises the phrase "chicken scratching". 'Partyup' is also extremely lengthy clocking in at 9 minutes and is followed by the closing 'Jack U Off'. My only complaint about the show is that the opening 'The Second Coming' is missing from the recording (as with the Saginaw recording), however that's no slight on 4DaFunk who used what was already circulating. So, is this rehash?

In my opinion the fact 4DaFunk have actually done some major repair work on the previous recording means that it can't be classed as rehash. This evidently hasn't been put through a cheap sound editor and released - time, care and effort have been used on this - and the results are impressive.

The original City Lights set will always be amongst the best ever released - this release should simply be viewed as an updated version, and not a replacement. I'd also like to point out that the show has been verified by the University of South Carolina as having taken place at their Carolina Coliseum.

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